User Stories Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

User Story
East of England > Cambridgeshire

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing User Stories 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.53% 0.94% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.10% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile - - £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile - - £631
90th Percentile - - £673
East of England median daily rate £427 £388 £475
% change year-on-year +10.19% -18.42% -2.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 321 273 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.92% 85.85% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 119 137
10th Percentile £214 £310 £208
25th Percentile £352 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -2.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £609 £558 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £693
East of England median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 64 172
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £24.29 £21.46 £16.41
90th Percentile £43.20 £28.27 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year -40.71% +63.09% -8.68%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Cambridge -9 2 - - 8
User Stories
East of England

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) GAMP
1 1 (50.00%) GxP