User Stories Contracts in Sheffield

User Story
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 35 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing User Stories 12 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.21% 3.41% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 3.58% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 10
10th Percentile - £450 -
25th Percentile £413 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +37.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £438 £650 £450
90th Percentile £450 - £515
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -22.73% +37.50% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 345 419 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.25% 95.23% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 292 280
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -14.36% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £17.06
% change year-on-year +65.71% -37.67% +41.36%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Sheffield

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Sheffield

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (16.67%) InVision
1 2 (16.67%) Sketch
1 2 (16.67%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JMeter
1 7 (58.33%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
1 4 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Designer
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) CMDB
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) ITSM
5 3 (25.00%) Kanban
5 3 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) SDET
5 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 9 (75.00%) WCAG
2 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe