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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 118 97
Rank change year-on-year -36 -21 +10
Contract jobs citing User Stories 575 1,087 1,927
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.56% 2.21% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.45% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 755 1,378
10th Percentile £352 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +0.19% +10.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £505
% change year-on-year +0.96% +2.97% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £31.71 £46.23 -
25th Percentile £32.03 £60.25 £42.00
Median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +22.86% -
75th Percentile £62.94 £67.00 £70.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £73.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +50.00% -14.00%

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 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
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% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £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% +4.82%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -2 353 £550 +4.76% 127
North of England -33 69 £490 -8.84% 35
South East -37 69 £475 -1.81% 36
Yorkshire +18 44 £490 -10.91% 14
Midlands -11 37 £505 +6.32% 35
West Midlands -17 25 £505 +6.32% 26
South West -40 24 £595 +8.14% 31
North West -27 23 £538 +2.38% 16
East Midlands +11 9 £425 -12.82% 9
East of England -13 9 £425 -5.56% 8
North East 0 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 42 (7.30%) Confluence
2 30 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.09%) CMS
4 7 (1.22%) Drupal
5 5 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.26%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.87%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.87%) Sketch
5 4 (0.70%) InVision
5 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.35%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.22%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.87%) Shopify
4 5 (0.87%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.52%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.35%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Primavera
7 1 (0.17%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.17%) Softmar
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 114 (19.83%) Azure
2 54 (9.39%) Power Platform
3 51 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (4.17%) AWS
6 18 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 14 (2.43%) SaaS
8 12 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (1.57%) Figma
10 9 (1.57%) Miro
11 7 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.22%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.22%) Serverless
12 6 (1.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.87%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.87%) Lucidchart
13 5 (0.87%) PaaS
14 4 (0.70%) IBM Blueworks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.22%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (1.04%) DNS
3 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.70%) DHCP
4 4 (0.70%) Firewall
5 3 (0.52%) Internet
5 3 (0.52%) SNA
6 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.17%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.17%) 4G
7 1 (0.17%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.17%) Broadband
7 1 (0.17%) GSM
7 1 (0.17%) HTTP
7 1 (0.17%) LAN
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) Network Security
7 1 (0.17%) PPP
7 1 (0.17%) SMS
7 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.96%) Power BI
2 15 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.26%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.74%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
6 6 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.87%) SAP HANA
7 5 (0.87%) Siebel EIM
8 4 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.70%) GIS
9 3 (0.52%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.52%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.52%) Tableau
10 2 (0.35%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 80 (13.91%) JIRA
2 18 (3.13%) Git
2 18 (3.13%) Selenium
2 18 (3.13%) SoapUI
3 17 (2.96%) Postman
4 15 (2.61%) Cucumber
5 13 (2.26%) JMeter
5 13 (2.26%) JUnit
6 11 (1.91%) REST Assured
7 9 (1.57%) Appium
7 9 (1.57%) eggPlant
7 9 (1.57%) SOAtest
7 9 (1.57%) TestNG
7 9 (1.57%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.87%) GitLab
9 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.35%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.35%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 184 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 144 (25.04%) Finance
3 78 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.04%) Banking
5 29 (5.04%) Telecoms
6 26 (4.52%) Marketing
7 24 (4.17%) Back Office
8 22 (3.83%) Retail
9 20 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.04%) Games
14 6 (1.04%) Local Government
15 5 (0.87%) Billing
15 5 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.87%) Publishing
16 4 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 272 (47.30%) Analyst
2 235 (40.87%) Business Analyst
3 76 (13.22%) Senior
4 59 (10.26%) Product Owner
5 44 (7.65%) Developer
6 40 (6.96%) Consultant
7 39 (6.78%) Technical Analyst
8 38 (6.61%) Senior Analyst
9 33 (5.74%) Senior Business Analyst
10 29 (5.04%) Technical Business Analyst
11 21 (3.65%) Data Analyst
11 21 (3.65%) Financial Analyst
12 20 (3.48%) Data Business Analyst
13 19 (3.30%) Project Manager
14 18 (3.13%) Architect
14 18 (3.13%) Finance Business Analyst
14 18 (3.13%) Lead
15 16 (2.78%) Functional Consultant
15 16 (2.78%) Insurance Business Analyst
15 16 (2.78%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.17%) .NET
2 20 (3.48%) HTML
3 17 (2.96%) .NET Framework
3 17 (2.96%) CSS
4 13 (2.26%) React
4 13 (2.26%) REST
5 12 (2.09%) SOAP
5 12 (2.09%) XML
6 10 (1.74%) Web Services
7 9 (1.57%) ASP.NET
7 9 (1.57%) Gherkin
8 7 (1.22%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (1.22%) Flask
8 7 (1.22%) JSON
8 7 (1.22%) LDAP
8 7 (1.22%) Node.js
9 5 (0.87%) ADO
9 5 (0.87%) RESTful
9 5 (0.87%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 161 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.48%) Mobile App
3 11 (1.91%) Management Information System
4 7 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.04%) Reinsurance
5 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.04%) Smart Meter
6 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 5 (0.87%) CMDB
6 5 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (0.70%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (0.70%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.74%) Linux
2 9 (1.57%) Windows
3 4 (0.70%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (60.17%) Agile
2 193 (33.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 151 (26.26%) Scrum
4 119 (20.70%) Requirements Gathering
5 111 (19.30%) Business Analysis
6 106 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (16.35%) DevOps
8 85 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
9 76 (13.22%) Epics
10 71 (12.35%) Roadmaps
11 68 (11.83%) Product Backlog
12 66 (11.48%) Test Automation
13 64 (11.13%) Workshop Facilitation
14 61 (10.61%) Migration
14 61 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (9.39%) Project Management
16 50 (8.70%) Backlog Management
17 48 (8.35%) Data Modelling
18 46 (8.00%) GAP Analysis
18 46 (8.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.26%) SQL
2 30 (5.22%) Java
3 27 (4.70%) Python
4 23 (4.00%) C#
5 22 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.70%) C
8 4 (0.70%) Go
9 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.52%) VBA
10 2 (0.35%) Bicep
10 2 (0.35%) 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 60 (10.43%) Degree
2 58 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.39%) CBAP
6 8 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.04%) PMP
8 5 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.70%) CSPO
9 4 (0.70%) MBA
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CITP
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (12.70%) QA
2 32 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.43%) WCAG
6 7 (1.22%) GDPR
6 7 (1.22%) PMO
7 5 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.70%) 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 (0.35%) GxP
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) Basel II
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (0.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.35%) Terraform
4 1 (0.17%) Matomo
Vendors
1 66 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.43%) SAP
3 19 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.96%) Oracle
5 14 (2.43%) Adobe
5 14 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.39%) Guidewire
7 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
7 6 (1.04%) Sitecore
8 5 (0.87%) CyberSource
8 5 (0.87%) Databricks
8 5 (0.87%) Siebel
8 5 (0.87%) SimCorp
9 4 (0.70%) Dell
9 4 (0.70%) ESRI
9 4 (0.70%) Hotjar
9 4 (0.70%) Intel
9 4 (0.70%) Optimizely
9 4 (0.70%) Screaming Frog