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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 173 220
Rank change year-on-year +59 +47 +51
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 1,047 455 358
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 1.66% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.83% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 284 246
10th Percentile £400 £371 £413
25th Percentile £463 £433 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £648
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 1
10th Percentile £23.00 £29.11 -
25th Percentile £26.98 £45.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.80% +131.48% -65.90%
75th Percentile £59.06 £70.16 £29.50
90th Percentile £85.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +131.48% -65.90%

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 39,005 24,820 27,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.75% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,032 15,769 17,764
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,622 1,447 1,355
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.28 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% +3.24%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +62 620 £550 - 614
Midlands +4 106 £525 -3.45% 97
North of England -50 103 £500 +11.11% 141
South East -14 101 £600 +19.40% 131
West Midlands +7 79 £500 - 64
South West -17 54 £525 -7.69% 66
North West -33 52 £492 -6.29% 87
Yorkshire -42 43 £517 +16.07% 41
East of England -4 34 £500 -13.04% 39
East Midlands -4 26 £525 -25.00% 33
North East -36 8 £328 -29.19% 13
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 65 (6.21%) Confluence
2 31 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.15%) SAS
6 10 (0.96%) Apache
6 10 (0.96%) CMS
7 7 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.38%) OpenEdge
10 4 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.29%) IIS
12 2 (0.19%) Appian
12 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
12 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.096%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.096%) Camunda
Applications
1 24 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.096%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.096%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.096%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.096%) Notion
8 1 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.72%) Workday HCM
4 11 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.76%) SAP QM
6 6 (0.57%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.57%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.48%) SAP PS
7 5 (0.48%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.38%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.38%) SAP PM
8 4 (0.38%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.29%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 283 (27.03%) Azure
2 205 (19.58%) Power Platform
3 159 (15.19%) AWS
4 83 (7.93%) Dynamics 365
5 66 (6.30%) GCP
6 63 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (5.83%) Power Automate
8 51 (4.87%) PowerApps
9 47 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
10 44 (4.20%) SaaS
11 41 (3.92%) Snowflake
12 38 (3.63%) Entra ID
13 34 (3.25%) Serverless
14 33 (3.15%) dbt
14 33 (3.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 31 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
16 26 (2.48%) GitHub
17 20 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 19 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.81%) Firewall
2 10 (0.96%) Network Security
2 10 (0.96%) WAN
3 8 (0.76%) LAN
3 8 (0.76%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.57%) DNS
4 6 (0.57%) HTTP
5 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.38%) DHCP
6 4 (0.38%) Multicast
6 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.29%) BGP
7 3 (0.29%) OSPF
7 3 (0.29%) VPN
7 3 (0.29%) Wireless
8 2 (0.19%) MPLS
8 2 (0.19%) NAS
8 2 (0.19%) SAN
8 2 (0.19%) Skype
8 2 (0.19%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (15.09%) Power BI
2 77 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (4.87%) Metadata
4 46 (4.39%) SQL Server
5 35 (3.34%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 25 (2.39%) Tableau
8 23 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.53%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.53%) Power Query
10 15 (1.43%) Data Vault
11 14 (1.34%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.05%) Big Data
13 11 (1.05%) Delta Lake
13 11 (1.05%) Redis
14 10 (0.96%) Chroma
14 10 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (0.96%) Pinecone
14 10 (0.96%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 90 (8.60%) JIRA
2 54 (5.16%) Git
3 39 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.01%) GitLab
5 13 (1.24%) JUnit
6 9 (0.86%) Maven
6 9 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.76%) Mockito
7 8 (0.76%) Selenium
7 8 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.38%) Gatling
10 4 (0.38%) Hudson
11 3 (0.29%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.19%) JDeveloper
12 2 (0.19%) MLflow
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 451 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 351 (33.52%) Finance
3 240 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (11.75%) Banking
5 108 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 46 (4.39%) Marketing
7 45 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.82%) Retail
9 39 (3.72%) Law
10 37 (3.53%) Front Office
10 37 (3.53%) Investment Banking
11 26 (2.48%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.53%) Legal
15 16 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.24%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 257 (24.55%) Architect
2 180 (17.19%) Analyst
3 144 (13.75%) Developer
4 120 (11.46%) Lead
5 116 (11.08%) Consultant
6 114 (10.89%) Business Analyst
7 100 (9.55%) Solutions Architect
8 99 (9.46%) Senior
9 53 (5.06%) Data Engineer
10 47 (4.49%) Lead Architect
11 35 (3.34%) Data Analyst
12 29 (2.77%) Functional Architect
12 29 (2.77%) Technical Analyst
12 29 (2.77%) Technical Architect
13 27 (2.58%) Data Architect
14 26 (2.48%) Technical Leader
15 25 (2.39%) SAP Consultant
16 23 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
17 21 (2.01%) Product Owner
17 21 (2.01%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (10.12%) REST
2 61 (5.83%) .NET
2 61 (5.83%) SOAP
3 45 (4.30%) Terraform
4 43 (4.11%) Middleware
5 35 (3.34%) JSON
6 29 (2.77%) Kafka
7 28 (2.67%) React
8 26 (2.48%) AngularJS
8 26 (2.48%) RESTful
9 25 (2.39%) HTML
10 24 (2.29%) CSS
10 24 (2.29%) Spring
11 20 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
11 20 (1.91%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.72%) LangChain
13 16 (1.53%) Web Services
14 15 (1.43%) OAuth
14 15 (1.43%) PySpark
15 13 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 109 (10.41%) Product Ownership
2 65 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 51 (4.87%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.11%) AI Agents
4 43 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
5 40 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 33 (3.15%) CMDB
6 33 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 17 (1.62%) Derivative
12 14 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.34%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.24%) Reference Data
14 12 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.15%) Equities
14 12 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.81%) Linux
2 18 (1.72%) Windows
3 12 (1.15%) Unix
4 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) zOS
7 1 (0.096%) Android
7 1 (0.096%) CentOS
7 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.096%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (34.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 325 (31.04%) Agile
3 260 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
4 245 (23.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 228 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 225 (21.49%) Data Modelling
7 223 (21.30%) Analytics
8 198 (18.91%) Business Intelligence
9 194 (18.53%) AI
10 184 (17.57%) Migration
11 180 (17.19%) CI/CD
12 162 (15.47%) Decision-Making
12 162 (15.47%) DevOps
13 148 (14.14%) User Acceptance Testing
14 140 (13.37%) Requirements Gathering
15 137 (13.09%) Workshop Facilitation
16 130 (12.42%) Roadmaps
16 130 (12.42%) Validation
17 128 (12.23%) ERP
18 122 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 236 (22.54%) SQL
2 129 (12.32%) Python
3 78 (7.45%) JavaScript
4 67 (6.40%) Java
5 61 (5.83%) C#
6 30 (2.87%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 21 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.72%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.62%) Bash
11 13 (1.24%) Apex Code
12 11 (1.05%) Scala
13 10 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.86%) X++
15 5 (0.48%) C++
16 4 (0.38%) ABAP
16 4 (0.38%) R
16 4 (0.38%) SOQL
17 3 (0.29%) Bicep
17 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 209 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 151 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.55%) Degree
4 30 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (1.91%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.34%) PMP
9 13 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 10 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.86%) CISSP
12 9 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.67%) ACCA
13 7 (0.67%) CIMA
13 7 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.57%) IIBA
15 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 94 (8.98%) QA
3 34 (3.25%) GDPR
4 22 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.81%) GRC
6 14 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.05%) NIST
8 10 (0.96%) SLA
9 8 (0.76%) WCAG
10 7 (0.67%) NCSC
11 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.29%) PMO
12 3 (0.29%) PSD2
13 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.19%) IFRS
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 51 (4.87%) Docker
2 27 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.29%) ACF2
5 3 (0.29%) RACF
5 3 (0.29%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.096%) GridGain
7 1 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.096%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.53%) Ansible
3 10 (0.96%) Grafana
3 10 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
6 3 (0.29%) Control-M
6 3 (0.29%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.19%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.096%) Argo
8 1 (0.096%) Istio
8 1 (0.096%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.096%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.096%) Puppet
8 1 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.096%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.096%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.096%) vRealize
Vendors
1 247 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 106 (10.12%) SAP
3 85 (8.12%) ServiceNow
4 80 (7.64%) Oracle
5 52 (4.97%) Databricks
5 52 (4.97%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.25%) Workday
7 32 (3.06%) Google
8 20 (1.91%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.24%) Adobe
9 13 (1.24%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.05%) Ariba
11 10 (0.96%) Cisco
11 10 (0.96%) Informatica
11 10 (0.96%) VMware
12 8 (0.76%) IBM
13 7 (0.67%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.67%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.67%) Okta
13 7 (0.67%) Pega
1,040 Translating Business Requirements jobs in England