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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 230 250
Rank change year-on-year +66 +20 +79
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 588 279 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.13% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.25% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 165 243
10th Percentile £365 £400 £410
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £603 £684 £706
90th Percentile £721 £758 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -4.87%
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 31,603 22,356 32,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.62% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,213 14,443 21,819
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -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 1,966 795 2,153
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +79 364 £518 -13.75% 136
North of England -19 82 £463 -10.63% 46
North West +5 54 £417 -20.67% 24
South East -45 43 £510 +2.00% 65
South West -2 33 £588 +18.69% 16
Midlands -44 32 £450 -10.00% 24
Yorkshire -49 25 £494 +9.72% 15
West Midlands -50 20 £475 -2.56% 15
East of England -25 14 £600 - 9
East Midlands -24 11 £487 -2.65% 9
North East -13 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 25 (4.25%) Confluence
2 10 (1.70%) CMS
3 9 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 4 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.51%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.51%) SAS
8 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.34%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.34%) Camunda
8 2 (0.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) Mendix
8 2 (0.34%) Mule
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 25 (4.25%) MS Visio
2 16 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.34%) Sketch
5 1 (0.17%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.53%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.19%) SAP WM
5 6 (1.02%) Fidessa
5 6 (1.02%) SAP CO
5 6 (1.02%) SAP FI
5 6 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.85%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.85%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.68%) Endur
7 4 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.68%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.68%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.68%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.51%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 167 (28.40%) Azure
2 117 (19.90%) AWS
3 93 (15.82%) Power Platform
4 56 (9.52%) GCP
5 30 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (3.74%) Serverless
8 21 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (3.40%) SaaS
9 20 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 18 (3.06%) dbt
10 18 (3.06%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.89%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.72%) GitHub
13 14 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
14 13 (2.21%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 12 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (1.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.70%) Firewall
1 10 (1.70%) Network Security
2 6 (1.02%) DNS
2 6 (1.02%) WAN
3 5 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.51%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.34%) 5G
5 2 (0.34%) DHCP
5 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.34%) PSTN
5 2 (0.34%) SAN
5 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.17%) 4G
6 1 (0.17%) FCoE
6 1 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.17%) LTE
6 1 (0.17%) NAS
6 1 (0.17%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (12.76%) Power BI
2 50 (8.50%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.57%) Tableau
5 20 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.23%) Metadata
6 19 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 15 (2.55%) Snowflake Schema
8 12 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.70%) Data Vault
9 10 (1.70%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.53%) MySQL
11 8 (1.36%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.36%) Power Query
11 8 (1.36%) Redis
12 7 (1.19%) Big Data
12 7 (1.19%) DocumentDB
12 7 (1.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (7.99%) JIRA
2 33 (5.61%) Git
3 21 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.21%) GitLab
5 6 (1.02%) ERwin
6 4 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.51%) JUnit
7 3 (0.51%) Maven
7 3 (0.51%) Mockito
7 3 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.51%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.51%) Vite
8 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.34%) Hudson
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.17%) PeopleTools
General
1 265 (45.07%) Social Skills
2 167 (28.40%) Finance
3 137 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.18%) Banking
5 49 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.42%) Retail
7 20 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.89%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.72%) Law
10 15 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.21%) Front Office
13 12 (2.04%) Marketing
14 6 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.02%) Legal
15 5 (0.85%) Back Office
16 4 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (26.53%) Architect
2 111 (18.88%) Analyst
3 94 (15.99%) Developer
4 82 (13.95%) Business Analyst
5 67 (11.39%) Consultant
6 55 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (7.48%) Lead
8 37 (6.29%) Senior
9 20 (3.40%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.40%) SAP Consultant
10 17 (2.89%) Data Analyst
10 17 (2.89%) Data Architect
10 17 (2.89%) ServiceNow Architect
10 17 (2.89%) Technical Architect
11 15 (2.55%) Functional Consultant
12 14 (2.38%) Technical Analyst
13 13 (2.21%) Java Developer
14 11 (1.87%) Technical Business Analyst
15 10 (1.70%) Business Architect
15 10 (1.70%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.78%) REST
2 52 (8.84%) SOAP
3 31 (5.27%) CSS
3 31 (5.27%) HTML
4 25 (4.25%) JSON
5 24 (4.08%) XML
6 22 (3.74%) RESTful
7 21 (3.57%) Spring
8 20 (3.40%) .NET
9 19 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.23%) React
10 18 (3.06%) Kafka
10 18 (3.06%) Middleware
10 18 (3.06%) OAuth
11 15 (2.55%) Spring Boot
12 14 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
13 13 (2.21%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (2.21%) Node.js
14 11 (1.87%) Pandas
15 10 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.97%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.74%) CMDB
5 21 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.72%) Equities
7 15 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.04%) Derivative
10 11 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.53%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.36%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.02%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.85%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.70%) Windows
2 6 (1.02%) Linux
2 6 (1.02%) Unix
2 6 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (30.95%) Agile
2 169 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 134 (22.79%) Data Modelling
5 114 (19.39%) CI/CD
6 110 (18.71%) Analytics
7 109 (18.54%) DevOps
8 98 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (15.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 79 (13.44%) Migration
12 71 (12.07%) Roadmaps
13 70 (11.90%) Data Governance
14 68 (11.56%) Integration Patterns
14 68 (11.56%) Validation
15 64 (10.88%) AI
16 61 (10.37%) Decision-Making
17 56 (9.52%) Computer Science
17 56 (9.52%) Data Engineering
17 56 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.30%) SQL
2 95 (16.16%) Python
3 71 (12.07%) Java
4 50 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 28 (4.76%) C#
6 24 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.21%) Apex Code
8 13 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.36%) Groovy
9 8 (1.36%) RPG
10 7 (1.19%) ABAP
10 7 (1.19%) Scala
11 5 (0.85%) Bicep
11 5 (0.85%) C++
11 5 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.85%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.68%) Bash
12 4 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (14.29%) Degree
2 82 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 54 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.87%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.70%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.36%) PMP
10 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.02%) MBA
10 6 (1.02%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.68%) CISSP
11 4 (0.68%) CSPO
11 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 42 (7.14%) QA
3 17 (2.89%) GDPR
4 16 (2.72%) GRC
5 13 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.87%) NIST
7 9 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.36%) ISO 20022
9 6 (1.02%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.68%) SEPA
12 3 (0.51%) GxP
12 3 (0.51%) PSD2
12 3 (0.51%) SLA
13 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.34%) IFRS
13 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.17%) GAAP
14 1 (0.17%) MiFID
14 1 (0.17%) TARGET2
System Software
1 25 (4.25%) Docker
2 9 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) IAG
5 1 (0.17%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 26 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 25 (4.25%) Terraform
3 8 (1.36%) Ansible
4 4 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.51%) Control-M
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.17%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.17%) EMC TimeFinder
6 1 (0.17%) Grafana
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 81 (13.78%) SAP
3 47 (7.99%) Salesforce
4 44 (7.48%) Oracle
5 41 (6.97%) ServiceNow
6 31 (5.27%) Databricks
7 27 (4.59%) Google
8 17 (2.89%) Workday
9 15 (2.55%) MuleSoft
10 13 (2.21%) Foundry
11 9 (1.53%) IBM
12 8 (1.36%) Palantir
13 7 (1.19%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (1.02%) Ariba
14 6 (1.02%) Cisco
14 6 (1.02%) Murex
14 6 (1.02%) Sitecore
14 6 (1.02%) VMware
15 5 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.85%) Temenos