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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 206 239
Rank change year-on-year +47 +33 +93
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 675 315 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.28% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.41% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 196 250
10th Percentile £375 £389 £425
25th Percentile £439 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £725
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 1
10th Percentile £19.81 £46.95 -
25th Percentile £23.53 £59.81 £50.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £71.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.11% +29.55% -30.55%
75th Percentile £35.61 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.58 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -59.89% +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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £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 £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +66 416 £510 -11.30% 112
North of England -17 84 £461 +2.44% 39
North West 0 50 £402 -23.43% 19
South East -37 46 £500 +8.23% 60
Midlands -34 43 £509 -5.26% 40
South West -7 36 £563 +7.14% 9
Yorkshire -40 32 £500 +28.87% 15
East of England -13 27 £600 - 18
West Midlands -42 26 £500 +9.59% 22
East Midlands -25 15 £525 -4.55% 18
North East -20 2 £488 -40.91% 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 36 (5.33%) Confluence
2 10 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.19%) CMS
4 7 (1.04%) SAS
5 6 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.59%) Apache
8 3 (0.44%) IIS
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Mendix
9 2 (0.30%) Mule
9 2 (0.30%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.11%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.30%) Sketch
4 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.19%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.04%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.74%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.74%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.74%) SAP QM
6 5 (0.74%) Summit
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.59%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.59%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.59%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.59%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.44%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 175 (25.93%) Azure
2 134 (19.85%) Power Platform
3 120 (17.78%) AWS
4 56 (8.30%) Dynamics 365
4 56 (8.30%) GCP
5 27 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 25 (3.70%) Serverless
7 21 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (2.96%) PowerApps
9 19 (2.81%) SaaS
10 18 (2.67%) Entra ID
10 18 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.67%) Snowflake
11 17 (2.52%) dbt
12 16 (2.37%) SuccessFactors
13 14 (2.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 13 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (1.78%) Azure AKS
15 12 (1.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.78%) Firewall
2 10 (1.48%) Network Security
2 10 (1.48%) WAN
3 8 (1.19%) LAN
4 7 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.74%) DNS
6 4 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.30%) 5G
7 2 (0.30%) BGP
7 2 (0.30%) OSPF
7 2 (0.30%) PSTN
7 2 (0.30%) SAN
7 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.30%) VLAN
7 2 (0.30%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.30%) Wireless
8 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.15%) NGFW
8 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (16.74%) Power BI
2 49 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 30 (4.44%) Metadata
5 25 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 23 (3.41%) Tableau
7 19 (2.81%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (2.07%) Power Query
9 14 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
10 12 (1.78%) MySQL
11 11 (1.63%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.63%) Star Schema
12 9 (1.33%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.04%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.04%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (8.44%) JIRA
2 29 (4.30%) Git
3 26 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.48%) GitLab
5 9 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (0.89%) ERwin
7 4 (0.59%) Hudson
8 3 (0.44%) Maven
8 3 (0.44%) MLflow
8 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.44%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.44%) Vite
9 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.30%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.30%) JUnit
9 2 (0.30%) Mockito
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 282 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 221 (32.74%) Finance
3 162 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.07%) Banking
5 53 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 43 (6.37%) Law
7 27 (4.00%) Retail
8 22 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.81%) Front Office
10 17 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.22%) Marketing
12 13 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.04%) Back Office
14 7 (1.04%) Legal
14 7 (1.04%) Local Government
15 6 (0.89%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 175 (25.93%) Architect
2 119 (17.63%) Analyst
3 108 (16.00%) Developer
4 86 (12.74%) Business Analyst
5 79 (11.70%) Lead
6 73 (10.81%) Consultant
7 64 (9.48%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (6.07%) Senior
9 39 (5.78%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.59%) Functional Architect
11 26 (3.85%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.56%) Technical Analyst
13 21 (3.11%) Data Analyst
14 18 (2.67%) Technical Business Analyst
15 17 (2.52%) ServiceNow Architect
16 16 (2.37%) Java Developer
16 16 (2.37%) SAP Consultant
16 16 (2.37%) Technical Architect
17 15 (2.22%) Functional Consultant
18 14 (2.07%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.70%) REST
2 43 (6.37%) SOAP
3 29 (4.30%) CSS
3 29 (4.30%) HTML
4 28 (4.15%) .NET
5 25 (3.70%) RESTful
6 23 (3.41%) Middleware
7 21 (3.11%) AngularJS
7 21 (3.11%) JSON
8 20 (2.96%) React
9 19 (2.81%) OAuth
10 18 (2.67%) Spring
11 16 (2.37%) Kafka
11 16 (2.37%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (2.22%) Node.js
12 15 (2.22%) XML
13 14 (2.07%) LangChain
14 13 (1.93%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
15 12 (1.78%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.04%) Product Ownership
2 45 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 19 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.37%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.37%) CMDB
6 16 (2.37%) Equities
7 15 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.07%) Derivative
9 13 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.78%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.04%) Credit Risk
13 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.04%) Market Risk
14 6 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.63%) Windows
2 10 (1.48%) Linux
2 10 (1.48%) Unix
3 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (27.70%) Agile
2 170 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (23.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 152 (22.52%) Data Modelling
5 139 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
6 134 (19.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 132 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (18.81%) Analytics
8 127 (18.81%) CI/CD
9 117 (17.33%) DevOps
10 114 (16.89%) Migration
11 88 (13.04%) AI
12 84 (12.44%) User Acceptance Testing
13 81 (12.00%) Validation
14 80 (11.85%) Data Migration
15 77 (11.41%) Decision-Making
15 77 (11.41%) ERP
16 73 (10.81%) Data Governance
17 68 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
18 65 (9.63%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 160 (23.70%) SQL
2 100 (14.81%) Python
3 67 (9.93%) Java
4 47 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 34 (5.04%) C#
6 32 (4.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (2.37%) Apex Code
8 14 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.93%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.93%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.33%) Scala
11 8 (1.19%) ABAP
11 8 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.04%) Bash
12 7 (1.04%) R
13 5 (0.74%) SOQL
14 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.44%) Bicep
15 3 (0.44%) C++
15 3 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.56%) Degree
3 57 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.33%) MBA
10 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.89%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.59%) CCNP
14 4 (0.59%) CISSP
14 4 (0.59%) PMP
15 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.44%) PhD
15 3 (0.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (9.48%) Data Quality
2 48 (7.11%) QA
3 21 (3.11%) GDPR
4 17 (2.52%) GRC
5 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.78%) NIST
6 11 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.04%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.74%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) PSD2
9 4 (0.59%) SEPA
10 3 (0.44%) GxP
10 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (4.00%) Docker
2 8 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.44%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) GridGain
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) IAG
5 1 (0.15%) SRDF
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 34 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.15%) Terraform
3 12 (1.78%) Ansible
4 4 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.44%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.15%) Control-M
7 1 (0.15%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (0.15%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 121 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 83 (12.30%) SAP
3 57 (8.44%) Oracle
4 48 (7.11%) Salesforce
5 44 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 35 (5.19%) Databricks
7 27 (4.00%) Google
8 21 (3.11%) Workday
9 19 (2.81%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.63%) Foundry
10 11 (1.63%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.33%) Ariba
12 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.19%) Cisco
12 8 (1.19%) ForgeRock
12 8 (1.19%) Okta
13 7 (1.04%) IBM
13 7 (1.04%) Palantir
14 6 (0.89%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.89%) VMware