User Stories Contracts in England

User Story
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 120 94
Rank change year-on-year -29 -26 +6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 580 1,048 1,925
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.59% 2.19% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.43% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 732 1,373
10th Percentile £353 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £31.71 £43.88 £38.70
25th Percentile £32.03 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +53.57% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.94 £69.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £75.00 £67.30
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +53.57% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
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 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
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 User Stories within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 -5 353 £550 +4.76% 117
North of England -20 70 £500 -6.98% 36
South East -32 70 £475 - 24
Yorkshire +20 46 £490 -10.91% 13
Midlands +1 35 £475 - 29
South West -42 26 £595 +8.14% 25
West Midlands -13 25 £488 -2.50% 26
North West -28 22 £525 -1.18% 18
East of England -10 10 £400 -11.11% 6
East Midlands +5 7 £425 -12.82% 3
North East -3 2 - - 5
User Stories
UK

User Stories
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 43 (7.41%) Confluence
2 28 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.07%) CMS
4 7 (1.21%) Drupal
5 5 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.34%) Camunda
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.07%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.86%) Sketch
5 4 (0.69%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.69%) InVision
6 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.34%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.17%) UXPin
8 1 (0.17%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.21%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.86%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.86%) Shopify
4 5 (0.86%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.52%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.17%) Softmar
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 119 (20.52%) Azure
2 55 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
2 55 (9.48%) Power Platform
3 41 (7.07%) Dynamics 365
4 26 (4.48%) AWS
5 18 (3.10%) Power Automate
6 16 (2.76%) SaaS
7 12 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (1.55%) Miro
9 9 (1.55%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.38%) Figma
11 7 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.21%) Serverless
12 6 (1.03%) GCP
12 6 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 6 (1.03%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.86%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.86%) Lucidchart
13 5 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.21%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (1.03%) DNS
3 5 (0.86%) Firewall
4 4 (0.69%) DHCP
4 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.52%) Internet
6 2 (0.34%) Network Security
6 2 (0.34%) SNA
6 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.34%) VPN
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.17%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.17%) IPsec
7 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.17%) Sourcefire
7 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.90%) Power BI
2 14 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.55%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (1.03%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.86%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.86%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.86%) Siebel EIM
9 4 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.69%) GIS
9 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.69%) Tableau
10 3 (0.52%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 83 (14.31%) JIRA
2 19 (3.28%) Git
3 18 (3.10%) SoapUI
4 17 (2.93%) Postman
4 17 (2.93%) Selenium
5 15 (2.59%) Cucumber
5 15 (2.59%) JUnit
6 12 (2.07%) JMeter
7 11 (1.90%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.55%) Appium
8 9 (1.55%) eggPlant
8 9 (1.55%) SOAtest
8 9 (1.55%) TestNG
8 9 (1.55%) WebDriver
9 5 (0.86%) GitLab
10 4 (0.69%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.34%) FitNesse
11 2 (0.34%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.34%) TestRail
11 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 186 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 147 (25.34%) Finance
3 75 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.34%) Banking
6 29 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 28 (4.83%) Marketing
8 23 (3.97%) Back Office
9 22 (3.79%) Retail
10 21 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.38%) Local Government
14 8 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.03%) Games
16 5 (0.86%) Billing
16 5 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.86%) Law
16 5 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 273 (47.07%) Analyst
2 235 (40.52%) Business Analyst
3 76 (13.10%) Senior
4 57 (9.83%) Product Owner
5 43 (7.41%) Developer
6 41 (7.07%) Consultant
7 40 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
8 38 (6.55%) Technical Analyst
9 32 (5.52%) Senior Business Analyst
10 28 (4.83%) Technical Business Analyst
11 22 (3.79%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (3.45%) Architect
13 19 (3.28%) Data Analyst
13 19 (3.28%) Finance Business Analyst
13 19 (3.28%) Lead
13 19 (3.28%) Project Manager
14 18 (3.10%) Data Business Analyst
15 16 (2.76%) Insurance Business Analyst
15 16 (2.76%) Product Manager
16 15 (2.59%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.31%) .NET
2 21 (3.62%) HTML
3 18 (3.10%) CSS
4 17 (2.93%) .NET Framework
5 14 (2.41%) XML
6 13 (2.24%) React
6 13 (2.24%) REST
7 12 (2.07%) SOAP
8 11 (1.90%) Gherkin
9 10 (1.72%) Web Services
10 9 (1.55%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.21%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.21%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (1.21%) Flask
11 7 (1.21%) JSON
11 7 (1.21%) LDAP
11 7 (1.21%) Node.js
12 5 (0.86%) ADO
12 5 (0.86%) SAP PI
12 5 (0.86%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (27.07%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.28%) Mobile App
3 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 7 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.03%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.03%) Reinsurance
5 6 (1.03%) Smart Meter
6 5 (0.86%) CMDB
6 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.69%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.52%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.72%) Linux
1 10 (1.72%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Unix
3 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (60.34%) Agile
2 195 (33.62%) Acceptance Criteria
3 155 (26.72%) Scrum
4 120 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 116 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 101 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (17.24%) DevOps
8 89 (15.34%) User Acceptance Testing
9 77 (13.28%) Epics
10 73 (12.59%) Roadmaps
11 69 (11.90%) Product Backlog
12 67 (11.55%) Test Automation
13 65 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 65 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
14 61 (10.52%) Migration
15 52 (8.97%) Project Management
16 51 (8.79%) Data Modelling
17 50 (8.62%) Use Case
18 48 (8.28%) Analytics
19 47 (8.10%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (10.86%) SQL
2 31 (5.34%) Java
3 27 (4.66%) Python
4 24 (4.14%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.97%) C#
6 10 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.69%) C
8 4 (0.69%) Go
8 4 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.52%) VBA
10 2 (0.34%) Bicep
10 2 (0.34%) Ruby
11 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) R
11 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (9.83%) Degree
2 51 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 43 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.38%) CBAP
6 8 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.86%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.86%) PMP
8 4 (0.69%) CSPO
8 4 (0.69%) MBA
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.34%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CISM
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.41%) QA
2 30 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.76%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.07%) WCAG
6 7 (1.21%) GDPR
6 7 (1.21%) PMO
7 5 (0.86%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.69%) SLA
9 3 (0.52%) IFRS
9 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.34%) GxP
10 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) Basel II
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.34%) Terraform
4 1 (0.17%) Matomo
Vendors
1 66 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.38%) SAP
3 21 (3.62%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.93%) Oracle
5 14 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.24%) Adobe
7 9 (1.55%) Guidewire
8 6 (1.03%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.03%) Sitecore
9 5 (0.86%) CyberSource
9 5 (0.86%) Databricks
9 5 (0.86%) Siebel
9 5 (0.86%) SimCorp
10 4 (0.69%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.69%) Dell
10 4 (0.69%) ESRI
10 4 (0.69%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.69%) Intel
10 4 (0.69%) Optimizely