Translating Business Requirements Contracts in the Thames Valley

Translate Business Requirements
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +47
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 19 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.14% 0.71% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.84% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
10th Percentile £406 £385 £218
25th Percentile £448 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% - -11.46%
75th Percentile £567 £450 £575
90th Percentile £690 £498 -
South East median daily rate £500 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £70.16 - £91.35

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 1,526 1,904 2,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.32% 84.92% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,088 1,704
10th Percentile £293 £266 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.24% +4.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 97 84
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.03 £24.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £58.30 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.83% +16.60% +163.16%
75th Percentile £38.42 £70.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £86.63 £74.94
South East median hourly rate £22.75 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -60.33% +11.53% +85.43%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Translating Business Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Translating Business Requirements 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +15 16 £525 +17.19% 26
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £444 +4.41% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Translating Business Requirements
South East

Translating Business Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.26%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Slack
5 1 (5.26%) Figma
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
1 6 (31.58%) Business Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Smart Metering Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) NumPy
1 2 (10.53%) Pandas
1 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (21.05%) Smart Meter
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) CentOS
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
2 5 (26.32%) Budgeting
2 5 (26.32%) Project Planning
3 4 (21.05%) Budget Management
3 4 (21.05%) Business Analysis
3 4 (21.05%) Business Case
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (21.05%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (15.79%) Data Privacy
4 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
4 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
4 3 (15.79%) SIEM
4 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.79%) User Stories
4 3 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) CCSP
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) CISSP
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) ACCA
4 1 (5.26%) CIMA
4 1 (5.26%) CIPFA
4 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
1 3 (15.79%) PSD2
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
1 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.26%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Workday