User Stories Contracts in Central London

User Story
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 65 96
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 34 66 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.70% 2.71% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.99% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 54
10th Percentile £398 £444 £400
25th Percentile £425 £525 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £638
90th Percentile £666 £641 £746
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
London median hourly rate - £33.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -49.23% -16.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,860 2,208 3,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.95% 90.60% 91.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,571 2,388
10th Percentile £357 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.45
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London -27 31 £513 -6.82% 13
User Stories
London

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.94%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.94%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) SaaS
5 2 (5.88%) AWS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) HTTP
1 1 (2.94%) Intranet
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.94%) Gatling
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Hamcrest
3 1 (2.94%) JUnit
3 1 (2.94%) Maven
3 1 (2.94%) Postman
3 1 (2.94%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (32.35%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.88%) Front Office
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
7 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Analyst
2 20 (58.82%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Product Owner
4 4 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Digital Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Business Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Project Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Lead
7 1 (2.94%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) ADO
2 1 (2.94%) JSON
2 1 (2.94%) MUnit
2 1 (2.94%) RAML
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) WireMock
2 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Derivative
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.94%) IVR
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (2.94%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Agile
2 20 (58.82%) Acceptance Criteria
3 11 (32.35%) Business Analysis
3 11 (32.35%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (26.47%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (23.53%) Analytics
7 7 (20.59%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
9 5 (14.71%) Epics
9 5 (14.71%) Product Strategy
9 5 (14.71%) Product Vision
9 5 (14.71%) Scrum
9 5 (14.71%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (14.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) CBAP
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) CFA
5 1 (2.94%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) MiFID
3 1 (2.94%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) CloudHub
1 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe
3 1 (2.94%) Advent
3 1 (2.94%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.94%) Citrix
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.94%) QAD
3 1 (2.94%) SimCorp
3 1 (2.94%) Splunk