Translating Business Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Translate Business Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 213 353
Rank change year-on-year +20 +140 +13
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 147 196 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.94% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.11% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 136 70
10th Percentile £375 £413 £412
25th Percentile £400 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £532
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +0.99% +1.38%
75th Percentile £550 £725 £666
90th Percentile £738 £744 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.17% +5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £44.10 - -
25th Percentile £61.50 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -30.55% +297.79%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.00 £85.71
90th Percentile - - £97.43
UK median hourly rate £71.25 £55.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year +29.55% -30.55% +286.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Translating Business Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the UK excluding London

Translating Business Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +6 38 £450 -10.36% 97
South East +12 32 £480 -23.24% 112
Scotland +30 27 £446 -17.12% 17
Yorkshire +20 19 £388 -32.52% 30
Midlands +11 19 £519 -5.68% 60
North West -9 15 £525 +5.00% 62
East of England +30 14 £625 +10.13% 42
South West +34 12 £525 -2.33% 45
West Midlands +4 11 £438 -16.67% 39
East Midlands +12 7 £550 -8.33% 16
North East 0 4 £650 +30.00% 6
Northern Ireland -6 3 £520 +54.07% 5
Wales - 2 £375 - 5
Translating Business Requirements
UK

Translating Business Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (14.29%) Confluence
2 8 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.72%) Anypoint
4 3 (2.04%) Mule
4 3 (2.04%) Mule ESB
5 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.68%) Apache
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.68%) Appian
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (7.48%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.40%) EngageOne
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.68%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.68%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.68%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.40%) Infor LN
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.36%) SAP PS
3 2 (1.36%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.68%) Maximo
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.68%) Primavera
4 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.68%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.29%) AWS
1 21 (14.29%) Azure
2 20 (13.61%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.12%) Power Automate
4 6 (4.08%) PowerApps
5 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.40%) OCI
5 5 (3.40%) SaaS
6 4 (2.72%) GCP
6 4 (2.72%) iPaaS
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.36%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.36%) GitHub
8 2 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.68%) Apigee
9 1 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) LAN
1 5 (3.40%) WAN
2 4 (2.72%) Network Security
3 2 (1.36%) DHCP
3 2 (1.36%) DNS
3 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 2 (1.36%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.36%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.36%) VoIP
3 2 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.68%) 5G
4 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
1 18 (12.24%) Oracle Database
2 17 (11.56%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (8.16%) Power BI
4 5 (3.40%) Tableau
5 4 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.72%) MySQL
5 4 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (2.04%) Redis
7 2 (1.36%) Metadata
7 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.36%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.84%) JIRA
2 8 (5.44%) Git
3 3 (2.04%) Subversion
4 2 (1.36%) GCC
4 2 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.36%) Postman
5 1 (0.68%) Babel
5 1 (0.68%) ERwin
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 83 (56.46%) Social Skills
2 54 (36.73%) Finance
3 46 (31.29%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.80%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.44%) Banking
7 6 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Retail
9 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.36%) Law
10 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Local Government
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (22.45%) Analyst
2 29 (19.73%) Architect
3 24 (16.33%) Business Analyst
4 20 (13.61%) Developer
5 17 (11.56%) Consultant
6 16 (10.88%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.48%) Backup Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Commvault Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Senior
10 6 (4.08%) Network Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.40%) ERP Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) ERP Implementation Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Implementation Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Infor Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (3.40%) Lead
12 4 (2.72%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) Web Services
2 8 (5.44%) Middleware
2 8 (5.44%) RESTful
3 7 (4.76%) XML
4 6 (4.08%) SOAP
5 5 (3.40%) CSS
5 5 (3.40%) HTML
5 5 (3.40%) JSON
5 5 (3.40%) Node.js
5 5 (3.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (3.40%) React
5 5 (3.40%) REST
6 4 (2.72%) RAML
7 3 (2.04%) HTML5
7 3 (2.04%) Laravel
7 3 (2.04%) Phalcon
7 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
7 3 (2.04%) SAPUI5
7 3 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.44%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.36%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.68%) CMDB
7 1 (0.68%) Derivative
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.68%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) MVS
2 4 (2.72%) Linux
2 4 (2.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.50%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (25.17%) Migration
3 35 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (19.73%) Agile
5 27 (18.37%) Data Migration
6 19 (12.93%) Analytics
6 19 (12.93%) ETL
7 17 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (11.56%) Data Modelling
8 16 (10.88%) Change Management
8 16 (10.88%) Data Analysis
9 15 (10.20%) Business Analysis
10 14 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (9.52%) Problem Management
11 13 (8.84%) DevOps
11 13 (8.84%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (8.16%) Data Governance
12 12 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (8.16%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.01%) SQL
2 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
3 9 (6.12%) Java
3 9 (6.12%) Python
4 4 (2.72%) DataWeave
4 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.04%) PHP
6 2 (1.36%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.36%) COBOL
6 2 (1.36%) Perl
6 2 (1.36%) R
7 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.93%) Degree
2 16 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.40%) SAP Certification
6 3 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.36%) CISSP
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.36%) PMP
7 2 (1.36%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) CCNP
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) ISEB
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) MCSA
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.29%) QA
2 13 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.72%) GDPR
4 2 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.36%) Docker
1 2 (1.36%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (9.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (2.72%) CloudHub
2 4 (2.72%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.36%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.36%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (23.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (18.37%) Oracle
3 16 (10.88%) SAP
4 12 (8.16%) Commvault
5 5 (3.40%) Infor
5 5 (3.40%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.72%) Cisco
7 3 (2.04%) Databricks
7 3 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.04%) Zend
8 2 (1.36%) Aruba
8 2 (1.36%) Google
8 2 (1.36%) IBM
8 2 (1.36%) Juniper
8 2 (1.36%) Mitel
8 2 (1.36%) Okta
8 2 (1.36%) Perforce
8 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.36%) Siemens
8 2 (1.36%) Workday