User Stories Contracts in Derbyshire

User Story
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 30
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 3.09% 1.18% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 1.82% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £801 £416 -
25th Percentile £803 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £813 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% - -
75th Percentile £828 £447 -
90th Percentile £834 £449 -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -18.17% -7.89% +8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 110 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 79.38% 64.71% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 102
10th Percentile £172 £167 £134
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £267 £469
Median % change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £552
90th Percentile £644 £588 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 37
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.30 £22.57 £23.00
90th Percentile £24.81 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Derbyshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Derbyshire.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Derbyshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Derby +10 3 £813 +85.71% 9
User Stories
East Midlands

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Fusion 360
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) PLM
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) CAD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Siemens
2 1 (33.33%) Autodesk