Translating Business Requirements Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Translate Business Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Translating Business Requirements skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 214 279
Rank change year-on-year +47 +65 +75
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 234 172 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.51% 0.96% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.16% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 117 100
10th Percentile £378 £363 £349
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £716 £688 £719
UK median daily rate £531 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -1.16% -10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £42.22 - £66.24
25th Percentile £60.18 - £71.10
Median hourly rate £70.16 - £79.19
75th Percentile - - £92.22
90th Percentile - - £100.04
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £27.00 £79.19
% change year-on-year +131.48% -65.90% +54.52%

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 13,808 14,890 18,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.26% 83.05% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,304 8,562 12,469
10th Percentile £235 £242 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,447 1,212 1,260
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.04 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +84.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Translating Business Requirements

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 19 September 2025.

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

Translating Business Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Translating Business Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Translating Business Requirements

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 77 £455 -10.26% 46
Yorkshire -6 42 £445 -15.64% 8
Midlands -2 40 £519 -13.54% 26
South East +24 39 £503 -6.51% 83
North West 0 33 £519 +15.28% 32
South West +27 30 £569 +5.81% 15
West Midlands -9 22 £500 -13.04% 11
Scotland -7 19 £468 +7.22% 18
East Midlands +8 17 £700 +16.67% 15
East of England +6 16 £570 +5.07% 7
Wales - 8 £413 - 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £485 - 4
North East 0 2 £463 -45.59% 6
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 25 (10.68%) Confluence
2 13 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.99%) SAS
4 6 (2.56%) CMS
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.85%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.43%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) Mule
7 1 (0.43%) Mule ESB
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.42%) Siemens NX
3 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.71%) Fusion 360
4 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.43%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (3.85%) Teamcenter
3 7 (2.99%) SAP WM
4 6 (2.56%) SAP EWM
5 5 (2.14%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (1.71%) SAP HR
6 4 (1.71%) SAP PM
6 4 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
8 2 (0.85%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.65%) Azure
2 32 (13.68%) AWS
2 32 (13.68%) Power Platform
3 16 (6.84%) GCP
3 16 (6.84%) Power Automate
4 15 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (6.41%) PowerApps
5 8 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.42%) SaaS
6 6 (2.56%) Figma
6 6 (2.56%) OCI
7 5 (2.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 5 (2.14%) Serverless
8 4 (1.71%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.71%) GitHub
8 4 (1.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 4 (1.71%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.13%) Firewall
2 9 (3.85%) Network Security
3 7 (2.99%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.71%) LAN
4 4 (1.71%) WAN
5 2 (0.85%) DHCP
5 2 (0.85%) DNS
6 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.43%) RTP
6 1 (0.43%) VPN
6 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (8.55%) Power BI
3 12 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.14%) Power Query
7 4 (1.71%) Metadata
7 4 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.28%) Cognos Framework Manager
8 3 (1.28%) Cognos Report Studio
8 3 (1.28%) Looker
8 3 (1.28%) Tableau
9 2 (0.85%) Big Data
9 2 (0.85%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (9.83%) JIRA
2 15 (6.41%) Postman
3 8 (3.42%) Git
3 8 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.71%) Storybook
5 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.85%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.43%) ERwin
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Hudson
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 96 (41.03%) Finance
3 69 (29.49%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.12%) Banking
6 14 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.70%) Retail
8 10 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.85%) Legal
13 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.85%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.85%) Swedish Language
14 1 (0.43%) Games
14 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 44 (18.80%) Architect
2 39 (16.67%) Analyst
3 38 (16.24%) Developer
4 27 (11.54%) Consultant
5 24 (10.26%) Senior
6 22 (9.40%) Business Analyst
7 17 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.56%) Lead
9 12 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
10 10 (4.27%) Product Owner
11 9 (3.85%) Commvault Engineer
11 9 (3.85%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.42%) Backup Engineer
12 8 (3.42%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.42%) Enterprise Architect
12 8 (3.42%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.99%) Automation Specialist
13 7 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.99%) Support Specialist
14 6 (2.56%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.56%) Middleware
2 12 (5.13%) REST
3 11 (4.70%) SOAP
4 9 (3.85%) RESTful
5 8 (3.42%) .NET
5 8 (3.42%) HTML
6 7 (2.99%) CSS
6 7 (2.99%) JSON
6 7 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (2.99%) React
6 7 (2.99%) Web Services
7 6 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (2.56%) Visualforce
7 6 (2.56%) XML
8 5 (2.14%) Redux
9 4 (1.71%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.71%) CSS3
9 4 (1.71%) Express.js
9 4 (1.71%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.71%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.41%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (4.27%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.99%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.14%) Credit Risk
6 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.71%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.71%) Smart Meter
7 4 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.70%) Linux
1 11 (4.70%) Windows
2 5 (2.14%) Unix
3 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Solaris
5 2 (0.85%) AIX
5 2 (0.85%) CentOS
5 2 (0.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.43%) SUSE
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.76%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (31.62%) Agile
3 44 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (13.25%) Migration
5 31 (13.25%) Roadmaps
6 30 (12.82%) Data Modelling
6 30 (12.82%) DevOps
6 30 (12.82%) User Stories
7 29 (12.39%) Analytics
8 28 (11.97%) Enterprise Architecture
8 28 (11.97%) Mentoring
8 28 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (10.26%) Risk Management
10 23 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (9.83%) Data Migration
11 21 (8.97%) Data Management
11 21 (8.97%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (8.55%) Business Analysis
12 20 (8.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.81%) SQL
2 35 (14.96%) Python
3 16 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.13%) Java
5 7 (2.99%) Apex Code
5 7 (2.99%) C#
5 7 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.56%) R
7 5 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.85%) Perl
8 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.43%) C++
9 1 (0.43%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.96%) Degree
3 28 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.27%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.42%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.99%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.14%) ISEB
9 5 (2.14%) ISTQB
9 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.71%) CISSP
11 3 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.28%) BC Cleared
11 3 (1.28%) CCSP
11 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.41%) QA
2 11 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.85%) GDPR
4 8 (3.42%) NIST
5 6 (2.56%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.14%) SEPA
7 4 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.28%) PSD2
9 2 (0.85%) GRC
9 2 (0.85%) SLA
10 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.70%) Docker
3 3 (1.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) KVM
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (7.26%) Ansible
2 10 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (2.99%) Puppet
5 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (1.71%) SCCM
5 4 (1.71%) Terraform
6 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 58 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.82%) Oracle
3 27 (11.54%) SAP
4 16 (6.84%) Salesforce
5 14 (5.98%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.56%) MuleSoft
6 13 (5.56%) VMware
7 9 (3.85%) Commvault
7 9 (3.85%) Siemens
8 6 (2.56%) Google
9 4 (1.71%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.71%) Databricks
10 3 (1.28%) Blue Prism
10 3 (1.28%) Cisco
10 3 (1.28%) Cognos
10 3 (1.28%) IBM
10 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.28%) Workday
11 2 (0.85%) Informatica
11 2 (0.85%) Juniper