Story Points Contracts in London

Story Points
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Story Points skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Story Points over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 393 485
Rank change year-on-year +44 +92 +103
Contract jobs citing Story Points 4 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.011% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.013% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £325 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £375 £588 £679
90th Percentile - - £727
England median daily rate £350 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -39.13% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Story Points 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Story Points as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in London

Story Points
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Points in London.

Daily rate trend for Story Points in London

Story Points
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Points within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Central London - 1 £350 -
Story Points
England

Story Points
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Grunt
1 2 (50.00%) webpack
2 1 (25.00%) ESLint
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) LESS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Sass
1 2 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (50.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (50.00%) B2B
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft