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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 51 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 14 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.42% 2.09% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.48% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 20
10th Percentile £365 - £461
25th Percentile £385 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% -4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £650
90th Percentile £490 - £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -22.73% +2.33% +10.26%

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 523 605 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 90.33% 84.26% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 397 706
10th Percentile £299 £350 £355
25th Percentile £398 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £625 £650 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £13.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.87% -31.13% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £25.94 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £37.25 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +59.63% -25.03% -7.50%

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 13 August 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 5 (35.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (21.43%) Serverless
2 2 (14.29%) Lucidchart
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) DocumentDB
1 3 (21.43%) Redis
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
1 3 (21.43%) Node.js
1 3 (21.43%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Scrum
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
4 5 (35.71%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
6 3 (21.43%) Coaching
6 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
6 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) Story Points
6 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CBAP
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) MBA
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) WCAG
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dell
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle