User Stories Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Story
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 198 123
Rank change year-on-year -81 -75 +58
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 668 1,065 1,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.77% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.85% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 472 566 1,072
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% +1.69% +7.27%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -29 185 £52,500 -4.55% 34
South East -54 144 £60,000 - 38
Midlands -71 117 £46,000 -8.00% 33
North West +5 114 £50,000 -13.04% 18
South West -34 96 £55,000 +10.00% 30
West Midlands -40 82 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Scotland -66 61 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire +2 56 £50,000 -5.66% 14
East of England -42 32 £55,000 -4.35% 7
East Midlands -45 32 £37,500 -31.82% 7
Wales -16 24 £50,000 +29.05% 7
North East -29 15 £57,965 +5.39% 2
Northern Ireland +28 13 £75,400 +43.62% 2
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 72 (10.78%) Confluence
2 28 (4.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.50%) CMS
4 9 (1.35%) WordPress
5 8 (1.20%) IIS
6 6 (0.90%) Kentico
6 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.90%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.75%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.30%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 27 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.29%) Sketch
3 17 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.80%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.50%) InVision
7 6 (0.90%) Trello
8 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.15%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 36 (5.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 129 (19.31%) Azure
2 83 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
3 73 (10.93%) Power Platform
4 50 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
5 44 (6.59%) AWS
6 35 (5.24%) SaaS
7 28 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (3.74%) Serverless
9 22 (3.29%) Power Automate
9 22 (3.29%) PowerApps
10 19 (2.84%) Figma
11 15 (2.25%) Azure Functions
12 14 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.65%) dbt
14 10 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.50%) GitHub
15 9 (1.35%) Google Drive
16 6 (0.90%) Miro
17 5 (0.75%) Azure Pipelines
17 5 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.80%) Broadband
2 11 (1.65%) Internet
3 10 (1.50%) WPA
4 6 (0.90%) Intranet
5 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.30%) DSL
6 2 (0.30%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.38%) Power BI
2 48 (7.19%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.99%) Tableau
4 12 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.35%) Big Data
7 7 (1.05%) Redis
8 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 6 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.90%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.60%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.45%) GIS
11 3 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 180 (26.95%) JIRA
2 42 (6.29%) Git
3 31 (4.64%) Visual Studio
4 24 (3.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 19 (2.84%) Selenium
6 10 (1.50%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.50%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.20%) MSBuild
7 8 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.20%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.05%) JMeter
9 5 (0.75%) MSTest
9 5 (0.75%) Postman
10 4 (0.60%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.60%) webpack
11 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.45%) GitLab
11 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.45%) xUnit.net
General
1 172 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 165 (24.70%) Finance
3 80 (11.98%) Marketing
4 72 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (8.98%) Law
6 48 (7.19%) Retail
7 39 (5.84%) Public Sector
8 38 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (4.04%) Legal
11 21 (3.14%) Banking
12 11 (1.65%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.05%) Publishing
16 5 (0.75%) Retail Finance
17 3 (0.45%) Automotive
17 3 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 251 (37.57%) Analyst
2 220 (32.93%) Business Analyst
3 145 (21.71%) Senior
4 91 (13.62%) Developer
5 64 (9.58%) Product Manager
6 52 (7.78%) Product Owner
7 48 (7.19%) Lead
8 41 (6.14%) Designer
9 40 (5.99%) Technical Business Analyst
10 39 (5.84%) Technical Analyst
11 37 (5.54%) Senior Designer
12 36 (5.39%) Content Designer
12 36 (5.39%) Senior Developer
13 34 (5.09%) .NET Developer
13 34 (5.09%) Senior Content Designer
14 33 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (4.04%) Architect
16 26 (3.89%) Software Developer
17 23 (3.44%) Senior Business Analyst
18 20 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.83%) .NET
2 48 (7.19%) ASP.NET
3 47 (7.04%) HTML
4 46 (6.89%) CSS
5 30 (4.49%) React
5 30 (4.49%) XML
6 29 (4.34%) AngularJS
6 29 (4.34%) REST
7 26 (3.89%) .NET Core
7 26 (3.89%) .NET Framework
8 22 (3.29%) JSON
9 20 (2.99%) ASP.NET MVC
10 18 (2.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 16 (2.40%) Node.js
12 14 (2.10%) Gherkin
12 14 (2.10%) HTML5 Canvas
13 13 (1.95%) Entity Framework
14 11 (1.65%) HTML5
14 11 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
14 11 (1.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 212 (31.74%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.79%) NHS
3 26 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.84%) Low-Code
7 17 (2.54%) Mobile App
8 14 (2.10%) FMCG
9 12 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 10 (1.50%) Derivative
12 8 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.05%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.05%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.05%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 7 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.69%) Linux
2 12 (1.80%) Windows
3 6 (0.90%) Android
3 6 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (68.71%) Agile
2 201 (30.09%) Roadmaps
3 157 (23.50%) Scrum
4 154 (23.05%) Acceptance Criteria
4 154 (23.05%) DevOps
5 150 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
6 118 (17.66%) Requirements Gathering
7 117 (17.51%) Mentoring
8 112 (16.77%) Business Analysis
9 109 (16.32%) Product Backlog
10 102 (15.27%) User Experience
11 96 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 88 (13.17%) Analytics
13 85 (12.72%) Workshop Facilitation
14 82 (12.28%) Project Management
15 72 (10.78%) Coaching
16 68 (10.18%) CRM
17 63 (9.43%) CI/CD
18 62 (9.28%) Migration
18 62 (9.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (14.22%) C#
2 78 (11.68%) JavaScript
3 74 (11.08%) SQL
4 41 (6.14%) Python
5 32 (4.79%) Java
6 29 (4.34%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.50%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.20%) R
8 8 (1.20%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.05%) C
9 7 (1.05%) C++
10 5 (0.75%) Bash
11 3 (0.45%) Perl
11 3 (0.45%) PHP
11 3 (0.45%) Rust
11 3 (0.45%) VB
12 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.30%) Tcl
13 1 (0.15%) Go
13 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 114 (17.07%) Degree
2 81 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.90%) IIBA
10 5 (0.75%) PhD
11 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.30%) CBAP
13 2 (0.30%) CSPO
13 2 (0.30%) HND
13 2 (0.30%) NVQ Level 3
14 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.15%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (14.37%) QA
2 26 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.75%) GDPR
5 4 (0.60%) WCAG
6 2 (0.30%) GRC
6 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.30%) PMO
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (2.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.90%) Grafana
3 5 (0.75%) Kibana
4 2 (0.30%) Terraform
5 1 (0.15%) Ansible
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.15%) Packer
5 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 125 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.04%) Salesforce
3 19 (2.84%) ServiceNow
4 13 (1.95%) Oracle
5 12 (1.80%) Google
6 9 (1.35%) Adobe
6 9 (1.35%) Xero
7 7 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.90%) Hotjar
8 6 (0.90%) SAP
9 5 (0.75%) Intel
10 4 (0.60%) Confluent
11 3 (0.45%) Cadence
11 3 (0.45%) Coverity
11 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.30%) BT
12 2 (0.30%) Intapp
12 2 (0.30%) Temenos
13 1 (0.15%) DocuSign
13 1 (0.15%) IFS