User Stories Contract Job Trends in Central London

User Story
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 91 58
Rank change year-on-year +19 -33 +27
Contract jobs citing User Stories 65 43 86
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.20% 1.86% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.02% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 27 54
10th Percentile £385 £504 £416
25th Percentile £409 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +13.64% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £597
90th Percentile £680 £725 £668
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +0.18%

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 1,836 2,133 2,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.40% 92.22% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,337 1,720
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £777 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £46.53 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
% change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Central London

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Central London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Central London

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing User Stories

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 27 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
City of London +14 59 £475 -21.33% 76
City of Westminster 0 1 £575 -
West End of London - 1 £575 - 1
User Stories
London

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 13 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (6.15%) CMS
3 3 (4.62%) Drupal
3 3 (4.62%) WordPress
4 1 (1.54%) JBoss
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.54%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.54%) InVision
5 1 (1.54%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.54%) Endur
3 1 (1.54%) HFM
3 1 (1.54%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (1.54%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
2 6 (9.23%) AWS
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Miro
4 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) Figma
5 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.08%) Fastly
6 2 (3.08%) Heroku
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) Serverless
6 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.54%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.62%) Star Schema
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Tableau
4 1 (1.54%) Big Data
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (33.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.54%) Gatling
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
2 1 (1.54%) Hamcrest
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) JUnit
2 1 (1.54%) Postman
2 1 (1.54%) Selenium
2 1 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (46.15%) Finance
1 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (33.85%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 7 (10.77%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Back Office
8 3 (4.62%) Front Office
8 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.08%) Retail
10 1 (1.54%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.54%) Law
10 1 (1.54%) Marketing
10 1 (1.54%) Military
10 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (56.92%) Analyst
2 35 (53.85%) Business Analyst
3 12 (18.46%) Product Owner
4 10 (15.38%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 6 (9.23%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Product Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Agile Business Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Finance Business Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Payments Business Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Product Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Product Business Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Business Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Consultant
9 2 (3.08%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) ADO
1 2 (3.08%) Flask
1 2 (3.08%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (1.54%) React
2 1 (1.54%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.62%) PMI
3 3 (4.62%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.08%) CMDB
4 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.08%) e-Learning
4 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.54%) Equities
5 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.54%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (78.46%) Agile
2 27 (41.54%) Acceptance Criteria
3 26 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (29.23%) Scrum
5 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (26.15%) Workshop Facilitation
6 16 (24.62%) Backlog Management
6 16 (24.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (23.08%) Product Backlog
7 15 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
7 15 (23.08%) Roadmaps
8 14 (21.54%) Business Analysis
9 13 (20.00%) Data Modelling
10 10 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
10 10 (15.38%) Use Case
11 9 (13.85%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 9 (13.85%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (12.31%) Data Analysis
13 7 (10.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.15%) SQL
2 3 (4.62%) Java
3 2 (3.08%) Python
4 1 (1.54%) Korn
4 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) Degree
2 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) PMI Certification
4 3 (4.62%) CBAP
5 2 (3.08%) CFA
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) CSPO
6 1 (1.54%) IIBA
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) MBA
6 1 (1.54%) PMP
6 1 (1.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.54%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (26.15%) QA
2 6 (9.23%) GDPR
3 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.15%) PSD2
4 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.08%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.08%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.54%) Basel III
5 1 (1.54%) SEPA
5 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.62%) Adobe
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 2 (3.08%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) eFront
5 1 (1.54%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.54%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.54%) Temenos
5 1 (1.54%) Workday