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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 98 103
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 77 38 32
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.66% 1.58% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.81% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 25 25
10th Percentile £356 £392 £453
25th Percentile £402 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £627
90th Percentile £650 £825 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -11.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate £27.30 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -42.73%

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 3,878 2,097 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.52% 87.30% 80.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,413 1,343 1,533
10th Percentile £307 £220 £251
25th Percentile £404 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £670 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 169 125
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.90
25th Percentile £17.70 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.65 £21.39 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.89% +18.83% -34.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.48 £50.00 £55.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -31 49 £520 +4.00% 28
East Midlands -3 26 £525 -25.00% 13
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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.30%) SAP CX
3 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.30%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) Azure
2 22 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.69%) AWS
4 6 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.79%) Power Automate
5 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (6.49%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.30%) VLAN
1 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.68%) Power BI
2 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.19%) Metadata
4 4 (5.19%) Power Query
5 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.30%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.30%) Looker
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL
7 1 (1.30%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Git
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Hudson
4 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.58%) Finance
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.09%) Banking
6 6 (7.79%) Marketing
6 6 (7.79%) Retail
7 5 (6.49%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.90%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.30%) Automotive
11 1 (1.30%) Front Office
11 1 (1.30%) Law
11 1 (1.30%) Local Government
11 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) Architect
2 12 (15.58%) Data Engineer
2 12 (15.58%) Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Consultant
3 10 (12.99%) Lead
4 9 (11.69%) Analyst
5 8 (10.39%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (7.79%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Salesforce Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Senior
8 4 (5.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.90%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) REST
2 4 (5.19%) SailPoint
2 4 (5.19%) SAP CAF
3 3 (3.90%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.60%) .NET
4 2 (2.60%) Middleware
4 2 (2.60%) Node.js
4 2 (2.60%) PySpark
4 2 (2.60%) SOAP
5 1 (1.30%) BAPI
5 1 (1.30%) JMS
5 1 (1.30%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.30%) NumPy
5 1 (1.30%) OAuth
5 1 (1.30%) Pandas
5 1 (1.30%) SAP TM
5 1 (1.30%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.30%) Spring
5 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.19%) SCADA
4 3 (3.90%) Data Fabric
4 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.60%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) Derivative
6 1 (1.30%) Equities
6 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.30%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.30%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (28.57%) Analytics
3 22 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (27.27%) Agile
5 20 (25.97%) Decision-Making
6 17 (22.08%) Mentoring
7 16 (20.78%) Workshop Facilitation
8 15 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (16.88%) Migration
10 13 (16.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (14.29%) ETL
11 11 (14.29%) Scrum
11 11 (14.29%) Validation
12 10 (12.99%) Data Engineering
12 10 (12.99%) Data Management
12 10 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
12 10 (12.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) SQL
2 9 (11.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (7.79%) Python
4 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.90%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.90%) Java
5 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.30%) ABAP
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.90%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) GDPR
3 4 (5.19%) NCSC
3 4 (5.19%) QA
4 3 (3.90%) PSD2
5 2 (2.60%) GRC
5 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) SAP
2 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.39%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.79%) Databricks
5 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.19%) Oracle
7 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.60%) Pega
8 1 (1.30%) Ariba
8 1 (1.30%) Avaya
8 1 (1.30%) Charles River
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco
8 1 (1.30%) DocuSign
8 1 (1.30%) Google
8 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.30%) Murex
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.30%) Talend