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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 103 100
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 106 40 30
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.24% 1.57% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 1.79% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 28 20
10th Percentile £359 £400 £361
25th Percentile £439 £445 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £725 £616
90th Percentile £706 £825 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -9.24%
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 3,895 2,229 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.24% 87.41% 81.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,262 1,449 1,433
10th Percentile £313 £250 £263
25th Percentile £408 £360 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £613
90th Percentile £672 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 172 78
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.82 £17.87 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.72 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +2.21% -22.73%
75th Percentile £40.03 £27.45 £39.14
90th Percentile £67.84 £49.40 £53.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +8 79 £500 - 60
East Midlands -12 26 £525 -25.00% 32
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 13 (12.26%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (10.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.89%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.89%) SAP EWM
2 2 (1.89%) SAP MM
2 2 (1.89%) SAP PP
2 2 (1.89%) SAP QM
2 2 (1.89%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.94%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.94%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.94%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.94%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.19%) Azure
2 24 (22.64%) AWS
3 20 (18.87%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.60%) Power Automate
5 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.72%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.77%) Serverless
8 3 (2.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.94%) VLAN
1 1 (0.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) Power BI
2 10 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.49%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.66%) Metadata
5 6 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.89%) Power Query
8 2 (1.89%) Redis
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.94%) Looker
9 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.94%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Git
2 13 (12.26%) JIRA
3 11 (10.38%) JUnit
4 9 (8.49%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.55%) Maven
5 8 (7.55%) Mockito
5 8 (7.55%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.77%) GitLab
7 3 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.83%) Gatling
7 3 (2.83%) Selenium
8 2 (1.89%) Hudson
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
General
1 49 (46.23%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.47%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 16 (15.09%) Finance
5 8 (7.55%) Banking
6 7 (6.60%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.66%) Retail
8 5 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.77%) Marketing
9 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.83%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.94%) Automotive
12 1 (0.94%) Front Office
12 1 (0.94%) Law
12 1 (0.94%) Local Government
12 1 (0.94%) Military
12 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) Developer
2 18 (16.98%) Consultant
2 18 (16.98%) Lead
3 17 (16.04%) Architect
4 12 (11.32%) SAP Consultant
5 11 (10.38%) Data Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Analyst
6 10 (9.43%) Senior
7 9 (8.49%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.55%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Product Owner
10 5 (4.72%) Salesforce Architect
11 4 (3.77%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.83%) Data Analyst
12 3 (2.83%) Data Architect
12 3 (2.83%) Lead Java Developer
12 3 (2.83%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) REST
2 13 (12.26%) Spring
3 11 (10.38%) SOAP
4 10 (9.43%) Web Services
5 9 (8.49%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.55%) Hibernate
6 8 (7.55%) JPA
6 8 (7.55%) RESTful
6 8 (7.55%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (5.66%) .NET
8 5 (4.72%) React
9 4 (3.77%) JSON
9 4 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (3.77%) SailPoint
9 4 (3.77%) SAP CAF
10 3 (2.83%) CSS
10 3 (2.83%) OAuth
10 3 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.66%) Data Fabric
4 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.77%) SCADA
4 4 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.94%) Derivative
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.94%) Equities
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.94%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
1 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.74%) Agile
2 37 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (29.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (27.36%) Scrum
4 29 (27.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (26.42%) CI/CD
6 27 (25.47%) Data Modelling
7 22 (20.75%) Analytics
7 22 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (20.75%) Decision-Making
7 22 (20.75%) Mentoring
7 22 (20.75%) Workshop Facilitation
8 21 (19.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (16.98%) Migration
10 17 (16.04%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (15.09%) User Stories
12 15 (14.15%) DevOps
12 15 (14.15%) Test Automation
13 14 (13.21%) Microservices
13 14 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.87%) SQL
2 15 (14.15%) Java
3 11 (10.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (4.72%) Python
7 3 (2.83%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.89%) C#
9 1 (0.94%) ABAP
9 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.55%) QA
3 6 (5.66%) GDPR
4 4 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.77%) NCSC
5 3 (2.83%) PSD2
5 3 (2.83%) WCAG
6 2 (1.89%) GRC
6 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.94%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (13.21%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (7.55%) Grafana
1 8 (7.55%) Prometheus
2 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (24.53%) SAP
2 23 (21.70%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.32%) Oracle
4 8 (7.55%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.66%) Databricks
6 5 (4.72%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.83%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.83%) Pega
8 2 (1.89%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.89%) Ariba
8 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.89%) Workday
9 1 (0.94%) Avaya
9 1 (0.94%) Charles River
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco
9 1 (0.94%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.94%) Google
9 1 (0.94%) Murex
9 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.94%) Talend