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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 194 226
Rank change year-on-year +38 +32 +91
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 681 335 387
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.37% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.51% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 208 259
10th Percentile £372 £388 £425
25th Percentile £446 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £700
90th Percentile £725 £754 £751
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -3.17%
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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +61 417 £516 -10.22% 163
North of England -19 83 £461 +2.44% 53
North West -5 48 £392 -25.36% 29
Midlands -43 48 £525 +5.00% 56
South East -43 43 £500 +4.22% 76
Yorkshire -33 33 £500 +28.87% 19
South West -15 32 £563 +7.14% 15
East of England -21 30 £575 -4.17% 22
West Midlands -44 29 £538 +22.86% 31
East Midlands -22 17 £525 -4.55% 25
North East -22 2 £488 -25.00% 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 38 (5.58%) Confluence
2 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.17%) SAS
4 7 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.03%) CMS
5 6 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.44%) IIS
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) Mendix
8 2 (0.29%) Mule
8 2 (0.29%) OpenEdge
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (2.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.29%) Sketch
3 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (1.17%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.88%) SAP QM
5 6 (0.88%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.73%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.73%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.73%) Summit
7 4 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.44%) SAP EWM
8 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 172 (25.26%) Azure
2 129 (18.94%) Power Platform
3 118 (17.33%) AWS
4 55 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
5 51 (7.49%) GCP
6 27 (3.96%) Power Automate
7 25 (3.67%) Serverless
8 24 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (2.94%) SaaS
10 19 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (2.79%) Entra ID
10 19 (2.79%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.79%) Snowflake
11 16 (2.35%) dbt
12 14 (2.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
13 13 (1.91%) Azure AKS
14 11 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.62%) Firewall
2 10 (1.47%) WAN
3 8 (1.17%) LAN
3 8 (1.17%) Network Security
4 7 (1.03%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.73%) DNS
6 4 (0.59%) HTTP
6 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.29%) 5G
7 2 (0.29%) BGP
7 2 (0.29%) OSPF
7 2 (0.29%) PSTN
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.29%) Wireless
8 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.15%) NGFW
8 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (16.01%) Power BI
2 46 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 31 (4.55%) Metadata
5 25 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 21 (3.08%) Tableau
7 19 (2.79%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (2.06%) Power Query
11 12 (1.76%) MySQL
11 12 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.32%) Star Schema
14 8 (1.17%) Data Vault
15 7 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.03%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.03%) DocumentDB
15 7 (1.03%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (8.52%) JIRA
2 29 (4.26%) Git
2 29 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.47%) GitLab
4 9 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (0.88%) ERwin
6 4 (0.59%) Hudson
7 3 (0.44%) Maven
7 3 (0.44%) MLflow
7 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.44%) Vite
8 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.29%) JUnit
8 2 (0.29%) Mockito
8 2 (0.29%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 272 (39.94%) Social Skills
2 223 (32.75%) Finance
3 161 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (9.99%) Banking
5 54 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.46%) Law
7 28 (4.11%) Retail
8 22 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.94%) Front Office
10 19 (2.79%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.50%) Marketing
12 15 (2.20%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.62%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.17%) Back Office
16 8 (1.17%) Legal
17 7 (1.03%) Local Government
18 6 (0.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 171 (25.11%) Architect
2 121 (17.77%) Analyst
3 110 (16.15%) Developer
4 89 (13.07%) Business Analyst
5 79 (11.60%) Consultant
6 78 (11.45%) Lead
7 63 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (6.02%) Senior
9 40 (5.87%) Lead Architect
10 31 (4.55%) Functional Architect
11 27 (3.96%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.52%) Technical Analyst
13 20 (2.94%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.79%) Technical Business Analyst
15 18 (2.64%) Java Developer
16 17 (2.50%) SAP Consultant
17 16 (2.35%) Designer
17 16 (2.35%) Functional Consultant
18 15 (2.20%) ServiceNow Architect
19 14 (2.06%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (11.01%) REST
2 38 (5.58%) SOAP
3 30 (4.41%) .NET
4 29 (4.26%) CSS
4 29 (4.26%) HTML
5 25 (3.67%) RESTful
6 22 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 22 (3.23%) Middleware
7 21 (3.08%) JSON
8 20 (2.94%) React
9 18 (2.64%) OAuth
10 17 (2.50%) Node.js
11 16 (2.35%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (2.35%) Spring
12 15 (2.20%) Kafka
12 15 (2.20%) LangChain
12 15 (2.20%) XML
13 13 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
14 11 (1.62%) Pandas
14 11 (1.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.25%) Product Ownership
2 45 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 19 (2.79%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.35%) Equities
7 15 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (2.06%) Derivative
8 14 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.91%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.76%) CMDB
11 10 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.03%) Credit Risk
14 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.03%) Market Risk
15 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.62%) Windows
2 9 (1.32%) Linux
2 9 (1.32%) Unix
3 6 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (26.87%) Agile
2 167 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (22.61%) Data Modelling
4 148 (21.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 135 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
6 134 (19.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 131 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 130 (19.09%) CI/CD
9 124 (18.21%) Analytics
10 119 (17.47%) DevOps
11 111 (16.30%) Migration
12 96 (14.10%) AI
13 84 (12.33%) User Acceptance Testing
14 82 (12.04%) Decision-Making
14 82 (12.04%) ERP
15 81 (11.89%) Validation
16 80 (11.75%) Data Migration
17 75 (11.01%) Data Governance
18 71 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
19 69 (10.13%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 158 (23.20%) SQL
2 100 (14.68%) Python
3 64 (9.40%) Java
4 46 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 36 (5.29%) C#
6 31 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (2.50%) Apex Code
8 15 (2.20%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.91%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.32%) Scala
11 8 (1.17%) ABAP
12 7 (1.03%) Bash
12 7 (1.03%) R
13 6 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.73%) SOQL
15 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.44%) C++
16 3 (0.44%) Swift
17 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.60%) Degree
3 61 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.32%) MBA
10 8 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.59%) CCNP
12 4 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.59%) PMP
13 3 (0.44%) CBAP
13 3 (0.44%) CISSP
13 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.44%) PhD
13 3 (0.44%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.90%) QA
3 22 (3.23%) GDPR
4 13 (1.91%) GRC
5 12 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.62%) NIST
7 10 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.73%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) SEPA
10 3 (0.44%) GxP
10 3 (0.44%) PSD2
11 2 (0.29%) IFRS
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.29%) WCAG
12 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (3.52%) Docker
2 8 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.73%) 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 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.26%) Terraform
3 12 (1.76%) 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%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.29%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.29%) 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 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 86 (12.63%) SAP
3 60 (8.81%) Oracle
4 53 (7.78%) Salesforce
5 42 (6.17%) ServiceNow
6 35 (5.14%) Databricks
7 24 (3.52%) Google
8 22 (3.23%) Workday
9 19 (2.79%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.91%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.47%) ForgeRock
11 10 (1.47%) Foundry
11 10 (1.47%) Okta
12 8 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.17%) Cisco
13 7 (1.03%) IBM
14 6 (0.88%) Ariba
14 6 (0.88%) Palantir
14 6 (0.88%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud