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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 219 266
Rank change year-on-year +45 +47 +92
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 536 304 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.17% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.30% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 166 228
10th Percentile £350 £406 £404
25th Percentile £425 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -7.68%
75th Percentile £625 £685 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £22.09 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £22.96 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.84 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.37% - -
75th Percentile £30.11 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £31.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.84 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -64.37% - -

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 28,984 23,348 33,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.57% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,549 14,241 22,377
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,798 747 1,965
10th Percentile £15.06 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +8.53%

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 3 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
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 3 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 +71 317 £525 -8.70% 118
North of England -13 80 £439 -16.03% 46
North West +6 52 £419 -20.24% 31
South East -21 48 £513 -3.53% 77
South West +5 34 £575 +16.16% 13
Yorkshire -43 25 £488 -2.50% 9
Midlands -45 24 £480 +1.05% 27
West Midlands -30 18 £490 +3.16% 20
East of England -13 15 £641 +16.55% 14
East Midlands -22 6 £401 - 7
North East -12 3 £475 -43.28% 6
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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 12 (2.24%) CMS
3 11 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.87%) SAS
5 8 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.75%) Apache
6 4 (0.75%) MQSeries
6 4 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Camunda
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Mendix
9 1 (0.19%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (4.66%) MS Visio
2 16 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.56%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 21 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.54%) SAP WM
3 16 (2.99%) SAP EWM
4 10 (1.87%) NetSuite
5 8 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (1.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (1.31%) SAP CO
6 7 (1.31%) SAP FI
6 7 (1.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (1.12%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.93%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.75%) Endur
9 4 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.75%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.75%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.56%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 144 (26.87%) Azure
2 94 (17.54%) AWS
3 76 (14.18%) Power Platform
4 45 (8.40%) GCP
5 29 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.10%) SaaS
7 22 (4.10%) Serverless
8 19 (3.54%) Power Automate
8 19 (3.54%) PowerApps
9 17 (3.17%) GitHub
9 17 (3.17%) Snowflake
10 14 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (1.87%) PaaS
13 9 (1.68%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.68%) Boomi
13 9 (1.68%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.31%) Network Security
2 6 (1.12%) Firewall
3 5 (0.93%) DNS
4 3 (0.56%) WAN
5 2 (0.37%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.37%) LAN
5 2 (0.37%) PSTN
5 2 (0.37%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco ICM
6 1 (0.19%) DHCP
6 1 (0.19%) FTP
6 1 (0.19%) Internet
6 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.19%) Skype
6 1 (0.19%) SSL
6 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.82%) Power BI
2 36 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.99%) Tableau
7 14 (2.61%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.24%) Data Vault
9 10 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.68%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.68%) Metadata
10 9 (1.68%) Redis
11 8 (1.49%) MySQL
11 8 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 8 (1.49%) Power Query
12 7 (1.31%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (1.12%) DocumentDB
13 6 (1.12%) OLAP
13 6 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (8.77%) JIRA
2 31 (5.78%) Git
3 18 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.43%) GitLab
5 8 (1.49%) ERwin
6 6 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.93%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.75%) JUnit
8 4 (0.75%) Mockito
8 4 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.75%) Storybook
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Maven
9 3 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.56%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.56%) Vite
10 2 (0.37%) Selenium
10 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 241 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.99%) Finance
3 119 (22.20%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.84%) Banking
5 38 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 23 (4.29%) Retail
8 20 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.43%) Marketing
12 11 (2.05%) Front Office
13 10 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.87%) Law
13 10 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.31%) Back Office
15 7 (1.31%) Legal
16 6 (1.12%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 117 (21.83%) Architect
2 114 (21.27%) Analyst
3 98 (18.28%) Developer
4 82 (15.30%) Business Analyst
4 82 (15.30%) Consultant
5 42 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (6.16%) Lead
7 32 (5.97%) SAP Consultant
7 32 (5.97%) Senior
8 20 (3.73%) Functional Consultant
9 17 (3.17%) SAP WM Consultant
10 16 (2.99%) ServiceNow Architect
11 15 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
11 15 (2.80%) Technical Architect
12 14 (2.61%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.43%) Management Consultant
13 13 (2.43%) Technical Business Analyst
14 12 (2.24%) Data Engineer
15 11 (2.05%) Logistics Consultant
15 11 (2.05%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (14.37%) REST
2 52 (9.70%) SOAP
3 35 (6.53%) CSS
3 35 (6.53%) HTML
4 26 (4.85%) RESTful
5 25 (4.66%) XML
6 24 (4.48%) JSON
7 22 (4.10%) .NET
8 20 (3.73%) React
8 20 (3.73%) Spring
9 19 (3.54%) AngularJS
9 19 (3.54%) Kafka
9 19 (3.54%) Middleware
10 15 (2.80%) Node.js
10 15 (2.80%) OAuth
11 14 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
12 12 (2.24%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.24%) Web Services
13 11 (2.05%) SAP Fiori
13 11 (2.05%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.04%) Data Structures
3 26 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.29%) CMDB
5 17 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.43%) Equities
8 11 (2.05%) Derivative
9 10 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.68%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.49%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.12%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.12%) Life Science
13 6 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.93%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.24%) Windows
2 9 (1.68%) Linux
3 6 (1.12%) Unix
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.19%) Android
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (32.28%) Agile
2 165 (30.78%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (23.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 97 (18.10%) Data Modelling
5 90 (16.79%) Analytics
6 88 (16.42%) DevOps
7 83 (15.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 81 (15.11%) CI/CD
9 73 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
10 72 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (12.69%) Roadmaps
12 63 (11.75%) Migration
12 63 (11.75%) Validation
13 61 (11.38%) Scrum
14 55 (10.26%) Data Governance
15 53 (9.89%) ERP
15 53 (9.89%) Integration Patterns
16 52 (9.70%) Requirements Gathering
17 49 (9.14%) Computer Science
18 48 (8.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (22.57%) SQL
2 76 (14.18%) Python
3 67 (12.50%) Java
4 57 (10.63%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.22%) C#
6 21 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (2.61%) Apex Code
8 12 (2.24%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.24%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.68%) Groovy
10 9 (1.68%) RPG
11 8 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.31%) R
13 6 (1.12%) ABAP
14 5 (0.93%) Bicep
14 5 (0.93%) C++
14 5 (0.93%) RPG IV
15 4 (0.75%) Scala
15 4 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 85 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 82 (15.30%) Degree
3 65 (12.13%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (4.48%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.17%) SAP Certification
7 15 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.49%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.12%) PMP
12 5 (0.93%) MBA
13 4 (0.75%) CSPO
13 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.56%) CBAP
14 3 (0.56%) CISSP
14 3 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.77%) QA
2 35 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.80%) GRC
4 14 (2.61%) GDPR
5 11 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.68%) NIST
7 8 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.31%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.93%) PSD2
10 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.56%) GxP
10 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.56%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.37%) SEPA
12 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.19%) FATCA
12 1 (0.19%) IFRS
12 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (4.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (3.92%) Terraform
2 19 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.75%) Ansible
3 4 (0.75%) Control-M
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco UCCE
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.19%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 85 (15.86%) SAP
3 56 (10.45%) Salesforce
4 52 (9.70%) Oracle
5 41 (7.65%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.92%) Databricks
7 20 (3.73%) Google
8 13 (2.43%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.87%) IBM
10 9 (1.68%) Foundry
11 8 (1.49%) Workday
12 7 (1.31%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (0.93%) Ariba
13 5 (0.93%) Murex
13 5 (0.93%) Palantir
13 5 (0.93%) Sparx
13 5 (0.93%) VMware
14 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.75%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.75%) Temenos