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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 217 251
Rank change year-on-year +50 +34 +113
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 520 303 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.15% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.28% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 169 231
10th Percentile £350 £400 £402
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £22.09 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £22.96 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.84 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.37% - -
75th Percentile £30.11 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £31.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.84 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -64.37% - -

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 28,352 23,648 32,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.85% 89.40% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,131 14,458 22,099
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,777 764 1,811
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.02
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.78% +12.89%

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 26 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
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 26 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 +76 308 £525 -8.70% 86
North of England -6 80 £438 -15.87% 40
North West +17 52 £419 -16.25% 23
South East -29 47 £513 -3.53% 86
South West +6 33 £588 +18.69% 19
Yorkshire -38 26 £488 -2.50% 11
Midlands -37 22 £500 +5.26% 32
West Midlands -35 16 £500 +5.26% 17
East of England -7 15 £641 +16.55% 19
East Midlands -21 6 £401 - 14
North East -14 2 £475 -43.28% 6
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 (4.04%) Confluence
2 11 (2.12%) CMS
3 10 (1.92%) SAS
4 9 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.77%) Apache
6 4 (0.77%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.58%) 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 25 (4.81%) MS Visio
2 16 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.77%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (0.77%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (3.65%) SAP WM
4 16 (3.08%) SAP EWM
5 10 (1.92%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.35%) SAP CO
7 7 (1.35%) SAP FI
7 7 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (1.15%) Fidessa
8 6 (1.15%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.96%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.77%) Endur
10 4 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.77%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.77%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 136 (26.15%) Azure
2 91 (17.50%) AWS
3 70 (13.46%) Power Platform
4 45 (8.65%) GCP
5 25 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (3.85%) SaaS
8 19 (3.65%) Snowflake
9 18 (3.46%) GitHub
9 18 (3.46%) Serverless
10 17 (3.27%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.08%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.92%) dbt
14 8 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.54%) Boomi
14 8 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (1.54%) OCI
14 8 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.35%) Firewall
1 7 (1.35%) Network Security
2 5 (0.96%) DNS
3 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.19%) Cisco ICM
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
4 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.19%) Skype
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.19%) VLAN
4 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.15%) Power BI
2 39 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 21 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.88%) Tableau
7 14 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.31%) Data Vault
9 10 (1.92%) Metadata
9 10 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.73%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 8 (1.54%) MySQL
11 8 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.54%) Power Query
11 8 (1.54%) Redis
11 8 (1.54%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.15%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.15%) OLAP
12 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (8.46%) JIRA
2 26 (5.00%) Git
3 18 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.50%) GitLab
5 8 (1.54%) ERwin
6 6 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.15%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.96%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (0.96%) Storybook
8 4 (0.77%) JUnit
8 4 (0.77%) Mockito
9 3 (0.58%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.58%) Maven
9 3 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.58%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.38%) Selenium
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.38%) Vite
11 1 (0.19%) PeopleTools
General
1 235 (45.19%) Social Skills
2 149 (28.65%) Finance
3 116 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.69%) Banking
5 38 (7.31%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (4.42%) Retail
8 18 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (3.08%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.31%) Marketing
13 11 (2.12%) Front Office
14 10 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.54%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.54%) Law
17 7 (1.35%) General Ledger
18 6 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 113 (21.73%) Architect
2 107 (20.58%) Analyst
3 97 (18.65%) Developer
4 84 (16.15%) Consultant
5 78 (15.00%) Business Analyst
6 38 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (6.92%) Lead
8 33 (6.35%) SAP Consultant
9 31 (5.96%) Senior
10 20 (3.85%) Functional Consultant
11 17 (3.27%) SAP WM Consultant
12 15 (2.88%) ServiceNow Architect
13 14 (2.69%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (2.69%) Technical Architect
14 13 (2.50%) Management Consultant
15 12 (2.31%) Data Engineer
15 12 (2.31%) Technical Business Analyst
16 11 (2.12%) Logistics Consultant
16 11 (2.12%) Oracle Consultant
16 11 (2.12%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.04%) REST
2 52 (10.00%) SOAP
3 35 (6.73%) CSS
3 35 (6.73%) HTML
4 27 (5.19%) RESTful
5 24 (4.62%) XML
6 22 (4.23%) JSON
7 21 (4.04%) Spring
8 20 (3.85%) .NET
9 19 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.65%) Kafka
9 19 (3.65%) Middleware
10 18 (3.46%) React
11 14 (2.69%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (2.69%) OAuth
12 13 (2.50%) Spring Boot
13 12 (2.31%) Web Services
14 11 (2.12%) Node.js
14 11 (2.12%) SAP Fiori
14 11 (2.12%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.31%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.62%) Data Structures
4 22 (4.23%) CMDB
5 17 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.50%) Equities
8 10 (1.92%) Derivative
9 9 (1.73%) Credit Risk
9 9 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.54%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.15%) Life Science
12 6 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.96%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.12%) Windows
2 10 (1.92%) Linux
3 6 (1.15%) Unix
4 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.58%) 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
1 166 (31.92%) Agile
2 162 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (23.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 96 (18.46%) Data Modelling
5 86 (16.54%) Analytics
6 83 (15.96%) DevOps
7 80 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 74 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
8 74 (14.23%) CI/CD
9 70 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (12.69%) Validation
11 65 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 60 (11.54%) Migration
13 57 (10.96%) Scrum
14 53 (10.19%) Data Governance
15 52 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
16 51 (9.81%) Requirements Gathering
17 50 (9.62%) ERP
18 47 (9.04%) Computer Science
18 47 (9.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 119 (22.88%) SQL
2 71 (13.65%) Java
3 67 (12.88%) Python
4 57 (10.96%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.81%) C#
6 20 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.69%) Apex Code
8 12 (2.31%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.73%) Groovy
10 9 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.73%) RPG
11 7 (1.35%) R
12 6 (1.15%) ABAP
13 5 (0.96%) Bicep
13 5 (0.96%) C++
13 5 (0.96%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.77%) SOQL
15 3 (0.58%) Korn
Qualifications
1 85 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.62%) Degree
3 65 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.23%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.27%) SAP Certification
7 13 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.73%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.15%) PMP
13 5 (0.96%) MBA
13 5 (0.96%) MCP
14 4 (0.77%) CSPO
15 3 (0.58%) CBAP
15 3 (0.58%) CISSP
15 3 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.04%) QA
2 29 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.88%) GRC
4 13 (2.50%) GDPR
5 11 (2.12%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.73%) NIST
7 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.15%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.77%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.77%) PSD2
10 3 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.58%) GxP
10 3 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.19%) FATCA
11 1 (0.19%) IFRS
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.19%) SEPA
11 1 (0.19%) SLA
11 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.62%) Docker
2 6 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (4.04%) Terraform
2 20 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.96%) Ansible
4 4 (0.77%) 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 86 (16.54%) SAP
2 81 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 56 (10.77%) Salesforce
4 53 (10.19%) Oracle
5 40 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.85%) Google
7 18 (3.46%) Databricks
8 13 (2.50%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.12%) IBM
10 8 (1.54%) Workday
11 7 (1.35%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.15%) Foundry
12 6 (1.15%) VMware
13 5 (0.96%) Ariba
13 5 (0.96%) Informatica
13 5 (0.96%) Murex
13 5 (0.96%) Sparx
14 4 (0.77%) Cognos
14 4 (0.77%) Palantir
14 4 (0.77%) Temenos