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

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 99 97
Rank change year-on-year +32 -2 -24
Contract jobs citing User Stories 61 69 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.80% 2.01% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.20% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 77
10th Percentile £445 £388 £413
25th Percentile £519 £440 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £649 £713 £668
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.06%

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 1,974 3,133 3,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.47% 91.45% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 2,108 2,870
10th Percentile £356 £363 £384
25th Percentile £458 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +5.99%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £25.44
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -14.63% +92.94%
75th Percentile £40.00 £53.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

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

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 June 2024.

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

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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 11 (18.03%) SharePoint
2 10 (16.39%) Confluence
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.64%) InVision
2 1 (1.64%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.64%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.64%) dbt
5 1 (1.64%) Figma
5 1 (1.64%) GCP
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Serverless
5 1 (1.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.56%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.92%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.64%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Appium
3 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.64%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.64%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) JUnit
3 1 (1.64%) Postman
3 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.64%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.64%) TestNG
3 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (59.02%) Finance
2 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Back Office
7 1 (1.64%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (54.10%) Analyst
2 31 (50.82%) Business Analyst
3 11 (18.03%) Product Owner
4 10 (16.39%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 9 (14.75%) Data Business Analyst
5 9 (14.75%) Finance Business Analyst
5 9 (14.75%) Financial Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Data Migration Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Data Migration Business Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Migration Analyst
7 6 (9.84%) Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Financial Business Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Financial Services Business Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Service Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) Digital Product Owner
9 4 (6.56%) Finance Systems Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) SharePoint Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) SharePoint Business Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (6.56%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) .NET
2 4 (6.56%) .NET Framework
2 4 (6.56%) Web Services
3 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (4.92%) React
4 1 (1.64%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) CSS3
4 1 (1.64%) ebXML
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.15%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) Agile
2 28 (45.90%) Acceptance Criteria
3 27 (44.26%) User Acceptance Testing
4 17 (27.87%) Requirements Gathering
4 17 (27.87%) Workshop Facilitation
5 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (22.95%) Business Analysis
7 12 (19.67%) Data Management
7 12 (19.67%) DevOps
7 12 (19.67%) GAP Analysis
7 12 (19.67%) Validation
8 11 (18.03%) Data Migration
8 11 (18.03%) Migration
8 11 (18.03%) Product Backlog
8 11 (18.03%) Root Cause Analysis
8 11 (18.03%) Workflow
9 10 (16.39%) Business Case
10 9 (14.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 9 (14.75%) Scrum
10 9 (14.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) SQL
2 4 (6.56%) C#
3 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Degree
2 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.28%) PMP
3 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.59%) QA
2 12 (19.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (6.56%) Siebel
4 2 (3.28%) Databricks
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (1.64%) Foundry
5 1 (1.64%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.64%) Palantir
5 1 (1.64%) SAP