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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 218 260
Rank change year-on-year +48 +42 +100
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 547 303 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.16% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.29% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 168 227
10th Percentile £350 £409 £404
25th Percentile £425 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £671
90th Percentile £700 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
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 29,172 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.59% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,676 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £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 1,836 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 February 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 7 February 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 +68 320 £525 -8.70% 100
North of England -16 81 £431 -17.86% 52
North West +8 53 £413 -21.43% 34
South East -18 48 £520 -0.95% 69
South West +10 37 £600 +21.21% 17
Yorkshire -46 25 £458 -10.07% 11
Midlands -37 23 £480 +1.05% 27
East of England -15 18 £600 +9.09% 13
West Midlands -36 17 £490 +3.16% 20
East Midlands -22 6 £401 - 7
North East -13 3 £475 -43.28% 7
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 24 (4.39%) Confluence
2 13 (2.38%) CMS
3 10 (1.83%) SAS
4 9 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.91%) Apache
6 5 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
7 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.73%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.37%) IIS
9 2 (0.37%) Mule
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Mendix
10 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (4.39%) MS Visio
2 16 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.47%) SAP WM
3 18 (3.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (2.93%) SAP EWM
5 9 (1.65%) NetSuite
6 8 (1.46%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.28%) SAP CO
7 7 (1.28%) SAP FI
7 7 (1.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (1.10%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.91%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.73%) Endur
10 4 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.73%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.73%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.73%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 150 (27.42%) Azure
2 104 (19.01%) AWS
3 74 (13.53%) Power Platform
4 49 (8.96%) GCP
5 28 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.39%) Serverless
7 22 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.02%) SaaS
8 18 (3.29%) Snowflake
9 17 (3.11%) GitHub
10 15 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.74%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.74%) PowerApps
11 13 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.83%) PaaS
13 9 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.65%) Boomi
13 9 (1.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.65%) Network Security
2 8 (1.46%) Firewall
3 5 (0.91%) DNS
3 5 (0.91%) WAN
4 4 (0.73%) LAN
5 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.37%) PSTN
6 2 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.18%) 5G
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.18%) FTP
7 1 (0.18%) Internet
7 1 (0.18%) Skype
7 1 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.79%) Power BI
2 36 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 16 (2.93%) Tableau
7 12 (2.19%) Data Vault
7 12 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.65%) Metadata
9 9 (1.65%) Redis
10 8 (1.46%) MySQL
10 8 (1.46%) Power Query
11 7 (1.28%) DocumentDB
11 7 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 6 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.10%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.10%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 48 (8.78%) JIRA
2 32 (5.85%) Git
3 19 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.56%) GitLab
5 9 (1.65%) ERwin
6 6 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.91%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.73%) JUnit
8 4 (0.73%) Mockito
8 4 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.73%) Storybook
9 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.55%) Maven
9 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.55%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.55%) Vite
10 2 (0.37%) Selenium
10 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.18%) PeopleTools
General
1 252 (46.07%) Social Skills
2 154 (28.15%) Finance
3 122 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.04%) Banking
5 43 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (4.39%) Retail
8 21 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.11%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.38%) Marketing
13 11 (2.01%) Front Office
14 10 (1.83%) Law
14 10 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.28%) Back Office
18 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
18 6 (1.10%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 123 (22.49%) Architect
2 111 (20.29%) Analyst
3 98 (17.92%) Developer
4 81 (14.81%) Consultant
5 79 (14.44%) Business Analyst
6 47 (8.59%) Solutions Architect
7 34 (6.22%) Lead
8 33 (6.03%) Senior
9 32 (5.85%) SAP Consultant
10 20 (3.66%) Functional Consultant
11 18 (3.29%) ServiceNow Architect
12 17 (3.11%) SAP WM Consultant
13 15 (2.74%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.74%) Technical Architect
14 14 (2.56%) Data Engineer
15 13 (2.38%) Data Analyst
15 13 (2.38%) Management Consultant
15 13 (2.38%) Technical Business Analyst
16 11 (2.01%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 11 (2.01%) SAP Logistics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (14.99%) REST
2 55 (10.05%) SOAP
3 37 (6.76%) CSS
3 37 (6.76%) HTML
4 26 (4.75%) RESTful
5 25 (4.57%) XML
6 24 (4.39%) JSON
7 23 (4.20%) Spring
8 21 (3.84%) React
9 20 (3.66%) .NET
9 20 (3.66%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.66%) Kafka
9 20 (3.66%) Middleware
10 16 (2.93%) Node.js
11 15 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (2.74%) OAuth
11 15 (2.74%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.19%) Visualforce
12 12 (2.19%) Web Services
13 11 (2.01%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 31 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.20%) CMDB
5 16 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.38%) Equities
8 12 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.01%) Derivative
10 10 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.65%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.46%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 6 (1.10%) Life Science
14 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.91%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.19%) Windows
2 9 (1.65%) Linux
3 6 (1.10%) Unix
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (32.36%) Agile
2 169 (30.90%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (24.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 103 (18.83%) Data Modelling
5 94 (17.18%) Analytics
5 94 (17.18%) DevOps
6 89 (16.27%) CI/CD
7 83 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 75 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (13.35%) Business Intelligence
10 69 (12.61%) Roadmaps
11 65 (11.88%) Migration
12 64 (11.70%) Validation
13 60 (10.97%) Scrum
14 58 (10.60%) Data Governance
15 53 (9.69%) Integration Patterns
16 52 (9.51%) ERP
17 51 (9.32%) Computer Science
17 51 (9.32%) Mentoring
17 51 (9.32%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 123 (22.49%) SQL
2 81 (14.81%) Python
3 72 (13.16%) Java
4 54 (9.87%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.12%) C#
6 22 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (2.74%) Apex Code
8 13 (2.38%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.19%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.83%) Groovy
12 9 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.65%) RPG
13 8 (1.46%) R
14 6 (1.10%) ABAP
15 5 (0.91%) Bicep
15 5 (0.91%) C++
15 5 (0.91%) RPG IV
16 4 (0.73%) Scala
16 4 (0.73%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 93 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.54%) Degree
3 70 (12.80%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.20%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (3.11%) SAP Certification
7 15 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.65%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.28%) PMP
12 5 (0.91%) MBA
13 4 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.73%) CSPO
13 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.55%) CISSP
14 3 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.41%) QA
2 35 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.74%) GDPR
4 14 (2.56%) GRC
5 11 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.65%) NIST
7 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.28%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.91%) PSD2
10 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.55%) GxP
11 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.37%) SEPA
13 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.18%) IFRS
13 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.18%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (4.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (4.02%) Kubernetes
1 22 (4.02%) Terraform
2 5 (0.91%) Ansible
3 4 (0.73%) Control-M
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.18%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (16.09%) SAP
2 87 (15.90%) Microsoft
3 54 (9.87%) Salesforce
4 51 (9.32%) Oracle
5 42 (7.68%) ServiceNow
6 23 (4.20%) Databricks
7 22 (4.02%) Google
8 15 (2.74%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.01%) IBM
9 11 (2.01%) Workday
10 9 (1.65%) Foundry
11 7 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
12 6 (1.10%) Ariba
13 5 (0.91%) Murex
13 5 (0.91%) Palantir
13 5 (0.91%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.91%) Sparx
13 5 (0.91%) VMware
14 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.73%) Temenos