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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 187 214
Rank change year-on-year +62 +27 +46
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 974 407 384
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 1.47% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.62% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 260 266
10th Percentile £400 £387 £413
25th Percentile £463 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 2
10th Percentile £23.00 £29.11 £27.05
25th Percentile £26.33 £45.75 £30.88
Median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -42.73%
75th Percentile £62.19 £70.16 £52.38
90th Percentile £86.13 - £56.95
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -42.73%

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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +75 590 £538 -2.27% 356
North of England -31 99 £492 +9.33% 98
Midlands -8 84 £525 -4.55% 57
South East -16 83 £575 +14.43% 125
West Midlands -19 55 £533 +6.50% 39
North West -29 50 £492 -6.29% 60
South West -16 49 £525 -4.55% 43
Yorkshire -41 41 £507 +18.60% 31
East of England +8 36 £500 -9.09% 24
East Midlands 0 27 £525 -25.00% 18
North East -35 8 £328 -29.19% 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 59 (6.06%) Confluence
2 24 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.13%) SAS
6 9 (0.92%) Apache
7 7 (0.72%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.62%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.41%) OpenEdge
9 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.21%) Appian
10 2 (0.21%) Camunda
10 2 (0.21%) IIS
10 2 (0.21%) Mule
10 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.21%) Sketch
8 1 (0.10%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.10%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.10%) Notion
8 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.64%) Workday HCM
4 9 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 6 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.51%) SAP PS
8 4 (0.41%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.41%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.31%) Endur
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.31%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.31%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.31%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.31%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 257 (26.39%) Azure
2 196 (20.12%) Power Platform
3 131 (13.45%) AWS
4 76 (7.80%) Dynamics 365
5 60 (6.16%) GCP
6 55 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (5.65%) Power Automate
7 45 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 37 (3.80%) SaaS
8 37 (3.80%) Snowflake
9 36 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (3.59%) Entra ID
11 31 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (2.98%) dbt
13 26 (2.67%) Serverless
14 23 (2.36%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (2.26%) SuccessFactors
16 21 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 16 (1.64%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.85%) Firewall
2 11 (1.13%) Network Security
2 11 (1.13%) WAN
3 9 (0.92%) LAN
3 9 (0.92%) SD-WAN
4 6 (0.62%) HTTP
5 5 (0.51%) DNS
5 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.41%) DHCP
6 4 (0.41%) Multicast
6 4 (0.41%) Wireless
7 3 (0.31%) BGP
7 3 (0.31%) OSPF
7 3 (0.31%) VPN
8 2 (0.21%) MPLS
8 2 (0.21%) SAN
8 2 (0.21%) VLAN
8 2 (0.21%) VSAN
8 2 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (16.43%) Power BI
2 80 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.83%) Metadata
4 42 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 34 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 28 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.57%) Tableau
8 18 (1.85%) Power Query
9 16 (1.64%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.44%) Data Vault
12 13 (1.33%) Big Data
12 13 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (1.23%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.13%) Delta Lake
14 11 (1.13%) Pinecone
14 11 (1.13%) Star Schema
14 11 (1.13%) Weaviate
15 10 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
16 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (8.93%) JIRA
2 44 (4.52%) Git
3 30 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.33%) GitLab
5 9 (0.92%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.62%) Selenium
7 5 (0.51%) JUnit
7 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.41%) Hudson
9 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.31%) Maven
9 3 (0.31%) MLflow
9 3 (0.31%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.31%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.21%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.21%) ERwin
10 2 (0.21%) Gatling
10 2 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 392 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 335 (34.39%) Finance
3 218 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (11.09%) Banking
5 96 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.21%) Law
6 41 (4.21%) Marketing
7 40 (4.11%) Retail
8 37 (3.80%) Front Office
9 35 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
10 29 (2.98%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.05%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.44%) Legal
