Translating Business Requirements Contract Job Trends in England

Translate Business Requirements
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 223 241
Rank change year-on-year +67 +18 +96
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 668 300 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.23% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.35% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 185 249
10th Percentile £372 £393 £425
25th Percentile £438 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £601 £684 £725
90th Percentile £725 £775 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 1
10th Percentile £19.38 £46.95 -
25th Percentile £22.63 £59.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £28.58 £71.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.89% +29.55% -30.55%
75th Percentile £36.93 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -57.68% +29.55% -30.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Translating Business Requirements falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,547 22,212 32,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 91.02% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,492 14,606 21,309
10th Percentile £314 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 881 2,207
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.09 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
% change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Translating Business Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Translating Business Requirements job vacancy trend in England

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in England

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in England

Translating Business Requirements
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Translating Business Requirements within the England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +73 415 £500 -16.67% 127
North of England -16 86 £461 -2.95% 43
North West +4 52 £402 -23.43% 21
South East -44 44 £500 +0.25% 66
Midlands -46 39 £475 -11.63% 41
South West -2 35 £575 +15.00% 9
Yorkshire -37 32 £500 +11.11% 15
East of England -21 27 £600 +9.09% 22
West Midlands -42 26 £488 - 28
East Midlands -28 12 £500 -9.09% 13
North East -18 2 £488 -40.91% 9
Translating Business Requirements
UK

Translating Business Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (5.39%) Confluence
2 11 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.50%) CMS
4 8 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.90%) SAS
5 6 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.60%) Apache
8 3 (0.45%) IIS
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) Mendix
9 2 (0.30%) Mule
9 2 (0.30%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.30%) Sketch
3 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.20%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.05%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.75%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.75%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.75%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.75%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.75%) SAP QM
6 5 (0.75%) SAP WM
6 5 (0.75%) Summit
7 4 (0.60%) Endur
7 4 (0.60%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 171 (25.60%) Azure
2 130 (19.46%) Power Platform
3 119 (17.81%) AWS
4 56 (8.38%) GCP
5 54 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.04%) Power Automate
7 25 (3.74%) Serverless
8 23 (3.44%) SaaS
9 21 (3.14%) PowerApps
10 20 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (2.54%) dbt
12 17 (2.54%) Entra ID
13 16 (2.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 16 (2.40%) Snowflake
14 15 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (1.65%) Azure AKS
16 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.65%) Firewall
2 10 (1.50%) Network Security
3 9 (1.35%) WAN
4 7 (1.05%) LAN
5 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.75%) DNS
7 4 (0.60%) HTTP
7 4 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.30%) 5G
8 2 (0.30%) PSTN
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
8 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.30%) VLAN
8 2 (0.30%) Wireless
9 1 (0.15%) 4G
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.15%) FCoE
9 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (16.32%) Power BI
2 49 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.79%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.34%) Metadata
5 26 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 22 (3.29%) Tableau
7 20 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 14 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (2.10%) Power Query
9 14 (2.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 11 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.65%) MySQL
10 11 (1.65%) Star Schema
11 9 (1.35%) Data Vault
12 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.05%) DocumentDB
12 7 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (8.38%) JIRA
2 28 (4.19%) Git
3 23 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.50%) GitLab
5 9 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.90%) ERwin
7 4 (0.60%) Hudson
8 3 (0.45%) Maven
8 3 (0.45%) MLflow
8 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.45%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.45%) Vite
9 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.30%) JUnit
9 2 (0.30%) Mockito
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 282 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 217 (32.49%) Finance
3 155 (23.20%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.58%) Banking
5 51 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.29%) Law
7 29 (4.34%) Retail
8 21 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.54%) Front Office
9 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.10%) Marketing
11 13 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.50%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.20%) Legal
15 7 (1.05%) Back Office
15 7 (1.05%) Local Government
16 5 (0.75%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 179 (26.80%) Architect
2 118 (17.66%) Analyst
3 104 (15.57%) Developer
4 90 (13.47%) Business Analyst
5 79 (11.83%) Lead
6 75 (11.23%) Consultant
7 61 (9.13%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (5.99%) Senior
9 39 (5.84%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.64%) Functional Architect
11 24 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
12 22 (3.29%) Data Engineer
13 19 (2.84%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.84%) Technical Architect
14 18 (2.69%) Technical Business Analyst
15 17 (2.54%) SAP Consultant
16 16 (2.40%) Functional Consultant
16 16 (2.40%) ServiceNow Architect
17 14 (2.10%) Data Architect
17 14 (2.10%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (12.43%) REST
2 46 (6.89%) SOAP
3 29 (4.34%) CSS
3 29 (4.34%) HTML
4 27 (4.04%) .NET
5 25 (3.74%) RESTful
6 24 (3.59%) JSON
6 24 (3.59%) Middleware
7 21 (3.14%) AngularJS
8 20 (2.99%) React
9 19 (2.84%) OAuth
10 18 (2.69%) Spring
10 18 (2.69%) XML
11 17 (2.54%) Kafka
12 16 (2.40%) Lightning Web Components
13 15 (2.25%) Node.js
14 13 (1.95%) LangChain
14 13 (1.95%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
15 12 (1.80%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 59 (8.83%) Product Ownership
2 47 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.34%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.40%) CMDB
7 16 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.10%) Equities
10 13 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.95%) Derivative
11 11 (1.65%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.05%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.05%) Market Risk
14 6 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.65%) Windows
2 10 (1.50%) Linux
2 10 (1.50%) Unix
3 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (27.40%) Agile
2 167 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 160 (23.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (22.46%) Data Modelling
5 135 (20.21%) Business Intelligence
6 134 (20.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 133 (19.91%) CI/CD
8 120 (17.96%) Analytics
8 120 (17.96%) DevOps
9 119 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (16.77%) Migration
11 83 (12.43%) AI
12 82 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
13 79 (11.83%) Data Migration
13 79 (11.83%) Validation
14 76 (11.38%) ERP
15 74 (11.08%) Integration Patterns
16 72 (10.78%) Data Governance
17 67 (10.03%) Decision-Making
18 63 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 154 (23.05%) SQL
2 92 (13.77%) Python
3 68 (10.18%) Java
4 50 (7.49%) JavaScript
5 36 (5.39%) C#
6 31 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (2.40%) Apex Code
8 14 (2.10%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.95%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.65%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.20%) Scala
13 7 (1.05%) ABAP
14 6 (0.90%) Bash
14 6 (0.90%) R
15 5 (0.75%) SOQL
16 4 (0.60%) Groovy
16 4 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.45%) C++
17 3 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.68%) Degree
3 60 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.35%) MBA
9 9 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.05%) PMP
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) CISSP
13 3 (0.45%) CCNP
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.45%) PhD
13 3 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.59%) QA
3 20 (2.99%) GDPR
4 17 (2.54%) GRC
5 14 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.10%) NIST
6 13 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.05%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.75%) SLA
9 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.60%) SEPA
10 3 (0.45%) GxP
10 3 (0.45%) PSD2
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (4.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) GridGain
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) SRDF
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 34 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.04%) Terraform
3 9 (1.35%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.15%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 122 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 81 (12.13%) SAP
3 58 (8.68%) Oracle
4 52 (7.78%) Salesforce
5 43 (6.44%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.94%) Databricks
7 26 (3.89%) Google
8 21 (3.14%) Workday
9 18 (2.69%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.65%) Foundry
11 10 (1.50%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.05%) Ariba
13 7 (1.05%) Cisco
13 7 (1.05%) IBM
13 7 (1.05%) Palantir
14 6 (0.90%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.90%) Okta
14 6 (0.90%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.90%) VMware