Translating Business Requirements Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Translate Business Requirements
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 106 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 107 40 29
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.20% 1.51% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.73% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 28 18
10th Percentile £359 £400 £357
25th Percentile £444 £445 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -9.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £612
90th Percentile £706 £825 £628
England median daily rate £528 £548 £541
% change year-on-year -3.65% +1.15% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.30 - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +131.48% -65.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,005 2,312 2,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.51% 87.51% 81.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,313 1,514 1,444
10th Percentile £309 £235 £263
25th Percentile £408 £360 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £612
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 174 74
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.82 £17.87 £15.03
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.72 £19.99
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +8.68% -27.33%
75th Percentile £38.75 £27.04 £41.61
90th Percentile £67.84 £48.20 £54.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Translating Business Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Translating Business Requirements job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the Midlands

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
West Midlands +7 80 £500 - 56
East Midlands -8 26 £525 -25.00% 32
Translating Business Requirements
England

Translating Business Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 16 (14.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (10.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.87%) SAP EWM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP MM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP PP
2 2 (1.87%) SAP QM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.93%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.93%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.93%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Azure
2 27 (25.23%) AWS
3 20 (18.69%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.54%) Power Automate
5 6 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.67%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.74%) Serverless
8 3 (2.80%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.87%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.87%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.87%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.93%) VLAN
1 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) Power BI
2 13 (12.15%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.21%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.54%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.61%) Metadata
5 6 (5.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.87%) Power Query
8 2 (1.87%) Redis
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.93%) Looker
9 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.93%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 16 (14.95%) JIRA
3 14 (13.08%) JUnit
4 12 (11.21%) Jenkins
5 11 (10.28%) Maven
6 10 (9.35%) Mockito
6 10 (9.35%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.74%) GitLab
8 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.80%) Gatling
8 3 (2.80%) Selenium
9 2 (1.87%) Hudson
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
General
1 51 (47.66%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.04%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (20.56%) Public Sector
4 16 (14.95%) Finance
5 8 (7.48%) Banking
6 7 (6.54%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.61%) Retail
8 5 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.80%) Marketing
10 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.93%) Automotive
11 1 (0.93%) Front Office
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Developer
2 19 (17.76%) Lead
3 18 (16.82%) Consultant
4 16 (14.95%) Architect
5 12 (11.21%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.28%) Data Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) SAP Consultant
6 11 (10.28%) Senior
7 10 (9.35%) Analyst
8 9 (8.41%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.54%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.67%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.67%) Product Owner
11 5 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.74%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (3.74%) Salesforce Architect
13 3 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 3 (2.80%) Principal Engineer
13 3 (2.80%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.69%) REST
2 16 (14.95%) Spring
3 13 (12.15%) SOAP
4 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.21%) Web Services
5 11 (10.28%) AngularJS
5 11 (10.28%) Hibernate
5 11 (10.28%) JPA
5 11 (10.28%) RESTful
6 10 (9.35%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (9.35%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (5.61%) .NET
8 5 (4.67%) React
9 4 (3.74%) JSON
9 4 (3.74%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (3.74%) SailPoint
9 4 (3.74%) SAP CAF
10 3 (2.80%) CSS
10 3 (2.80%) Middleware
10 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Product Ownership
2 13 (12.15%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.28%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.61%) Data Fabric
4 6 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) SCADA
6 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.87%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Derivative
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.93%) Equities
8 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (39.25%) Agile
2 39 (36.45%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (32.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (29.91%) Scrum
5 31 (28.97%) CI/CD
6 30 (28.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (24.30%) Data Modelling
8 22 (20.56%) Analytics
8 22 (20.56%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (20.56%) Decision-Making
8 22 (20.56%) Mentoring
8 22 (20.56%) Workshop Facilitation
9 21 (19.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (17.76%) User Stories
11 18 (16.82%) Migration
11 18 (16.82%) Requirements Gathering
11 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
12 17 (15.89%) Microservices
13 16 (14.95%) SDLC
14 15 (14.02%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.69%) SQL
2 18 (16.82%) Java
3 13 (12.15%) TypeScript
4 11 (10.28%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (4.67%) Python
7 3 (2.80%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.87%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.87%) C#
9 1 (0.93%) ABAP
9 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.48%) QA
3 6 (5.61%) GDPR
4 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.74%) NCSC
5 3 (2.80%) PSD2
5 3 (2.80%) WCAG
6 2 (1.87%) GRC
6 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (15.89%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Grafana
1 10 (9.35%) Prometheus
2 6 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (23.36%) SAP
2 22 (20.56%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.21%) Oracle
4 8 (7.48%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.61%) Databricks
6 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.80%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.80%) Pega
8 2 (1.87%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.87%) Ariba
8 2 (1.87%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.87%) Workday
9 1 (0.93%) Avaya
9 1 (0.93%) Charles River
9 1 (0.93%) Google
9 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.93%) Murex
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.93%) Talend