User Stories Contracts in Glasgow

User Story
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 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 57 57 66
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing User Stories 22 25 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.76% 2.85% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 3.10% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 12
10th Percentile £325 - £359
25th Percentile £381 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £424
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.92% +2.17%
75th Percentile £438 £588 £459
90th Percentile £598 - £542
Scotland median daily rate £434 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -13.30% +14.94% +2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.59 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.59 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Glasgow

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Glasgow

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Glasgow

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (9.09%) Sketch
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Figma
1 2 (9.09%) Miro
2 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Toad
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 3 (13.64%) Back Office
6 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Analyst
2 12 (54.55%) Business Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Report Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 4 (18.18%) CSS
1 4 (18.18%) HTML
1 4 (18.18%) HTML5
1 4 (18.18%) jQuery
1 4 (18.18%) REST
1 4 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Android
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Workshop Facilitation
3 7 (31.82%) Data Analysis
4 6 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (27.27%) Backlog Management
5 5 (22.73%) Impact Assessments
6 4 (18.18%) ITSM
6 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Web Development
7 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
7 3 (13.64%) Business Case
7 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 3 (13.64%) IT Asset Management
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (9.09%) Prototyping
8 2 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CBAP
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 4 (18.18%) Snow
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft