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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 94 109
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 72 34 31
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.59% 1.51% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.72% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 24
10th Percentile £356 £392 £452
25th Percentile £400 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% - +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £632
90th Percentile £646 £825 £743
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -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 £32.78 £62.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year -47.56% +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 3,790 1,981 2,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.48% 88.16% 80.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,392 1,273 1,587
10th Percentile £306 £208 £246
25th Percentile £404 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £671 £643 £688
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 143 175
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.62 £11.18
25th Percentile £16.78 £15.25 £13.96
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.39 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +15.62% -26.73%
75th Percentile £48.25 £28.76 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.26 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 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 3 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 -33 44 £460 -8.00% 15
East Midlands -6 26 £525 -25.00% 15
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 4 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.39%) SAP CX
3 1 (1.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.39%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.39%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (37.50%) Azure
2 21 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 9 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.94%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.94%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 1 (1.39%) GCP
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) SaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.78%) VLAN
1 2 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.56%) Power Query
4 3 (4.17%) Metadata
5 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) Looker
6 1 (1.39%) MySQL
6 1 (1.39%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Hudson
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.83%) Finance
4 7 (9.72%) Banking
4 7 (9.72%) Marketing
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Retail
6 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.39%) Automotive
9 1 (1.39%) German Language
9 1 (1.39%) Law
9 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Developer
2 10 (13.89%) Architect
2 10 (13.89%) Lead
3 9 (12.50%) Analyst
3 9 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Consultant
4 8 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.17%) SAP Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Senior
8 2 (2.78%) Designer
8 2 (2.78%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (5.56%) Middleware
2 4 (5.56%) REST
2 4 (5.56%) SailPoint
2 4 (5.56%) SAP CAF
3 3 (4.17%) Node.js
3 3 (4.17%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.78%) .NET
4 2 (2.78%) PySpark
5 1 (1.39%) BAPI
5 1 (1.39%) Django
5 1 (1.39%) Flask
5 1 (1.39%) JMS
5 1 (1.39%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.39%) NumPy
5 1 (1.39%) Pandas
5 1 (1.39%) React
5 1 (1.39%) SAP TM
5 1 (1.39%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.56%) SCADA
3 3 (4.17%) Data Fabric
3 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.78%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
1 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 21 (29.17%) Agile
3 21 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (27.78%) Analytics
5 19 (26.39%) Decision-Making
6 18 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (19.44%) Workshop Facilitation
9 12 (16.67%) Migration
9 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (15.28%) CI/CD
10 11 (15.28%) Validation
11 10 (13.89%) Data Management
12 9 (12.50%) DevOps
12 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (11.11%) Data Engineering
13 8 (11.11%) ETL
13 8 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.00%) SQL
2 9 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.94%) Apex Code
5 4 (5.56%) Python
6 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.17%) SOQL
7 2 (2.78%) Java
8 1 (1.39%) ABAP
8 1 (1.39%) C#
8 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) GDPR
2 5 (6.94%) QA
3 4 (5.56%) NCSC
4 3 (4.17%) PSD2
5 2 (2.78%) GRC
5 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) SAP
2 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.72%) Salesforce
5 5 (6.94%) Databricks
6 4 (5.56%) Oracle
7 2 (2.78%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.78%) Avaya
7 2 (2.78%) Cisco
7 2 (2.78%) Pega
7 2 (2.78%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.78%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.39%) Ariba
8 1 (1.39%) Denodo
8 1 (1.39%) Google
8 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Sparx
8 1 (1.39%) Talend