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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 93 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 76 37 32
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.64% 1.58% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.80% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 25
10th Percentile £356 £392 £428
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £627
90th Percentile £638 £825 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.09 - -
25th Percentile £22.96 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £24.41 - £55.00
75th Percentile £25.86 - £60.00
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £62.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.80% +52.44% -48.23%

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 2,061 2,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.74% 87.85% 80.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,439 1,320 1,584
10th Percentile £306 £210 £250
25th Percentile £404 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 156 169
10th Percentile £13.52 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.25 £13.52
Median hourly rate £25.47 £21.28 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% +15.00% -29.04%
75th Percentile £50.50 £27.45 £35.00
90th Percentile £71.76 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 10 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 10 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 -36 48 £475 -5.00% 18
East Midlands -6 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 (6.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.32%) SAP CX
3 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.32%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.32%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.84%) Azure
2 21 (27.63%) Power Platform
3 10 (13.16%) AWS
4 5 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.58%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.58%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (1.32%) GCP
8 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.63%) VLAN
1 2 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) Power BI
2 5 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.26%) Metadata
3 4 (5.26%) Power Query
4 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Looker
5 1 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (1.32%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Git
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) Hudson
General
1 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.05%) Finance
4 9 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.21%) Banking
5 7 (9.21%) Marketing
6 6 (7.89%) Retail
7 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.95%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.32%) Automotive
10 1 (1.32%) Front Office
10 1 (1.32%) German Language
10 1 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (1.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Architect
2 11 (14.47%) Data Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Lead
4 9 (11.84%) Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Consultant
5 8 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.95%) SAP Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (5.26%) Middleware
2 4 (5.26%) REST
2 4 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 4 (5.26%) SAP CAF
3 3 (3.95%) Node.js
3 3 (3.95%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.63%) .NET
4 2 (2.63%) PySpark
5 1 (1.32%) BAPI
5 1 (1.32%) Django
5 1 (1.32%) JMS
5 1 (1.32%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.32%) NumPy
5 1 (1.32%) OAuth
5 1 (1.32%) SAP TM
5 1 (1.32%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.32%) SOAP
5 1 (1.32%) Spring
5 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.26%) SCADA
3 3 (3.95%) Data Fabric
3 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.63%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Derivative
5 1 (1.32%) Equities
5 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
1 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.16%) Data Modelling
1 29 (38.16%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (31.58%) Agile
3 21 (27.63%) Analytics
3 21 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 19 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 16 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (18.42%) Workshop Facilitation
8 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (17.11%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
9 12 (15.79%) Migration
10 11 (14.47%) Validation
11 10 (13.16%) Data Management
11 10 (13.16%) DevOps
11 10 (13.16%) ETL
11 10 (13.16%) Scrum
12 9 (11.84%) Data Engineering
12 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.32%) SQL
2 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
3 6 (7.89%) Python
4 5 (6.58%) Apex Code
5 3 (3.95%) Java
5 3 (3.95%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.95%) SOQL
6 1 (1.32%) ABAP
6 1 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.95%) Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.21%) QA
3 5 (6.58%) GDPR
4 4 (5.26%) NCSC
5 3 (3.95%) PSD2
6 2 (2.63%) GRC
6 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) SAP
2 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.21%) Salesforce
5 6 (7.89%) Databricks
6 4 (5.26%) Oracle
7 2 (2.63%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.63%) Avaya
7 2 (2.63%) Cisco
7 2 (2.63%) Pega
7 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.63%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.32%) Ariba
8 1 (1.32%) Charles River
8 1 (1.32%) Denodo
8 1 (1.32%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.32%) Sparx
8 1 (1.32%) Talend