User Stories Contracts in Buckinghamshire

User Story
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 46 43
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing User Stories 7 7 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.02% 1.47% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 1.78% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 25
10th Percentile £432 £338 -
25th Percentile £480 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £425 £450
90th Percentile £613 £433 -
South East median daily rate £521 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 394 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 93.10% 82.60% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 272 661
10th Percentile £279 £257 £313
25th Percentile £396 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £575
90th Percentile £647 £686 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Milton Keynes +12 5 £506 +26.50% 5
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Axure RP
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Ideation Sessions
3 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce