User Stories Contracts in the North West

User Story
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 88 106
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing User Stories 34 71 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.26% 2.25% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 2.48% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 52 56
10th Percentile - £389 £387
25th Percentile £65 £430 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £523 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +10.00% -2.26%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £538
90th Percentile £614 £650 £607
England median daily rate £538 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +2.38% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year -33.72% +36.51% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,327 2,859 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.59% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,033 2,605
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 143 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.95 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the North West.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester -10 22 £504 -6.23% 14
Cheshire +7 11 £65 -86.84% 3
Lancashire +1 1 £575 +27.78%
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (17.65%) MS Visio
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Primavera
2 1 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.94%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.94%) GoCD
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Analyst
1 14 (41.18%) Business Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Pega Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 3 (8.82%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Billing Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Compliance Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) CRM Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Designer
6 1 (2.94%) Interaction Designer
6 1 (2.94%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Scrum Master
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
1 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
1 1 (2.94%) Jest
1 1 (2.94%) Node.js
1 1 (2.94%) React
1 1 (2.94%) Sass
1 1 (2.94%) Spring
1 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
1 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.88%) Tandem
2 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Backlog Management
2 12 (35.29%) Scrum
3 11 (32.35%) Asset Management
4 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (26.47%) Sprint Planning
5 9 (26.47%) Sprint Retrospective
5 9 (26.47%) Sprint Review
6 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 7 (20.59%) Kanban
7 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
7 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) Business Process Modelling
9 5 (14.71%) Data Migration
9 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
9 5 (14.71%) GAP Analysis
9 5 (14.71%) Migration
9 5 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (14.71%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.94%) Bicep
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) GxP
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Pega
3 2 (5.88%) Cognizant
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) Workday