User Story
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 188 121
Rank change year-on-year -82 -67 +69
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1,079 2,041 4,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.97% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.06% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,206 2,329
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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 -80 911 £57,965 -3.39% 303
UK excluding London -86 667 £55,000 - 182
Work from Home -62 475 £57,965 -0.92% 146
London -57 329 £72,000 +6.67% 137
North of England -39 182 £51,250 -6.82% 34
South East -45 143 £60,000 - 49
Midlands -54 114 £44,500 -11.00% 37
North West +7 111 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South West -45 96 £55,000 +10.00% 35
West Midlands -40 78 £53,000 +6.00% 28
Scotland -67 62 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire -2 56 £50,000 -7.41% 13
East Midlands -40 33 £37,500 -31.82% 9
East of England -47 33 £55,000 -6.38% 11
Wales -6 23 £50,000 +29.05% 9
North East -32 15 £57,965 +5.39% 4
Northern Ireland +27 14 £75,400 +43.62% 2

User Stories
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
1 104 (9.64%) Confluence
2 40 (3.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.11%) CMS
4 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.83%) WordPress
6 8 (0.74%) IIS
7 7 (0.65%) Kentico
8 6 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.46%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 1 (0.093%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.093%) nginx
Applications
1 39 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.13%) Sketch
3 22 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.02%) InVision
6 6 (0.56%) Trello
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.093%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 44 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 223 (20.67%) Azure
2 124 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
3 118 (10.94%) Power Platform
4 98 (9.08%) AWS
5 81 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
6 63 (5.84%) SaaS
7 48 (4.45%) Serverless
8 43 (3.99%) PowerApps
9 41 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (2.97%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.22%) GitHub
12 22 (2.04%) Azure Functions
13 21 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (1.85%) Figma
15 19 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (1.11%) dbt
18 11 (1.02%) Miro
19 10 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.48%) Broadband
2 13 (1.20%) Internet
3 10 (0.93%) WPA
4 6 (0.56%) Intranet
4 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.46%) WebEx
6 4 (0.37%) SSL
6 4 (0.37%) VPN
7 3 (0.28%) NaaS
7 3 (0.28%) Wireless
8 1 (0.093%) 3G
8 1 (0.093%) AMQP
8 1 (0.093%) Firewall
8 1 (0.093%) HTTP
8 1 (0.093%) LAN
8 1 (0.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.97%) Power BI
2 58 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.50%) Tableau
4 25 (2.32%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 15 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.93%) Big Data
9 8 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.65%) Redis
11 6 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.56%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.46%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.46%) Metadata
13 4 (0.37%) GIS
13 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 234 (21.69%) JIRA
2 59 (5.47%) Git
3 36 (3.34%) Visual Studio
4 34 (3.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 23 (2.13%) Selenium
6 18 (1.67%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.39%) GitLab
8 12 (1.11%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.93%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.83%) JMeter
11 9 (0.83%) Postman
12 8 (0.74%) MSBuild
12 8 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.74%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.65%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.65%) git-flow
14 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
15 5 (0.46%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.46%) MSTest
General
1 312 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 267 (24.75%) Finance
3 185 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (10.38%) Marketing
5 92 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 66 (6.12%) Law
8 55 (5.10%) Retail
9 53 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (3.80%) Legal
12 39 (3.61%) Banking
13 15 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.83%) Advertising
17 7 (0.65%) Billing
17 7 (0.65%) Publishing
18 5 (0.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 383 (35.50%) Analyst
2 327 (30.31%) Business Analyst
3 221 (20.48%) Senior
4 144 (13.35%) Developer
5 123 (11.40%) Product Owner
6 92 (8.53%) Product Manager
7 86 (7.97%) Lead
8 59 (5.47%) Senior Analyst
8 59 (5.47%) Technical Analyst
9 54 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
10 49 (4.54%) Senior Developer
11 47 (4.36%) Architect
11 47 (4.36%) Designer
12 43 (3.99%) Consultant
13 40 (3.71%) Senior Business Analyst
14 38 (3.52%) .NET Developer
15 37 (3.43%) Content Designer
15 37 (3.43%) Senior Designer
16 34 (3.15%) Senior Content Designer
17 27 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.55%) .NET
2 61 (5.65%) HTML
3 59 (5.47%) CSS
4 52 (4.82%) ASP.NET
5 51 (4.73%) React
6 44 (4.08%) REST
7 37 (3.43%) AngularJS
8 35 (3.24%) XML
9 33 (3.06%) .NET Core
10 30 (2.78%) .NET Framework
11 25 (2.32%) JSON
12 24 (2.22%) Node.js
13 22 (2.04%) ASP.NET MVC
14 18 (1.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 17 (1.58%) Web Services
16 16 (1.48%) Kafka
16 16 (1.48%) Vue
17 15 (1.39%) HTML5
17 15 (1.39%) HTML5 Canvas
17 15 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 334 (30.95%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.45%) Management Information System
3 42 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.97%) NHS
5 28 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.32%) Low-Code
7 24 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.67%) FMCG
9 17 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
13 10 (0.93%) Derivative
13 10 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.83%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.74%) Cloud Native
16 7 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 51 (4.73%) Linux
2 18 (1.67%) Windows
3 10 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.56%) Android
5 5 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.28%) Unix
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
7 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 740 (68.58%) Agile
2 322 (29.84%) Roadmaps
3 313 (29.01%) Scrum
4 257 (23.82%) Acceptance Criteria
5 245 (22.71%) DevOps
6 226 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 204 (18.91%) Product Backlog
8 180 (16.68%) Business Analysis
9 177 (16.40%) Requirements Gathering
10 155 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 154 (14.27%) User Experience
12 149 (13.81%) Mentoring
13 139 (12.88%) Epics
14 130 (12.05%) Analytics
15 127 (11.77%) Project Management
16 123 (11.40%) Product Roadmap
17 121 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
18 112 (10.38%) Backlog Management
18 112 (10.38%) CI/CD
19 104 (9.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 134 (12.42%) SQL
2 125 (11.58%) C#
3 112 (10.38%) JavaScript
4 70 (6.49%) Java
5 63 (5.84%) Python
6 47 (4.36%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.20%) C++
8 12 (1.11%) R
8 12 (1.11%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.93%) PHP
10 9 (0.83%) C
11 8 (0.74%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.65%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.46%) Bash
15 4 (0.37%) Go
15 4 (0.37%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.37%) Rust
15 4 (0.37%) Swift
16 3 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 190 (17.61%) Degree
2 139 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 101 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 30 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 22 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.30%) CSPO
10 13 (1.20%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.65%) IIBA
12 6 (0.56%) CISM
12 6 (0.56%) CISSP
12 6 (0.56%) GIAC
12 6 (0.56%) PMP
12 6 (0.56%) SANS
13 5 (0.46%) PhD
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (10.75%) QA
2 33 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (0.65%) NIST
6 6 (0.56%) COBIT
6 6 (0.56%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 5 (0.46%) GDPR
7 5 (0.46%) WCAG
8 4 (0.37%) PMO
9 3 (0.28%) GRC
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (3.61%) Docker
2 9 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.46%) Firmware
4 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.58%) Terraform
3 13 (1.20%) Ansible
4 9 (0.83%) Grafana
5 6 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.56%) Kibana
6 4 (0.37%) Packer
7 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.093%) Consul
8 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.093%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.093%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.093%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 193 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 26 (2.41%) ServiceNow
4 23 (2.13%) Google
5 13 (1.20%) Oracle
6 12 (1.11%) Adobe
7 10 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 9 (0.83%) Xero
9 8 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 7 (0.65%) McAfee
10 7 (0.65%) SAP
11 6 (0.56%) Confluent
11 6 (0.56%) Hotjar
12 5 (0.46%) IBM
12 5 (0.46%) Intel
13 4 (0.37%) Databricks
13 4 (0.37%) Mercator
14 3 (0.28%) Cadence
14 3 (0.28%) Conga
14 3 (0.28%) Marketo