User Stories Contracts in Hertfordshire

User Story
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 70 69 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 0
Contract jobs citing User Stories 2 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.24% 0.62% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.71% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile - £400 £500
25th Percentile £425 £475 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £475 £569 £678
90th Percentile - £588 £733
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +19.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 755 703 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.31% 86.68% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 374 407
10th Percentile £225 £240 £190
25th Percentile £315 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £701 £768 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 156 81
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.69 £39.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Hertfordshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Hertfordshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Hemel Hempstead +11 2 £450 -10.00%
User Stories
East of England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomreach
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) CRM Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) CRM Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Personalization
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Email Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Optimizely