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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 46 62
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 24 22 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.10% 3.06% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 3.54% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 6
10th Percentile £309 £346 £256
25th Percentile £372 £357 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £433 £405
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +6.79% -26.36%
75th Percentile £545 £763 £456
90th Percentile £575 £825 £506
England median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% +2.14%

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 882 621 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.10% 86.49% 78.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 419 446
10th Percentile £213 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £332 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £564
90th Percentile £650 £589 £622
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 53 60
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.97 £11.67
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.35 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +12.99% -41.51%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £26.24
90th Percentile £35.37 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +6 10 £388 +8.99% 1
Lincolnshire - 7 £550 - 2
Nottinghamshire -13 6 £496 - 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 12 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) OCI
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Product Owner
3 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Agile Coach
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Change Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) CentOS
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 8 (33.33%) Validation
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
4 7 (29.17%) Scrum
5 6 (25.00%) Backlog Management
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (20.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Epics
6 5 (20.83%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) PLM
6 5 (20.83%) Use Case
7 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.17%) SOQL
3 1 (4.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat