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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 175 221
Rank change year-on-year +29 +46 +88
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 762 373 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.53% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.68% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 234 271
10th Percentile £375 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £455 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -3.78% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £700
90th Percentile £738 £760 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 1
10th Percentile £21.08 £29.97 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £56.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £26.27 £70.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.51% +27.42% -30.55%
75th Percentile £31.73 £74.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £42.38 £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £70.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -61.47% +27.42% -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 35,956 22,238 31,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.27% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,774 14,379 20,744
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 999 2,354
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.11 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.55 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.37% -23.87% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +55 468 £525 -4.55% 143
North of England -51 80 £475 +5.56% 42
Midlands -24 60 £525 -2.33% 28
South East -38 55 £500 - 68
North West -22 40 £417 -20.67% 32
Yorkshire -49 38 £500 +28.53% 6
West Midlands -35 36 £530 +24.34% 18
East of England -5 34 £513 -10.87% 6
South West -10 34 £550 +4.76% 15
East Midlands -20 22 £525 -25.00% 9
North East -29 2 £400 -15.79% 4
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 44 (5.77%) Confluence
2 15 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.31%) SAS
4 9 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.18%) CMS
5 6 (0.79%) Apache
5 6 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.52%) OpenEdge
8 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) IIS
9 2 (0.26%) Mule
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.36%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.79%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.26%) Sketch
5 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.05%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.79%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.66%) Summit
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.52%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.52%) SAP QM
8 3 (0.39%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.39%) iTrent
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 2 (0.26%) Findur
9 2 (0.26%) Maximo
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.26%) SAP PS
9 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 204 (26.77%) Azure
2 152 (19.95%) Power Platform
3 128 (16.80%) AWS
4 61 (8.01%) Dynamics 365
5 50 (6.56%) GCP
6 34 (4.46%) Power Automate
7 32 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.81%) Serverless
9 27 (3.54%) SaaS
10 26 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (3.28%) PowerApps
12 23 (3.02%) Snowflake
13 22 (2.89%) dbt
13 22 (2.89%) Entra ID
14 20 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
15 15 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
16 14 (1.84%) Azure AKS
16 14 (1.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 13 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) Firewall
2 10 (1.31%) WAN
3 8 (1.05%) LAN
3 8 (1.05%) Network Security
4 7 (0.92%) DNS
4 7 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.52%) HTTP
5 4 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.39%) DHCP
6 3 (0.39%) Multicast
6 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.26%) 5G
7 2 (0.26%) BGP
7 2 (0.26%) OSPF
7 2 (0.26%) PSTN
7 2 (0.26%) SAN
7 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.26%) VLAN
7 2 (0.26%) VSAN
7 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (16.14%) Power BI
2 50 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.86%) Metadata
5 25 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.02%) Tableau
7 21 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.49%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
10 13 (1.71%) Power Query
10 13 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (1.57%) MySQL
12 11 (1.44%) Pinecone
12 11 (1.44%) Weaviate
13 10 (1.31%) Big Data
13 10 (1.31%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.18%) Data Vault
14 9 (1.18%) Star Schema
15 8 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (8.79%) JIRA
2 35 (4.59%) Git
3 29 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.84%) GitLab
5 8 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.79%) ERwin
7 4 (0.52%) Hudson
7 4 (0.52%) JUnit
8 3 (0.39%) MLflow
8 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.26%) Maven
9 2 (0.26%) Mockito
9 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.26%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 286 (37.53%) Social Skills
2 244 (32.02%) Finance
3 170 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.42%) Banking
5 63 (8.27%) Public Sector
6 43 (5.64%) Law
7 31 (4.07%) Retail
8 25 (3.28%) Front Office
9 24 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (3.15%) Investment Banking
9 24 (3.15%) Marketing
10 18 (2.36%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.44%) Legal
13 9 (1.18%) Back Office
13 9 (1.18%) Local Government
13 9 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 194 (25.46%) Architect
2 132 (17.32%) Analyst
3 107 (14.04%) Developer
4 91 (11.94%) Business Analyst
5 88 (11.55%) Lead
6 87 (11.42%) Consultant
7 67 (8.79%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (7.61%) Senior
9 44 (5.77%) Lead Architect
10 36 (4.72%) Data Engineer
11 31 (4.07%) Functional Architect
12 26 (3.41%) ServiceNow Architect
13 25 (3.28%) Data Analyst
14 22 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (2.76%) Technical Architect
16 17 (2.23%) Data Architect
16 17 (2.23%) SAP Consultant
16 17 (2.23%) Technical Analyst
17 16 (2.10%) Cloud Architect
17 16 (2.10%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.15%) REST
2 45 (5.91%) SOAP
3 41 (5.38%) .NET
4 32 (4.20%) Middleware
5 24 (3.15%) AngularJS
6 23 (3.02%) HTML
6 23 (3.02%) RESTful
7 22 (2.89%) CSS
8 21 (2.76%) React
9 20 (2.62%) JSON
10 17 (2.23%) Kafka
10 17 (2.23%) LangChain
10 17 (2.23%) Node.js
10 17 (2.23%) OAuth
11 16 (2.10%) Spring
12 14 (1.84%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (1.71%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.71%) XML
14 12 (1.57%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 49 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 28 (3.67%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.62%) CMDB
7 20 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.23%) Derivative
8 17 (2.23%) Equities
9 14 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.71%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.05%) IoT
13 8 (1.05%) Market Risk
13 8 (1.05%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.97%) Linux
1 15 (1.97%) Windows
2 13 (1.71%) Unix
3 10 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (26.90%) Agile
2 182 (23.88%) Problem-Solving
3 172 (22.57%) Data Modelling
4 159 (20.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 158 (20.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 156 (20.47%) Business Intelligence
7 147 (19.29%) Analytics
8 145 (19.03%) CI/CD
9 139 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 134 (17.59%) Migration
11 127 (16.67%) DevOps
12 117 (15.35%) AI
13 102 (13.39%) Decision-Making
14 92 (12.07%) ERP
14 92 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
15 91 (11.94%) Data Migration
15 91 (11.94%) Validation
16 82 (10.76%) Data Governance
17 79 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
18 78 (10.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 182 (23.88%) SQL
2 115 (15.09%) Python
3 64 (8.40%) Java
4 52 (6.82%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.17%) C#
6 32 (4.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (2.10%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.84%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.31%) Scala
11 9 (1.18%) Bash
12 8 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.66%) R
14 4 (0.52%) SOQL
14 4 (0.52%) X++
15 3 (0.39%) ABAP
15 3 (0.39%) C++
15 3 (0.39%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 104 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 74 (9.71%) Degree
3 64 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.18%) MBA
11 8 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.66%) CISSP
13 4 (0.52%) CCNP
13 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.52%) PMP
14 3 (0.39%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.39%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.26%) CCNA
15 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.63%) Data Quality
2 55 (7.22%) QA
3 26 (3.41%) GDPR
4 14 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.71%) GRC
6 12 (1.57%) NIST
7 10 (1.31%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.05%) SLA
9 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.52%) PSD2
10 4 (0.52%) SEPA
10 4 (0.52%) WCAG
11 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.26%) MiFID
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.07%) Docker
2 12 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) GridGain
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) IAG
6 1 (0.13%) SRDF
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (5.12%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.46%) Terraform
3 14 (1.84%) Ansible
4 4 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.39%) Control-M
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.26%) Grafana
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.26%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.13%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 152 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.97%) SAP
3 61 (8.01%) Oracle
4 54 (7.09%) ServiceNow
5 51 (6.69%) Salesforce
6 38 (4.99%) Databricks
7 25 (3.28%) Workday
8 22 (2.89%) Google
9 19 (2.49%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.97%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.31%) Cisco
11 10 (1.31%) ForgeRock
11 10 (1.31%) Okta
12 9 (1.18%) Foundry
12 9 (1.18%) VMware
13 8 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.92%) Ariba
15 6 (0.79%) Sitecore
16 5 (0.66%) Palantir
16 5 (0.66%) Pega