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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 199 226
Rank change year-on-year +50 +27 +93
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 687 323 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.33% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.46% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 199 254
10th Percentile £372 £390 £425
25th Percentile £440 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £722
90th Percentile £725 £765 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £19.81 £46.95 -
25th Percentile £23.53 £59.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.11% +29.55% -30.55%
75th Percentile £35.61 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.58 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -59.89% +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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +65 421 £513 -10.87% 107
North of England -29 85 £461 +2.44% 34
North West -3 50 £398 -24.21% 20
South East -34 48 £500 +4.22% 61
Midlands -40 46 £520 -3.26% 45
South West -9 34 £563 +7.14% 10
Yorkshire -43 33 £500 +28.87% 11
East of England -24 28 £600 -4.00% 10
West Midlands -41 27 £510 +11.78% 27
East Midlands -18 17 £525 -4.55% 18
North East -19 2 £488 -25.00% 4
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 (5.24%) Confluence
2 10 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.16%) SAS
4 7 (1.02%) CMS
5 6 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.58%) Apache
8 3 (0.44%) IIS
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.29%) Mendix
9 2 (0.29%) Mule
9 2 (0.29%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (3.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.29%) Sketch
3 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.16%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.02%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.73%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.73%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.73%) SAP QM
6 5 (0.73%) Summit
7 4 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.58%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.58%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.58%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.58%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 174 (25.33%) Azure
2 132 (19.21%) Power Platform
3 120 (17.47%) AWS
4 55 (8.01%) Dynamics 365
5 54 (7.86%) GCP
6 27 (3.93%) Power Automate
7 26 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.64%) Serverless
9 20 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (2.91%) SaaS
10 19 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 19 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.77%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.77%) Snowflake
11 16 (2.33%) dbt
12 15 (2.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 15 (2.18%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (1.89%) Azure AKS
14 12 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (1.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.60%) Firewall
2 10 (1.46%) WAN
3 9 (1.31%) Network Security
4 8 (1.16%) LAN
5 7 (1.02%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.73%) DNS
7 4 (0.58%) HTTP
7 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.29%) 5G
8 2 (0.29%) BGP
8 2 (0.29%) OSPF
8 2 (0.29%) PSTN
8 2 (0.29%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 2 (0.29%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.29%) Wireless
9 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.15%) NGFW
9 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (16.30%) Power BI
2 49 (7.13%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 31 (4.51%) Metadata
5 26 (3.78%) Relational Database
6 22 (3.20%) Tableau
7 19 (2.77%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (2.04%) Power Query
10 14 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (1.75%) MySQL
12 11 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.46%) Star Schema
14 9 (1.31%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.02%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.02%) DocumentDB
15 7 (1.02%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (8.30%) JIRA
2 30 (4.37%) Git
3 28 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.46%) GitLab
5 9 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.87%) ERwin
7 4 (0.58%) Hudson
8 3 (0.44%) Maven
8 3 (0.44%) MLflow
8 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.44%) Vite
9 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.29%) JUnit
9 2 (0.29%) Mockito
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 281 (40.90%) Social Skills
2 225 (32.75%) Finance
3 164 (23.87%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.19%) Banking
5 55 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.40%) Law
7 30 (4.37%) Retail
8 22 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.91%) Front Office
10 17 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 17 (2.47%) Marketing
11 15 (2.18%) Investment Banking
12 14 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.02%) Back Office
14 7 (1.02%) Legal
14 7 (1.02%) Local Government
15 6 (0.87%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 175 (25.47%) Architect
2 122 (17.76%) Analyst
3 110 (16.01%) Developer
4 89 (12.95%) Business Analyst
5 78 (11.35%) Lead
6 77 (11.21%) Consultant
7 63 (9.17%) Solutions Architect
8 42 (6.11%) Senior
9 39 (5.68%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.51%) Functional Architect
11 27 (3.93%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.64%) Technical Analyst
13 21 (3.06%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.77%) Technical Business Analyst
15 18 (2.62%) Java Developer
15 18 (2.62%) ServiceNow Architect
16 17 (2.47%) Technical Architect
17 15 (2.18%) Cloud Architect
17 15 (2.18%) Functional Consultant
17 15 (2.18%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (11.79%) REST
2 43 (6.26%) SOAP
3 30 (4.37%) .NET
4 29 (4.22%) CSS
4 29 (4.22%) HTML
5 25 (3.64%) RESTful
6 23 (3.35%) Middleware
7 21 (3.06%) AngularJS
7 21 (3.06%) JSON
8 20 (2.91%) React
9 19 (2.77%) OAuth
10 17 (2.47%) Node.js
10 17 (2.47%) Spring
11 16 (2.33%) Kafka
11 16 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (2.18%) LangChain
12 15 (2.18%) XML
13 13 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
14 12 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.46%) Product Ownership
2 45 (6.55%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.22%) Data Structures
4 19 (2.77%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.62%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.33%) CMDB
7 16 (2.33%) Equities
8 14 (2.04%) Derivative
8 14 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.89%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.02%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.02%) Market Risk
14 5 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.60%) Windows
2 9 (1.31%) Linux
2 9 (1.31%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (27.80%) Agile
2 174 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
3 160 (23.29%) Data Modelling
4 156 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 137 (19.94%) Business Intelligence
6 136 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 136 (19.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 128 (18.63%) CI/CD
8 127 (18.49%) Analytics
9 118 (17.18%) DevOps
10 114 (16.59%) Migration
11 94 (13.68%) AI
12 84 (12.23%) User Acceptance Testing
12 84 (12.23%) Validation
13 81 (11.79%) Data Migration
13 81 (11.79%) ERP
14 80 (11.64%) Decision-Making
15 75 (10.92%) Data Governance
16 69 (10.04%) Integration Patterns
16 69 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 161 (23.44%) SQL
2 102 (14.85%) Python
3 67 (9.75%) Java
4 50 (7.28%) JavaScript
5 36 (5.24%) C#
6 32 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.47%) Apex Code
8 15 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.31%) Scala
11 8 (1.16%) ABAP
12 7 (1.02%) Bash
12 7 (1.02%) R
12 7 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.73%) SOQL
14 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.44%) C++
15 3 (0.44%) Swift
16 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.64%) Degree
3 60 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.06%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.46%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.31%) MBA
10 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.58%) CCNP
14 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.58%) PMP
15 3 (0.44%) CBAP
15 3 (0.44%) CISSP
15 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 50 (7.28%) QA
3 22 (3.20%) GDPR
4 18 (2.62%) GRC
5 11 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.60%) NIST
5 11 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) SEPA
9 3 (0.44%) GxP
9 3 (0.44%) PSD2
9 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.29%) WCAG
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) TARGET2
System Software
1 25 (3.64%) Docker
2 8 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) 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 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.08%) Terraform
3 12 (1.75%) Ansible
4 4 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.29%) 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
1 121 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 85 (12.37%) SAP
3 60 (8.73%) Oracle
4 53 (7.71%) Salesforce
5 45 (6.55%) ServiceNow
6 34 (4.95%) Databricks
7 26 (3.78%) Google
8 23 (3.35%) Workday
9 19 (2.77%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.60%) Foundry
12 10 (1.46%) ForgeRock
12 10 (1.46%) Okta
13 8 (1.16%) Ariba
13 8 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.16%) Cisco
14 7 (1.02%) IBM
14 7 (1.02%) Palantir
15 6 (0.87%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.87%) VMware