User Stories Contracts in Basildon

User Story
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basildon requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 26.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £319 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £321 - -
90th Percentile £321 - -
Essex median daily rate £318 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +5.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basildon

User Stories falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 42 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 94.74% 85.71% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 16
10th Percentile £315 £102 £345
25th Percentile £320 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +14.43% +0.50%
75th Percentile £487 £600 £531
90th Percentile £488 £653 £563
Essex median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 4
10th Percentile £32.00 £52.50 £56.63
25th Percentile £35.00 £54.75 £57.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £80.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +27.49% +2.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 - £66.50
90th Percentile £48.00 - £67.85
Essex median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Basildon

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Basildon.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Basildon

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Basildon.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Basildon

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP