Story Points
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Story Points skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Story Points over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 897 979 951
Rank change year-on-year +82 -28 -53
Permanent jobs citing Story Points 10 16 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.016% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.016% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 33
10th Percentile £49,125 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £56,875 £77,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +39.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £82,188 - £71,250
90th Percentile £82,750 - £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £65,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +13.46% +20.93% +13.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Story Points 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Story Points.

Salary trend for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Story Points over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Story Points within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +82 7 £73,750 -7.81% 2
UK excluding London -7 4 £73,750 +13.46% 1
London +110 3 £64,250 -19.69% 1
South West - 3 £77,500 -
Work from Home +78 2 £76,000 +8.57% 2
North West - 1 £55,000 -
North of England - 1 £55,000 -

Story Points
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 2 (20.00%) CMS
1 2 (20.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (70.00%) PowerApps
2 7 (70.00%) Serverless
3 6 (60.00%) Azure Functions
3 6 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (60.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 6 (60.00%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (60.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) LogicBlox
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
1 5 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) Vue
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) User Stories
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Disruptive Innovation
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Email Marketing
5 3 (30.00%) Fintech
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Design Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Presales
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft