Story Points Contracts in England

Story Points
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Story Points skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Story Points over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 628 734
Rank change year-on-year +102 +106 -129
Contract jobs citing Story Points 5 18 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.037% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.041% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 27
10th Percentile £473 £453 £418
25th Percentile £506 £475 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £613 £680 £669
90th Percentile £628 £681 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Story Points 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Story Points as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Points in England.

Daily rate trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Story Points in England.

Hourly rate trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Points within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +97 3 £600 +9.09% 2
East of England +12 2 £500 - 2
Story Points
UK

Story Points
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (40.00%) Appian
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Unqork
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) GIS
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Back Office
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Product Owner
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Product Owner
2 2 (40.00%) Appian Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (40.00%) Freedom of Information Act
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (60.00%) CRM
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Document Management
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
1 2 (40.00%) OpenText
1 2 (40.00%) Pega