User Stories Contracts in London

User Story
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 117 109
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 350 568 1,024
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.01% 2.20% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.43% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 381 742
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £62.00 £54.00
25th Percentile £31.71 £62.75 £58.13
Median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% - -2.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £69.00 £70.75
90th Percentile £61.10 £75.00 £74.20
England median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.23% +54.76% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,444 23,412 35,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.57% 90.89% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,074 16,912 26,245
10th Percentile £345 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 265 419
10th Percentile £15.68 £18.20 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.41 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.52% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £82.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Central London +27 66 £550 +4.76% 20
East London -1 5 £540 +20.00% 2
West London +2 4 £400 -33.33% 1
South London +3 3 £425 -31.03% 1
North London - 1 - - 1
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 25 (7.14%) Confluence
2 21 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.14%) CMS
4 7 (2.00%) Drupal
5 5 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.14%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.29%) Camunda
8 1 (0.29%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.29%) Moodle
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.14%) Adobe XD
2 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.14%) Sketch
3 3 (0.86%) InVision
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.86%) Trello
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.29%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.43%) Shopify
2 5 (1.43%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.86%) SAP QM
4 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) Endur
5 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.29%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 86 (24.57%) Azure
2 45 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (8.57%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (3.71%) AWS
5 13 (3.71%) SaaS
6 11 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (3.14%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.57%) Miro
8 8 (2.29%) Figma
9 7 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.43%) BigCommerce
10 5 (1.43%) PaaS
11 4 (1.14%) GCP
11 4 (1.14%) Lucidchart
11 4 (1.14%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.86%) GitHub
12 3 (0.86%) IBM Blueworks
12 3 (0.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.43%) DNS
2 4 (1.14%) DHCP
2 4 (1.14%) Firewall
2 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.57%) Internet
3 2 (0.57%) SNA
3 2 (0.57%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.29%) FTP
4 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.00%) Power BI
2 13 (3.71%) Data Lake
3 11 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.57%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.43%) SAP HANA
5 5 (1.43%) Siebel EIM
5 5 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.86%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.86%) Tableau
8 2 (0.57%) Looker
8 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.57%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.29%) Big Data
9 1 (0.29%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (13.14%) JIRA
2 18 (5.14%) SoapUI
3 17 (4.86%) Postman
4 15 (4.29%) Git
5 11 (3.14%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.86%) Selenium
7 9 (2.57%) Appium
7 9 (2.57%) eggPlant
7 9 (2.57%) JUnit
7 9 (2.57%) REST Assured
7 9 (2.57%) SOAtest
7 9 (2.57%) TestNG
7 9 (2.57%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.43%) GitLab
9 4 (1.14%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.57%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.57%) JMeter
10 2 (0.57%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.57%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 101 (28.86%) Finance
3 48 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.57%) Back Office
6 20 (5.71%) Banking
7 16 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.29%) Marketing
9 13 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.14%) Retail
11 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Publishing
14 4 (1.14%) Front Office
14 4 (1.14%) Games
14 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.86%) Aviation
15 3 (0.86%) Law
15 3 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (47.14%) Analyst
2 142 (40.57%) Business Analyst
3 48 (13.71%) Senior
4 43 (12.29%) Product Owner
5 28 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
6 22 (6.29%) Consultant
6 22 (6.29%) Developer
6 22 (6.29%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (6.29%) Technical Business Analyst
7 21 (6.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 18 (5.14%) Financial Analyst
9 16 (4.57%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 16 (4.57%) Project Manager
10 15 (4.29%) Data Business Analyst
10 15 (4.29%) Finance Business Analyst
11 13 (3.71%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.14%) Functional Consultant
12 11 (3.14%) Senior Product Owner
13 10 (2.86%) Data Migration Business Analyst
13 10 (2.86%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.00%) .NET
2 15 (4.29%) .NET Framework
3 11 (3.14%) SOAP
4 8 (2.29%) ASP.NET
4 8 (2.29%) HTML
4 8 (2.29%) React
5 7 (2.00%) CSS
5 7 (2.00%) Web Services
6 6 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (1.71%) REST
7 5 (1.43%) ADO
7 5 (1.43%) SAP PI
7 5 (1.43%) VML
8 4 (1.14%) Flask
8 4 (1.14%) LDAP
8 4 (1.14%) Node.js
8 4 (1.14%) XML
9 3 (0.86%) CSS3
9 3 (0.86%) JSON
9 3 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 104 (29.71%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.71%) Mobile App
3 6 (1.71%) Reinsurance
4 5 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.14%) Client/Server
5 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.86%) Clustering
6 3 (0.86%) LIMS
6 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
6 3 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (0.57%) CMDB
7 2 (0.57%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.43%) Linux
1 5 (1.43%) Windows
2 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (60.86%) Agile
2 127 (36.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 85 (24.29%) Scrum
4 75 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 71 (20.29%) DevOps
6 64 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (16.86%) Business Analysis
8 57 (16.29%) User Acceptance Testing
9 53 (15.14%) Epics
10 46 (13.14%) Product Backlog
10 46 (13.14%) Workshop Facilitation
11 42 (12.00%) Migration
11 42 (12.00%) Roadmaps
12 41 (11.71%) Test Automation
13 34 (9.71%) GAP Analysis
13 34 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (9.43%) Backlog Management
15 31 (8.86%) Use Case
16 30 (8.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 30 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.14%) SQL
2 19 (5.43%) C#
3 16 (4.57%) Python
4 14 (4.00%) Java
5 7 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.14%) C
7 4 (1.14%) Go
8 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.86%) VBA
9 2 (0.57%) Ruby
10 1 (0.29%) Bicep
10 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.29%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.29%) R
10 1 (0.29%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (9.43%) Degree
2 32 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.43%) PMP
6 4 (1.14%) MBA
7 3 (0.86%) CBAP
7 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.29%) CEH
9 1 (0.29%) CISM
9 1 (0.29%) CISSP
9 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.29%) QA
2 21 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.57%) PCI DSS
4 13 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.71%) WCAG
6 5 (1.43%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.86%) IFRS
7 3 (0.86%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.86%) SLA
7 3 (0.86%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.57%) PMO
8 2 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.29%) Basel II
9 1 (0.29%) Basel III
9 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) Matomo
Vendors
1 36 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.86%) SAP
3 15 (4.29%) Oracle
4 13 (3.71%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.29%) Adobe
5 8 (2.29%) Guidewire
6 7 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.71%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.43%) CyberSource
8 5 (1.43%) Siebel
8 5 (1.43%) SimCorp
8 5 (1.43%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.14%) Databricks
9 4 (1.14%) Dell
9 4 (1.14%) Hotjar
9 4 (1.14%) Intel
9 4 (1.14%) Screaming Frog
10 3 (0.86%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.86%) Informatica
10 3 (0.86%) MicroStrategy