User Stories Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

User Story
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 67 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 +17
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.42% 0.41% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.48% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £431 £513 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £406
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +29.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £473
90th Percentile £550 - £488
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +4.81% -1.58% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 637 627 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.09% 85.66% 83.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 414 429
10th Percentile £229 £197 £270
25th Percentile £386 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £21.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.54% -12.82% +41.24%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

User Stories job vacancy trend in Birmingham

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Birmingham

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
1 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Legal Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) IIBA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Pega