User Stories Contract Job Trends in the East of England

User Story
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 78 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 -22
Contract jobs citing User Stories 7 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.52% 1.04% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.28% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 9
10th Percentile £408 £320 £346
25th Percentile £413 £358 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £506 £547 £550
90th Percentile £598 £589 £680
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £67.56
England median hourly rate £31.49 £33.07 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.78% -37.60% -3.64%

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 1,217 1,176 1,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.68% 81.44% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 459 862
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £379 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £625
90th Percentile £683 £638 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 283 375
10th Percentile £14.33 £14.87 £13.65
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £29.17 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +47.25% -5.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £76.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

User Stories job vacancy trend in the East of England

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing User Stories

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 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the East of England

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing User Stories

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 13 October 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
Hertfordshire +2 4 £438 -23.87% 9
Bedfordshire -6 2 £438 - 2
Essex -1 1 £525 +51.08% 3
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sage X3
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
3 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) LLM
4 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Product Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Sage