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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 44 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 24 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.20% 1.36% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 1.58% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 8
10th Percentile £311 £356 £325
25th Percentile £374 £357 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £395 £438
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -9.66% -7.89%
75th Percentile £568 £712 £484
90th Percentile £583 £819 £565
England median daily rate £500 £505 £538
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.05% +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 877 442 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 80.53% 85.83% 78.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 287 404
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £381 £321 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £418
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +6.94% -7.11%
75th Percentile £543 £525 £561
90th Percentile £613 £593 £625
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 27 57
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.41
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% +11.00% -8.39%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.91 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.93 £32.56 £45.79
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -15 9 £368 +3.44% 2
Nottinghamshire - 6 £530 - 6
Lincolnshire - 4 £550 -
Derbyshire -8 1 - - 1
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 10 (41.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Retail
5 4 (16.67%) Marketing
5 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (12.50%) Finance
6 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
7 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Analyst
1 13 (54.17%) Business Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce Trainer
2 4 (16.67%) Trainer
3 2 (8.33%) Finance Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Financial Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) VML
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 4 (16.67%) Learning Management System
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) CentOS
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) Acceptance Criteria
3 11 (45.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 10 (41.67%) Scrum
5 7 (29.17%) Business Process Mapping
5 7 (29.17%) Coaching
5 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Validation
7 5 (20.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
7 5 (20.83%) Epics
7 5 (20.83%) Migration
8 4 (16.67%) Change Management
8 4 (16.67%) Time Management
8 4 (16.67%) Use Case
8 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.17%) SOQL
3 1 (4.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) CSPO
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (16.67%) Google
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Sterling