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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 223 236
Rank change year-on-year +50 +13 +101
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 595 280 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.14% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.26% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 168 248
10th Percentile £368 £400 £413
25th Percentile £425 £456 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £684 £712
90th Percentile £715 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.45% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £22.67 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £24.42 £61.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £30.15 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.41% +31.82% -23.18%
75th Percentile £56.24 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -58.41% +31.82% -23.18%

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 31,848 22,266 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.63% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,386 14,474 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £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 1,978 815 2,152
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +79 367 £509 -15.21% 134
North of England -19 85 £475 -8.21% 42
North West +11 58 £425 -19.05% 17
South East -35 43 £510 +2.00% 67
Midlands -33 33 £425 -15.00% 26
South West -2 32 £575 +15.00% 15
Yorkshire -49 24 £494 +9.72% 17
West Midlands -52 21 £450 -7.69% 14
East of England -26 15 £600 - 19
East Midlands -22 11 £487 -2.65% 12
North East -11 3 £475 -42.42% 8
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 26 (4.37%) Confluence
2 10 (1.68%) CMS
3 9 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.84%) Apache
6 4 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.50%) SAS
8 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.34%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.34%) Camunda
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) Mendix
8 2 (0.34%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.34%) Mule
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 25 (4.20%) MS Visio
2 18 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.34%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.34%) Sketch
4 1 (0.17%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.51%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.01%) Fidessa
4 6 (1.01%) SAP CO
4 6 (1.01%) SAP FI
4 6 (1.01%) SAP FI/CO
5 5 (0.84%) SAP WM
5 5 (0.84%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.67%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.67%) Endur
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.67%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.67%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.67%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.50%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 167 (28.07%) Azure
2 117 (19.66%) AWS
3 101 (16.97%) Power Platform
4 56 (9.41%) GCP
5 33 (5.55%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.03%) Serverless
8 22 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (3.19%) Power Automate
9 19 (3.19%) Snowflake
10 18 (3.03%) dbt
11 17 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 17 (2.86%) SaaS
12 16 (2.69%) GitHub
13 15 (2.52%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (2.35%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (2.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 11 (1.85%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.68%) Firewall
1 10 (1.68%) Network Security
2 6 (1.01%) DNS
2 6 (1.01%) WAN
3 5 (0.84%) LAN
4 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.34%) 5G
5 2 (0.34%) DHCP
5 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.34%) PSTN
5 2 (0.34%) SAN
5 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.17%) 4G
6 1 (0.17%) FCoE
6 1 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.17%) LTE
6 1 (0.17%) NAS
6 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (13.95%) Power BI
2 52 (8.74%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.70%) Tableau
5 20 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.19%) Metadata
6 19 (3.19%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 12 (2.02%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.85%) Star Schema
10 10 (1.68%) Power Query
11 9 (1.51%) Data Vault
11 9 (1.51%) MySQL
12 8 (1.34%) DynamoDB
12 8 (1.34%) Redis
13 7 (1.18%) Big Data
13 7 (1.18%) DocumentDB
13 7 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 7 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (7.90%) JIRA
2 33 (5.55%) Git
3 21 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.18%) GitLab
5 5 (0.84%) ERwin
6 4 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.50%) JUnit
7 3 (0.50%) Maven
7 3 (0.50%) Mockito
7 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.50%) Vite
8 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.34%) Hudson
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
8 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.17%) PeopleTools
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 266 (44.71%) Social Skills
2 172 (28.91%) Finance
3 140 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (8.91%) Banking
5 49 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.37%) Retail
7 23 (3.87%) Law
8 20 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.86%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.35%) Marketing
12 14 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (2.18%) Front Office
14 12 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.18%) Legal
16 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.84%) Back Office
17 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 163 (27.39%) Architect
2 108 (18.15%) Analyst
3 96 (16.13%) Developer
4 80 (13.45%) Business Analyst
5 66 (11.09%) Consultant
6 56 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
7 52 (8.74%) Lead
8 37 (6.22%) Senior
9 20 (3.36%) Data Engineer
10 18 (3.03%) Lead Architect
10 18 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
11 17 (2.86%) Data Analyst
11 17 (2.86%) Data Architect
11 17 (2.86%) Technical Architect
12 16 (2.69%) ServiceNow Architect
13 15 (2.52%) Functional Consultant
14 14 (2.35%) Technical Analyst
15 13 (2.18%) Java Developer
16 12 (2.02%) Functional Architect
17 11 (1.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.45%) REST
2 49 (8.24%) SOAP
3 31 (5.21%) CSS
3 31 (5.21%) HTML
4 25 (4.20%) JSON
5 23 (3.87%) XML
6 22 (3.70%) RESTful
7 21 (3.53%) .NET
7 21 (3.53%) Spring
8 19 (3.19%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.19%) OAuth
8 19 (3.19%) React
9 18 (3.03%) Kafka
9 18 (3.03%) Middleware
10 15 (2.52%) Spring Boot
11 14 (2.35%) SAP Fiori
12 13 (2.18%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (2.18%) Node.js
13 11 (1.85%) Pandas
14 10 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.89%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 21 (3.53%) CMDB
4 21 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.69%) Equities
6 15 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.68%) Derivative
10 9 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.18%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.84%) Learning Management System
13 5 (0.84%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.84%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.68%) Windows
2 6 (1.01%) Linux
2 6 (1.01%) Unix
2 6 (1.01%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (30.25%) Agile
2 168 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (26.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (22.69%) Data Modelling
5 117 (19.66%) CI/CD
6 111 (18.66%) DevOps
7 108 (18.15%) Analytics
8 107 (17.98%) Business Intelligence
9 98 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 97 (16.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 85 (14.29%) Migration
12 70 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
13 69 (11.60%) Data Governance
13 69 (11.60%) Roadmaps
14 66 (11.09%) Validation
15 65 (10.92%) AI
16 61 (10.25%) Decision-Making
17 57 (9.58%) Computer Science
17 57 (9.58%) Microservices
17 57 (9.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 138 (23.19%) SQL
2 95 (15.97%) Python
3 69 (11.60%) Java
4 51 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 29 (4.87%) C#
6 26 (4.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.18%) Apex Code
8 13 (2.18%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.34%) Groovy
10 7 (1.18%) ABAP
10 7 (1.18%) RPG
10 7 (1.18%) Scala
11 5 (0.84%) Bicep
11 5 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.84%) R
11 5 (0.84%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.67%) Bash
12 4 (0.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 83 (13.95%) Degree
2 81 (13.61%) Security Cleared
3 53 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.85%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.34%) PMP
11 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.01%) MBA
12 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.67%) CISSP
12 4 (0.67%) CSPO
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.67%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.72%) QA
3 17 (2.86%) GDPR
3 17 (2.86%) GRC
4 13 (2.18%) NIST
4 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.34%) ISO 20022
7 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.67%) SEPA
10 3 (0.50%) GxP
10 3 (0.50%) PSD2
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) IFRS
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.17%) GAAP
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
12 1 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (4.37%) Docker
2 9 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) IAG
5 1 (0.17%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 27 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.20%) Terraform
3 8 (1.34%) Ansible
4 4 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.34%) Control-M
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.17%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 99 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.28%) SAP
3 48 (8.07%) Salesforce
4 45 (7.56%) Oracle
5 40 (6.72%) ServiceNow
6 31 (5.21%) Databricks
7 26 (4.37%) Google
8 17 (2.86%) Workday
9 15 (2.52%) MuleSoft
10 13 (2.18%) Foundry
11 8 (1.34%) IBM
11 8 (1.34%) Palantir
12 7 (1.18%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (1.01%) Ariba
13 6 (1.01%) Cisco
13 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
13 6 (1.01%) VMware
14 5 (0.84%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.84%) Temenos