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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 224 259
Rank change year-on-year +51 +35 +109
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 530 299 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.12% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.25% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 167 231
10th Percentile £350 £400 £405
25th Percentile £425 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £663
90th Percentile £704 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £22.67 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £24.42 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £30.15 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -58.41% - -
75th Percentile £51.57 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £62.72 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -58.41% - -

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 28,595 23,952 32,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.09% 89.37% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,305 14,693 21,759
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,790 775 1,732
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.88 £17.41
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%
75th Percentile £58.65 £63.93 £62.64
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.01
% change year-on-year -22.62% -12.19% +15.66%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +71 310 £525 -8.70% 90
North of England -8 83 £440 -12.00% 64
North West +11 54 £425 -10.53% 32
South East -14 50 £525 -1.18% 112
South West +16 34 £575 +16.16% 42
Yorkshire -41 27 £469 -6.25% 23
Midlands -40 23 £490 +3.16% 46
West Midlands -44 16 £500 +5.26% 18
East of England -16 15 £641 +16.55% 35
East Midlands -21 7 £419 - 27
North East -12 2 £475 -43.28% 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 21 (3.96%) Confluence
2 11 (2.08%) CMS
3 10 (1.89%) SAS
4 9 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.75%) Apache
6 4 (0.75%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 2 (0.38%) Mule
8 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.19%) CICS
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (4.34%) MS Visio
2 16 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.75%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (3.58%) SAP WM
4 16 (3.02%) SAP EWM
5 10 (1.89%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.51%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.32%) SAP CO
7 7 (1.32%) SAP FI
7 7 (1.32%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (1.13%) Fidessa
8 6 (1.13%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (1.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.75%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.75%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 139 (26.23%) Azure
2 94 (17.74%) AWS
3 69 (13.02%) Power Platform
4 48 (9.06%) GCP
5 23 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (3.77%) SaaS
8 19 (3.58%) Snowflake
9 18 (3.40%) GitHub
9 18 (3.40%) Serverless
10 16 (3.02%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.83%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.89%) dbt
14 8 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.51%) OCI
14 8 (1.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.08%) Network Security
2 10 (1.89%) Firewall
3 5 (0.94%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco ICM
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
5 1 (0.19%) Internet
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
5 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.75%) Power BI
2 39 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (3.40%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.83%) Tableau
7 14 (2.64%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.26%) Data Vault
9 10 (1.89%) Metadata
9 10 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.70%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 8 (1.51%) MySQL
11 8 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.51%) Power Query
11 8 (1.51%) Redis
11 8 (1.51%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.13%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.13%) OLAP
12 6 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (8.49%) JIRA
2 26 (4.91%) Git
3 18 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.26%) GitLab
5 8 (1.51%) ERwin
6 6 (1.13%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.94%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (0.94%) Storybook
8 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.57%) JUnit
8 3 (0.57%) Maven
8 3 (0.57%) Mockito
8 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.57%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.38%) Vite
10 1 (0.19%) PeopleTools
General
1 237 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 160 (30.19%) Finance
3 121 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.92%) Banking
5 39 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (4.34%) Retail
8 18 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.02%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.45%) Marketing
10 13 (2.45%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.08%) Front Office
12 10 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.51%) Back Office
14 8 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.51%) General Ledger
14 8 (1.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (21.89%) Architect
2 107 (20.19%) Analyst
3 99 (18.68%) Developer
4 83 (15.66%) Consultant
5 78 (14.72%) Business Analyst
6 38 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (6.60%) Lead
8 34 (6.42%) SAP Consultant
9 31 (5.85%) Senior
10 21 (3.96%) Functional Consultant
11 17 (3.21%) SAP WM Consultant
12 15 (2.83%) ServiceNow Architect
13 14 (2.64%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (2.64%) Technical Architect
14 13 (2.45%) Management Consultant
15 12 (2.26%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.26%) Project Manager
15 12 (2.26%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 12 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
16 11 (2.08%) Logistics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (13.58%) REST
2 51 (9.62%) SOAP
3 35 (6.60%) CSS
3 35 (6.60%) HTML
4 26 (4.91%) RESTful
5 24 (4.53%) XML
6 22 (4.15%) JSON
7 21 (3.96%) Spring
8 20 (3.77%) .NET
9 19 (3.58%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.58%) Kafka
10 18 (3.40%) Middleware
10 18 (3.40%) React
11 14 (2.64%) OAuth
12 13 (2.45%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (2.45%) Spring Boot
13 12 (2.26%) Web Services
14 11 (2.08%) Node.js
14 11 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
15 10 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 28 (5.28%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.53%) Data Structures
4 22 (4.15%) CMDB
5 17 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.45%) Equities
7 12 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.89%) Credit Risk
8 10 (1.89%) Derivative
8 10 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.70%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.51%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.13%) Life Science
13 5 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.08%) Windows
2 10 (1.89%) Linux
3 6 (1.13%) Unix
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Android
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Solaris
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (32.26%) Agile
2 168 (31.70%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (17.92%) Data Modelling
5 87 (16.42%) Analytics
6 83 (15.66%) DevOps
7 79 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 76 (14.34%) CI/CD
9 73 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
10 71 (13.40%) Roadmaps
11 70 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 67 (12.64%) Validation
13 60 (11.32%) Migration
14 57 (10.75%) Scrum
15 55 (10.38%) Mentoring
16 53 (10.00%) Data Governance
17 51 (9.62%) Requirements Gathering
18 50 (9.43%) ERP
18 50 (9.43%) Integration Patterns
19 46 (8.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 119 (22.45%) SQL
2 70 (13.21%) Java
3 69 (13.02%) Python
4 57 (10.75%) JavaScript
5 26 (4.91%) C#
6 20 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (2.45%) Apex Code
8 12 (2.26%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.70%) Groovy
10 9 (1.70%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.70%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.70%) RPG
11 7 (1.32%) R
12 6 (1.13%) ABAP
12 6 (1.13%) C++
13 5 (0.94%) Bicep
13 5 (0.94%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.75%) SOQL
15 3 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 87 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.34%) Degree
3 65 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.15%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.21%) SAP Certification
7 13 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.51%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.13%) CISSP
11 6 (1.13%) PMP
12 5 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.94%) CCSP
12 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.94%) MBA
12 5 (0.94%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.87%) QA
2 30 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.21%) GDPR
4 15 (2.83%) GRC
5 14 (2.64%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.26%) NIST
7 11 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.32%) PSD2
9 6 (1.13%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.75%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.57%) GxP
11 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.19%) FATCA
12 1 (0.19%) IFRS
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.19%) SEPA
12 1 (0.19%) SLA
12 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (5.09%) Docker
2 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.96%) Terraform
3 6 (1.13%) Ansible
4 4 (0.75%) Control-M
5 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.38%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (16.42%) SAP
2 83 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 53 (10.00%) Oracle
3 53 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 42 (7.92%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.77%) Google
6 18 (3.40%) Databricks
7 13 (2.45%) MuleSoft
8 11 (2.08%) IBM
9 8 (1.51%) Workday
10 7 (1.32%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.13%) Foundry
11 6 (1.13%) VMware
12 5 (0.94%) Ariba
12 5 (0.94%) Informatica
12 5 (0.94%) Murex
12 5 (0.94%) Sparx
13 4 (0.75%) Cognos
13 4 (0.75%) Palantir
13 4 (0.75%) Temenos