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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 189 226
Rank change year-on-year +54 +37 +67
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 867 381 399
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.95% 1.43% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.58% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 241 269
10th Percentile £388 £390 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £755 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -7.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 2
10th Percentile £21.96 £28.83 £27.05
25th Percentile £23.64 £38.00 £30.88
Median hourly rate £32.78 £62.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.56% +52.44% -48.23%
75th Percentile £57.38 £68.56 £52.38
90th Percentile £83.35 £70.16 £56.95
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -48.23%

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 37,874 24,162 31,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.93% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,840 15,529 20,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,216 2,288
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -3.85%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +59 521 £525 -4.55% 200
North of England -49 85 £483 +4.43% 63
Midlands -19 75 £525 -4.55% 33
South East -24 68 £510 +2.00% 92
West Midlands -31 47 £475 -5.00% 16
South West -6 44 £538 - 27
North West -24 44 £478 -8.95% 38
East of England +3 41 £513 -10.87% 17
Yorkshire -51 35 £500 +11.11% 17
East Midlands -7 26 £525 -25.00% 17
North East -34 6 £330 -28.65% 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 49 (5.65%) Confluence
2 17 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.27%) SAS
5 10 (1.15%) CMS
6 8 (0.92%) Apache
7 6 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.58%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.46%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.23%) Appian
11 2 (0.23%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) IIS
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) Mule
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 21 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.69%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.23%) Sketch
5 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) Notion
5 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.27%) Workday HCM
4 9 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.92%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.81%) SAP QM
7 6 (0.69%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.58%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.58%) Summit
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.46%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.35%) Endur
10 3 (0.35%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.35%) iTrent
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.35%) SAP PS
10 3 (0.35%) SAP SD
11 2 (0.23%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 234 (26.99%) Azure
2 175 (20.18%) Power Platform
3 140 (16.15%) AWS
4 68 (7.84%) Dynamics 365
5 55 (6.34%) GCP
6 47 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (5.07%) Power Automate
8 37 (4.27%) SaaS
9 36 (4.15%) PowerApps
10 31 (3.58%) Entra ID
10 31 (3.58%) Serverless
11 29 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
12 27 (3.11%) Snowflake
13 23 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (2.54%) dbt
15 20 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
16 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (1.85%) Azure AKS
18 14 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 13 (1.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.19%) Firewall
2 14 (1.61%) WAN
3 13 (1.50%) Network Security
4 11 (1.27%) LAN
5 10 (1.15%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.69%) HTTP
8 5 (0.58%) DNS
9 4 (0.46%) Wireless
10 3 (0.35%) BGP
10 3 (0.35%) DHCP
10 3 (0.35%) Multicast
10 3 (0.35%) OSPF
10 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.35%) VLAN
10 3 (0.35%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.23%) 5G
11 2 (0.23%) NGFW
11 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (16.26%) Power BI
2 59 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (5.19%) Metadata
4 44 (5.07%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.88%) Data Lake
6 25 (2.88%) Tableau
7 23 (2.65%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 13 (1.50%) Big Data
11 12 (1.38%) Power Query
12 11 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (1.27%) Pinecone
12 11 (1.27%) Weaviate
13 10 (1.15%) Delta Lake
13 10 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (1.15%) Star Schema
14 9 (1.04%) Data Vault
15 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (8.77%) JIRA
2 41 (4.73%) Git
3 27 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.50%) GitLab
5 10 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.69%) ERwin
7 4 (0.46%) Hudson
7 4 (0.46%) JUnit
7 4 (0.46%) Selenium
7 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.35%) MLflow
8 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) Mockito
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 337 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 289 (33.33%) Finance
3 191 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.19%) Banking
5 80 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.96%) Law
7 33 (3.81%) Marketing
7 33 (3.81%) Retail
8 29 (3.34%) Front Office
9 28 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (3.23%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 18 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.61%) Legal
13 13 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.15%) Local Government
16 8 (0.92%) Back Office
16 8 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 219 (25.26%) Architect
2 137 (15.80%) Analyst
3 118 (13.61%) Developer
4 98 (11.30%) Lead
5 97 (11.19%) Consultant
6 91 (10.50%) Business Analyst
7 78 (9.00%) Solutions Architect
8 66 (7.61%) Senior
9 47 (5.42%) Lead Architect
10 43 (4.96%) Data Engineer
11 31 (3.58%) Functional Architect
12 29 (3.34%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.77%) ServiceNow Architect
14 23 (2.65%) SAP Consultant
15 22 (2.54%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (2.54%) Technical Architect
16 21 (2.42%) Data Architect
17 20 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
18 18 (2.08%) Product Owner
19 17 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (10.84%) REST
2 53 (6.11%) SOAP
3 47 (5.42%) .NET
4 38 (4.38%) Middleware
5 27 (3.11%) React
6 26 (3.00%) JSON
7 24 (2.77%) HTML
8 23 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 21 (2.42%) CSS
10 19 (2.19%) Node.js
10 19 (2.19%) RESTful
11 18 (2.08%) Kafka
12 16 (1.85%) LangChain
13 14 (1.61%) ASP.NET
13 14 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.61%) OAuth
14 12 (1.38%) PySpark
14 12 (1.38%) Spring
15 11 (1.27%) LlamaIndex
15 11 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.27%) Product Ownership
2 53 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 44 (5.07%) Data Structures
4 31 (3.58%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.88%) CMDB
7 23 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.54%) Derivative
8 22 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (2.31%) Equities
9 20 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.73%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.15%) IoT
14 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.96%) Linux
2 16 (1.85%) Windows
3 13 (1.50%) Unix
4 11 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (29.64%) Agile
2 215 (24.80%) Data Modelling
3 213 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
4 211 (24.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 193 (22.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 180 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 176 (20.30%) Analytics
8 173 (19.95%) Business Intelligence
9 156 (17.99%) CI/CD
10 144 (16.61%) Migration
11 143 (16.49%) DevOps
12 139 (16.03%) AI
13 127 (14.65%) Decision-Making
14 111 (12.80%) Validation
15 108 (12.46%) User Acceptance Testing
16 103 (11.88%) ERP
17 95 (10.96%) Data Governance
17 95 (10.96%) Data Migration
17 95 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
18 91 (10.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 201 (23.18%) SQL
2 133 (15.34%) Python
3 65 (7.50%) Java
4 64 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 56 (6.46%) C#
6 31 (3.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 18 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.73%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.50%) Scala
11 11 (1.27%) Bash
12 9 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.69%) R
13 6 (0.69%) X++
14 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.46%) SOQL
15 3 (0.35%) ABAP
16 2 (0.23%) Korn
16 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 144 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.88%) Degree
4 34 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.81%) CISSP
10 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) CCNP
11 6 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.69%) PMP
12 5 (0.58%) MBA
13 4 (0.46%) CCNA
13 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.35%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (12.23%) Data Quality
2 72 (8.30%) QA
3 31 (3.58%) GDPR
4 15 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.50%) GRC
6 11 (1.27%) NIST
7 9 (1.04%) SLA
8 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.69%) NCSC
10 5 (0.58%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.46%) PSD2
11 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.46%) SEPA
11 4 (0.46%) WCAG
12 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.23%) IFRS
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (3.81%) Docker
2 20 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.23%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) GridGain
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) IAG
6 1 (0.12%) SRDF
6 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.92%) Terraform
3 15 (1.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.35%) Control-M
5 3 (0.35%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
6 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 183 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 92 (10.61%) SAP
3 73 (8.42%) ServiceNow
4 65 (7.50%) Oracle
5 52 (6.00%) Salesforce
6 39 (4.50%) Databricks
7 31 (3.58%) Workday
8 25 (2.88%) Google
9 19 (2.19%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.61%) Cisco
11 12 (1.38%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.15%) ForgeRock
12 10 (1.15%) Foundry
12 10 (1.15%) Okta
12 10 (1.15%) VMware
13 8 (0.92%) Adobe
13 8 (0.92%) Ariba
13 8 (0.92%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.81%) Informatica
14 7 (0.81%) Juniper