User Stories Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

User Story
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 2.61% - 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% - 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £395 £450
% change year-on-year +17.01% -12.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 26 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 81.74% 78.79% 75.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 13 29
10th Percentile £272 £255 £182
25th Percentile £433 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -40.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £675
90th Percentile £630 £770 £732
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £438 £419
% change year-on-year +2.86% +4.42% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 7 6
10th Percentile - £16.96 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.29 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.15 £17.08
Median % change year-on-year - +47.25% -10.96%
75th Percentile £30.25 £40.88 £21.30
90th Percentile £74.00 £56.00 £27.49
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.97 £21.59 £17.50
% change year-on-year +1.75% +23.37% -5.70%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Lincoln - 2 £550 - 1
User Stories
East Midlands

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Teamcenter
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
1 2 (66.67%) Business Process Mapping
1 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) PLM
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL