User Stories Contracts in the City of London

User Story
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 63 97
Rank change year-on-year -27 +34 -4
Contract jobs citing User Stories 32 60 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.84% 2.76% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.05% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 44 50
10th Percentile £393 £472 £398
25th Percentile £463 - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £632
90th Percentile £735 £646 £693
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 1,966 3,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.26% 90.47% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,389 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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

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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

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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 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the City of London

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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 8 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.13%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) HTTP
1 1 (3.13%) Intranet
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.13%) Gatling
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Hamcrest
3 1 (3.13%) JUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Front Office
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Back Office
7 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Analyst
2 18 (56.25%) Business Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Business Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Business Project Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Project Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) SAP MM Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) SAP SCM Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) MUnit
2 1 (3.13%) RAML
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) WireMock
2 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Reinsurance
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) CMDB
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) IVR
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Agile
2 19 (59.38%) Acceptance Criteria
3 11 (34.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (31.25%) Business Analysis
4 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (21.88%) Analytics
7 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
7 7 (21.88%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (21.88%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (21.88%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (18.75%) DevOps
9 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) Change Management
9 5 (15.63%) Product Vision
9 5 (15.63%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (15.63%) Validation
10 4 (12.50%) Scrum
10 4 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) CBAP
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) CFA
5 1 (3.13%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) MiFID
3 1 (3.13%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) CloudHub
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Adobe
3 1 (3.13%) Advent
3 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.13%) Citrix
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.13%) QAD
3 1 (3.13%) SimCorp
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk