User Stories Contracts in Edinburgh

User Story
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 46 58
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 32 26 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.12% 3.19% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 3.61% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 44
10th Percentile £413 £404 £400
25th Percentile £427 £424 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +5.88% -4.23%
75th Percentile £504 £507 £488
90th Percentile £515 £550 £538
Scotland median daily rate £434 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -13.30% +14.94% +2.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Edinburgh

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Edinburgh

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Edinburgh

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (6.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) OCI
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Asana
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) JUnit
2 1 (3.13%) MSTest
2 1 (3.13%) NUnit
2 1 (3.13%) Postman
2 1 (3.13%) Ranorex
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 11 (34.38%) Public Sector
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (75.00%) Analyst
2 21 (65.63%) Business Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Technical Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 2 (6.25%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) ERP Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Product Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) Playwright
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
2 1 (3.13%) WebSockets
2 1 (3.13%) XML
2 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) CMDB
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Agile
1 15 (46.88%) Business Analysis
2 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (25.00%) User Research
4 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
4 7 (21.88%) Story Mapping
5 6 (18.75%) Minimum Viable Product
5 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Scrum
5 6 (18.75%) Wireframes
6 5 (15.63%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (15.63%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Product Backlog
6 5 (15.63%) Requirements Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 5 (15.63%) Target Operating Model
6 5 (15.63%) Use Case
6 5 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (15.63%) User Experience
6 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) ProC
2 1 (3.13%) C#
2 1 (3.13%) Java
2 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) IIBA
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.13%) GRC
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Fiserv
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow