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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 95 105
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 58 27 29
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.33% 1.34% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.52% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 25
10th Percentile £373 £381 £413
25th Percentile £413 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £744 £638
90th Percentile £730 £826 £740
England median daily rate £520 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £22.67 - -
25th Percentile £24.41 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £27.30 - £55.00
75th Percentile £30.14 - £60.00
90th Percentile £31.84 - -
England median hourly rate £26.27 £71.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -63.13% +29.55% -30.55%

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 3,600 1,775 2,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.36% 88.26% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,253 1,168 1,528
10th Percentile £305 £203 £234
25th Percentile £400 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £669 £639 £688
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 98 172
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.07
25th Percentile £16.72 £14.80 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.49% +2.00% -17.61%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £34.20
90th Percentile £70.30 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 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
West Midlands -39 34 £543 +24.00% 16
East Midlands -17 22 £525 -25.00% 8
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 3 (5.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.72%) Aareon QL
3 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.72%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.72%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.72%) OPENHousing
3 1 (1.72%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.72%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.72%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.72%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) Power Platform
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) AWS
4 5 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.72%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.45%) VLAN
1 2 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.90%) Power Query
2 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Looker
4 1 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.72%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Hudson
General
1 22 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Finance
4 7 (12.07%) Marketing
5 6 (10.34%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Retail
7 3 (5.17%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.45%) Automotive
8 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Law
8 2 (3.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) German Language
9 1 (1.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Analyst
2 10 (17.24%) Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Architect
4 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.07%) Consultant
4 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Lead
4 7 (12.07%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) SAP Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Operations Business Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (6.90%) Middleware
2 4 (6.90%) REST
3 3 (5.17%) Node.js
3 3 (5.17%) Visualforce
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (1.72%) BAPI
5 1 (1.72%) Django
5 1 (1.72%) Flask
5 1 (1.72%) JMS
5 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.72%) NumPy
5 1 (1.72%) Pandas
5 1 (1.72%) React
5 1 (1.72%) SAP TM
5 1 (1.72%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.72%) SOAP
5 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.45%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
1 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (39.66%) Data Modelling
3 16 (27.59%) Mentoring
4 14 (24.14%) Agile
4 14 (24.14%) Analytics
4 14 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
6 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
8 10 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
9 9 (15.52%) Migration
10 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (12.07%) AI
11 7 (12.07%) Coaching
11 7 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (10.34%) Budgeting
12 6 (10.34%) ETL
12 6 (10.34%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) SQL
2 7 (12.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (8.62%) Apex Code
4 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.17%) SOQL
6 2 (3.45%) Java
6 2 (3.45%) Python
7 1 (1.72%) ABAP
7 1 (1.72%) C#
7 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) GDPR
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) PSD2
4 2 (3.45%) GRC
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) SAP
2 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.79%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.45%) Avaya
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Pega
4 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.45%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.72%) Aareon
5 1 (1.72%) Capita
5 1 (1.72%) Civica
5 1 (1.72%) Northgate
5 1 (1.72%) Oneserve
5 1 (1.72%) Orchard
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Talend
5 1 (1.72%) Workday