Translating Business Requirements Contracts

Translate Business Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Translating Business Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 352 436
Rank change year-on-year +123 +84 -40
Contract jobs citing Translating Business Requirements 459 428 497
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 0.71% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.78% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 267 321
10th Percentile £412 £425 £400
25th Percentile £475 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +3.57% -1.18% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £17.85
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.00 £18.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £79.19 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.55% +286.29% -32.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £21.99
90th Percentile - - £22.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £79.19 £19.91
% change year-on-year -30.55% +297.79% -5.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Translating Business Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Translating Business Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Translating Business Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements.

Daily rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Translating Business Requirements over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Translating Business Requirements.

Hourly rate trend for Translating Business Requirements in the UK

Translating Business Requirements
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
England +100 372 £550 -6.38% 175
UK excluding London +147 193 £544 +3.57% 81
London +45 181 £600 - 92
Work from Home +126 178 £500 -11.50% 108
South East +56 66 £650 +4.00% 19
North of England +62 49 £508 +1.65% 19
North West +50 40 £500 +5.82% 12
Midlands +34 27 £550 +18.92% 18
South West +44 26 £538 -14.00% 5
West Midlands +29 19 £538 +19.44% 10
East of England +21 13 £600 +14.29% 13
Scotland +39 11 £538 -6.52% 9
Yorkshire +16 6 £575 +4.55% 5
North East +26 4 £500 - 2
East Midlands +7 4 £600 +29.73% 8
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland 0 1 £338 -38.64% 3

Translating Business Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 16 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.74%) MTS
4 4 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.44%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 18 (3.92%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) CATIA
4 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (5.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (4.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.74%) Aligne
3 8 (1.74%) Endur
3 8 (1.74%) EuroRunner
4 6 (1.31%) Distributed Ledger
4 6 (1.31%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.87%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 4 (0.87%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.87%) SAP EWM
5 4 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.65%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.65%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.65%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.44%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 137 (29.85%) Azure
2 73 (15.90%) Power Platform
3 67 (14.60%) AWS
4 39 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (8.06%) GCP
6 29 (6.32%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (3.27%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.05%) PowerApps
10 13 (2.83%) OpenShift
11 9 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (1.74%) SaaS
13 7 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.31%) WhatsApp
15 5 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (1.09%) GitHub
15 5 (1.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.83%) WAN
2 12 (2.61%) LAN
3 7 (1.53%) VSAN
4 4 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.65%) DNS
5 3 (0.65%) Firewall
5 3 (0.65%) HTTP
5 3 (0.65%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.65%) Intranet
5 3 (0.65%) IPsec
6 2 (0.44%) Internet
6 2 (0.44%) VPN
7 1 (0.22%) Broadband
7 1 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (11.98%) Power BI
2 30 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.66%) Tableau
4 19 (4.14%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (2.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (2.61%) QlikView
6 12 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.18%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.31%) Metadata
9 6 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.31%) Power Query
9 6 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (1.31%) SAP HANA
10 5 (1.09%) Big Data
11 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (6.75%) JIRA
2 16 (3.49%) Git
3 7 (1.53%) GitLab
4 6 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.65%) Gatling
6 3 (0.65%) Postman
6 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.44%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.44%) Selenium
7 2 (0.44%) webpack
8 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.22%) VersionOne
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 245 (53.38%) Social Skills
2 134 (29.19%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (23.75%) Finance
4 30 (6.54%) Banking
5 24 (5.23%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.79%) Marketing
6 22 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.58%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.61%) Retail
9 10 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.18%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.53%) Front Office
11 6 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.09%) Back Office
12 5 (1.09%) Legal
13 4 (0.87%) French Language
13 4 (0.87%) Law
13 4 (0.87%) Military
14 3 (0.65%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 128 (27.89%) Architect
2 89 (19.39%) Analyst
3 71 (15.47%) Solutions Architect
4 62 (13.51%) Consultant
5 52 (11.33%) Business Analyst
6 46 (10.02%) Developer
7 35 (7.63%) Senior
8 24 (5.23%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.01%) Java Architect
9 23 (5.01%) Java Solutions Architect
10 22 (4.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 22 (4.79%) Product Owner
11 18 (3.92%) Data Analyst
12 14 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.83%) SAP Analyst
13 13 (2.83%) SAP Consultant
13 13 (2.83%) Technical Analyst
14 12 (2.61%) Technical Architect
15 11 (2.40%) Lead
16 10 (2.18%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.70%) REST
2 16 (3.49%) JSON
3 14 (3.05%) RESTful
4 13 (2.83%) Middleware
5 11 (2.40%) XML
6 10 (2.18%) HTML
7 9 (1.96%) Web Services
8 8 (1.74%) OAuth
8 8 (1.74%) OpenAPI
8 8 (1.74%) React
8 8 (1.74%) SOAP
8 8 (1.74%) SPFx
8 8 (1.74%) Swagger
9 7 (1.53%) .NET
10 6 (1.31%) CSS
10 6 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.09%) Node.js
11 5 (1.09%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.09%) SAML
11 5 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (12.85%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.01%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.83%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.18%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.18%) Renewable Energy
8 9 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.96%) Solar Panel
9 8 (1.74%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.31%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.09%) CBDC
12 5 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.09%) Web3
13 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.87%) Freedom of Information Act
13 4 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.36%) Windows
2 16 (3.49%) Linux
3 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (30.94%) Problem-Solving
2 123 (26.80%) Agile
3 97 (21.13%) Data Modelling
4 79 (17.21%) Business Intelligence
5 77 (16.78%) DevOps
5 77 (16.78%) Migration
6 52 (11.33%) Computer Science
7 49 (10.68%) ETL
7 49 (10.68%) User Stories
8 46 (10.02%) Scrum
9 45 (9.80%) Data Analysis
9 45 (9.80%) Visualisation
10 42 (9.15%) Analytics
11 37 (8.06%) Project Management
12 36 (7.84%) Acceptance Criteria
13 35 (7.63%) Data Management
13 35 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (7.63%) Use Case
14 34 (7.41%) CI/CD
14 34 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 78 (16.99%) SQL
2 44 (9.59%) Java
3 31 (6.75%) Python
4 26 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.83%) T-SQL
6 10 (2.18%) C#
7 8 (1.74%) Go
8 6 (1.31%) Bash
8 6 (1.31%) Perl
9 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.87%) Swift
10 4 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.65%) Scala
11 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.44%) ProC
12 2 (0.44%) R
12 2 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (16.12%) Degree
1 74 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 38 (8.28%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.14%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.18%) SAP Certification
7 9 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.74%) PMP
9 5 (1.09%) PhD
10 4 (0.87%) CCIE
10 4 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.87%) HND
11 3 (0.65%) CCNP
11 3 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.44%) ACCA
12 2 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.76%) QA
2 20 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.05%) GDPR
4 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.44%) PMO
5 2 (0.44%) PSD2
6 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.22%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (1.74%) Docker
1 8 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.53%) vCloud
2 7 (1.53%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 22 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.05%) Terraform
3 7 (1.53%) Istio
3 7 (1.53%) Rancher
3 7 (1.53%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.65%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.65%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.65%) Kibana
4 3 (0.65%) logstash
5 2 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.22%) Nagios
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (13.29%) SAP
2 60 (13.07%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.63%) Oracle
4 30 (6.54%) Google
5 22 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.96%) Ariba
8 8 (1.74%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.74%) Databricks
8 8 (1.74%) VMware
9 7 (1.53%) Informatica
10 6 (1.31%) Adobe
11 4 (0.87%) Centrify
11 4 (0.87%) CyberArk
12 3 (0.65%) Cisco
12 3 (0.65%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.65%) New Relic
12 3 (0.65%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.65%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.65%) Workday