Translating Business Requirements Contracts

Translate Business Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Translating Business Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 338 434
Rank change year-on-year +114 +96 -23
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 466 442 503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.74% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.82% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 284 325
10th Percentile £412 £425 £400
25th Percentile £475 £493 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +5.40% +7.50%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £526 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% +0.19% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £62.00 £17.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £66.30 £18.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.19 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.55% +286.29% -32.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £21.99
90th Percentile - £92.22 £22.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £79.19 £19.91
% change year-on-year -30.55% +297.79% -5.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Translating Business Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Translating Business Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements.

Daily rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements.

Hourly rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +106 379 £550 -8.33% 195
UK excluding London +139 192 £538 +2.19% 87
London +42 189 £600 - 107
Work from Home +125 173 £500 -11.50% 108
South East +62 65 £650 -5.45% 12
North of England +56 49 £502 -2.05% 26
North West +43 39 £500 +5.26% 15
Midlands +23 29 £550 +18.92% 24
South West +39 24 £538 -14.00% 8
West Midlands +32 20 £538 +20.79% 17
East of England +23 14 £568 +8.10% 7
Scotland +30 10 £538 -6.52% 6
Yorkshire +14 7 £575 +4.55% 8
East Midlands +12 5 £600 +29.73% 7
North East +23 4 £500 - 3
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland +6 1 £338 -38.64% 4

Translating Business Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (4.72%) Confluence
2 18 (3.86%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.72%) MTS
4 4 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) SAS
5 2 (0.43%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.21%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) CATIA
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.72%) Aligne
3 8 (1.72%) Endur
3 8 (1.72%) EuroRunner
4 6 (1.29%) Distributed Ledger
4 6 (1.29%) SAP FI
5 5 (1.07%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.86%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 4 (0.86%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.86%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.64%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.64%) SAP MII
7 3 (0.64%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 143 (30.69%) Azure
2 76 (16.31%) Power Platform
3 62 (13.30%) AWS
4 41 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (7.08%) GCP
6 30 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (3.43%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.22%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.79%) OpenShift
11 10 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.72%) SaaS
13 7 (1.50%) GitHub
13 7 (1.50%) WhatsApp
14 6 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.58%) WAN
2 11 (2.36%) LAN
3 7 (1.50%) VSAN
4 4 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.64%) DNS
5 3 (0.64%) Firewall
5 3 (0.64%) HTTP
5 3 (0.64%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.64%) Intranet
5 3 (0.64%) IPsec
6 2 (0.43%) Internet
6 2 (0.43%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) Broadband
7 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.21%) Network Security
7 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.02%) Power BI
2 28 (6.01%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.79%) SQL Server
4 25 (5.36%) Tableau
5 21 (4.51%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.58%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 12 (2.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 11 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 11 (2.36%) QlikView
9 10 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.50%) Metadata
10 7 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.29%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.29%) Power Query
11 6 (1.29%) Qlik Sense
12 5 (1.07%) Big Data
12 5 (1.07%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (6.01%) JIRA
2 14 (3.00%) Git
3 7 (1.50%) GitLab
4 6 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.64%) Gatling
6 3 (0.64%) Postman
6 3 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.43%) Selenium
7 2 (0.43%) webpack
8 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.21%) RStudio
8 1 (0.21%) VersionOne
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 253 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 132 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (24.03%) Finance
4 30 (6.44%) Banking
5 24 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
5 24 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.94%) Marketing
7 21 (4.51%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.58%) Retail
9 10 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.72%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.50%) Front Office
11 7 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.07%) Back Office
12 5 (1.07%) Legal
13 4 (0.86%) French Language
13 4 (0.86%) Law
13 4 (0.86%) Military
14 3 (0.64%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 129 (27.68%) Architect
2 92 (19.74%) Analyst
3 70 (15.02%) Solutions Architect
4 65 (13.95%) Consultant
5 58 (12.45%) Business Analyst
6 49 (10.52%) Developer
7 36 (7.73%) Senior
8 24 (5.15%) Data Engineer
9 23 (4.94%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 23 (4.94%) Java Architect
9 23 (4.94%) Java Solutions Architect
10 22 (4.72%) Product Owner
11 19 (4.08%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.79%) SAP Analyst
13 13 (2.79%) SAP Consultant
14 12 (2.58%) Technical Architect
15 11 (2.36%) Lead
15 11 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
16 10 (2.15%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.43%) REST
2 14 (3.00%) JSON
2 14 (3.00%) RESTful
3 12 (2.58%) Middleware
4 10 (2.15%) HTML
4 10 (2.15%) Web Services
5 9 (1.93%) OAuth
6 8 (1.72%) React
6 8 (1.72%) SOAP
6 8 (1.72%) SPFx
6 8 (1.72%) XML
7 7 (1.50%) .NET
8 6 (1.29%) CSS
8 6 (1.29%) Node.js
8 6 (1.29%) OpenID
8 6 (1.29%) SAML
8 6 (1.29%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.07%) OpenAPI
9 5 (1.07%) Swagger
9 5 (1.07%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.94%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.22%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.58%) Renewable Energy
7 11 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.36%) Solar Panel
8 10 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.72%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.29%) Blockchain
11 6 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.07%) CBDC
12 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.07%) Web3
13 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
13 4 (0.86%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.86%) Windows
2 13 (2.79%) Linux
3 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.43%) Unix
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (26.61%) Agile
3 96 (20.60%) Data Modelling
4 80 (17.17%) Business Intelligence
5 78 (16.74%) Migration
6 77 (16.52%) DevOps
7 55 (11.80%) Computer Science
8 50 (10.73%) Scrum
9 49 (10.52%) ETL
10 47 (10.09%) User Stories
11 45 (9.66%) Analytics
12 44 (9.44%) Visualisation
13 41 (8.80%) Data Analysis
14 38 (8.15%) Acceptance Criteria
14 38 (8.15%) Business Analysis
14 38 (8.15%) Use Case
15 37 (7.94%) Project Management
16 35 (7.51%) Data Migration
16 35 (7.51%) Project Delivery
16 35 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (17.17%) SQL
2 46 (9.87%) Java
3 32 (6.87%) Python
4 28 (6.01%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.79%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.36%) C#
7 8 (1.72%) Go
8 7 (1.50%) Bash
9 6 (1.29%) Perl
10 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.07%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.86%) Swift
11 4 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.64%) R
12 3 (0.64%) Scala
12 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.43%) ABAP
13 2 (0.43%) ProC
13 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (16.95%) Degree
2 75 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 39 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (8.15%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.08%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (2.15%) SAP Certification
9 9 (1.93%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.72%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.72%) PMP
11 5 (1.07%) PhD
12 4 (0.86%) CCIE
12 4 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.86%) HND
13 3 (0.64%) CCNP
13 3 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.43%) ACCA
14 2 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.37%) QA
2 23 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.00%) GDPR
4 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.43%) PMO
5 2 (0.43%) PSD2
6 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (1.72%) Docker
2 7 (1.50%) vCloud
2 7 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.50%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.07%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.00%) Terraform
3 7 (1.50%) Istio
3 7 (1.50%) Rancher
3 7 (1.50%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.64%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (13.30%) SAP
2 61 (13.09%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.73%) Oracle
4 26 (5.58%) Google
5 23 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.36%) Databricks
8 10 (2.15%) Ariba
9 7 (1.50%) Adobe
9 7 (1.50%) VMware
10 5 (1.07%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.07%) Informatica
11 4 (0.86%) Centrify
11 4 (0.86%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.86%) Workday
12 3 (0.64%) Cisco
12 3 (0.64%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.64%) New Relic
12 3 (0.64%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.64%) SolarWinds