Translating Business Requirements Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Translate Business Requirements
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 102 122
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 +34
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 36 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.72% 0.88% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 0.98% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 18
10th Percentile £404 £400 £310
25th Percentile £419 £450 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £575
90th Percentile £683 £693 £600
South East median daily rate £525 £541 £531
% change year-on-year -3.00% +1.88% +1.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,831 1,733 2,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.23% 89.38% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,018 1,449
10th Percentile £263 £272 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 50 100
10th Percentile £15.32 £19.25 £19.22
25th Percentile £18.00 £29.75 £25.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +12.31% +135.01%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.05 £72.62
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £54.56
% change year-on-year -51.22% -15.46% +45.49%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Translating Business Requirements job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the Thames Valley

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Translating Business Requirements

Translating Business Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire +11 32 £513 -1.91% 2
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £413 -15.38% 2
Oxfordshire -14 1 £700 -9.68% 6
Translating Business Requirements
South East

Translating Business Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) AtomSphere
4 2 (5.56%) Boomi
4 2 (5.56%) SaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Slack
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.78%) Collibra
5 1 (2.78%) dbt
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) Figma
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
1 3 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 4 (11.11%) Tableau
2 3 (8.33%) Big Data
2 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.56%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 7 (19.44%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Data Scientist
5 3 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Smart Metering Project Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) REST
1 10 (27.78%) SOAP
2 4 (11.11%) NumPy
2 4 (11.11%) Pandas
2 4 (11.11%) scikit-learn
3 2 (5.56%) JSON
3 2 (5.56%) XML
4 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.78%) PySpark
4 1 (2.78%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) CMDB
2 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.33%) Smart Meter
5 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (44.44%) Agile
3 13 (36.11%) Data Modelling
3 13 (36.11%) Roadmaps
4 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (27.78%) Strategic Roadmap
6 8 (22.22%) Scrum
6 8 (22.22%) Validation
7 7 (19.44%) Analytics
7 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (19.44%) IT Asset Management
7 7 (19.44%) ITIL
7 7 (19.44%) ITSM
7 7 (19.44%) Security Operations
8 6 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 6 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
9 5 (13.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (19.44%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (5.56%) C#
4 2 (5.56%) Groovy
4 2 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.33%) CCSP
2 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.33%) CISSP
2 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) GRC
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.33%) PSD2
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.33%) Foundry
2 3 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Palantir
2 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Xero