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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 216 240
Rank change year-on-year +59 +24 +103
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 669 297 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.22% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.34% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 184 245
10th Percentile £370 £393 £425
25th Percentile £438 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -5.38%
75th Percentile £602 £684 £725
90th Percentile £725 £775 £752
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 33,405 22,176 32,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.48% 90.94% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,387 14,594 21,148
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 880 2,191
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.28 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.79 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.16% -6.87% -8.79%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +64 416 £500 -16.67% 144
North of England -19 86 £461 -5.44% 50
North West +8 54 £402 -23.43% 22
South East -42 45 £500 - 75
Midlands -44 40 £475 -11.63% 45
South West -5 35 £575 +15.00% 12
Yorkshire -45 30 £500 +11.11% 21
West Midlands -44 27 £488 - 30
East of England -16 26 £600 +9.09% 22
East Midlands -28 12 £500 -9.09% 14
North East -19 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 (5.38%) Confluence
2 11 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.49%) CMS
4 6 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.75%) SAS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 2 (0.30%) IIS
8 2 (0.30%) Mendix
8 2 (0.30%) Mule
8 2 (0.30%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (3.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.30%) Sketch
3 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.20%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.05%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.75%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.75%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.75%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.75%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.75%) SAP QM
6 5 (0.75%) SAP WM
6 5 (0.75%) Summit
7 4 (0.60%) Endur
7 4 (0.60%) SAP PM
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 (25.71%) Azure
2 132 (19.73%) Power Platform
3 121 (18.09%) AWS
4 56 (8.37%) GCP
5 53 (7.92%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (3.89%) Power Automate
7 25 (3.74%) Serverless
8 22 (3.29%) SaaS
9 20 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (2.99%) PowerApps
9 20 (2.99%) Snowflake
10 19 (2.84%) dbt
11 18 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (2.39%) Entra ID
12 16 (2.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 16 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.64%) Firewall
2 10 (1.49%) Network Security
3 9 (1.35%) WAN
4 7 (1.05%) LAN
5 6 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.75%) DNS
7 4 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.45%) HTTP
9 2 (0.30%) 5G
9 2 (0.30%) PSTN
9 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Wireless
10 1 (0.15%) 4G
10 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.15%) FCoE
10 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (16.74%) Power BI
2 55 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (4.63%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.33%) Metadata
5 26 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 22 (3.29%) Tableau
7 20 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 15 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
10 14 (2.09%) Power Query
11 13 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (1.79%) Data Vault
13 11 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.64%) MySQL
13 11 (1.64%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.05%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.05%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.05%) Redis
15 6 (0.90%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (8.22%) JIRA
2 28 (4.19%) Git
3 22 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.49%) GitLab
5 8 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.90%) ERwin
7 4 (0.60%) 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
1 284 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 215 (32.14%) Finance
3 155 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.57%) Banking
5 52 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 43 (6.43%) Law
7 31 (4.63%) Retail
8 21 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (2.69%) Front Office
10 17 (2.54%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.09%) Marketing
12 14 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.20%) Back Office
15 8 (1.20%) Legal
16 7 (1.05%) Local Government
17 5 (0.75%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 183 (27.35%) Architect
2 121 (18.09%) Analyst
3 102 (15.25%) Developer
4 93 (13.90%) Business Analyst
5 79 (11.81%) Lead
6 73 (10.91%) Consultant
7 60 (8.97%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (6.13%) Senior
9 39 (5.83%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.63%) Functional Architect
11 24 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
12 22 (3.29%) Data Engineer
13 20 (2.99%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.84%) Technical Architect
15 18 (2.69%) Data Architect
15 18 (2.69%) Technical Business Analyst
16 17 (2.54%) SAP Consultant
17 16 (2.39%) Functional Consultant
17 16 (2.39%) ServiceNow Architect
18 15 (2.24%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (12.41%) REST
2 46 (6.88%) SOAP
3 29 (4.33%) CSS
3 29 (4.33%) HTML
4 26 (3.89%) .NET
5 24 (3.59%) JSON
5 24 (3.59%) Middleware
5 24 (3.59%) RESTful
6 21 (3.14%) AngularJS
7 20 (2.99%) React
8 19 (2.84%) OAuth
9 18 (2.69%) Spring
9 18 (2.69%) XML
10 17 (2.54%) Kafka
11 16 (2.39%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (2.24%) Node.js
13 13 (1.94%) LangChain
13 13 (1.94%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
15 11 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.42%) Product Ownership
2 46 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.48%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.39%) CMDB
7 16 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.09%) Equities
10 13 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.94%) Derivative
11 11 (1.64%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.05%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.05%) Market Risk
14 6 (0.90%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.49%) Windows
2 9 (1.35%) Linux
2 9 (1.35%) Unix
3 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (27.50%) Agile
2 170 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
3 161 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 155 (23.17%) Data Modelling
5 139 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
6 135 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 131 (19.58%) CI/CD
8 122 (18.24%) Analytics
9 118 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 116 (17.34%) DevOps
11 114 (17.04%) Migration
12 87 (13.00%) AI
13 84 (12.56%) User Acceptance Testing
14 80 (11.96%) Data Migration
15 79 (11.81%) Validation
16 75 (11.21%) ERP
17 74 (11.06%) Data Governance
17 74 (11.06%) Integration Patterns
18 69 (10.31%) Decision-Making
19 64 (9.57%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 154 (23.02%) SQL
2 92 (13.75%) Python
3 67 (10.01%) Java
4 49 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 35 (5.23%) C#
6 31 (4.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (2.39%) Apex Code
8 14 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.79%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.20%) Scala
13 7 (1.05%) ABAP
14 6 (0.90%) Bash
14 6 (0.90%) R
15 5 (0.75%) SOQL
16 4 (0.60%) C++
16 4 (0.60%) Groovy
17 3 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 90 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 80 (11.96%) Degree
3 58 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.29%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.35%) MBA
8 9 (1.35%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.05%) PMP
11 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.75%) CISSP
12 4 (0.60%) CSPO
13 3 (0.45%) CCNP
13 3 (0.45%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.73%) QA
3 20 (2.99%) GDPR
4 19 (2.84%) GRC
5 14 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.09%) NIST
6 13 (1.94%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.05%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.75%) SLA
9 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.60%) SEPA
10 3 (0.45%) GxP
10 3 (0.45%) PSD2
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%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (4.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.90%) 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 33 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.04%) Terraform
3 8 (1.20%) Ansible
4 4 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.60%) 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%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 121 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 81 (12.11%) SAP
3 54 (8.07%) Oracle
4 53 (7.92%) Salesforce
5 43 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.93%) Databricks
7 25 (3.74%) Google
8 21 (3.14%) Workday
9 18 (2.69%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.64%) Foundry
11 10 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.05%) Ariba
13 7 (1.05%) Cisco
13 7 (1.05%) IBM
13 7 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
13 7 (1.05%) Palantir
14 6 (0.90%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.90%) VMware
15 5 (0.75%) ForgeRock