Story Mapping Contracts with Work from Home Options

Story Mapping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 450 598
Rank change year-on-year +107 +148 -133
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 7 18 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.072% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.080% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 18
10th Percentile £425 £404 £411
25th Percentile £441 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £511
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +4.16% +2.25%
75th Percentile £519 £565 £574
90th Percentile £553 £600 £623
UK median daily rate £478 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.05% -4.55% +8.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Story Mapping
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Story Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Story Mapping trend for jobs with a WFH option

Story Mapping
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Story Mapping.

Story Mapping daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Story Mapping
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Story Mapping over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Story Mapping daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Story Mapping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Back Office
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Finance Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Finance Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Financial Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Stories
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Business Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Epics
3 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
4 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 4 (57.14%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) Service Design
4 4 (57.14%) User Experience
4 4 (57.14%) User Research
4 4 (57.14%) UX Research
4 4 (57.14%) Value Proposition
5 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Identification
6 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
6 2 (28.57%) Use Case
6 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 20022
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cadence
2 1 (14.29%) CyberSource
2 1 (14.29%) SAP