User Stories Contract Job Trends in England

User Story
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 180 143
Rank change year-on-year +46 -37 -39
Contract jobs citing User Stories 637 440 748
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.16% 1.43% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.65% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 281 515
10th Percentile £353 £355 £396
25th Percentile £413 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £594 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £31.34 - £47.13
25th Percentile £34.37 - £50.31
Median hourly rate £74.26 £33.07 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +124.55% -37.31% -4.09%
75th Percentile - - £64.30
90th Percentile £76.21 - £68.16
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £33.07 £52.75
% change year-on-year +124.55% -37.31% -4.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,673 26,735 35,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.45% 86.67% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,934 16,321 24,366
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.50% -0.05%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,740 959 1,495
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.09 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.06 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -17.98% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.77% +24.64%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in England

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Stories

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
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 User Stories within the England region over the 6 months to 10 November 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 +49 353 £500 -9.09% 213
North of England +25 113 £513 +10.22% 64
South East 0 68 £475 -5.00% 240
Midlands +16 58 £425 -3.95% 47
Yorkshire +10 53 £520 -2.58% 25
North West +8 48 £530 +30.46% 32
East Midlands +11 29 £388 -1.59% 20
West Midlands -7 29 £463 -1.07% 26
South West +15 25 £500 -16.67% 48
North East -1 14 £488 +8.33% 7
East of England -20 7 £438 +6.06% 48
User Stories
UK