15 14 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 240 (24.64%) Architect
2 170 (17.45%) Analyst
3 130 (13.35%) Developer
4 112 (11.50%) Business Analyst
4 112 (11.50%) Lead
5 105 (10.78%) Consultant
6 90 (9.24%) Solutions Architect
7 85 (8.73%) Senior
8 49 (5.03%) Data Engineer
8 49 (5.03%) Lead Architect
9 33 (3.39%) Data Analyst
10 31 (3.18%) Functional Architect
11 30 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
12 29 (2.98%) Data Architect
13 26 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (2.36%) SAP Consultant
15 22 (2.26%) Technical Architect
15 22 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
16 21 (2.16%) Technical Leader
17 20 (2.05%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.16%) REST
2 58 (5.95%) SOAP
3 50 (5.13%) .NET
4 37 (3.80%) Middleware
5 30 (3.08%) JSON
6 21 (2.16%) AngularJS
6 21 (2.16%) HTML
6 21 (2.16%) React
7 18 (1.85%) CSS
7 18 (1.85%) Kafka
7 18 (1.85%) RESTful
8 16 (1.64%) LangChain
9 15 (1.54%) OAuth
10 14 (1.44%) PySpark
10 14 (1.44%) Spring
11 13 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
12 12 (1.23%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.13%) ASP.NET
13 11 (1.13%) LlamaIndex
13 11 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.37%) Product Ownership
2 54 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 51 (5.24%) Data Structures
4 35 (3.59%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.08%) CMDB
7 27 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 22 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.75%) Derivative
12 17 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.44%) Equities
13 14 (1.44%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.44%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.33%) Reference Data
15 10 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
16 9 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.85%) Linux
2 16 (1.64%) Windows
3 12 (1.23%) Unix
4 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (29.98%) Agile
2 287 (29.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 240 (24.64%) Data Modelling
4 236 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
5 222 (22.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 206 (21.15%) Analytics
7 203 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
9 164 (16.84%) AI
10 163 (16.74%) Migration
11 161 (16.53%) CI/CD
12 154 (15.81%) DevOps
13 149 (15.30%) Decision-Making
14 134 (13.76%) User Acceptance Testing
15 126 (12.94%) Validation
16 119 (12.22%) Workshop Facilitation
17 118 (12.11%) ERP
18 116 (11.91%) Requirements Gathering
18 116 (11.91%) Roadmaps
19 106 (10.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 228 (23.41%) SQL
2 130 (13.35%) Python
3 69 (7.08%) JavaScript
4 62 (6.37%) Java
5 56 (5.75%) C#
6 33 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (2.16%) PL/SQL
7 21 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.44%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.33%) Bash
10 11 (1.13%) Scala
10 11 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.82%) X++
12 5 (0.51%) R
13 4 (0.41%) ABAP
14 3 (0.31%) C++
14 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.31%) SOQL
15 2 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 176 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 127 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.01%) Degree
4 31 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.03%) PMP
9 9 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.72%) CISSP
10 7 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.62%) IIBA
11 6 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.51%) CCNP
12 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
13 4 (0.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (12.63%) Data Quality
2 79 (8.11%) QA
3 31 (3.18%) GDPR
4 18 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.75%) GRC
6 13 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.03%) NIST
8 9 (0.92%) SLA
9 6 (0.62%) NCSC
9 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.51%) WCAG
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.31%) PSD2
12 3 (0.31%) SEPA
13 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (3.90%) Docker
2 23 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.21%) vSphere
5 1 (0.10%) ACF2
5 1 (0.10%) GridGain
5 1 (0.10%) IAG
5 1 (0.10%) RACF
5 1 (0.10%) SRDF
5 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.29%) Terraform
3 15 (1.54%) Ansible
4 4 (0.41%) Grafana
4 4 (0.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.31%) Control-M
5 3 (0.31%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.21%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.10%) Argo
7 1 (0.10%) Istio
7 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.10%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 214 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 101 (10.37%) SAP
3 79 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 64 (6.57%) Oracle
5 50 (5.13%) Salesforce
6 48 (4.93%) Databricks
7 35 (3.59%) Workday
8 30 (3.08%) Google
9 18 (1.85%) OpenAI
10 14 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.33%) Cisco
12 10 (1.03%) Adobe
12 10 (1.03%) ForgeRock
12 10 (1.03%) Informatica
12 10 (1.03%) Okta
13 9 (0.92%) VMware
14 8 (0.82%) Ariba
15 7 (0.72%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.72%) Foundry
16 6 (0.62%) Juniper