User Stories Contracts in Essex

User Story
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.59% - 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £318 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.14%
75th Percentile £320 - £517
90th Percentile £321 - £563
East of England median daily rate £375 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 179 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 94.94% 81.36% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 95 125
10th Percentile £231 £216 £191
25th Percentile £315 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £611
East of England median daily rate £500 £461 £475
% change year-on-year +8.40% -2.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Essex

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Essex.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Essex

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Essex.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Essex

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 4 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
Basildon - 5 £320 - 1
User Stories
East of England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) dbt
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Looker
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) TestRail
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DBA
4 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) NumPy
2 1 (16.67%) Pandas
2 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Security
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Use Case
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) DataOps
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) SAP