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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 192 117
Rank change year-on-year -76 -75 +67
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1,065 1,965 5,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.94% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.03% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 751 1,167 2,305
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,125 £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 £83,750 £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 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 13 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 13 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 -70 902 £57,965 -3.39% 273
UK excluding London -93 656 £55,000 - 157
Work from Home -57 467 £57,965 +0.81% 123
London -74 325 £72,000 +6.67% 127
North of England -35 182 £52,500 -4.55% 35
South East -37 143 £60,000 - 35
Midlands -64 113 £44,000 -16.19% 34
North West -3 112 £50,000 -13.04% 16
South West -29 96 £55,000 +10.00% 31
West Midlands -34 80 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Scotland -55 60 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Yorkshire -14 55 £50,000 -5.66% 14
East of England -47 31 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -34 30 £37,500 -31.82% 8
Wales -6 23 £50,000 +29.05% 7
North East -28 15 £57,965 +5.39% 5
Northern Ireland +26 12 £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
1 105 (9.86%) Confluence
2 38 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.03%) CMS
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.85%) WordPress
6 8 (0.75%) IIS
7 7 (0.66%) Kentico
8 6 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.094%) JBoss
11 1 (0.094%) nginx
Applications
1 37 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.16%) Sketch
3 22 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.03%) InVision
6 6 (0.56%) Trello
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.094%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 45 (4.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.094%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.094%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 215 (20.19%) Azure
2 119 (11.17%) Azure DevOps
3 115 (10.80%) Power Platform
4 92 (8.64%) AWS
5 82 (7.70%) Dynamics 365
6 60 (5.63%) SaaS
7 46 (4.32%) Serverless
8 43 (4.04%) PowerApps
9 38 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (3.10%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.16%) GitHub
12 22 (2.07%) Azure Functions
13 21 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 20 (1.88%) Figma
15 18 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (1.13%) dbt
19 10 (0.94%) Azure Service Bus
19 10 (0.94%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.50%) Broadband
2 13 (1.22%) Internet
3 10 (0.94%) WPA
4 6 (0.56%) Intranet
4 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.47%) WebEx
6 4 (0.38%) SSL
6 4 (0.38%) VPN
7 3 (0.28%) HTTP
7 3 (0.28%) NaaS
7 3 (0.28%) Wireless
8 2 (0.19%) DSL
9 1 (0.094%) AMQP
9 1 (0.094%) Firewall
9 1 (0.094%) LAN
9 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.61%) Power BI
2 54 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 25 (2.35%) Tableau
4 21 (1.97%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.75%) Big Data
9 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.66%) 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 (0.47%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.47%) Metadata
13 4 (0.38%) GIS
13 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 231 (21.69%) JIRA
2 59 (5.54%) Git
3 36 (3.38%) Visual Studio
4 33 (3.10%) Team Foundation Server
5 23 (2.16%) Selenium
6 16 (1.50%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.31%) GitLab
8 12 (1.13%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.03%) Postman
10 10 (0.94%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.94%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.75%) JMeter
11 8 (0.75%) MSBuild
11 8 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.75%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.56%) git-flow
13 5 (0.47%) MSTest
13 5 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 319 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 257 (24.13%) Finance
3 175 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (10.52%) Marketing
5 90 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 64 (6.01%) Law
8 55 (5.16%) Retail
9 52 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (3.85%) Legal
12 37 (3.47%) Banking
13 14 (1.31%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (0.85%) Advertising
16 7 (0.66%) Billing
16 7 (0.66%) Publishing
17 5 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 374 (35.12%) Analyst
2 320 (30.05%) Business Analyst
3 217 (20.38%) Senior
4 136 (12.77%) Developer
5 124 (11.64%) Product Owner
6 92 (8.64%) Product Manager
7 88 (8.26%) Lead
8 56 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 56 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
9 53 (4.98%) Technical Business Analyst
10 49 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 47 (4.41%) Architect
11 47 (4.41%) Designer
12 41 (3.85%) Consultant
13 38 (3.57%) .NET Developer
14 37 (3.47%) Content Designer
14 37 (3.47%) Senior Business Analyst
14 37 (3.47%) Senior Designer
15 34 (3.19%) Senior Content Designer
16 26 (2.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.58%) .NET
2 56 (5.26%) HTML
3 55 (5.16%) CSS
4 48 (4.51%) ASP.NET
4 48 (4.51%) React
5 45 (4.23%) REST
6 36 (3.38%) XML
7 32 (3.00%) AngularJS
8 30 (2.82%) .NET Core
9 27 (2.54%) JSON
10 26 (2.44%) .NET Framework
11 24 (2.25%) Node.js
12 19 (1.78%) Web Services
13 18 (1.69%) ASP.NET MVC
13 18 (1.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 16 (1.50%) Gherkin
14 16 (1.50%) Vue
15 14 (1.31%) HTML5
15 14 (1.31%) Kafka
15 14 (1.31%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 334 (31.36%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 40 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 32 (3.00%) NHS
5 26 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 22 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.97%) Low-Code
9 18 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.69%) FMCG
10 16 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.94%) Derivative
14 10 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
15 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (0.85%) Reference Data
16 8 (0.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.51%) Linux
2 18 (1.69%) Windows
3 15 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.03%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.28%) Unix
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
7 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (68.45%) Agile
2 320 (30.05%) Roadmaps
3 312 (29.30%) Scrum
4 254 (23.85%) Acceptance Criteria
5 238 (22.35%) DevOps
6 226 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
7 199 (18.69%) Product Backlog
8 180 (16.90%) Business Analysis
9 174 (16.34%) Requirements Gathering
10 153 (14.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 152 (14.27%) User Experience
12 143 (13.43%) Mentoring
13 139 (13.05%) Epics
14 131 (12.30%) Project Management
15 125 (11.74%) Analytics
16 124 (11.64%) Product Roadmap
17 120 (11.27%) Workshop Facilitation
18 111 (10.42%) Backlog Management
18 111 (10.42%) CI/CD
19 101 (9.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 128 (12.02%) SQL
2 122 (11.46%) C#
3 103 (9.67%) JavaScript
4 62 (5.82%) Java
5 61 (5.73%) Python
6 43 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.13%) C++
7 12 (1.13%) R
8 10 (0.94%) PHP
8 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.75%) C
9 8 (0.75%) VB.NET
10 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.47%) Bash
12 4 (0.38%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.38%) Rust
12 4 (0.38%) Swift
13 3 (0.28%) Go
13 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (17.56%) Degree
2 134 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 98 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 48 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.31%) CSPO
10 13 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.66%) 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 (0.47%) PhD
14 4 (0.38%) ISEB
14 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (11.83%) QA
2 33 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.66%) NIST
5 6 (0.56%) COBIT
5 6 (0.56%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 5 (0.47%) GRC
6 5 (0.47%) WCAG
7 3 (0.28%) PMO
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.094%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (3.00%) Docker
2 8 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.50%) Terraform
3 12 (1.13%) Ansible
4 9 (0.85%) Grafana
5 6 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.56%) Kibana
6 3 (0.28%) Packer
6 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.094%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.094%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.094%) SCCM
Vendors
1 188 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.23%) Salesforce
3 27 (2.54%) ServiceNow
4 21 (1.97%) Google
5 12 (1.13%) Adobe
5 12 (1.13%) Oracle
6 9 (0.85%) Atlassian
6 9 (0.85%) Xero
7 8 (0.75%) Alteryx
8 7 (0.66%) SAP
9 6 (0.56%) Confluent
9 6 (0.56%) Hotjar
9 6 (0.56%) McAfee
10 5 (0.47%) Databricks
10 5 (0.47%) Intel
11 4 (0.38%) Mercator
12 3 (0.28%) BT
12 3 (0.28%) Cadence
12 3 (0.28%) Remedy
12 3 (0.28%) Sitecore