User Stories
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
1 109 (17.11%) Confluence
2 19 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.57%) CMS
4 8 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.78%) nginx
5 5 (0.78%) WordPress
6 4 (0.63%) Drupal
6 4 (0.63%) JBoss
6 4 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.31%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.31%) Traefik
7 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
8 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.16%) Kentico
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.08%) MS Visio
3 19 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.78%) Siemens NX
5 5 (0.78%) Trello
6 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.47%) Sketch
8 2 (0.31%) Fusion 360
8 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.16%) InVision
9 1 (0.16%) Notion
Business Applications
1 22 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.26%) Temenos T24
3 7 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.78%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.63%) Endur
6 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.63%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.63%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.47%) ProductWriter
8 2 (0.31%) HFM
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.31%) Sage CRM
8 2 (0.31%) Shopify
9 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 86 (13.50%) Azure
2 64 (10.05%) AWS
3 47 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 28 (4.40%) GCP
6 25 (3.92%) GitHub
7 22 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (3.14%) Figma
9 18 (2.83%) Serverless
10 17 (2.67%) Miro
10 17 (2.67%) SaaS
11 16 (2.51%) Snowflake
12 15 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.35%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.73%) Power Automate
14 11 (1.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 10 (1.57%) CloudBees
15 10 (1.57%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.26%) WebEx
2 6 (0.94%) Firewall
3 5 (0.78%) DNS
4 2 (0.31%) BGP
4 2 (0.31%) HTTP
4 2 (0.31%) Internet
4 2 (0.31%) LAN
4 2 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.31%) VLAN
4 2 (0.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) Calico
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.16%) FTP
5 1 (0.16%) Modbus
5 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.71%) Power BI
2 25 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (2.98%) Tableau
4 15 (2.35%) BigQuery
5 14 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.57%) Star Schema
7 8 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.10%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (0.94%) Metadata
10 5 (0.78%) Data Vault
10 5 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.63%) Big Data
11 4 (0.63%) Redis
11 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.47%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.47%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 176 (27.63%) JIRA
2 27 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.45%) GitLab
4 17 (2.67%) Git
5 14 (2.20%) Cucumber
6 11 (1.73%) Selenium
7 9 (1.41%) Postman
8 7 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.10%) JUnit
8 7 (1.10%) MLflow
9 6 (0.94%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.78%) JMeter
10 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.63%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.63%) ERwin
11 4 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.63%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.47%) Gatling
General
1 257 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 163 (25.59%) Finance
3 130 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.32%) Banking
6 37 (5.81%) Marketing
7 28 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (3.61%) Retail
10 21 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.98%) Legal
12 18 (2.83%) Back Office
12 18 (2.83%) Front Office
13 13 (2.04%) Investment Banking
13 13 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.57%) Billing
15 10 (1.57%) Law
15 10 (1.57%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 287 (45.05%) Analyst
2 263 (41.29%) Business Analyst
3 96 (15.07%) Product Owner
4 62 (9.73%) Senior
5 41 (6.44%) Technical Analyst
6 39 (6.12%) Technical Business Analyst
7 38 (5.97%) Developer
8 32 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
9 29 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
10 26 (4.08%) Lead
11 23 (3.61%) Product Manager
12 20 (3.14%) Test Analyst
13 17 (2.67%) Architect
14 16 (2.51%) Consultant
15 14 (2.20%) Automation Engineer
15 14 (2.20%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (2.20%) Product Analyst
15 14 (2.20%) Salesforce Business Analyst
16 13 (2.04%) Digital Analyst
16 13 (2.04%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.98%) RESTful
2 16 (2.51%) SOAP
3 15 (2.35%) Spring Boot
4 14 (2.20%) JSON
4 14 (2.20%) Spring
4 14 (2.20%) XML
5 13 (2.04%) ADO
6 12 (1.88%) REST
7 11 (1.73%) HTML
8 10 (1.57%) Kafka
8 10 (1.57%) OAuth
8 10 (1.57%) OAuth2
9 9 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (1.41%) Playwright
9 9 (1.41%) React
10 8 (1.26%) AngularJS
10 8 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (1.26%) Middleware
10 8 (1.26%) XMPP
11 7 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 212 (33.28%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.67%) Reinsurance
5 16 (2.51%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.04%) PMI
9 12 (1.88%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.57%) SCADA
12 9 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.10%) Derivative
14 6 (0.94%) Digital Media
14 6 (0.94%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.67%) Windows
2 14 (2.20%) Linux
3 6 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (73.16%) Agile
2 197 (30.93%) Scrum
3 161 (25.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 159 (24.96%) Acceptance Criteria
5 127 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (18.68%) Requirements Gathering
7 112 (17.58%) Roadmaps
8 106 (16.64%) Product Backlog
9 105 (16.48%) Business Analysis
10 102 (16.01%) DevOps
11 100 (15.70%) Backlog Management
11 100 (15.70%) User Acceptance Testing
12 97 (15.23%) Workshop Facilitation
13 94 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 80 (12.56%) Analytics
14 80 (12.56%) Sprint Planning
15 79 (12.40%) Use Case
16 74 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 72 (11.30%) Epics
18 71 (11.15%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.36%) SQL
2 56 (8.79%) Python
3 39 (6.12%) Java
4 20 (3.14%) Bash
5 14 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.20%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.41%) Apex Code
7 8 (1.26%) Perl
7 8 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.10%) Scala
9 6 (0.94%) C#
10 5 (0.78%) Go
10 5 (0.78%) VBA
11 3 (0.47%) Groovy
11 3 (0.47%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) Ruby
12 2 (0.31%) XPath
13 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
13 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 76 (11.93%) Degree
3 62 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.51%) PMI Certification
6 15 (2.35%) CBAP
6 15 (2.35%) CSPO
7 11 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.94%) CCNA
9 6 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (0.78%) CCDP
10 5 (0.78%) CCNP
10 5 (0.78%) CFA
11 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.63%) PMP
12 3 (0.47%) OCP
12 3 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (12.40%) QA
2 27 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.77%) GDPR
4 17 (2.67%) WCAG
5 14 (2.20%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.88%) PSD2
7 10 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.94%) SEPA
9 4 (0.63%) Basel III
9 4 (0.63%) FIPS 140-2
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.63%) MiFID
9 4 (0.63%) PMO
10 3 (0.47%) COBIT
10 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.31%) EMIR
11 2 (0.31%) HL7
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 24 (3.77%) Docker
2 9 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) etcd
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (2.98%) Ansible
2 17 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.67%) Terraform
3 14 (2.20%) NetBackup
4 6 (0.94%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.94%) Puppet
4 6 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.63%) Grafana
7 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.31%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.16%) Argo
8 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 92 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 67 (10.52%) Salesforce
3 32 (5.02%) Oracle
4 23 (3.61%) SAP
5 21 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.20%) Commvault
8 11 (1.73%) Cisco
8 11 (1.73%) Citrix
8 11 (1.73%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.57%) Veritas
9 10 (1.57%) VMware
10 9 (1.41%) Databricks
11 8 (1.26%) Temenos
12 7 (1.10%) Adobe
13 6 (0.94%) Workday
14 5 (0.78%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.78%) Pega
14 5 (0.78%) Siemens
15 4 (0.63%) Atlassian
644 User Stories jobs in England