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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 98 102
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 86 38 33
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.82% 1.53% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.75% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 26 25
10th Percentile £356 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £597 £725 £612
90th Percentile £735 £825 £705
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
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 3,910 2,174 2,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.86% 87.73% 81.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 1,395 1,467
10th Percentile £306 £227 £274
25th Percentile £405 £358 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 175 103
10th Percentile £13.38 £12.62 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.72 £16.24 £14.26
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.39 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +12.76% -31.02%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.86 £36.25
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 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 7 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 -24 56 £535 +7.00% 41
East Midlands -4 28 £525 -25.00% 14
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 (8.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.16%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.16%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.16%) SAP CX
3 1 (1.16%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.16%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.16%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) Azure
2 23 (26.74%) Power Platform
3 11 (12.79%) AWS
4 7 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (8.14%) Power Automate
5 6 (6.98%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.81%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (4.65%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.49%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (2.33%) Serverless
10 1 (1.16%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.16%) VLAN
1 1 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.26%) Power BI
2 6 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) Metadata
4 4 (4.65%) Power Query
5 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.16%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.16%) Looker
7 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.16%) MySQL
7 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.16%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Git
1 7 (8.14%) JIRA
2 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.49%) JUnit
3 2 (2.33%) GitLab
3 2 (2.33%) Maven
3 2 (2.33%) Mockito
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.16%) Gatling
4 1 (1.16%) Hudson
4 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 36 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Finance
4 13 (15.12%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.98%) Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Marketing
6 5 (5.81%) Retail
7 3 (3.49%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Automotive
9 1 (1.16%) Front Office
9 1 (1.16%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (17.44%) Architect
2 14 (16.28%) Developer
3 13 (15.12%) Data Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Lead
4 12 (13.95%) Consultant
5 9 (10.47%) Analyst
6 8 (9.30%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (8.14%) Senior
8 5 (5.81%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.81%) Salesforce Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.49%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Product Owner
10 3 (3.49%) SAP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) REST
2 4 (4.65%) SailPoint
2 4 (4.65%) SAP CAF
2 4 (4.65%) SOAP
2 4 (4.65%) Spring
3 3 (3.49%) .NET
3 3 (3.49%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.33%) JPA
4 2 (2.33%) Middleware
4 2 (2.33%) Node.js
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.33%) PySpark
4 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (2.33%) Web Services
5 1 (1.16%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.16%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.65%) SCADA
4 3 (3.49%) Data Fabric
4 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Derivative
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Equities
6 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.16%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Data Modelling
2 27 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (27.91%) Analytics
4 23 (26.74%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (25.58%) Agile
5 22 (25.58%) Decision-Making
6 21 (24.42%) Workshop Facilitation
7 18 (20.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (19.77%) Mentoring
8 17 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (18.60%) Migration
10 14 (16.28%) Scrum
11 13 (15.12%) CI/CD
11 13 (15.12%) Validation
12 12 (13.95%) ETL
12 12 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (13.95%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (12.79%) Data Management
13 11 (12.79%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) SQL
2 9 (10.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.98%) Python
4 5 (5.81%) Java
5 3 (3.49%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.16%) ABAP
7 1 (1.16%) C#
7 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.49%) Degree
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.28%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 4 (4.65%) NCSC
3 4 (4.65%) QA
4 3 (3.49%) PSD2
5 2 (2.33%) GRC
5 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.16%) SLA
6 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Grafana
1 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) SAP
2 21 (24.42%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.14%) Oracle
5 6 (6.98%) Databricks
6 5 (5.81%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.33%) Ariba
7 2 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.33%) Pega
8 1 (1.16%) Avaya
8 1 (1.16%) Charles River
8 1 (1.16%) Cisco
8 1 (1.16%) DocuSign
8 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.16%) Murex
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.16%) Talend
8 1 (1.16%) Workday