Translating Business Requirements Contract Job Trends in the South East

Translate Business Requirements
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 121 164
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 +38
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 52 43 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.20% 1.29% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.45% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 19 26
10th Percentile £355 £396 £396
25th Percentile £413 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £600
90th Percentile £752 £704 £738
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.41% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 - -
England median hourly rate £50.16 £72.50 -
% change year-on-year -30.82% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,660 2,963 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.01% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,403 1,830 2,833
10th Percentile £230 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.35% +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 112 259
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.37 £17.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £54.38 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Translating Business Requirements job vacancy trend in the South East

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the South East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the South East

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Thames Valley +9 36 £488 -4.88% 21
Berkshire +13 32 £513 +2.50% 11
Surrey -1 5 £530 -24.29% 7
Hampshire -25 5 £675 +25.58% 9
Buckinghamshire -2 3 £413 -15.38% 4
West Sussex -11 3 £175 - 5
East Sussex +2 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire -13 1 £700 -9.68% 6
Kent - 1 £550 - 2
Translating Business Requirements
England

Translating Business Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.77%) Apache
1 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.85%) SAP CO
2 2 (3.85%) SAP FI
2 2 (3.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.92%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.92%) SAP WM
3 1 (1.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) Azure
2 14 (26.92%) AWS
3 13 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.77%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) AtomSphere
7 2 (3.85%) Boomi
7 2 (3.85%) Slack
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.92%) Collibra
8 1 (1.92%) dbt
8 1 (1.92%) Figma
8 1 (1.92%) PaaS
8 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Network Security
2 3 (5.77%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Power BI
2 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.69%) Tableau
3 3 (5.77%) Big Data
3 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.85%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.92%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.85%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 9 (17.31%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) Lead
6 4 (7.69%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Smart Metering Project Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) REST
1 11 (21.15%) SOAP
2 4 (7.69%) NumPy
2 4 (7.69%) Pandas
2 4 (7.69%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.85%) JSON
3 2 (3.85%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (3.85%) XML
4 1 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.92%) Middleware
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.92%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) CMDB
2 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.77%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (5.77%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.77%) Smart Meter
5 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) PMI
6 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (42.31%) Agile
3 17 (32.69%) Roadmaps
4 15 (28.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (26.92%) Data Modelling
6 11 (21.15%) Scrum
6 11 (21.15%) Strategic Roadmap
7 10 (19.23%) Validation
8 9 (17.31%) Data Cleansing
8 9 (17.31%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (17.31%) ITSM
9 8 (15.38%) Analytics
9 8 (15.38%) ERP
9 8 (15.38%) ITIL
9 8 (15.38%) Security Operations
9 8 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
10 7 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (13.46%) IT Asset Management
10 7 (13.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
1 9 (17.31%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) C#
3 2 (3.85%) Groovy
3 2 (3.85%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.77%) CCSP
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.77%) CISSP
4 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) GRC
2 6 (11.54%) QA
3 5 (9.62%) GDPR
4 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (5.77%) NIST
4 3 (5.77%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.77%) PSD2
5 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) ServiceNow
2 7 (13.46%) SAP
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.62%) Oracle
5 3 (5.77%) Foundry
5 3 (5.77%) Google
5 3 (5.77%) Palantir
5 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) Workday
6 1 (1.92%) Xero