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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 205 237
Rank change year-on-year +48 +32 +100
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 674 315 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.29% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.41% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 197 250
10th Percentile £373 £389 £425
25th Percentile £438 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £684 £725
90th Percentile £725 £775 £754
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -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 33,725 22,317 32,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.27% 91.07% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,581 14,667 21,200
10th Percentile £314 £310 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,094 893 2,223
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.20 £72.24
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -3.59%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +68 414 £505 -12.17% 135
North of England -13 88 £475 +5.56% 50
North West -7 52 £402 -23.43% 23
South East -40 45 £500 +4.22% 66
Midlands -42 43 £519 -4.64% 45
South West -3 35 £575 +15.00% 10
Yorkshire -43 34 £500 +28.87% 20
East of England -19 27 £600 - 19
West Midlands -45 27 £500 +5.26% 24
East Midlands -22 15 £525 -4.55% 21
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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 11 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.34%) CMS
4 8 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.04%) SAS
6 6 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.74%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.59%) Apache
9 3 (0.45%) IIS
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.30%) Camunda
10 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.30%) Mendix
10 2 (0.30%) Mule
10 2 (0.30%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.12%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.30%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.19%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.04%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.74%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.74%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.74%) SAP QM
6 5 (0.74%) SAP WM
6 5 (0.74%) Summit
7 4 (0.59%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.59%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.45%) Endur
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
1 172 (25.52%) Azure
2 130 (19.29%) Power Platform
3 120 (17.80%) AWS
4 57 (8.46%) GCP
5 55 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (4.01%) Power Automate
7 26 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.71%) Serverless
9 23 (3.41%) SaaS
10 20 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (2.97%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 18 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (2.67%) Snowflake
13 17 (2.52%) dbt
14 16 (2.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 16 (2.37%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.78%) Azure AKS
17 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.78%) Firewall
2 10 (1.48%) Network Security
3 9 (1.34%) WAN
4 7 (1.04%) LAN
5 6 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.74%) DNS
7 4 (0.59%) HTTP
7 4 (0.59%) 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 (16.17%) Power BI
2 49 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.75%) SQL Server
4 30 (4.45%) Metadata
5 25 (3.71%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.41%) Tableau
7 19 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (1.93%) Power Query
10 11 (1.63%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.63%) MySQL
10 11 (1.63%) Star Schema
11 9 (1.34%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.04%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (8.46%) JIRA
2 30 (4.45%) Git
3 26 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.48%) GitLab
5 9 (1.34%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.89%) ERwin
7 4 (0.59%) 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%) SpecFlow
General
1 283 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 218 (32.34%) Finance
3 160 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.79%) Banking
5 54 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 43 (6.38%) Law
7 28 (4.15%) Retail
8 21 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.52%) Front Office
9 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.23%) Marketing
11 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.48%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.19%) Legal
16 7 (1.04%) Back Office
16 7 (1.04%) Local Government
17 5 (0.74%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 176 (26.11%) Architect
2 119 (17.66%) Analyst
3 107 (15.88%) Developer
4 89 (13.20%) Business Analyst
5 81 (12.02%) Lead
6 75 (11.13%) Consultant
7 61 (9.05%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (5.93%) Senior
9 39 (5.79%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.60%) Functional Architect
11 24 (3.56%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.56%) Technical Analyst
12 20 (2.97%) Data Analyst
13 18 (2.67%) Technical Architect
13 18 (2.67%) Technical Business Analyst
14 17 (2.52%) SAP Consultant
15 16 (2.37%) Functional Consultant
15 16 (2.37%) Java Developer
15 16 (2.37%) ServiceNow Architect
16 14 (2.08%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (12.31%) REST
2 46 (6.82%) SOAP
3 29 (4.30%) CSS
3 29 (4.30%) HTML
4 27 (4.01%) .NET
5 25 (3.71%) RESTful
6 24 (3.56%) JSON
6 24 (3.56%) Middleware
7 21 (3.12%) AngularJS
8 20 (2.97%) React
9 19 (2.82%) OAuth
10 18 (2.67%) Spring
10 18 (2.67%) XML
11 17 (2.52%) Kafka
11 17 (2.52%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (2.23%) Node.js
13 13 (1.93%) LangChain
13 13 (1.93%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (1.78%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.05%) Product Ownership
2 46 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.37%) CMDB
6 16 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.23%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.23%) Equities
8 13 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.93%) Derivative
9 12 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.04%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.04%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.89%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.78%) Windows
2 10 (1.48%) Linux
2 10 (1.48%) Unix
3 7 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (28.04%) Agile
2 171 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 160 (23.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 149 (22.11%) Data Modelling
5 135 (20.03%) Business Intelligence
6 134 (19.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 132 (19.58%) CI/CD
8 124 (18.40%) Analytics
9 123 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (17.80%) DevOps
11 113 (16.77%) Migration
12 85 (12.61%) AI
13 84 (12.46%) User Acceptance Testing
14 80 (11.87%) Validation
15 79 (11.72%) Data Migration
16 75 (11.13%) ERP
17 73 (10.83%) Integration Patterns
18 72 (10.68%) Data Governance
18 72 (10.68%) Decision-Making
19 65 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 155 (23.00%) SQL
2 95 (14.09%) Python
3 70 (10.39%) Java
4 50 (7.42%) JavaScript
5 36 (5.34%) C#
6 30 (4.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.52%) Apex Code
8 14 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.19%) Scala
12 7 (1.04%) ABAP
12 7 (1.04%) Bash
12 7 (1.04%) R
13 5 (0.74%) SOQL
14 4 (0.59%) Groovy
14 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.45%) C++
15 3 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 94 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 77 (11.42%) Degree
3 61 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.12%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.34%) MBA
10 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.19%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.89%) PMP
13 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.74%) CISSP
14 3 (0.45%) CCNP
14 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.45%) PhD
14 3 (0.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 46 (6.82%) QA
3 23 (3.41%) GDPR
4 17 (2.52%) GRC
5 14 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.08%) NIST
6 13 (1.93%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.04%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.74%) PSD2
8 5 (0.74%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) SEPA
10 3 (0.45%) GxP
10 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 28 (4.15%) Docker
2 8 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.89%) 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 35 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.86%) Terraform
3 10 (1.48%) Ansible
4 4 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.59%) 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%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 120 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 82 (12.17%) SAP
3 57 (8.46%) Oracle
4 52 (7.72%) Salesforce
5 42 (6.23%) ServiceNow
6 34 (5.04%) Databricks
7 27 (4.01%) Google
8 21 (3.12%) Workday
9 19 (2.82%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.63%) Foundry
11 10 (1.48%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.19%) ForgeRock
12 8 (1.19%) Okta
13 7 (1.04%) Ariba
13 7 (1.04%) Cisco
13 7 (1.04%) IBM
13 7 (1.04%) Palantir
14 6 (0.89%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.89%) VMware