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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 195 219
Rank change year-on-year +65 +24 +58
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 916 393 399
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 1.44% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.59% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 248 277
10th Percentile £396 £389 £413
25th Percentile £456 £454 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £667 £650
90th Percentile £738 £761 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 2
10th Percentile £23.00 £28.83 £27.05
25th Percentile £25.77 £38.00 £30.88
Median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -42.73%
75th Percentile £71.63 £68.56 £52.38
90th Percentile £87.25 £70.16 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -42.73%

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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +67 545 £525 -4.55% 185
North of England -41 101 £492 +6.67% 61
Midlands -8 76 £525 -4.55% 31
South East -28 72 £542 +8.36% 89
North West -22 51 £489 -6.95% 38
West Midlands -22 49 £488 -2.50% 21
South West -10 48 £525 -4.55% 26
Yorkshire -51 41 £500 +16.96% 13
East of England +6 39 £513 -6.82% 11
East Midlands -5 25 £525 -25.00% 10
North East -36 9 £330 -28.65% 11
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 56 (6.11%) Confluence
2 22 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.09%) SAS
6 9 (0.98%) Apache
7 7 (0.76%) CMS
8 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.44%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.22%) Appian
11 2 (0.22%) Camunda
11 2 (0.22%) IIS
11 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.11%) Mule
12 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) Sketch
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.11%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Notion
7 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.42%) Workday HCM
4 8 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.76%) SAP QM
6 6 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.55%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.44%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.44%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.44%) Summit
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.33%) Endur
9 3 (0.33%) iTrent
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.33%) SAP PS
9 3 (0.33%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.22%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
10 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 245 (26.75%) Azure
2 181 (19.76%) Power Platform
3 132 (14.41%) AWS
4 72 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
5 55 (6.00%) GCP
6 54 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (5.46%) Power Automate
8 41 (4.48%) PowerApps
9 35 (3.82%) SaaS
10 33 (3.60%) Entra ID
10 33 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.17%) Snowflake
12 27 (2.95%) Serverless
13 25 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (2.40%) dbt
14 22 (2.40%) Microsoft Copilot
15 21 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
16 16 (1.75%) Azure AKS
16 16 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.07%) Firewall
2 14 (1.53%) WAN
3 12 (1.31%) LAN
3 12 (1.31%) Network Security
4 9 (0.98%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.66%) HTTP
7 5 (0.55%) DNS
7 5 (0.55%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.44%) BGP
8 4 (0.44%) DHCP
8 4 (0.44%) Multicast
8 4 (0.44%) OSPF
8 4 (0.44%) Wireless
9 3 (0.33%) VPN
9 3 (0.33%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.22%) 5G
10 2 (0.22%) NGFW
10 2 (0.22%) PSTN
10 2 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (15.72%) Power BI
2 65 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (5.02%) Metadata
4 39 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 30 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 27 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.51%) Tableau
8 18 (1.97%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.64%) Power Query
10 14 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 13 (1.42%) Big Data
11 13 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.20%) Pinecone
12 11 (1.20%) Weaviate
13 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.98%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.98%) Data Vault
14 9 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (9.28%) JIRA
2 42 (4.59%) Git
3 26 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.20%) GitLab
5 9 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.44%) Hudson
6 4 (0.44%) JUnit
6 4 (0.44%) Selenium
6 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.33%) ERwin
7 3 (0.33%) MLflow
7 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.22%) Mockito
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 363 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 302 (32.97%) Finance
3 208 (22.71%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.81%) Banking
5 88 (9.61%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.69%) Law
7 38 (4.15%) Marketing
8 33 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (3.49%) Retail
10 30 (3.28%) Front Office
11 27 (2.95%) Investment Banking
12 20 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.53%) Legal
16 12 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (1.20%) Local Government
18 9 (0.98%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 228 (24.89%) Architect
2 158 (17.25%) Analyst
3 118 (12.88%) Developer
4 105 (11.46%) Business Analyst
5 102 (11.14%) Lead
6 98 (10.70%) Consultant
7 83 (9.06%) Solutions Architect
8 73 (7.97%) Senior
9 48 (5.24%) Lead Architect
10 42 (4.59%) Data Engineer
11 31 (3.38%) Data Analyst
11 31 (3.38%) Functional Architect
12 27 (2.95%) Technical Analyst
13 24 (2.62%) Data Architect
14 23 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (2.40%) SAP Consultant
15 22 (2.40%) ServiceNow Architect
16 21 (2.29%) Technical Business Analyst
17 20 (2.18%) Technical Architect
18 19 (2.07%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (10.92%) REST
2 57 (6.22%) SOAP
3 46 (5.02%) .NET
4 38 (4.15%) Middleware
5 29 (3.17%) JSON
6 24 (2.62%) HTML
6 24 (2.62%) React
7 21 (2.29%) AngularJS
7 21 (2.29%) CSS
8 17 (1.86%) Kafka
9 16 (1.75%) LangChain
9 16 (1.75%) RESTful
10 15 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.64%) Node.js
10 15 (1.64%) OAuth
11 13 (1.42%) PySpark
12 12 (1.31%) XML
13 11 (1.20%) ASP.NET
13 11 (1.20%) LlamaIndex
14 10 (1.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 98 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 49 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 49 (5.35%) Data Structures
3 33 (3.60%) AI Agents
4 30 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.06%) CMDB
6 24 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (2.07%) Derivative
9 19 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.53%) Equities
13 13 (1.42%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.31%) Low-Code
15 10 (1.09%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.09%) IoT
15 10 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
16 9 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.64%) Linux
1 15 (1.64%) Windows
2 11 (1.20%) Unix
3 9 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (30.46%) Agile
2 247 (26.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 225 (24.56%) Data Modelling
4 222 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 206 (22.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 193 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 187 (20.41%) Analytics
8 182 (19.87%) Business Intelligence
9 155 (16.92%) CI/CD
10 150 (16.38%) Migration
11 149 (16.27%) AI
12 147 (16.05%) DevOps
13 134 (14.63%) Decision-Making
14 123 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
15 116 (12.66%) Validation
16 108 (11.79%) ERP
17 106 (11.57%) Workshop Facilitation
18 103 (11.24%) Data Governance
19 102 (11.14%) Roadmaps
20 101 (11.03%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 210 (22.93%) SQL
2 128 (13.97%) Python
3 65 (7.10%) JavaScript
4 59 (6.44%) Java
5 51 (5.57%) C#
6 31 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (2.07%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.75%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.31%) Bash
11 12 (1.31%) Scala
12 9 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.66%) R
13 6 (0.66%) X++
14 4 (0.44%) SOQL
15 3 (0.33%) ABAP
15 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.22%) Korn
16 2 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 161 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 113 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.52%) Degree
4 31 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.76%) CISSP
11 7 (0.76%) PMP
12 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.66%) CCNP
12 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.44%) CCNA
13 4 (0.44%) IIBA
13 4 (0.44%) MBA
13 4 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (12.45%) Data Quality
2 75 (8.19%) QA
3 31 (3.38%) GDPR
4 15 (1.64%) GRC
5 14 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.09%) NIST
8 9 (0.98%) SLA
9 6 (0.66%) NCSC
9 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) SEPA
11 4 (0.44%) WCAG
12 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 30 (3.28%) Docker
2 21 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.22%) vSphere
5 1 (0.11%) ACF2
5 1 (0.11%) GridGain
5 1 (0.11%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) RACF
5 1 (0.11%) SRDF
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.38%) Terraform
3 16 (1.75%) Ansible
4 4 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.33%) Control-M
5 3 (0.33%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.22%) Grafana
6 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.11%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.11%) Istio
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 195 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 97 (10.59%) SAP
3 78 (8.52%) ServiceNow
4 62 (6.77%) Oracle
5 55 (6.00%) Salesforce
6 41 (4.48%) Databricks
7 34 (3.71%) Workday
8 22 (2.40%) Google
9 20 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.53%) Cisco
10 14 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.09%) ForgeRock
11 10 (1.09%) Foundry
11 10 (1.09%) Okta
12 9 (0.98%) Adobe
12 9 (0.98%) Informatica
12 9 (0.98%) VMware
13 8 (0.87%) Ariba
13 8 (0.87%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.76%) Juniper