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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 39 54
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing User Stories 30 30 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.37% 3.94% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 4.62% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 7
10th Percentile £345 £331 £265
25th Percentile £397 £353 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £368 £403
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% -21.46%
75th Percentile £523 £725 £450
90th Percentile £575 £825 £498
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.45% +1.81%

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 945 650 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.53% 85.41% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 452 408
10th Percentile £235 £232 £268
25th Percentile £400 £339 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +17.32% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £626
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 57 34
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -1.51% -33.36%
75th Percentile £26.90 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +8 11 £397 +10.75% 3
Lincolnshire - 9 £550 - 4
Nottinghamshire -11 8 £463 - 3
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 15 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) GitHub
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Figma
5 1 (3.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (53.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Balsamiq
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Banking
4 7 (23.33%) Finance
5 6 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.67%) Retail
7 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Analyst
1 14 (46.67%) Business Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Finance Business Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Financial Business Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Site Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Agile Coach
6 2 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Onboarding Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
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 14 (46.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
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%) Requirements Gathering
2 18 (60.00%) Agile
3 15 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 10 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (26.67%) Workflow
7 7 (23.33%) Backlog Management
7 7 (23.33%) Data Migration
7 7 (23.33%) Validation
8 6 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 6 (20.00%) KYC
8 6 (20.00%) Scrum
9 5 (16.67%) Coaching
9 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 5 (16.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 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 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat