Story Points Contracts in England

Story Points
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Story Points skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Story Points 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 479 540 628
Rank change year-on-year +61 +88 +115
Contract jobs citing Story Points 6 2 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.005% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.006% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £458
25th Percentile £325 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £375 £588 £680
90th Percentile - - £691
UK median daily rate £350 £575 £616
% change year-on-year -39.13% -6.58% +11.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Story Points 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Story Points as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Points in England.

Daily rate trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Story Points in England.

Hourly rate trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Points within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +40 4 £350 -39.13% 1
South East - 1 - - 1
Story Points
UK

Story Points
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) BigCommerce
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Grunt
1 2 (33.33%) webpack
2 1 (16.67%) ESLint
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) UAT Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) CSS3
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) HTML5
1 2 (33.33%) Jest
1 2 (33.33%) LESS
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) Sass
1 2 (33.33%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (33.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
1 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (33.33%) Sitecore
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks