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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 187 218
Rank change year-on-year +64 +31 +47
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 990 411 370
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 1.49% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 1.64% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 259 260
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £463 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -11.82%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £739 £756 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 1
10th Percentile £23.00 £29.11 -
25th Percentile £26.33 £45.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.80% +131.48% -62.29%
75th Percentile £62.19 £70.16 £29.50
90th Percentile £86.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +131.48% -62.29%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +66 598 £550 - 345
North of England -51 98 £495 +10.00% 111
Midlands -7 91 £525 -4.55% 59
South East -20 88 £600 +19.40% 111
West Midlands -15 60 £525 +5.00% 42
South West -6 50 £525 -4.55% 36
North West -16 49 £492 -6.29% 67
Yorkshire -46 41 £514 +14.22% 34
East of England +1 33 £500 -9.09% 24
East Midlands 0 29 £525 -25.00% 17
North East -37 8 £328 -29.19% 12
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 60 (6.06%) Confluence
2 25 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.11%) SAS
5 10 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.81%) Apache
7 7 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.61%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.40%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.20%) Appian
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Mendix
Applications
1 27 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.20%) Sketch
8 1 (0.10%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.10%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.10%) Notion
8 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.62%) Workday HCM
4 9 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.71%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.71%) SAP QM
6 6 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.51%) SAP PS
8 4 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.40%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.30%) Endur
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.30%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 259 (26.16%) Azure
2 201 (20.30%) Power Platform
3 129 (13.03%) AWS
4 80 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
5 59 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (5.76%) GCP
7 56 (5.66%) Power Automate
8 46 (4.65%) PowerApps
9 40 (4.04%) SaaS
9 40 (4.04%) Snowflake
10 37 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
11 36 (3.64%) Entra ID
12 32 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (3.13%) dbt
14 26 (2.63%) Serverless
15 24 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
16 22 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
17 18 (1.82%) GitHub
18 16 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.92%) Firewall
2 11 (1.11%) Network Security
3 10 (1.01%) WAN
4 8 (0.81%) LAN
4 8 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.61%) HTTP
6 5 (0.51%) DNS
6 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.40%) DHCP
7 4 (0.40%) Multicast
7 4 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.30%) BGP
8 3 (0.30%) OSPF
8 3 (0.30%) SAN
8 3 (0.30%) VPN
8 3 (0.30%) Wireless
9 2 (0.20%) MPLS
9 2 (0.20%) NAS
9 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (16.46%) Power BI
2 81 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.85%) Metadata
4 42 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 34 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 31 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 26 (2.63%) Tableau
8 18 (1.82%) Power Query
9 15 (1.52%) Data Vault
9 15 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (1.21%) Big Data
11 12 (1.21%) BigQuery
11 12 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.11%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.11%) Star Schema
13 10 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
13 10 (1.01%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.01%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 88 (8.89%) JIRA
2 45 (4.55%) Git
3 31 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.41%) GitLab
5 9 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.71%) Selenium
7 6 (0.61%) JUnit
7 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.40%) Hudson
8 4 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.30%) Gatling
9 3 (0.30%) Maven
9 3 (0.30%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.20%) ERwin
10 2 (0.20%) JDeveloper
10 2 (0.20%) Mockito
10 2 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 406 (41.01%) Social Skills
2 338 (34.14%) Finance
3 224 (22.63%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (10.91%) Banking
5 96 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.34%) Retail
7 41 (4.14%) Law
7 41 (4.14%) Marketing
8 37 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 37 (3.74%) Front Office
9 29 (2.93%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.02%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.92%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.52%) Legal
15 14 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (1.31%) Local Government
17 12 (1.21%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 250 (25.25%) Architect
2 173 (17.47%) Analyst
3 135 (13.64%) Developer
4 113 (11.41%) Business Analyst
5 111 (11.21%) Lead
6 105 (10.61%) Consultant
7 95 (9.60%) Solutions Architect
8 84 (8.48%) Senior
9 50 (5.05%) Data Engineer
10 49 (4.95%) Lead Architect
11 34 (3.43%) Data Analyst
12 31 (3.13%) Functional Architect
13 30 (3.03%) Data Architect
13 30 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
14 25 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (2.32%) Technical Architect
16 22 (2.22%) SAP Consultant
16 22 (2.22%) Technical Business Analyst
17 21 (2.12%) Designer
17 21 (2.12%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.20%) REST
2 56 (5.66%) SOAP
3 52 (5.25%) .NET
4 38 (3.84%) Middleware
5 31 (3.13%) JSON
6 22 (2.22%) React
7 21 (2.12%) AngularJS
8 20 (2.02%) HTML
9 18 (1.82%) Kafka
9 18 (1.82%) RESTful
10 17 (1.72%) CSS
11 15 (1.52%) LangChain
11 15 (1.52%) OAuth
12 13 (1.31%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (1.31%) PySpark
13 12 (1.21%) Spring
14 11 (1.11%) ASP.NET
14 11 (1.11%) XML
15 10 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 51 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 50 (5.05%) Data Structures
4 34 (3.43%) AI Agents
5 33 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 32 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 30 (3.03%) CMDB
8 24 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (2.32%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.72%) Derivative
12 17 (1.72%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.41%) Equities
13 14 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.41%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.31%) Reference Data
15 11 (1.11%) Marketing Technology
16 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.92%) Linux
2 16 (1.62%) Windows
3 12 (1.21%) Unix
4 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (30.51%) Agile
2 301 (30.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 242 (24.44%) Data Modelling
4 238 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
5 229 (23.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 211 (21.31%) Analytics
7 207 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 199 (20.10%) Business Intelligence
9 171 (17.27%) AI
10 168 (16.97%) Migration
11 163 (16.46%) CI/CD
12 156 (15.76%) DevOps
13 152 (15.35%) Decision-Making
14 135 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
15 127 (12.83%) Validation
16 123 (12.42%) Workshop Facilitation
17 121 (12.22%) ERP
18 118 (11.92%) Requirements Gathering
18 118 (11.92%) Roadmaps
19 108 (10.91%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 233 (23.54%) SQL
2 129 (13.03%) Python
3 70 (7.07%) JavaScript
4 58 (5.86%) Java
5 56 (5.66%) C#
6 32 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.12%) PL/SQL
7 21 (2.12%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.41%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.41%) Bash
8 14 (1.41%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.11%) Scala
10 10 (1.01%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.91%) X++
12 5 (0.51%) R
13 3 (0.30%) ABAP
13 3 (0.30%) C++
13 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.30%) SOQL
14 2 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 181 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 130 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.37%) Degree
4 27 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 9 (0.91%) PMP
11 8 (0.81%) CISSP
11 8 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.61%) IIBA
13 6 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
15 4 (0.40%) CCNP
15 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (13.03%) Data Quality
2 84 (8.48%) QA
3 33 (3.33%) GDPR
4 19 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.82%) GRC
6 13 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.01%) NIST
8 9 (0.91%) SLA
9 6 (0.61%) NCSC
9 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.61%) WCAG
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.30%) PSD2
11 3 (0.30%) SEPA
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (3.84%) Docker
2 23 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.10%) ACF2
5 1 (0.10%) GridGain
5 1 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.10%) RACF
5 1 (0.10%) SRDF
5 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.43%) Terraform
3 15 (1.52%) Ansible
4 4 (0.40%) Grafana
4 4 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.30%) Control-M
5 3 (0.30%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.20%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.10%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 223 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 100 (10.10%) SAP
3 80 (8.08%) ServiceNow
4 66 (6.67%) Oracle
5 51 (5.15%) Databricks
6 50 (5.05%) Salesforce
7 37 (3.74%) Workday
8 29 (2.93%) Google
9 17 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 13 (1.31%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.21%) Cisco
12 10 (1.01%) Adobe
12 10 (1.01%) ForgeRock
12 10 (1.01%) Informatica
12 10 (1.01%) Okta
12 10 (1.01%) VMware
13 8 (0.81%) Ariba
14 7 (0.71%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.71%) Foundry
15 5 (0.51%) Pega