User Stories Contracts in the City of London

User Story
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 98 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing User Stories 66 82 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.98% 2.23% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.43% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 53 93
10th Percentile £462 £380 £415
25th Percentile - £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +7.80%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £639 £728 £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +9.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,368 3,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.31% 91.80% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 2,260 2,968
10th Percentile £356 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the City of London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the City of London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the City of London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the City of London

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 18 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 9 (13.64%) Confluence
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
4 1 (1.52%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.52%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.52%) InVision
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.52%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.52%) dbt
5 1 (1.52%) Figma
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.06%) Power BI
1 4 (6.06%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.52%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) Appium
3 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.52%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) JUnit
3 1 (1.52%) Postman
3 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.52%) Selenium
3 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.52%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.52%) TestNG
3 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (57.58%) Finance
2 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (54.55%) Analyst
2 33 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 17 (25.76%) Data Business Analyst
4 14 (21.21%) Data Migration Analyst
4 14 (21.21%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 14 (21.21%) Migration Analyst
5 12 (18.18%) Product Owner
6 11 (16.67%) SharePoint Analyst
6 11 (16.67%) SharePoint Business Analyst
7 9 (13.64%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 8 (12.12%) Finance Business Analyst
8 8 (12.12%) Financial Analyst
9 6 (9.09%) Developer
10 5 (7.58%) Financial Business Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Financial Services Business Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Service Analyst
10 5 (7.58%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (6.06%) Digital Product Owner
11 4 (6.06%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 4 (6.06%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) .NET
2 4 (6.06%) .NET Framework
2 4 (6.06%) Web Services
3 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (4.55%) React
4 1 (1.52%) CSS
4 1 (1.52%) CSS3
4 1 (1.52%) HTML
4 1 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.30%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
1 1 (1.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (54.55%) Agile
2 30 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 24 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
4 23 (34.85%) Acceptance Criteria
5 18 (27.27%) Data Management
5 18 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 18 (27.27%) GAP Analysis
5 18 (27.27%) Migration
5 18 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 18 (27.27%) Validation
6 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (19.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 11 (16.67%) DevOps
9 10 (15.15%) Product Backlog
9 10 (15.15%) Workflow
10 9 (13.64%) Backlog Management
11 8 (12.12%) Business Case
11 8 (12.12%) Scrum
11 8 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (6.06%) C#
3 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (3.03%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.03%) PMP
2 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.36%) QA
2 19 (28.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Oracle
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (6.06%) Siebel
4 3 (4.55%) Databricks
4 3 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.52%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce