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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 212 256
Rank change year-on-year +38 +44 +116
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 511 296 347
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.11% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.25% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 164 236
10th Percentile £350 £404 £401
25th Percentile £425 £455 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £686 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £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 £31.61 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £38.03 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £50.16 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.82% - -
75th Percentile £60.86 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £66.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.16 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -30.82% - -

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 27,653 23,679 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.08% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,613 14,524 21,598
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,731 761 1,481
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +62 301 £525 -12.50% 76
North of England -11 81 £444 -14.71% 45
South East -9 52 £525 -2.33% 75
North West +13 51 £438 -7.89% 27
South West +2 31 £550 +11.11% 25
Yorkshire -35 28 £450 -13.88% 10
Midlands -43 18 £500 - 28
West Midlands -37 14 £500 - 16
East of England -15 11 £573 +27.22% 19
East Midlands -15 4 £505 - 12
North East -8 2 £475 -43.28% 8
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 19 (3.72%) Confluence
2 12 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.76%) SAS
4 7 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.37%) CMS
5 5 (0.98%) Apache
6 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.78%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.39%) IIS
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) Mule
7 2 (0.39%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) CICS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (3.91%) MS Visio
2 19 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.17%) ProjectWise
5 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.78%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (3.72%) SAP WM
4 16 (3.13%) SAP EWM
5 9 (1.76%) NetSuite
5 9 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (1.37%) SAP CO
6 7 (1.37%) SAP FI
6 7 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (1.17%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.98%) Endur
8 5 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.78%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.78%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.78%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.78%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 133 (26.03%) Azure
2 79 (15.46%) AWS
3 64 (12.52%) Power Platform
4 44 (8.61%) GCP
5 24 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (3.72%) Snowflake
8 18 (3.52%) Power Automate
8 18 (3.52%) SaaS
9 17 (3.33%) GitHub
10 16 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.74%) Serverless
12 12 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 9 (1.76%) dbt
13 9 (1.76%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (1.57%) Boomi
14 8 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.76%) Firewall
1 9 (1.76%) Network Security
2 5 (0.98%) DNS
3 2 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.20%) Cisco ICM
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) Intranet
4 1 (0.20%) POP3
4 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
4 1 (0.20%) SMTP
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) VLAN
4 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.37%) Power BI
2 36 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.15%) Data Vault
6 11 (2.15%) Tableau
7 9 (1.76%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 9 (1.76%) Power Query
7 9 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (1.37%) Redis
8 7 (1.37%) SAP BW
8 7 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.37%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (8.61%) JIRA
2 25 (4.89%) Git
3 16 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.76%) GitLab
5 6 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (1.17%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.98%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.98%) ERwin
6 5 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.98%) Storybook
7 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.59%) Maven
7 3 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) Mockito
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) PeopleTools
9 1 (0.20%) Vite
General
1 231 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 154 (30.14%) Finance
3 111 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.63%) Banking
6 28 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (3.52%) Retail
8 16 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.35%) Marketing
12 11 (2.15%) Front Office
13 10 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.76%) Back Office
14 9 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.57%) Law
16 6 (1.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 111 (21.72%) Analyst
2 107 (20.94%) Architect
3 93 (18.20%) Developer
4 81 (15.85%) Business Analyst
4 81 (15.85%) Consultant
5 36 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (6.85%) Lead
7 32 (6.26%) SAP Consultant
8 31 (6.07%) Senior
9 20 (3.91%) Functional Consultant
10 17 (3.33%) SAP WM Consultant
10 17 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
11 15 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
12 14 (2.74%) ServiceNow Architect
13 13 (2.54%) Management Consultant
14 12 (2.35%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.35%) Project Manager
15 11 (2.15%) Data Architect
15 11 (2.15%) SAP Functional Consultant
16 10 (1.96%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (12.92%) REST
2 49 (9.59%) SOAP
3 32 (6.26%) CSS
3 32 (6.26%) HTML
4 24 (4.70%) RESTful
5 23 (4.50%) XML
6 22 (4.31%) JSON
7 20 (3.91%) Spring
8 17 (3.33%) Kafka
9 16 (3.13%) .NET
10 15 (2.94%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.74%) OAuth
11 14 (2.74%) Spring Boot
12 13 (2.54%) Middleware
13 12 (2.35%) React
13 12 (2.35%) Web Services
14 10 (1.96%) Bootstrap
14 10 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (1.96%) Pandas
14 10 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.70%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.31%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.31%) CMDB
4 16 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.96%) Reinsurance
7 9 (1.76%) Credit Risk
7 9 (1.76%) Equities
8 8 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.37%) Derivative
9 7 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.17%) Life Science
10 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.76%) Windows
2 7 (1.37%) Linux
3 4 (0.78%) Unix
4 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Solaris
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (33.07%) Agile
2 155 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 83 (16.24%) Data Modelling
5 82 (16.05%) Analytics
6 80 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 73 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 71 (13.89%) DevOps
9 70 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
10 63 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (12.33%) Validation
11 61 (11.94%) CI/CD
12 59 (11.55%) Scrum
13 56 (10.96%) Migration
14 51 (9.98%) Mentoring
14 51 (9.98%) Requirements Gathering
15 47 (9.20%) Data Governance
16 45 (8.81%) ERP
16 45 (8.81%) Integration Patterns
17 44 (8.61%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 117 (22.90%) SQL
2 64 (12.52%) Java
2 64 (12.52%) Python
3 57 (11.15%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.31%) C#
5 17 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (2.35%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.96%) Apex Code
7 10 (1.96%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.76%) Groovy
8 9 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.76%) RPG
8 9 (1.76%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.37%) R
10 6 (1.17%) ABAP
10 6 (1.17%) C++
11 5 (0.98%) Bicep
11 5 (0.98%) RPG IV
12 3 (0.59%) Korn
12 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 85 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.29%) Degree
3 66 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.91%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.33%) SAP Certification
7 16 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.57%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.17%) CISSP
11 6 (1.17%) PMP
12 5 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.98%) CCSP
12 5 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.98%) MCP
13 4 (0.78%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.00%) QA
2 21 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.13%) GDPR
4 15 (2.94%) GRC
5 14 (2.74%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.35%) NIST
7 11 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.37%) PSD2
9 6 (1.17%) ISO 19650
9 6 (1.17%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.98%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.59%) GxP
11 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.20%) FATCA
13 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.20%) SEPA
13 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (4.50%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 20 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.33%) Terraform
3 7 (1.37%) Ansible
4 4 (0.78%) Control-M
5 2 (0.39%) CloudHub
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Cisco UCCE
6 1 (0.20%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 88 (17.22%) SAP
2 76 (14.87%) Microsoft
3 49 (9.59%) Salesforce
4 45 (8.81%) Oracle
5 43 (8.41%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.52%) Databricks
7 16 (3.13%) Google
8 13 (2.54%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.15%) IBM
10 7 (1.37%) Workday
11 6 (1.17%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (0.98%) Foundry
12 5 (0.98%) Informatica
12 5 (0.98%) Sparx
13 4 (0.78%) Ariba
13 4 (0.78%) Cognos
13 4 (0.78%) Murex
13 4 (0.78%) Palantir
13 4 (0.78%) Temenos
13 4 (0.78%) VMware