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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 228 247
Rank change year-on-year +54 +19 +98
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 583 278 359
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.13% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.25% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 164 243
10th Percentile £363 £400 £410
25th Percentile £425 £456 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £603 £684 £712
90th Percentile £722 £759 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -2.65%
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 31,521 22,327 33,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,160 14,432 21,853
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 1,961 797 2,159
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.63 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +81 359 £519 -13.50% 134
North of England -18 83 £450 -13.04% 46
North West +3 55 £415 -21.05% 27
South East -37 41 £520 +8.11% 69
South West +4 35 £563 +13.64% 18
Midlands -40 31 £450 -10.00% 23
Yorkshire -57 25 £494 +9.72% 14
West Midlands -51 19 £475 -2.56% 14
East of England -24 14 £600 - 7
East Midlands -23 11 £487 -2.65% 9
North East -13 3 £475 -42.42% 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 23 (3.95%) Confluence
2 10 (1.72%) CMS
3 9 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
6 4 (0.69%) 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%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 17 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) Autodesk Inventor
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Sketch
5 1 (0.17%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.54%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.20%) SAP WM
5 6 (1.03%) Fidessa
5 6 (1.03%) SAP CO
5 6 (1.03%) SAP FI
5 6 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.86%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.86%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.69%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.69%) Endur
7 4 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.69%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.69%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.69%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.51%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 165 (28.30%) Azure
2 115 (19.73%) AWS
3 92 (15.78%) Power Platform
4 55 (9.43%) GCP
5 31 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (3.77%) Serverless
8 21 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (3.43%) SaaS
9 20 (3.43%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.92%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.74%) dbt
11 16 (2.74%) GitHub
11 16 (2.74%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (2.40%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (2.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 12 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.06%) Entra ID
15 11 (1.89%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.72%) Network Security
2 9 (1.54%) Firewall
3 5 (0.86%) DNS
3 5 (0.86%) WAN
4 4 (0.69%) LAN
5 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.34%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.34%) PSTN
6 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.17%) 5G
7 1 (0.17%) DHCP
7 1 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.17%) FCoE
7 1 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.17%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.17%) Skype
7 1 (0.17%) VSAN
7 1 (0.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.69%) Power BI
2 49 (8.40%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.26%) Metadata
5 19 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 19 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 19 (3.26%) Tableau
6 14 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
7 12 (2.06%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.72%) Data Vault
8 10 (1.72%) Star Schema
9 9 (1.54%) MySQL
9 9 (1.54%) Power Query
10 8 (1.37%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.37%) Redis
11 7 (1.20%) Big Data
11 7 (1.20%) DocumentDB
11 7 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (7.72%) JIRA
2 33 (5.66%) Git
3 21 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.23%) GitLab
5 6 (1.03%) ERwin
6 5 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.51%) JUnit
7 3 (0.51%) Maven
7 3 (0.51%) Mockito
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
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%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.34%) Hudson
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
8 2 (0.34%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) PeopleTools
9 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 264 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 165 (28.30%) Finance
3 134 (22.98%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.26%) Banking
5 48 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.63%) Retail
7 20 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 16 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.57%) Law
11 14 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.23%) Front Office
13 12 (2.06%) Marketing
14 6 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.03%) Legal
15 5 (0.86%) Back Office
16 4 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (26.07%) Architect
2 111 (19.04%) Analyst
3 95 (16.30%) Developer
4 82 (14.07%) Business Analyst
5 65 (11.15%) Consultant
6 54 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (7.20%) Lead
8 38 (6.52%) Senior
9 20 (3.43%) Data Engineer
10 19 (3.26%) SAP Consultant
11 17 (2.92%) Data Analyst
11 17 (2.92%) Data Architect
11 17 (2.92%) ServiceNow Architect
11 17 (2.92%) Technical Architect
12 15 (2.57%) Functional Consultant
13 14 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
14 13 (2.23%) Java Developer
15 11 (1.89%) Technical Business Analyst
16 10 (1.72%) Business Architect
16 10 (1.72%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.89%) REST
2 52 (8.92%) SOAP
3 31 (5.32%) CSS
3 31 (5.32%) HTML
4 25 (4.29%) JSON
5 24 (4.12%) XML
6 21 (3.60%) RESTful
6 21 (3.60%) Spring
7 20 (3.43%) .NET
8 19 (3.26%) AngularJS
8 19 (3.26%) React
9 18 (3.09%) Kafka
9 18 (3.09%) Middleware
9 18 (3.09%) OAuth
10 15 (2.57%) Spring Boot
11 14 (2.40%) SAP Fiori
12 13 (2.23%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (2.23%) Node.js
13 11 (1.89%) Pandas
14 10 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.40%) Product Ownership
2 40 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.12%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.77%) CMDB
5 21 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.74%) Equities
7 15 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.57%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.06%) Derivative
10 10 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.54%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.37%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.86%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.86%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.89%) Windows
2 6 (1.03%) Linux
2 6 (1.03%) Unix
2 6 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (30.87%) Agile
2 165 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
3 152 (26.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (23.16%) Data Modelling
5 111 (19.04%) CI/CD
6 108 (18.52%) Analytics
7 106 (18.18%) DevOps
8 95 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
9 94 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 75 (12.86%) Migration
12 71 (12.18%) Data Governance
13 69 (11.84%) Roadmaps
13 69 (11.84%) Validation
14 67 (11.49%) Integration Patterns
15 62 (10.63%) AI
16 60 (10.29%) Decision-Making
17 56 (9.61%) Scrum
18 54 (9.26%) Computer Science
18 54 (9.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.50%) SQL
2 94 (16.12%) Python
3 71 (12.18%) Java
4 52 (8.92%) JavaScript
5 28 (4.80%) C#
6 25 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.23%) Apex Code
8 13 (2.23%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.23%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.37%) Groovy
9 8 (1.37%) RPG
10 7 (1.20%) ABAP
10 7 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.20%) Scala
11 5 (0.86%) Bicep
11 5 (0.86%) C++
11 5 (0.86%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.69%) R
12 4 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 81 (13.89%) Degree
3 56 (9.61%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.95%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.54%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.20%) PMP
11 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.03%) MBA
11 6 (1.03%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.69%) CISSP
12 4 (0.69%) CSPO
12 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 42 (7.20%) QA
3 16 (2.74%) GDPR
3 16 (2.74%) GRC
4 13 (2.23%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.72%) NIST
6 8 (1.37%) ISO 20022
6 8 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.69%) SEPA
10 3 (0.51%) GxP
10 3 (0.51%) PSD2
11 2 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.34%) IFRS
11 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.17%) GAAP
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
12 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (4.12%) Docker
2 8 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) IAG
5 1 (0.17%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 25 (4.29%) Kubernetes
1 25 (4.29%) Terraform
2 8 (1.37%) Ansible
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
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 90 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 79 (13.55%) SAP
3 47 (8.06%) Salesforce
4 46 (7.89%) Oracle
5 40 (6.86%) ServiceNow
6 31 (5.32%) Databricks
7 27 (4.63%) Google
8 17 (2.92%) Workday
9 15 (2.57%) MuleSoft
10 13 (2.23%) Foundry
11 9 (1.54%) IBM
12 8 (1.37%) Palantir
13 7 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
14 6 (1.03%) Ariba
14 6 (1.03%) Cisco
14 6 (1.03%) Murex
14 6 (1.03%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.86%) Temenos
15 5 (0.86%) VMware