User Stories Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

User Story
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.88% 1.02% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £471 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 161 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 91.19% 82.14% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 87 82
10th Percentile £185 £269 £283
25th Percentile £450 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £623
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 3
10th Percentile £37.90 £37.88 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.06 £51.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% +6.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile - £69.73 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £24.39 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -39.03% +100.00% -2.44%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Bedfordshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dunstable +1 1 £425 -
Luton - 1 £450 - 1
User Stories
East of England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle