User Stories Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

User Story
South East > East Sussex

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 2.47% 3.49% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £495 £376 -
25th Percentile £521 £479 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% - -
75th Percentile £611 - -
90th Percentile £634 - -
South East median daily rate £454 £510 £463
% change year-on-year -10.98% +10.27% -11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70 81 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 86.42% 94.19% 96.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 51
10th Percentile £160 £309 £325
25th Percentile £293 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £850 £668 £745
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 1
10th Percentile £12.57 - -
25th Percentile £12.60 £51.25 £21.98
Median hourly rate £15.50 £52.50 £23.95
Median % change year-on-year -70.48% +119.21% +80.89%
75th Percentile £17.75 £53.75 £25.93
90th Percentile £22.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +20.69%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in East Sussex

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in East Sussex over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in East Sussex

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Hove - 1 £485 -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Story Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CSPO