User Stories Jobs in the North West

User Story
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories 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 181 189 116
Rank change year-on-year +8 -73 +22
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 111 119 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.14% 1.49% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.56% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 88 77 144
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,050 £38,165
25th Percentile £45,711 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.26% +8.95%
75th Percentile £60,741 £61,250 £64,106
90th Percentile £81,975 £73,706 £76,064
England median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -3.39% +0.84% +8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,062 7,624 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 3,949 5,362
10th Percentile £27,775 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,050 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the North West

User Stories
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the North West.

Salary trend for User Stories in the North West

User Stories
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the North West

User Stories
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the North West region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +36 79 £51,250 -6.82% 15
Merseyside +6 15 £50,000 +12.99% 2
Cheshire -17 9 £43,000 -32.27% 5
Lancashire -25 8 £57,965 +0.81%
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (16.22%) Confluence
2 6 (5.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.90%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.90%) InVision
2 1 (0.90%) Sketch
2 1 (0.90%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.72%) Power Platform
2 16 (14.41%) Azure
3 14 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.21%) AWS
5 7 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.50%) BrowserStack
7 4 (3.60%) SaaS
8 2 (1.80%) dbt
9 1 (0.90%) Asana
9 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.90%) Figma
9 1 (0.90%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.90%) Heroku
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) Power BI
2 9 (8.11%) Tableau
3 5 (4.50%) Qlik Sense
4 4 (3.60%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.90%) LogicBlox
6 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (31.53%) JIRA
2 7 (6.31%) JMeter
3 6 (5.41%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (5.41%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.80%) Selenium
4 2 (1.80%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.80%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.90%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 32 (28.83%) Finance
3 14 (12.61%) Retail
4 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.50%) Retail Finance
9 4 (3.60%) Law
9 4 (3.60%) Legal
10 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 52 (46.85%) Analyst
2 39 (35.14%) Business Analyst
3 19 (17.12%) Senior
4 14 (12.61%) Designer
5 12 (10.81%) Content Designer
5 12 (10.81%) Product Manager
5 12 (10.81%) Senior Content Designer
5 12 (10.81%) Senior Designer
6 8 (7.21%) Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.50%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.50%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Scrum Master
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Architect
10 3 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) .NET
2 3 (2.70%) React
3 2 (1.80%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.80%) Django
3 2 (1.80%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.80%) HTML
3 2 (1.80%) Node.js
4 1 (0.90%) Ajax
4 1 (0.90%) CSS
4 1 (0.90%) HTML5
4 1 (0.90%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.90%) Loki
4 1 (0.90%) REST
4 1 (0.90%) SVG
4 1 (0.90%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.23%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.41%) FMCG
3 4 (3.60%) IoT
4 3 (2.70%) Blog
4 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.80%) iPad
5 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.90%) LIMS
6 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (78.38%) Agile
2 44 (39.64%) Roadmaps
3 32 (28.83%) Acceptance Criteria
3 32 (28.83%) Workshop Facilitation
4 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (18.92%) Scrum
6 20 (18.02%) Analytics
6 20 (18.02%) Business Analysis
6 20 (18.02%) DevOps
7 18 (16.22%) Coaching
7 18 (16.22%) Fintech
8 17 (15.32%) User Experience
9 16 (14.41%) Mentoring
9 16 (14.41%) Requirements Gathering
10 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.71%) CI/CD
11 13 (11.71%) Journey Map
12 12 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (10.81%) Epics
12 12 (10.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.81%) C#
2 5 (4.50%) SQL
3 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.60%) Python
4 1 (0.90%) Go
4 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.41%) Degree
1 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) QA
2 7 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.90%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Grafana
2 5 (4.50%) Kibana
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.90%) Packer
3 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.50%) Intel
3 2 (1.80%) Google
3 2 (1.80%) Intapp
3 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.90%) Adobe
4 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.90%) IFS