User Story
North East > Durham
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Durham 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 10 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | - | 13 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing User Stories | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Durham | - | - | 1.56% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | - | - | 1.92% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £363 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | £375 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £388 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| North East median daily rate | £400 | - | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | -13.04% |
All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham
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 Durham.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 18 | 38 | 52 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham | 48.65% | 55.07% | 81.25% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 15 | 20 | 40 |
| 10th Percentile | £288 | £190 | £189 |
| 25th Percentile | £388 | £263 | £231 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £425 | £405 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +23.53% | +4.94% | +47.27% |
| 75th Percentile | £550 | £573 | £509 |
| 90th Percentile | £640 | £598 | £580 |
| North East median daily rate | £465 | £500 | £531 |
| % change year-on-year | -7.00% | -5.88% | +6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £11.44 | - |
| North East median hourly rate | £14.07 | £17.50 | £40.75 |
| % change year-on-year | -19.60% | -57.06% | +146.97% |
User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham
Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Durham.
User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Durham
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Durham.