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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 218 246
Rank change year-on-year +60 +28 +111
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 661 289 357
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.19% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.31% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 180 241
10th Percentile £370 £393 £425
25th Percentile £435 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £603 £677 £725
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 1
10th Percentile £23.31 £46.95 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £59.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £30.15 £71.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.68% +29.55% -30.55%
75th Percentile £38.25 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £34.20 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% +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 32,752 22,033 32,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.76% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,983 14,520 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £312 £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 £615 £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 2,011 860 2,165
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.34 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +77 409 £500 -13.04% 144
North of England -11 94 £475 -6.63% 50
North West +12 60 £421 -19.86% 21
South East -42 46 £500 - 77
South West +1 37 £575 +15.00% 20
Midlands -44 36 £475 -11.63% 33
Yorkshire -41 31 £500 +11.11% 20
West Midlands -40 24 £488 - 16
East of England -26 22 £600 +9.09% 32
East Midlands -32 11 £438 -20.36% 17
North East -12 3 £475 -42.42% 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 34 (5.14%) Confluence
2 10 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.51%) CMS
2 10 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.61%) Apache
5 4 (0.61%) SAS
6 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.30%) Camunda
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) Mendix
7 2 (0.30%) Mule
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.93%) MS Visio
2 19 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.30%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.91%) SAP CO
4 6 (0.91%) SAP FI
4 6 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.91%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.76%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.76%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.76%) SAP QM
5 5 (0.76%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.61%) Endur
6 4 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.61%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.61%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.61%) Summit
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 173 (26.17%) Azure
2 126 (19.06%) Power Platform
3 123 (18.61%) AWS
4 58 (8.77%) GCP
5 51 (7.72%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.63%) Power Automate
7 24 (3.63%) Serverless
8 22 (3.33%) SaaS
9 21 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 18 (2.72%) dbt
11 18 (2.72%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 15 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (2.12%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.66%) GitHub
16 10 (1.51%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.36%) Firewall
1 9 (1.36%) Network Security
2 6 (0.91%) WAN
3 5 (0.76%) DNS
3 5 (0.76%) LAN
4 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.30%) 5G
5 2 (0.30%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) PSTN
5 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco ICM
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) FTP
6 1 (0.15%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.15%) SSH
6 1 (0.15%) VLAN
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (16.19%) Power BI
2 58 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 25 (3.78%) Metadata
4 25 (3.78%) Relational Database
5 23 (3.48%) Tableau
6 20 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.12%) Power Query
8 14 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 12 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (1.66%) MySQL
10 11 (1.66%) Star Schema
11 10 (1.51%) Data Vault
12 7 (1.06%) DocumentDB
12 7 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.06%) Redis
12 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 55 (8.32%) JIRA
2 32 (4.84%) Git
3 23 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.51%) GitLab
5 8 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.76%) ERwin
7 3 (0.45%) Hudson
7 3 (0.45%) Maven
7 3 (0.45%) MLflow
7 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.45%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.45%) Vite
8 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.30%) JUnit
8 2 (0.30%) Mockito
8 2 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.30%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 280 (42.36%) Social Skills
2 206 (31.16%) Finance
3 154 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.83%) Banking
5 53 (8.02%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.35%) Law
7 31 (4.69%) Retail
8 22 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (2.72%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.42%) Marketing
11 15 (2.27%) Front Office
12 14 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (2.12%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.21%) Back Office
14 8 (1.21%) Legal
15 7 (1.06%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.76%) General Ledger
16 5 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 189 (28.59%) Architect
2 120 (18.15%) Analyst
3 103 (15.58%) Developer
4 92 (13.92%) Business Analyst
5 77 (11.65%) Lead
6 73 (11.04%) Consultant
7 64 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.90%) Senior
9 38 (5.75%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.69%) Functional Architect
11 21 (3.18%) Data Engineer
12 19 (2.87%) SAP Consultant
13 18 (2.72%) Technical Analyst
14 17 (2.57%) Data Analyst
14 17 (2.57%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.57%) Functional Consultant
14 17 (2.57%) Technical Architect
15 15 (2.27%) ServiceNow Architect
16 14 (2.12%) Java Developer
17 13 (1.97%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (12.86%) REST
2 47 (7.11%) SOAP
3 31 (4.69%) CSS
3 31 (4.69%) HTML
4 28 (4.24%) JSON
5 25 (3.78%) RESTful
6 24 (3.63%) XML
7 23 (3.48%) Middleware
8 22 (3.33%) .NET
8 22 (3.33%) AngularJS
9 21 (3.18%) Kafka
9 21 (3.18%) Spring
10 20 (3.03%) React
11 19 (2.87%) OAuth
12 16 (2.42%) Spring Boot
13 15 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
13 15 (2.27%) Node.js
14 14 (2.12%) SAP Fiori
15 11 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
16 10 (1.51%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 64 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.87%) CMDB
6 17 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.12%) Equities
8 13 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.66%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.66%) Derivative
10 9 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.91%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.91%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.91%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.51%) Windows
2 9 (1.36%) Linux
3 8 (1.21%) Unix
4 6 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (28.14%) Agile
2 170 (25.72%) Problem-Solving
3 165 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 146 (22.09%) Data Modelling
5 134 (20.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 133 (20.12%) Business Intelligence
7 131 (19.82%) CI/CD
8 123 (18.61%) DevOps
9 120 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (16.94%) Analytics
11 111 (16.79%) Migration
12 81 (12.25%) Validation
13 80 (12.10%) Data Migration
13 80 (12.10%) User Acceptance Testing
14 76 (11.50%) ERP
14 76 (11.50%) Integration Patterns
15 75 (11.35%) AI
15 75 (11.35%) Data Governance
16 67 (10.14%) Roadmaps
17 64 (9.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 150 (22.69%) SQL
2 93 (14.07%) Python
3 72 (10.89%) Java
4 52 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 33 (4.99%) C#
6 30 (4.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (2.27%) Apex Code
7 15 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.82%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.21%) Scala
12 7 (1.06%) ABAP
12 7 (1.06%) Groovy
13 5 (0.76%) Bash
13 5 (0.76%) R
13 5 (0.76%) RPG
13 5 (0.76%) SOQL
14 4 (0.61%) C++
14 4 (0.61%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 88 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 80 (12.10%) Degree
3 57 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.51%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.36%) MBA
11 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.21%) PMP
12 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.76%) CISSP
14 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.61%) CSPO
15 3 (0.45%) CBAP
15 3 (0.45%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.51%) QA
3 20 (3.03%) GDPR
3 20 (3.03%) GRC
4 15 (2.27%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.12%) NIST
6 8 (1.21%) ISO 20022
7 7 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.61%) SEPA
9 4 (0.61%) SLA
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%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 31 (4.69%) Docker
2 8 (1.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.91%) 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 32 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.93%) Terraform
3 8 (1.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.45%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Control-M
6 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.15%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 120 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 81 (12.25%) SAP
3 56 (8.47%) Salesforce
4 52 (7.87%) Oracle
5 41 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.84%) Databricks
7 26 (3.93%) Google
8 20 (3.03%) Workday
9 17 (2.57%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.66%) Foundry
11 8 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.21%) IBM
12 7 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
12 7 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 7 (1.06%) Palantir
13 6 (0.91%) Ariba
13 6 (0.91%) Cisco
13 6 (0.91%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.91%) VMware
14 5 (0.76%) Temenos