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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 226 259
Rank change year-on-year +55 +33 +84
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 557 297 341
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.16% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.29% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 170 226
10th Percentile £358 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £460 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -6.58%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £686
90th Percentile £703 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.05% -3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £22.67 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £24.42 £61.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £30.15 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.41% +31.82% -23.18%
75th Percentile £56.24 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -58.41% +31.82% -23.18%

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 30,789 23,051 32,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.31% 90.11% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,727 14,450 21,724
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,908 755 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £72.15 £75.40 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%

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 25 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in England over the 6 months to 25 February 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 25 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 +51 327 £525 -12.50% 85
North of England -16 80 £449 -14.57% 40
North West +1 55 £425 -19.05% 22
South East -31 45 £523 +1.95% 54
South West +2 38 £575 +16.16% 15
Midlands -40 27 £480 -1.54% 20
Yorkshire -51 22 £488 -5.80% 11
East of England -13 20 £600 +9.09% 5
West Midlands -43 18 £480 +1.05% 10
East Midlands -21 9 £487 -2.65% 10
North East -15 3 £475 -42.42% 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 23 (4.13%) Confluence
2 10 (1.80%) CMS
2 10 (1.80%) SAS
2 10 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.90%) Apache
5 5 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.72%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Mule
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.18%) Mendix
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (4.31%) MS Visio
2 17 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.72%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.36%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 22 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (2.33%) SAP WM
4 11 (1.97%) SAP EWM
5 9 (1.62%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.26%) SAP CO
6 7 (1.26%) SAP FI
6 7 (1.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (1.08%) Fidessa
7 6 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.90%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.72%) Endur
9 4 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.72%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.72%) SAP PP
9 4 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.72%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.54%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 153 (27.47%) Azure
2 110 (19.75%) AWS
3 75 (13.46%) Power Platform
4 50 (8.98%) GCP
5 29 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (3.59%) SaaS
6 20 (3.59%) Serverless
7 19 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (3.05%) GitHub
9 16 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (2.87%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.69%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 13 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.80%) dbt
13 10 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (1.62%) Boomi
14 9 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.80%) Network Security
2 9 (1.62%) Firewall
3 5 (0.90%) DNS
3 5 (0.90%) WAN
4 4 (0.72%) LAN
5 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.36%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.36%) PSTN
6 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.36%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.18%) BGP
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%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.18%) OSPF
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.59%) Power BI
2 39 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.87%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.51%) Tableau
7 13 (2.33%) Data Vault
7 13 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 12 (2.15%) Metadata
9 10 (1.80%) Redis
10 9 (1.62%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.44%) MySQL
11 8 (1.44%) Power Query
12 7 (1.26%) DocumentDB
12 7 (1.26%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 6 (1.08%) OLAP
13 6 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (7.90%) JIRA
2 32 (5.75%) Git
3 19 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.51%) GitLab
5 9 (1.62%) ERwin
6 6 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.90%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.72%) JUnit
8 4 (0.72%) Mockito
8 4 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.54%) Maven
9 3 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.54%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.54%) Vite
10 2 (0.36%) Selenium
11 1 (0.18%) PeopleTools
11 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 256 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 155 (27.83%) Finance
3 129 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (9.16%) Banking
5 45 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (3.95%) Retail
8 21 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.05%) Manufacturing
10 16 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.15%) Front Office
13 11 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.80%) Law
14 10 (1.80%) Marketing
15 9 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.26%) Back Office
17 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 6 (1.08%) General Ledger
17 6 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 131 (23.52%) Architect
2 111 (19.93%) Analyst
3 95 (17.06%) Developer
4 81 (14.54%) Business Analyst
5 74 (13.29%) Consultant
6 51 (9.16%) Solutions Architect
7 36 (6.46%) Senior
8 31 (5.57%) Lead
9 29 (5.21%) SAP Consultant
10 20 (3.59%) Functional Consultant
11 17 (3.05%) Data Engineer
11 17 (3.05%) Technical Architect
12 16 (2.87%) ServiceNow Architect
13 14 (2.51%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.15%) Data Modeller
14 12 (2.15%) SAP WM Consultant
14 12 (2.15%) Technical Analyst
15 11 (1.97%) Business Architect
15 11 (1.97%) SAP Functional Consultant
15 11 (1.97%) SAP Logistics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (14.00%) REST
2 51 (9.16%) SOAP
3 31 (5.57%) CSS
3 31 (5.57%) HTML
4 25 (4.49%) XML
5 24 (4.31%) JSON
6 22 (3.95%) RESTful
6 22 (3.95%) Spring
7 21 (3.77%) .NET
8 19 (3.41%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.41%) Kafka
8 19 (3.41%) Middleware
9 18 (3.23%) React
10 16 (2.87%) Spring Boot
11 15 (2.69%) OAuth
12 13 (2.33%) Node.js
13 12 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
13 12 (2.15%) SAP Fiori
14 11 (1.97%) Pandas
15 10 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 44 (7.90%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.85%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.95%) CMDB
5 18 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.51%) Equities
8 13 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.15%) Derivative
10 10 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.62%) Credit Risk
11 9 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.44%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.44%) Reinsurance
13 7 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.90%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.33%) Windows
2 8 (1.44%) Linux
3 6 (1.08%) Unix
3 6 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (33.21%) Agile
2 168 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
3 144 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 109 (19.57%) Data Modelling
5 95 (17.06%) CI/CD
6 94 (16.88%) DevOps
7 93 (16.70%) Analytics
8 79 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 77 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
11 70 (12.57%) Roadmaps
12 67 (12.03%) Migration
13 65 (11.67%) Validation
14 62 (11.13%) Data Governance
15 60 (10.77%) Scrum
16 57 (10.23%) Integration Patterns
17 55 (9.87%) Microservices
18 53 (9.52%) AI
18 53 (9.52%) Decision-Making
19 52 (9.34%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 126 (22.62%) SQL
2 93 (16.70%) Python
3 74 (13.29%) Java
4 52 (9.34%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.21%) C#
6 20 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (2.33%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.15%) Apex Code
8 12 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.62%) RPG
10 8 (1.44%) Groovy
10 8 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.44%) R
11 7 (1.26%) ABAP
12 6 (1.08%) Scala
13 5 (0.90%) Bicep
13 5 (0.90%) C++
13 5 (0.90%) RPG IV
14 4 (0.72%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 89 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.54%) Degree
3 64 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.13%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 12 (2.15%) SAP Certification
9 11 (1.97%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.62%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.26%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.26%) PMP
12 5 (0.90%) MBA
13 4 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.72%) CSPO
13 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.54%) CISSP
14 3 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.54%) QA
2 41 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.51%) GDPR
3 14 (2.51%) GRC
4 12 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.62%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.62%) NIST
6 8 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.90%) PSD2
9 4 (0.72%) SEPA
10 3 (0.54%) GxP
10 3 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.18%) IFRS
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.18%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (4.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.18%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 24 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.95%) Terraform
3 5 (0.90%) Ansible
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.72%) Control-M
4 4 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.18%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.18%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.18%) EMC TimeFinder
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (15.44%) SAP
2 82 (14.72%) Microsoft
3 50 (8.98%) Oracle
4 47 (8.44%) Salesforce
5 39 (7.00%) ServiceNow
6 25 (4.49%) Databricks
7 22 (3.95%) Google
8 15 (2.69%) Workday
9 14 (2.51%) MuleSoft
10 12 (2.15%) Foundry
11 10 (1.80%) IBM
12 7 (1.26%) MicroStrategy
12 7 (1.26%) Palantir
13 6 (1.08%) Ariba
13 6 (1.08%) Sitecore
13 6 (1.08%) VMware
14 5 (0.90%) Cisco
14 5 (0.90%) Murex
14 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.90%) Temenos