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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 223 244
Rank change year-on-year +48 +21 +138
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 508 319 361
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.12% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 1.26% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 183 249
10th Percentile £352 £413 £402
25th Percentile £425 £461 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £684 £638
90th Percentile £705 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £34.11 £44.10 -
25th Percentile £44.29 £61.50 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £72.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% - -
75th Percentile £66.96 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £68.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -13.79% - -

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 27,947 25,226 32,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.49% 88.70% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,782 15,552 22,007
10th Percentile £301 £313 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 831 1,432
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.14% +24.04%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 +67 293 £525 -8.70% 209
North of England +5 82 £450 -13.88% 138
North West +14 50 £447 -5.89% 72
South East -8 50 £525 -2.33% 127
South West +21 33 £563 +13.64% 54
Yorkshire -37 29 £469 -10.71% 48
Midlands -38 21 £500 - 92
West Midlands -26 17 £500 -4.76% 45
East of England -19 12 £570 +26.67% 68
East Midlands -19 4 £505 +34.60% 44
North East -5 3 £450 -46.27% 18
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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 13 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.77%) SAS
4 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.38%) CMS
6 6 (1.18%) Apache
7 5 (0.98%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.79%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.39%) IIS
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.39%) Mule
9 2 (0.39%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.35%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.18%) ProjectWise
5 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.79%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (4.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (3.74%) SAP WM
4 16 (3.15%) SAP EWM
5 9 (1.77%) NetSuite
5 9 (1.77%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (1.38%) SAP CO
7 7 (1.38%) SAP FI
7 7 (1.38%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (1.38%) SAP PM
8 6 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
8 6 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (1.18%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.98%) Endur
9 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (26.18%) Azure
2 76 (14.96%) AWS
3 64 (12.60%) Power Platform
4 46 (9.06%) GCP
5 26 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.33%) Snowflake
8 21 (4.13%) Power Automate
8 21 (4.13%) SaaS
9 18 (3.54%) PowerApps
10 15 (2.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 13 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.36%) GitHub
13 11 (2.17%) Entra ID
14 10 (1.97%) dbt
15 9 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (1.77%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 9 (1.77%) Serverless
16 8 (1.57%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.77%) Firewall
1 9 (1.77%) Network Security
2 2 (0.39%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.20%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (0.20%) DHCP
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) FTP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) Intranet
3 1 (0.20%) POP3
3 1 (0.20%) Skype
3 1 (0.20%) SMTP
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (10.04%) Power BI
2 38 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (3.15%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.95%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.56%) Tableau
6 12 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.97%) Data Vault
7 10 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 8 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (1.57%) Power Query
8 8 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.38%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.38%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.18%) Metadata
10 6 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.98%) Big Data
11 5 (0.98%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 46 (9.06%) JIRA
2 26 (5.12%) Git
3 11 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
4 7 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (0.98%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.98%) ERwin
6 5 (0.98%) GitLab
6 5 (0.98%) Storybook
7 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 2 (0.39%) Maven
8 2 (0.39%) Mockito
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.20%) Hudson
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 237 (46.65%) Social Skills
2 156 (30.71%) Finance
3 110 (21.65%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.68%) Banking
6 28 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (3.54%) Manufacturing
8 17 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (2.95%) Retail
11 14 (2.76%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.56%) Marketing
13 12 (2.36%) Front Office
14 9 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.57%) Back Office
15 8 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.57%) General Ledger
15 8 (1.57%) Law
15 8 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (21.46%) Analyst
1 109 (21.46%) Architect
2 94 (18.50%) Developer
3 79 (15.55%) Business Analyst
4 78 (15.35%) Consultant
5 36 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
6 34 (6.69%) Lead
7 33 (6.50%) SAP Consultant
7 33 (6.50%) Senior
8 19 (3.74%) Functional Consultant
9 17 (3.35%) SAP WM Consultant
10 16 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (2.76%) Technical Business Analyst
12 13 (2.56%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.56%) Management Consultant
12 13 (2.56%) Technical Architect
13 12 (2.36%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.36%) ServiceNow Architect
14 11 (2.17%) Data Architect
14 11 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.42%) REST
2 46 (9.06%) SOAP
3 33 (6.50%) HTML
4 32 (6.30%) CSS
5 22 (4.33%) XML
6 21 (4.13%) JSON
7 18 (3.54%) RESTful
8 17 (3.35%) .NET
9 15 (2.95%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.95%) Kafka
9 15 (2.95%) Spring
10 14 (2.76%) Middleware
11 13 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
11 13 (2.56%) Web Services
12 12 (2.36%) React
13 10 (1.97%) Bootstrap
13 10 (1.97%) Pandas
13 10 (1.97%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.97%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.68%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.53%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.94%) CMDB
4 13 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.97%) Reinsurance
7 9 (1.77%) Credit Risk
7 9 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.38%) Equities
9 7 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.18%) Derivative
10 6 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.18%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.77%) Windows
2 7 (1.38%) Linux
3 5 (0.98%) 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
1 175 (34.45%) Agile
2 157 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 88 (17.32%) Data Modelling
5 80 (15.75%) Analytics
5 80 (15.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 72 (14.17%) DevOps
7 71 (13.98%) Roadmaps
8 68 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
9 64 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (12.20%) Scrum
11 61 (12.01%) Validation
12 59 (11.61%) Migration
13 56 (11.02%) CI/CD
14 52 (10.24%) Mentoring
15 50 (9.84%) Data Governance
16 49 (9.65%) Requirements Gathering
17 46 (9.06%) ERP
17 46 (9.06%) Workshop Facilitation
18 44 (8.66%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 113 (22.24%) SQL
2 61 (12.01%) Python
3 58 (11.42%) Java
3 58 (11.42%) JavaScript
4 19 (3.74%) C#
5 14 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (2.56%) Apex Code
7 12 (2.36%) PL/SQL
7 12 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.77%) Groovy
8 9 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 9 (1.77%) RPG
8 9 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.38%) R
10 6 (1.18%) ABAP
11 5 (0.98%) Bicep
11 5 (0.98%) RPG IV
12 4 (0.79%) C++
12 4 (0.79%) Korn
13 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 85 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.76%) Degree
3 68 (13.39%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 17 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.35%) SAP Certification
7 13 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.38%) PMP
10 6 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.18%) CISSP
11 5 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.98%) CCSP
11 5 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.98%) MCP
12 4 (0.79%) CSPO
12 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.68%) QA
2 23 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.35%) GDPR
4 14 (2.76%) GRC
5 10 (1.97%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.77%) NIST
7 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.38%) PSD2
9 6 (1.18%) ISO 19650
9 6 (1.18%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.59%) GxP
11 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.20%) Basel III
12 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.20%) FATCA
12 1 (0.20%) MiFID
12 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (3.94%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 16 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.76%) Terraform
3 9 (1.77%) Ansible
4 4 (0.79%) 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 92 (18.11%) SAP
2 81 (15.94%) Microsoft
3 50 (9.84%) Salesforce
4 46 (9.06%) Oracle
5 42 (8.27%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.74%) Databricks
7 16 (3.15%) Google
8 12 (2.36%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.17%) IBM
10 7 (1.38%) Workday
11 5 (0.98%) Foundry
11 5 (0.98%) Informatica
11 5 (0.98%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (0.98%) Sparx
12 4 (0.79%) Ariba
12 4 (0.79%) Cognos
12 4 (0.79%) Murex
12 4 (0.79%) Palantir
12 4 (0.79%) Temenos
12 4 (0.79%) VMware