Story Mapping Contracts

Story Mapping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Story Mapping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Story Mapping over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 664 781
Rank change year-on-year +84 +117 -130
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 18 55 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.092% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.10% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 56
10th Percentile £375 £411 £413
25th Percentile £444 £463 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £575
90th Percentile £580 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Story Mapping 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Story Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Story Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Story Mapping in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Mapping.

Daily rate trend for Story Mapping in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Mapping over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Story Mapping in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Mapping within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +98 10 £500 -9.09% 7
London +92 9 £500 -11.50% 1
UK excluding London +48 9 £450 -5.26% 5
Scotland +29 8 £450 +5.88%
Work from Home +118 7 £450 -20.35% 3
South East +25 1 £525 +7.69% 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) Miro
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
3 5 (27.78%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Back Office
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Analyst
1 11 (61.11%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) User Stories
2 14 (77.78%) Agile
3 13 (72.22%) Scrum
4 10 (55.56%) Roadmaps
5 9 (50.00%) Business Analysis
5 9 (50.00%) Epics
6 7 (38.89%) Service Design
6 7 (38.89%) User Experience
7 6 (33.33%) Coaching
7 6 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
7 6 (33.33%) User Research
7 6 (33.33%) UX Research
7 6 (33.33%) Value Proposition
8 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Identification
9 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
10 3 (16.67%) Backlog Management
10 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
10 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Cadence