User Stories Contract Job Trends in Bradford

User Story
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 9.38% - 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% - 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £493 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.44%
75th Percentile £558 - £530
90th Percentile £568 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £544 £515
% change year-on-year -5.75% +5.58% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56 38 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 87.50% 84.44% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 63
10th Percentile £274 £363 £356
25th Percentile £409 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £415 £515
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -19.42% +4.15%
75th Percentile £584 £438 £600
90th Percentile £662 £610 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £18.87 - £27.10
25th Percentile £20.09 - £27.59
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £28.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.78%
75th Percentile - - £29.25
90th Percentile - - £29.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Bradford

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

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

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

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 5 (83.33%) Burndown Charts
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Kanban
2 5 (83.33%) Planning Poker
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Service Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Sprint Planning
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (50.00%) CRM
4 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (50.00%) ERP
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft