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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 189 218
Rank change year-on-year +47 +29 +101
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 718 355 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.45% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.59% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 223 263
10th Percentile £371 £388 £425
25th Percentile £450 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 1
10th Percentile £20.66 £46.95 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £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 £32.98 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £46.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.15 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -61.89% +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 34,677 22,323 31,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 91.22% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,105 14,603 20,624
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,142 946 2,251
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%
75th Percentile £67.96 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +50 433 £520 -5.41% 135
North of England -29 85 £475 +4.11% 44
Midlands -30 55 £525 +1.20% 29
South East -39 53 £500 +0.25% 50
North West -7 47 £398 -24.21% 26
Yorkshire -42 36 £510 +32.68% 13
South West -9 32 £550 - 15
East of England -11 32 £550 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -38 31 £538 +22.86% 17
East Midlands -14 22 £525 -25.00% 12
North East -22 2 £488 -25.00% 5
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 39 (5.43%) Confluence
2 13 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.11%) CMS
3 8 (1.11%) SAS
4 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.84%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.70%) Apache
7 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.56%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) Camunda
9 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) Mule
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.79%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.28%) Sketch
5 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.11%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.84%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.70%) Summit
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.56%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.56%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.42%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.42%) iTrent
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 180 (25.07%) Azure
2 139 (19.36%) Power Platform
3 116 (16.16%) AWS
4 59 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
5 51 (7.10%) GCP
6 30 (4.18%) Power Automate
7 26 (3.62%) SaaS
8 25 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.48%) Serverless
9 23 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (3.06%) Snowflake
11 21 (2.92%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.79%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.51%) dbt
14 15 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (1.81%) Azure AKS
15 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
16 12 (1.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.53%) Firewall
2 10 (1.39%) WAN
3 8 (1.11%) LAN
3 8 (1.11%) Network Security
4 7 (0.97%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.70%) DNS
6 4 (0.56%) HTTP
6 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.42%) Multicast
8 2 (0.28%) 5G
8 2 (0.28%) BGP
8 2 (0.28%) OSPF
8 2 (0.28%) PSTN
8 2 (0.28%) SAN
8 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.28%) VLAN
8 2 (0.28%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.28%) Wireless
9 1 (0.14%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (16.02%) Power BI
2 46 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 33 (4.60%) Metadata
5 26 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.20%) Tableau
7 19 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (1.95%) Power Query
11 12 (1.67%) MySQL
11 12 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (1.53%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.25%) Pinecone
13 9 (1.25%) Star Schema
13 9 (1.25%) Weaviate
14 8 (1.11%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.11%) Data Vault
14 8 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.97%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 58 (8.08%) JIRA
2 27 (3.76%) Git
3 26 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.25%) GitLab
4 9 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.84%) ERwin
6 4 (0.56%) Hudson
7 3 (0.42%) MLflow
7 3 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.28%) JUnit
8 2 (0.28%) Maven
8 2 (0.28%) Mockito
8 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.28%) Vite
9 1 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 280 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 232 (32.31%) Finance
3 165 (22.98%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (10.86%) Banking
5 59 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 47 (6.55%) Law
7 30 (4.18%) Retail
8 24 (3.34%) Front Office
9 22 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (3.06%) Marketing
10 21 (2.92%) Investment Banking
11 18 (2.51%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.53%) Legal
13 11 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.25%) Local Government
15 8 (1.11%) Back Office
15 8 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.97%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 182 (25.35%) Architect
2 130 (18.11%) Analyst
3 104 (14.48%) Developer
4 94 (13.09%) Business Analyst
5 86 (11.98%) Consultant
6 83 (11.56%) Lead
7 66 (9.19%) Solutions Architect
8 52 (7.24%) Senior
9 39 (5.43%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.32%) Functional Architect
11 29 (4.04%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.48%) Data Analyst
13 20 (2.79%) Technical Analyst
14 18 (2.51%) SAP Consultant
14 18 (2.51%) ServiceNow Architect
15 17 (2.37%) Java Developer
15 17 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
16 16 (2.23%) Data Architect
16 16 (2.23%) Functional Consultant
16 16 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.00%) REST
2 41 (5.71%) SOAP
3 33 (4.60%) .NET
4 26 (3.62%) Middleware
5 25 (3.48%) HTML
6 24 (3.34%) CSS
7 23 (3.20%) RESTful
8 22 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 19 (2.65%) JSON
9 19 (2.65%) React
10 18 (2.51%) LangChain
11 16 (2.23%) Node.js
11 16 (2.23%) OAuth
12 15 (2.09%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.95%) Kafka
13 14 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (1.95%) Spring
14 13 (1.81%) XML
15 12 (1.67%) Pandas
16 11 (1.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.61%) Product Ownership
2 46 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 32 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 20 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.23%) CMDB
7 16 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.23%) Equities
8 15 (2.09%) Derivative
8 15 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.81%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.11%) Market Risk
13 7 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.53%) Linux
1 11 (1.53%) Unix
1 11 (1.53%) Windows
2 7 (0.97%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (25.91%) Agile
2 174 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
3 165 (22.98%) Data Modelling
4 151 (21.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 150 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (19.78%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 131 (18.25%) Analytics
9 129 (17.97%) CI/CD
10 125 (17.41%) Migration
11 116 (16.16%) DevOps
12 109 (15.18%) AI
13 93 (12.95%) Decision-Making
14 92 (12.81%) ERP
15 90 (12.53%) Data Migration
15 90 (12.53%) User Acceptance Testing
16 81 (11.28%) Validation
17 78 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
18 77 (10.72%) Data Governance
19 73 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 167 (23.26%) SQL
2 105 (14.62%) Python
3 60 (8.36%) Java
4 45 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.57%) C#
6 32 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.37%) Apex Code
8 15 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.81%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.11%) Scala
11 7 (0.97%) Bash
11 7 (0.97%) R
11 7 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.56%) SOQL
13 3 (0.42%) C++
13 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.28%) ABAP
14 2 (0.28%) Go
14 2 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (12.53%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.14%) Degree
3 57 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.81%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.25%) MBA
8 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.70%) CISSP
11 4 (0.56%) CBAP
11 4 (0.56%) CCNP
11 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.56%) PMP
12 3 (0.42%) CSPO
12 3 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.69%) QA
3 23 (3.20%) GDPR
4 14 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.81%) GRC
5 13 (1.81%) NIST
6 10 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.84%) SLA
8 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.56%) PSD2
9 4 (0.56%) SEPA
10 3 (0.42%) GxP
10 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.42%) WCAG
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.28%) MiFID
11 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (3.62%) Docker
2 9 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) GridGain
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.14%) IAG
5 1 (0.14%) SRDF
5 1 (0.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 35 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.04%) Terraform
3 12 (1.67%) Ansible
4 4 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Grafana
6 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.14%) Control-M
7 1 (0.14%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.14%) Istio
7 1 (0.14%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 137 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.14%) SAP
3 61 (8.50%) Oracle
4 55 (7.66%) Salesforce
5 47 (6.55%) ServiceNow
6 39 (5.43%) Databricks
7 24 (3.34%) Google
8 23 (3.20%) Workday
9 16 (2.23%) MuleSoft
9 16 (2.23%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.39%) ForgeRock
10 10 (1.39%) Okta
11 9 (1.25%) Foundry
12 8 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.11%) Cisco
13 6 (0.84%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.70%) Civica
14 5 (0.70%) Orchard
14 5 (0.70%) Palantir
14 5 (0.70%) VMware