User Stories Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Story
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 114 89
Rank change year-on-year -37 -25 +13
Contract jobs citing User Stories 275 539 898
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 2.29% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.56% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 393 654
10th Percentile £353 £388 £377
25th Percentile £413 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.83%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £545
90th Percentile £618 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £528 £515 £505
% change year-on-year +2.43% +1.98% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £25.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +164.15% -36.90% +9.80%
75th Percentile £72.50 £27.25 £43.13
90th Percentile - - £48.25
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.72% +51.76% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -16 74 £490 -6.67% 35
South East -39 70 £475 -1.81% 39
Scotland +9 63 £500 +15.21% 10
Yorkshire +24 44 £490 -9.89% 14
Midlands -10 36 £500 +2.56% 36
North West -18 28 £502 -3.92% 18
West Midlands -9 24 £500 +2.56% 30
South West -33 24 £595 +8.14% 31
East Midlands +8 9 £425 -12.82% 6
East of England -16 9 £425 -5.56% 8
North East +1 2 - - 3
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 34 (12.36%) Confluence
2 6 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (1.45%) CMS
4 3 (1.09%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.73%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 14 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.27%) Sketch
4 8 (2.91%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.55%) SAP PM
3 6 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.82%) Primavera
5 4 (1.45%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.73%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.36%) Magento
7 1 (0.36%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.55%) Azure
2 24 (8.73%) Power Platform
3 23 (8.36%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (4.36%) AWS
5 9 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.27%) Figma
6 6 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.18%) Power Automate
6 6 (2.18%) SaaS
7 5 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.45%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.45%) Serverless
9 2 (0.73%) OCI
9 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.73%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.73%) Veeva
10 1 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.18%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (1.82%) PPP
3 1 (0.36%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.36%) Broadband
3 1 (0.36%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) GSM
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) LAN
3 1 (0.36%) LTE
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) SMS
3 1 (0.36%) TETRA
3 1 (0.36%) UMTS
3 1 (0.36%) VSAN
3 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.73%) Power BI
2 10 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.45%) GIS
4 3 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.09%) Tableau
5 2 (0.73%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.73%) Metadata
5 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.36%) OLAP
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (17.82%) JIRA
2 10 (3.64%) JMeter
3 7 (2.55%) Selenium
4 4 (1.45%) Git
4 4 (1.45%) JUnit
5 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.36%) GoCD
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 96 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.73%) Finance
2 46 (16.73%) Public Sector
3 32 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 15 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (5.45%) Marketing
6 14 (5.09%) Banking
7 13 (4.73%) Retail
8 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.55%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.45%) Billing
10 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Electronics
10 4 (1.45%) Local Government
10 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 121 (44.00%) Analyst
2 103 (37.45%) Business Analyst
3 31 (11.27%) Senior
4 25 (9.09%) Product Manager
5 21 (7.64%) Developer
6 18 (6.55%) Consultant
6 18 (6.55%) Senior Analyst
7 17 (6.18%) Designer
8 16 (5.82%) Product Owner
9 14 (5.09%) Senior Business Analyst
10 13 (4.73%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
11 11 (4.00%) Digital Business Analyst
12 9 (3.27%) Architect
12 9 (3.27%) UX Designer
13 8 (2.91%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.91%) Test Engineer
14 7 (2.55%) Business Consultant
14 7 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.55%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.36%) React
2 11 (4.00%) HTML
3 10 (3.64%) CSS
4 8 (2.91%) XML
5 7 (2.55%) Gherkin
6 6 (2.18%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.82%) REST
8 4 (1.45%) Flask
8 4 (1.45%) Web Services
9 3 (1.09%) .NET
9 3 (1.09%) JSON
9 3 (1.09%) LDAP
9 3 (1.09%) Node.js
9 3 (1.09%) RESTful
10 2 (0.73%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.73%) React Native
10 2 (0.73%) Sass
10 2 (0.73%) Spring
10 2 (0.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.18%) Smart Meter
5 5 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.09%) CMDB
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.09%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.73%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.73%) IoT
8 2 (0.73%) Tandem
9 1 (0.36%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.36%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.36%) PKI
9 1 (0.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.27%) Android
1 9 (3.27%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.82%) Linux
2 5 (1.82%) Windows
3 4 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (64.73%) Agile
2 80 (29.09%) Scrum
3 68 (24.73%) Business Analysis
4 65 (23.64%) Acceptance Criteria
5 50 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
6 49 (17.82%) Epics
7 45 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 42 (15.27%) Project Management
10 37 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 35 (12.73%) User Experience
12 34 (12.36%) User Research
13 32 (11.64%) DevOps
13 32 (11.64%) Product Backlog
14 29 (10.55%) Backlog Management
15 27 (9.82%) Data Modelling
15 27 (9.82%) User Acceptance Testing
16 26 (9.45%) Analytics
16 26 (9.45%) Impact Assessments
17 25 (9.09%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.27%) Python
2 18 (6.55%) SQL
3 16 (5.82%) Java
4 14 (5.09%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.45%) C#
5 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) Bicep
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.91%) Degree
4 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.82%) CBAP
7 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.09%) CSPO
7 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.73%) APMP
8 2 (0.73%) IIBA
8 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.82%) QA
2 13 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.55%) WCAG
5 6 (2.18%) GDPR
6 5 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.45%) PMO
8 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.73%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.64%) SAP
3 6 (2.18%) Cadence
3 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.82%) Adobe
4 5 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.45%) Ab Initio
5 4 (1.45%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.45%) ESRI
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle
6 2 (0.73%) IBM
6 2 (0.73%) Optimizely
6 2 (0.73%) Pega
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.36%) Ariba
7 1 (0.36%) HP
7 1 (0.36%) Progress
7 1 (0.36%) Sage
7 1 (0.36%) Workday