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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 104 94
Rank change year-on-year +31 -10 -19
Contract jobs citing User Stories 65 74 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.69% 2.02% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.21% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 50 85
10th Percentile £425 £374 £405
25th Percentile £513 £429 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.06%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £646 £739 £658
London median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.00 - -
London median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -49.23% +10.64% -

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 2,195 3,349 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.74% 91.28% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 2,258 3,100
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 2024. 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 +32 61 £550 +7.32% 14
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
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 11 (16.92%) SharePoint
2 10 (15.38%) Confluence
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.54%) CMS
4 1 (1.54%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.54%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.54%) InVision
2 1 (1.54%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.54%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.54%) dbt
5 1 (1.54%) Figma
5 1 (1.54%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) SaaS
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
5 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.15%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.62%) Power BI
3 2 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.54%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Appium
3 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.54%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) JUnit
3 1 (1.54%) Postman
3 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.54%) Selenium
3 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.54%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.54%) TestNG
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.54%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (56.92%) Finance
2 26 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Back Office
6 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (52.31%) Analyst
2 32 (49.23%) Business Analyst
3 12 (18.46%) Product Owner
4 10 (15.38%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 9 (13.85%) Data Business Analyst
5 9 (13.85%) Finance Business Analyst
5 9 (13.85%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (10.77%) Data Migration Analyst
6 7 (10.77%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 7 (10.77%) Migration Analyst
7 6 (9.23%) Developer
8 5 (7.69%) Financial Business Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) Financial Services Business Analyst
8 5 (7.69%) Service Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) Digital Product Owner
9 4 (6.15%) SharePoint Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) SharePoint Business Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) Siebel Developer
9 4 (6.15%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (6.15%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) .NET
2 4 (6.15%) .NET Framework
2 4 (6.15%) Web Services
3 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (4.62%) React
4 1 (1.54%) ADO
4 1 (1.54%) CSS
4 1 (1.54%) CSS3
4 1 (1.54%) ebXML
4 1 (1.54%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.31%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) Agile
2 29 (44.62%) Acceptance Criteria
2 29 (44.62%) User Acceptance Testing
3 18 (27.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 17 (26.15%) Workshop Facilitation
5 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (21.54%) Business Analysis
7 13 (20.00%) Data Management
7 13 (20.00%) DevOps
7 13 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 12 (18.46%) GAP Analysis
8 12 (18.46%) Validation
9 11 (16.92%) Data Migration
9 11 (16.92%) Migration
9 11 (16.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (16.92%) Scrum
9 11 (16.92%) Workflow
10 10 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 10 (15.38%) Business Case
10 10 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) SQL
2 4 (6.15%) C#
3 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.08%) PMP
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.08%) QA
2 12 (18.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Oracle
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (6.15%) Siebel
4 2 (3.08%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Adobe
5 1 (1.54%) Foundry
5 1 (1.54%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.54%) Palantir
5 1 (1.54%) SAP