User Stories Contracts in the East of England

User Story
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 91 74
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 +7
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 32 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 1.55% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.78% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 27 49
10th Percentile £380 £342 £399
25th Percentile £388 £384 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £475 £536 £575
90th Percentile - £620 £688
England median daily rate £538 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +2.38% +2.37% +7.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
England median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year -33.72% +36.51% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,801 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.16% 87.13% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,065 1,275
10th Percentile £207 £201 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 601 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £395 -
Hertfordshire -1 2 £450 -10.00% 3
Cambridgeshire -4 1 £400 -2.74% 3
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomreach
2 1 (16.67%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 3GPP
1 1 (16.67%) 4G
1 1 (16.67%) 5G
1 1 (16.67%) Bluetooth
1 1 (16.67%) GSM
1 1 (16.67%) LTE
1 1 (16.67%) TETRA
1 1 (16.67%) UMTS
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Manager
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Angular 2
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) Java Concurrency
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Personalization
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
4 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Optimizely
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle