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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 30 27 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.22% 3.27% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 3.79% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 7
10th Percentile £342 £331 £265
25th Percentile £401 £352 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £360 £403
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -10.56% +0.63%
75th Percentile £545 £725 £450
90th Percentile £575 £785 £498
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%

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 1,004 712 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.37% 86.30% 83.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 491 389
10th Percentile £231 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £449
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -7.57% -10.20%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £550
90th Percentile £650 £625 £620
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 65 30
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £17.87 £15.10
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -5.44% -12.29%
75th Percentile £26.20 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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
Lincolnshire - 10 £550 - 3
Northamptonshire +6 9 £397 +10.83% 5
Nottinghamshire -8 8 £463 - 15
Derbyshire -17 1 - - 4
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 14 (46.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) GitHub
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Figma
5 1 (3.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Balsamiq
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Banking
4 6 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (20.00%) Finance
5 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
6 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.67%) Retail
7 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Analyst
1 14 (46.67%) Business Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Financial Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Product Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Product Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Agile Coach
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Life Science
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) CentOS
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Agile
1 19 (63.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 14 (46.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 12 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (36.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (33.33%) Migration
5 10 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (26.67%) Data Migration
7 8 (26.67%) Validation
8 7 (23.33%) Backlog Management
9 6 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
9 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (20.00%) Scrum
9 6 (20.00%) Workflow
10 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
10 5 (16.67%) Change Management
10 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
10 5 (16.67%) PLM
10 5 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.33%) SOQL
3 1 (3.33%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) GxP
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat