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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 517 608
Rank change year-on-year +22 +91 +128
Contract jobs citing Story Points 12 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.033% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.039% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 4
10th Percentile £343 £490 £431
25th Percentile £352 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £395 £650 £544
90th Percentile £573 £690 £578
UK median daily rate £370 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -26.00% -2.44% -12.39%

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 25,147 28,565 39,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 85.88% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,019 18,593 27,682
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £629 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,436 1,644 1,361
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.35 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%
75th Percentile £50.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
% change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Points in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 15 August 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
North of England - 7 £370 - 2
Yorkshire - 7 £370 - 2
London +11 4 £565 -10.67% 7
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (33.33%) Serverless
2 3 (25.00%) npm
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DocumentDB
1 3 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) Babel
4 3 (25.00%) webpack
5 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Cost Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) Redux
3 3 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) CSS3
4 2 (16.67%) DOM
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) Jest
4 2 (16.67%) lodash
5 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) User Stories
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) ETL
4 4 (33.33%) Microservices
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (25.00%) Atomic Design
5 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (16.67%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
6 2 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 2 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (33.33%) WCAG
3 3 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) NetCracker
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks