User Stories Contracts in South Yorkshire

User Story
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 41 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing User Stories 12 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.69% 2.92% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 3.14% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 13
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 - £523
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 477 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 89.01% 92.80% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 313 352
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £411 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £655 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £636
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 40 23
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.76
25th Percentile £12.64 £9.80 £11.50
Median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +38.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £22.44
90th Percentile - £10.67 £23.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in South Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in South Yorkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Sheffield -4 12 £425 -22.73%
User Stories
Yorkshire

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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