Translating Business Requirements Contract Job Trends in the North West

Translate Business Requirements
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 110 71
Rank change year-on-year +17 -39 +87
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 50 13 66
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.00% 0.60% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 0.70% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 9 53
10th Percentile £350 £306 £441
25th Percentile £375 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% +13.51%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £619
90th Percentile £601 £590 £638
England median daily rate £525 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% +1.14% -1.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,207 1,867 2,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.21% 86.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,057 1,608
10th Percentile £213 £263 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £571 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 98 159
10th Percentile £16.58 £16.00 £15.95
25th Percentile £21.19 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.20 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -19.47% +45.29%
75th Percentile £56.69 £49.80 £46.89
90th Percentile £69.94 £70.89 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Translating Business Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Translating Business Requirements job vacancy trend in the North West

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the North West over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the North West

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
Manchester +4 23 £513 +7.89% 51
Cheshire - 19 £420 - 25
Merseyside - 5 £456 - 15
Lancashire -12 1 £595 +25.26% 19
Translating Business Requirements
England

Translating Business Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.00%) Confluence
1 4 (8.00%) SAS
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.00%) Apigee
4 5 (10.00%) GCP
4 5 (10.00%) Kong
5 2 (4.00%) AtomSphere
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Boomi
5 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) OCI
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Power BI
2 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 3 (6.00%) Cognos Report Studio
3 3 (6.00%) Cognos Transformer
3 3 (6.00%) OLAP
3 3 (6.00%) OLAP Cube
3 3 (6.00%) Power Query
4 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.00%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (4.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.00%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.00%) Base SAS
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Hudson
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 21 (42.00%) Finance
2 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (22.00%) Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Retail
6 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Analyst
2 12 (24.00%) Architect
3 11 (22.00%) Business Analyst
4 10 (20.00%) Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Automation Specialist
6 4 (8.00%) Support Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Business Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Cognos Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Payments Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Change Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Governance Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Integration Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) REST
2 9 (18.00%) SOAP
3 8 (16.00%) JSON
3 8 (16.00%) XML
4 5 (10.00%) JWT
4 5 (10.00%) OAuth
4 5 (10.00%) OpenAPI
4 5 (10.00%) Swagger
5 4 (8.00%) Spring
5 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.00%) CSS
6 2 (4.00%) HTML
7 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.00%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (2.00%) SAPUI5
7 1 (2.00%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) FMCG
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 15 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (26.00%) Integration Patterns
5 12 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (22.00%) Computer Science
7 10 (20.00%) Microservices
7 10 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (20.00%) Validation
8 9 (18.00%) Business Process Analysis
8 9 (18.00%) DevOps
9 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (16.00%) ETL
9 8 (16.00%) Use Case
10 7 (14.00%) Risk Management
10 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (14.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 6 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) SQL
2 14 (28.00%) Python
3 8 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.00%) C#
6 2 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.00%) Groovy
6 2 (4.00%) R
7 1 (2.00%) ABAP
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Degree
2 9 (18.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.00%) MBA
6 1 (2.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.00%) ISO 20022
2 4 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.00%) Google
3 5 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) Cognos
4 3 (6.00%) Temenos
5 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) Informatica
5 2 (4.00%) Pega
6 1 (2.00%) Anaplan
6 1 (2.00%) Capita
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) IFS
6 1 (2.00%) OpenText
6 1 (2.00%) Sage
6 1 (2.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) Workday