User Stories Contracts in the East Midlands

User Story
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -21
Contract jobs citing User Stories 10 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.29% 2.21% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 2.50% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 22
10th Percentile £325 £373 £314
25th Percentile £403 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £439
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £484 £650 £498
90th Percentile £565 £693 £525
England median daily rate £538 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +2.38% +1.94% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 919 1,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.14% 88.11% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 693 879
10th Percentile £194 £213 £210
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £558 £573 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £606
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 74 82
10th Percentile £11.41 £12.07 £9.50
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.28
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.56 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +3.10% +21.58%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £27.15
90th Percentile £45.79 £58.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the East Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the East Midlands

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the East Midlands

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Northamptonshire +10 3 £385 -44.00% 1
Derbyshire +5 2 £438 -
Nottinghamshire +1 2 £600 +37.14%
Lincolnshire +12 1 £550 +15.79% 1
Leicestershire +4 1 £450 -2.70% 1
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) OLAP
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CBAP
3 1 (10.00%) IIBA
3 1 (10.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft