Storybook Contract Job Trends in England

Storybook
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Storybook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 467 532
Rank change year-on-year -112 +65 +100
Contract jobs citing Storybook 10 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.025% 0.020% 0.022%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £321 £446 £350
25th Percentile £475 £497 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £574 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +14.70% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £530
90th Percentile £633 £662 £534
UK median daily rate £480 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -6.34% - +13.89%

All Development Application Skills
England

Storybook falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,013 3,358 4,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.28% 13.72% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,315 2,254 2,880
10th Percentile £342 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -6.06% -3.23%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 65 189
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.68 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.25 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.79% -7.31% +5.69%

Storybook
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Storybook relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Storybook job vacancy trend in England

Storybook
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Storybook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Storybook

Storybook
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storybook in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Storybook in England

Storybook
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Storybook.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Storybook

Storybook
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 Storybook within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. 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 -52 7 £419 -32.68% 1
Midlands - 1 £500 -
South East - 1 £625 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
Storybook
UK

Storybook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Figma
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) SonarCloud
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Stripe
4 1 (10.00%) Supabase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Snyk
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Mockito
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (10.00%) Vite
3 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Billing
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (30.00%) React Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Content Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Manager
4 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) React
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) Next.js
2 4 (40.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (30.00%) Jest
3 3 (30.00%) Redux
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) CSS3
4 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
4 2 (20.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (20.00%) HTML5
4 2 (20.00%) Playwright
4 2 (20.00%) pytest
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) MDX
5 1 (10.00%) Node.js
5 1 (10.00%) Play Framework
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
4 2 (20.00%) Monorepo
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (30.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes