User Stories Contracts in the West Midlands

User Story
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 77 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing User Stories 25 63 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.29% 2.64% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.98% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 47 95
10th Percentile £415 £383 £400
25th Percentile £441 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £622 £660
England median daily rate £538 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +2.38% +1.94% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,114 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.08% 88.67% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,452 2,354
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +16.42%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the West Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the West Midlands

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the West Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the West Midlands

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Birmingham -2 20 £475 -13.64% 6
Warwickshire -5 2 £638 +155.00% 10
Staffordshire +3 1 - -
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Analyst
2 10 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Digital Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Mobile Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) React Native
2 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) Scrum
3 8 (32.00%) Business Analysis
4 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (16.00%) Business Transformation
5 4 (16.00%) Change Control
5 4 (16.00%) Coaching
5 4 (16.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Product Backlog
5 4 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (16.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Technical Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Anaplan
2 1 (4.00%) Progress
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow