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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 184 217
Rank change year-on-year +36 +33 +88
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 745 364 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.50% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.64% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 230 274
10th Percentile £371 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -1.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £697
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 1
10th Percentile £21.08 £47.07 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £59.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £26.27 £71.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.13% +29.55% -30.55%
75th Percentile £31.73 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £42.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -62.11% +29.55% -30.55%

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 35,555 22,136 31,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 91.31% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 14,385 20,625
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,223 969 2,319
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +51 454 £525 -6.67% 205
North of England -40 82 £475 +2.70% 57
Midlands -26 58 £525 -2.33% 38
South East -35 55 £500 - 62
North West -20 42 £409 -22.05% 37
Yorkshire -49 38 £500 +28.53% 15
East of England -12 34 £513 -10.87% 13
West Midlands -35 34 £543 +24.00% 25
South West -10 33 £550 +4.76% 20
East Midlands -21 22 £525 -25.00% 12
North East -27 2 £400 -15.79% 5
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 42 (5.64%) Confluence
2 14 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.21%) CMS
5 6 (0.81%) Apache
5 6 (0.81%) SAS
5 6 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.54%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
8 2 (0.27%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Mule
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.27%) Sketch
5 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.94%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.81%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.81%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.67%) Summit
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.40%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.40%) iTrent
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.40%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.27%) Findur
9 2 (0.27%) Maximo
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.27%) SAP PS
9 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 193 (25.91%) Azure
2 146 (19.60%) Power Platform
3 122 (16.38%) AWS
4 59 (7.92%) Dynamics 365
5 49 (6.58%) GCP
6 31 (4.16%) Power Automate
7 30 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (3.62%) SaaS
8 27 (3.62%) Serverless
9 25 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.09%) PowerApps
10 23 (3.09%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.95%) Entra ID
12 20 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (2.68%) dbt
13 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (1.88%) Azure AKS
14 14 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 12 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.48%) Firewall
2 10 (1.34%) WAN
3 8 (1.07%) LAN
3 8 (1.07%) Network Security
4 7 (0.94%) DNS
4 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.54%) HTTP
5 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.40%) DHCP
6 3 (0.40%) Multicast
6 3 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.27%) 5G
7 2 (0.27%) BGP
7 2 (0.27%) OSPF
7 2 (0.27%) PSTN
7 2 (0.27%) SAN
7 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.27%) VLAN
7 2 (0.27%) VSAN
7 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (15.70%) Power BI
2 45 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (5.50%) SQL Server
4 33 (4.43%) Metadata
5 25 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.09%) Tableau
7 21 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.74%) Power Query
9 13 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
10 12 (1.61%) MySQL
11 10 (1.34%) Big Data
11 10 (1.34%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.34%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.34%) Weaviate
12 9 (1.21%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.07%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.07%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (8.72%) JIRA
2 34 (4.56%) Git
3 29 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.88%) GitLab
5 8 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.81%) ERwin
7 4 (0.54%) Hudson
7 4 (0.54%) JUnit
8 3 (0.40%) MLflow
9 2 (0.27%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.27%) Maven
9 2 (0.27%) Mockito
9 2 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.27%) Vite
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 281 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 236 (31.68%) Finance
3 165 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.41%) Banking
5 61 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 45 (6.04%) Law
7 31 (4.16%) Retail
8 24 (3.22%) Front Office
8 24 (3.22%) Marketing
9 22 (2.95%) Investment Banking
10 21 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.88%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.34%) Legal
15 9 (1.21%) Local Government
15 9 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.07%) Back Office
17 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 189 (25.37%) Architect
2 127 (17.05%) Analyst
3 106 (14.23%) Developer
4 89 (11.95%) Business Analyst
5 86 (11.54%) Consultant
6 85 (11.41%) Lead
7 66 (8.86%) Solutions Architect
8 55 (7.38%) Senior
9 40 (5.37%) Lead Architect
10 36 (4.83%) Data Engineer
11 31 (4.16%) Functional Architect
12 25 (3.36%) Data Analyst
12 25 (3.36%) ServiceNow Architect
13 19 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
15 17 (2.28%) Data Architect
15 17 (2.28%) Technical Architect
16 16 (2.15%) Cloud Architect
16 16 (2.15%) Java Developer
16 16 (2.15%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (11.28%) REST
2 45 (6.04%) SOAP
3 39 (5.23%) .NET
4 28 (3.76%) Middleware
5 23 (3.09%) AngularJS
5 23 (3.09%) RESTful
6 22 (2.95%) HTML
7 21 (2.82%) CSS
7 21 (2.82%) React
8 18 (2.42%) JSON
8 18 (2.42%) LangChain
9 17 (2.28%) Kafka
9 17 (2.28%) Node.js
10 16 (2.15%) OAuth
10 16 (2.15%) Spring
11 15 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (1.74%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.61%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 49 (6.58%) Cloud Native
3 32 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 28 (3.76%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.68%) CMDB
6 20 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.28%) Equities
8 16 (2.15%) Derivative
8 16 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.74%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.07%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.07%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.01%) Linux
2 14 (1.88%) Windows
3 13 (1.74%) Unix
4 10 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (25.77%) Agile
2 181 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (22.82%) Data Modelling
4 154 (20.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 149 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (19.60%) Business Intelligence
7 142 (19.06%) CI/CD
8 136 (18.26%) Analytics
9 134 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 132 (17.72%) Migration
11 126 (16.91%) DevOps
12 117 (15.70%) AI
13 102 (13.69%) Decision-Making
14 91 (12.21%) Data Migration
15 90 (12.08%) ERP
16 86 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
17 84 (11.28%) Validation
18 77 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
19 76 (10.20%) Data Governance
20 72 (9.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 178 (23.89%) SQL
2 113 (15.17%) Python
3 64 (8.59%) Java
4 49 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 43 (5.77%) C#
6 33 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.28%) Apex Code
8 15 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.88%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.34%) Scala
12 9 (1.21%) Bash
13 8 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.67%) R
15 4 (0.54%) SOQL
16 3 (0.40%) ABAP
16 3 (0.40%) C++
16 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.40%) X++
17 2 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 95 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 76 (10.20%) Degree
3 58 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.28%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.61%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.21%) MBA
11 8 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.67%) CISSP
13 4 (0.54%) CCNP
13 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.54%) PMP
14 3 (0.40%) CBAP
14 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.27%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 55 (7.38%) QA
3 24 (3.22%) GDPR
4 14 (1.88%) GRC
4 14 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.61%) NIST
6 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.07%) SLA
8 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.54%) PSD2
9 4 (0.54%) SEPA
9 4 (0.54%) WCAG
10 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.16%) Docker
2 12 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.13%) GridGain
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) IAG
5 1 (0.13%) SRDF
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.43%) Terraform
3 14 (1.88%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Grafana
6 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.13%) Control-M
7 1 (0.13%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.13%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 147 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.53%) SAP
3 62 (8.32%) Oracle
4 53 (7.11%) ServiceNow
5 52 (6.98%) Salesforce
6 40 (5.37%) Databricks
7 24 (3.22%) Workday
8 23 (3.09%) Google
9 18 (2.42%) OpenAI
10 16 (2.15%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.34%) Cisco
11 10 (1.34%) ForgeRock
11 10 (1.34%) Okta
12 9 (1.21%) Foundry
13 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.07%) VMware
14 6 (0.81%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.67%) Civica
15 5 (0.67%) Palantir
15 5 (0.67%) Pega