User Stories Contracts in Leeds

User Story
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 50 44 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing User Stories 10 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.15% 2.38% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.75% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 12
10th Percentile £375 £425 £453
25th Percentile £400 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £484 £563 £641
90th Percentile £503 £575 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £538
% change year-on-year -8.16% -8.84% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Leeds

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Leeds

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Leeds

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Interaction Design
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) User Research
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) SWOT Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dell
1 2 (20.00%) Veritas
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle