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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 102 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 99 39 31
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.10% 1.56% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 1.78% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 26 21
10th Percentile £356 £394 £363
25th Percentile £437 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £589 £725 £612
90th Percentile £699 £825 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -11.65%
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 3,873 2,192 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 87.47% 81.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,296 1,415 1,477
10th Percentile £306 £235 £270
25th Percentile £404 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -9.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £554 £612
90th Percentile £670 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 175 97
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.05 £17.11 £14.70
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.39 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +6.95% -27.27%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.86 £37.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £51.43
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -3 70 £520 +4.00% 31
East Midlands -9 27 £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 7 (7.07%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (10.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.02%) SAP MM
2 2 (2.02%) SAP PP
2 2 (2.02%) SAP QM
2 2 (2.02%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.01%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.01%) SAP CX
3 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.01%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.01%) SAP LE
3 1 (1.01%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.01%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.33%) Azure
2 23 (23.23%) Power Platform
3 16 (16.16%) AWS
4 7 (7.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.07%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.05%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.04%) Serverless
7 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (2.02%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.01%) VLAN
1 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.20%) Power BI
2 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.06%) Metadata
4 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.04%) Power Query
4 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.02%) Redis
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.01%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.01%) Looker
7 1 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
2 7 (7.07%) JIRA
3 4 (4.04%) JUnit
4 3 (3.03%) GitLab
4 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.02%) Gatling
5 2 (2.02%) Maven
5 2 (2.02%) Mockito
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.02%) Selenium
5 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.01%) Hudson
General
1 45 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.15%) Finance
4 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.07%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.06%) Banking
7 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.05%) Marketing
7 5 (5.05%) Retail
8 3 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.01%) Automotive
10 1 (1.01%) Front Office
10 1 (1.01%) Law
10 1 (1.01%) Local Government
10 1 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (17.17%) Architect
2 16 (16.16%) Consultant
2 16 (16.16%) Developer
3 14 (14.14%) Lead
4 13 (13.13%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.10%) Analyst
5 10 (10.10%) SAP Consultant
6 7 (7.07%) Senior
7 6 (6.06%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Product Owner
8 5 (5.05%) Salesforce Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) REST
2 5 (5.05%) .NET
2 5 (5.05%) Spring
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (4.04%) React
3 4 (4.04%) SailPoint
3 4 (4.04%) SAP CAF
3 4 (4.04%) SOAP
3 4 (4.04%) Web Services
4 3 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.03%) JSON
4 3 (3.03%) LangChain
4 3 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (3.03%) Middleware
4 3 (3.03%) OAuth
4 3 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.02%) CSS
5 2 (2.02%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.06%) Data Fabric
4 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.04%) SCADA
6 3 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.02%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.01%) Derivative
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.01%) Equities
8 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.01%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.01%) Linux
1 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) Data Modelling
1 31 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (30.30%) Agile
3 27 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (26.26%) Analytics
5 25 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (23.23%) Decision-Making
7 22 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
8 21 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (21.21%) Mentoring
8 21 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (20.20%) Scrum
10 19 (19.19%) CI/CD
11 18 (18.18%) Migration
12 16 (16.16%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (14.14%) AI
13 14 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (13.13%) DevOps
14 13 (13.13%) Validation
15 12 (12.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) SQL
2 9 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.06%) Java
3 6 (6.06%) Python
4 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.03%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.02%) C#
7 1 (1.01%) ABAP
7 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 17 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.04%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.06%) GDPR
2 6 (6.06%) QA
3 4 (4.04%) NCSC
4 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.03%) PSD2
5 2 (2.02%) GRC
5 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.02%) WCAG
6 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.02%) Grafana
3 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (24.24%) SAP
2 23 (23.23%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.11%) Oracle
4 8 (8.08%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.06%) Databricks
6 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.03%) OpenAI
8 2 (2.02%) Alteryx
8 2 (2.02%) Ariba
8 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.02%) Pega
8 2 (2.02%) Workday
9 1 (1.01%) Avaya
9 1 (1.01%) Charles River
9 1 (1.01%) Cisco
9 1 (1.01%) DocuSign
9 1 (1.01%) Google
9 1 (1.01%) Murex
9 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.01%) Talend