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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 79 89
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing User Stories 63 44 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.42% 2.14% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 2.32% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 51
10th Percentile £371 £479 £413
25th Percentile £413 £520 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £726 £675 £610
90th Percentile £825 £725 £675
Central London median daily rate £525 £568 £543
% change year-on-year -7.49% +4.61% -1.36%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,737 1,894 2,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.25% 91.99% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,261 2,017
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 15
10th Percentile £17.89 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £47.00 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Stories

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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the City of London

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Stories

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 10 (15.87%) Confluence
2 4 (6.35%) CMS
3 3 (4.76%) Drupal
3 3 (4.76%) WordPress
4 1 (1.59%) JBoss
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.59%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.59%) InVision
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.59%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Endur
2 1 (1.59%) HFM
2 1 (1.59%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.59%) SAP PLM
2 1 (1.59%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.76%) Figma
4 3 (4.76%) Miro
5 2 (3.17%) AWS
5 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) Fastly
6 1 (1.59%) Heroku
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.35%) Star Schema
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (26.98%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.59%) Gatling
2 1 (1.59%) GitLab
2 1 (1.59%) Hamcrest
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) JUnit
2 1 (1.59%) Postman
2 1 (1.59%) Selenium
2 1 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (46.03%) Social Skills
2 23 (36.51%) Finance
3 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.87%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Banking
7 4 (6.35%) Back Office
7 4 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.76%) Retail
9 2 (3.17%) Law
9 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.59%) Billing
10 1 (1.59%) Front Office
10 1 (1.59%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (68.25%) Analyst
2 39 (61.90%) Business Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Product Owner
3 8 (12.70%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Technical Business Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Agile Business Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Pricing Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Digital Product Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.17%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Reinsurance Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) ADO
2 1 (1.59%) ActiveX
2 1 (1.59%) Flask
2 1 (1.59%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (1.59%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 9 (14.29%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) CMDB
4 2 (3.17%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.59%) IVR
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.59%) PMI
5 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) Agile
2 28 (44.44%) Acceptance Criteria
3 22 (34.92%) User Acceptance Testing
4 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.22%) Backlog Management
5 14 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 14 (22.22%) Product Backlog
6 12 (19.05%) Business Analysis
6 12 (19.05%) Scrum
6 12 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
7 11 (17.46%) Data Modelling
7 11 (17.46%) DevOps
7 11 (17.46%) Roadmaps
7 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.87%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 10 (15.87%) Decision-Making
8 10 (15.87%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (15.87%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
9 9 (14.29%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) SQL
2 4 (6.35%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) VBA
4 2 (3.17%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) CBAP
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) CSPO
5 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) COBIT
3 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) PSD2
3 1 (1.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) SCCM
1 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.35%) Adobe
4 3 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (3.17%) FIS
5 2 (3.17%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Citrix
6 1 (1.59%) eFront
6 1 (1.59%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.59%) Murex
6 1 (1.59%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.59%) Temenos
6 1 (1.59%) Workday