User Stories Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

User Story
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 36 49
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +20
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.83% 3.21% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.50% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 8
10th Percentile £404 £442 £375
25th Percentile £441 £498 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +28.13% +0.48%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £450
90th Percentile £673 £603 £476
South East median daily rate £478 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.05% +16.67% -7.69%

All Process & 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 400 257 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 81.14% 91.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 189 373
10th Percentile £223 £210 £279
25th Percentile £358 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +0.10% +4.17%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £506
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.09% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 31
10th Percentile £15.88 £14.01 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.02 £17.03 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.21 £35.60 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -37.62% +53.35% +36.56%
75th Percentile £29.61 £54.69 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £56.38 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.93% -7.49% +5.56%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 2026. 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 -8 6 £525 - 3
Aylesbury - 1 - -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Fibre Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Flutter
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) User Experience
3 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Business Process Mapping
4 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) BT
2 1 (11.11%) Openreach
2 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 1 (11.11%) webMethods