User Stories Contracts in Scotland

User Story
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 68 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 -19 +21
Contract jobs citing User Stories 67 117 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.94% 4.04% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 4.36% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 87 129
10th Percentile £400 £400 £357
25th Percentile £413 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £488
90th Percentile £588 £538 £540
UK median daily rate £538 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £64.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -18.60% +53.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 2,681 3,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.48% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 1,931 2,373
10th Percentile £249 £269 £241
25th Percentile £400 £406 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -40.93% -28.57%
75th Percentile £46.24 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.28 £67.03 £55.46
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Scotland

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Scotland

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Scotland

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Scotland

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Glasgow +15 28 £500 +14.88% 3
Edinburgh 0 25 £450 +5.88% 5
South Lanarkshire -15 9 £575 +29.21% 1
Midlothian - 1 £425 - 2
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 20 (29.85%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Sketch
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.88%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) Figma
3 6 (8.96%) AWS
4 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.99%) OCI
5 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.99%) SaaS
6 1 (1.49%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.99%) Metadata
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.99%) Power BI
2 2 (2.99%) Tableau
3 1 (1.49%) GIS
3 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (34.33%) JIRA
General
1 34 (50.75%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Electronics
5 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.97%) Marketing
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.48%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Publishing
7 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Analyst
2 18 (26.87%) Business Analyst
2 18 (26.87%) Product Manager
3 15 (22.39%) Designer
4 9 (13.43%) UX Designer
5 8 (11.94%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) Content Designer
6 6 (8.96%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Content Designer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Designer
8 3 (4.48%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Agile Business Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Change Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Digital Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Digital Business Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Digital Product Manager
9 2 (2.99%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) React
2 2 (2.99%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.46%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Android
1 9 (13.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (77.61%) Agile
2 30 (44.78%) Epics
3 25 (37.31%) User Research
4 17 (25.37%) Project Management
4 17 (25.37%) User Experience
5 16 (23.88%) Roadmaps
6 15 (22.39%) Business Analysis
6 15 (22.39%) Service Design
7 14 (20.90%) DevOps
8 13 (19.40%) Scrum
9 12 (17.91%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (16.42%) Acceptance Criteria
10 11 (16.42%) Product Management
10 11 (16.42%) Visualisation
11 10 (14.93%) Backlog Management
11 10 (14.93%) Business Case
11 10 (14.93%) Product Backlog
11 10 (14.93%) Prototyping
12 9 (13.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 9 (13.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) SC Cleared
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) APMP
2 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Cadence
2 4 (5.97%) SAP
3 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.99%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle