User Stories Contracts in the East of England

User Story
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 102 86
Rank change year-on-year +37 -16 -6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 14 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 0.31% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.36% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 26
10th Percentile £318 £380 £340
25th Percentile £321 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £469 £475 £525
90th Percentile £500 - £618
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £27.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.75 £42.75 £64.50
% change year-on-year +44.44% -33.72% +36.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 835 1,648 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.11% 86.06% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 704 1,052
10th Percentile £225 £209 £200
25th Percentile £400 £342 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 611 339
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Essex - 6 £318 - 7
Hertfordshire +31 4 £475 +5.56% 5
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £375 -6.25% 5
Bedfordshire +1 2 £375 -5.06% 4
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
1 1 (7.14%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (7.14%) Sketch
1 1 (7.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (21.43%) Metadata
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.14%) GIS
3 1 (7.14%) Looker
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) TestRail
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Automotive
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Functional Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) NumPy
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Use Case
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Data Security
5 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
5 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Product Vision
5 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CSPO
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.14%) Checkmarx
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce