User Stories Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

User Story
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 71 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 -16
Contract jobs citing User Stories 7 8 13
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.97% 1.06% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.17% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £380 £348 £400
25th Percentile £388 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +15.47%
75th Percentile £438 £581 £588
90th Percentile £453 £668 £600
Scotland median daily rate £425 £434 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -13.15% +15.94%

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 633 685 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.31% 90.85% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 434 537
10th Percentile £295 £303 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £625
90th Percentile £628 £660 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 17
10th Percentile £14.83 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £16.45 £17.32 £15.42
Median hourly rate £24.98 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.51% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £49.15 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.93 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Glasgow

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Lucidchart
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Business Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) IIBA
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Basel III
1 1 (14.29%) COREP
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) FINREP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) SAP