User Stories Contracts in Central London

User Story
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 95 93
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing User Stories 66 84 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.70% 2.18% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.39% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 54 96
10th Percentile £444 £400 £406
25th Percentile £525 £440 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £628
90th Percentile £641 £746 £675
London median daily rate £550 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
London median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £78.25
% change year-on-year -49.23% -16.93% +17.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

User Stories 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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,211 3,521 4,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.58% 91.53% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,574 2,386 3,183
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 28 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Central London.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +32 63 £550 +4.76% 13
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
User Stories
London

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 17 (25.76%) SharePoint
2 9 (13.64%) Confluence
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (1.52%) Drupal
4 1 (1.52%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.52%) InVision
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.52%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.52%) dbt
4 1 (1.52%) Figma
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.52%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.06%) Power BI
1 4 (6.06%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.52%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) Appium
3 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.52%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) JUnit
3 1 (1.52%) Postman
3 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.52%) Selenium
3 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.52%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.52%) TestNG
3 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (56.06%) Finance
2 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Back Office
7 1 (1.52%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.52%) Local Government
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (53.03%) Analyst
2 32 (48.48%) Business Analyst
3 16 (24.24%) Data Business Analyst
4 13 (19.70%) Data Migration Analyst
4 13 (19.70%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 13 (19.70%) Migration Analyst
5 11 (16.67%) Product Owner
6 10 (15.15%) SharePoint Analyst
6 10 (15.15%) SharePoint Business Analyst
7 9 (13.64%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 8 (12.12%) Finance Business Analyst
8 8 (12.12%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (9.09%) Developer
10 5 (7.58%) Financial Business Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Financial Services Business Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Service Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (6.06%) Digital Product Owner
11 4 (6.06%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 4 (6.06%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) .NET Framework
2 4 (6.06%) Web Services
3 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (4.55%) React
4 1 (1.52%) ADO
4 1 (1.52%) CSS
4 1 (1.52%) CSS3
4 1 (1.52%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
1 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) Agile
2 30 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 23 (34.85%) Acceptance Criteria
3 23 (34.85%) Requirements Gathering
4 18 (27.27%) Data Management
5 17 (25.76%) Data Migration
5 17 (25.76%) GAP Analysis
5 17 (25.76%) Migration
5 17 (25.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 17 (25.76%) Validation
6 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (19.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 12 (18.18%) DevOps
9 11 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 11 (16.67%) Product Backlog
10 10 (15.15%) Workflow
11 9 (13.64%) Backlog Management
11 9 (13.64%) Business Case
11 9 (13.64%) Scrum
12 8 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (6.06%) C#
3 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.03%) PMP
2 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (34.85%) QA
2 18 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Oracle
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (6.06%) Siebel
4 3 (4.55%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.52%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) SAP