User Stories Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

User Story
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 41 60
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing User Stories 25 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.24% 2.62% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.00% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 5
10th Percentile £313 £356 £277
25th Percentile £384 £358 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £433 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% +1.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £800 £438
90th Percentile - £825 £453
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 873 500 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.30% 87.26% 77.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 340 417
10th Percentile £200 £232 £200
25th Percentile £388 £331 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £427 £411
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +3.89% -13.47%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £550
90th Percentile £628 £588 £622
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 36 55
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.22 £12.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +13.47% -27.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.78 £24.20
90th Percentile £30.25 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

User Stories job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the East Midlands

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -7 10 £379 +5.73% 2
Nottinghamshire - 6 £496 - 2
Lincolnshire - 6 £550 -
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (52.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub
2 3 (12.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
General
1 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (16.00%) Retail
4 4 (16.00%) Retail Banking
5 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Marketing
6 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Analyst
1 12 (48.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Product Owner
3 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Trainer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Trainer
5 1 (4.00%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Business Change Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) VML
2 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) e-Learning
2 2 (8.00%) Learning Management System
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) CentOS
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 12 (48.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (36.00%) Scrum
4 9 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (32.00%) Validation
6 7 (28.00%) Migration
7 6 (24.00%) Backlog Management
7 6 (24.00%) Business Process Mapping
7 6 (24.00%) Epics
7 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (24.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (20.00%) Coaching
8 5 (20.00%) Data Migration
8 5 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 5 (20.00%) Use Case
8 5 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.00%) SOQL
2 1 (4.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) CSPO
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat