User Stories Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

User Story
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +7
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.46% 3.35% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 3.89% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 25
10th Percentile - £348 £387
25th Percentile £503 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +19.18% -1.16% -1.71%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £488
90th Percentile - £530 £523
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £443
% change year-on-year - -3.95% +1.43%

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 585 694 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.66% 86.10% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 367 551
10th Percentile £304 £213 £208
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £538
90th Percentile £600 £605 £600
Scotland median daily rate £468 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 7
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.27 £12.56
25th Percentile - £16.50 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -48.24% +125.76%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.00 £48.84 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
% change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.56%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User Stories

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) npm
2 2 (22.22%) OCI
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) webpack
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Service Support Manager
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Support Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Jest
1 2 (22.22%) React
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) WireMock
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) ProC
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow