User Stories Contract Job Trends in London

User Story
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 123 153
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing User Stories 586 329 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.92% 2.48% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.68% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 212 182
10th Percentile £358 £386 £364
25th Percentile £447 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.02% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £42.78 - £33.01
25th Percentile £51.25 - £33.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.49 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year +74.66% -4.68% -45.17%
75th Percentile £60.63 - £33.05
90th Percentile £69.67 - £33.06
England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.49 £33.04
% change year-on-year +122.29% -4.68% -37.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in London

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in London

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing User Stories

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for User Stories in London

User Stories
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 User Stories within the London region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Central London -12 76 £550 +4.76% 48
West London +1 20 £520 +28.55% 24
North London - 5 £550 - 1
South London - 4 £675 - 2
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 89 (15.19%) Confluence
2 24 (4.10%) CMS
3 10 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.19%) Camunda
5 5 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.51%) Kentico
7 2 (0.34%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 17 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.19%) Notion
6 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.85%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.51%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics SL
5 2 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 127 (21.67%) Azure
2 64 (10.92%) Power Platform
3 57 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (9.22%) AWS
5 29 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (4.61%) SaaS
7 18 (3.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 17 (2.90%) GCP
9 16 (2.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 15 (2.56%) Snowflake
11 12 (2.05%) GitHub
12 10 (1.71%) Figma
13 9 (1.54%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.19%) Collibra
15 7 (1.19%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (1.02%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Intranet
2 2 (0.34%) HTTP
2 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.34%) WAN
2 2 (0.34%) Wireless
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.36%) Power BI
2 29 (4.95%) Metadata
3 19 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.54%) Parquet
6 8 (1.37%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.19%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.85%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.85%) Tableau
10 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.68%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.51%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.34%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.34%) Redis
12 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 135 (23.04%) JIRA
2 14 (2.39%) Postman
3 13 (2.22%) Git
4 12 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.54%) Maven
6 7 (1.19%) GitLab
6 7 (1.19%) JUnit
6 7 (1.19%) Mockito
6 7 (1.19%) REST Assured
6 7 (1.19%) Selenium
6 7 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (1.02%) Gradle
8 5 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.51%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 233 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 194 (33.11%) Finance
3 166 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (18.77%) Banking
5 56 (9.56%) Retail
6 52 (8.87%) Public Sector
7 49 (8.36%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (4.95%) Investment Banking
9 28 (4.78%) Marketing
10 21 (3.58%) Legal
11 20 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (2.73%) Front Office
14 15 (2.56%) Retail Banking
15 14 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.22%) Local Government
17 11 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.71%) Back Office
19 7 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
19 7 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 325 (55.46%) Analyst
2 289 (49.32%) Business Analyst
3 91 (15.53%) Senior
4 65 (11.09%) Product Owner
5 62 (10.58%) Senior Analyst
6 59 (10.07%) Senior Business Analyst
7 54 (9.22%) Developer
8 40 (6.83%) Technical Analyst
9 38 (6.48%) Lead
10 36 (6.14%) Product Manager
11 30 (5.12%) Technical Business Analyst
12 25 (4.27%) Salesforce Analyst
12 25 (4.27%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 20 (3.41%) Data Analyst
14 18 (3.07%) Implementation Analyst
14 18 (3.07%) Systems Analyst
15 15 (2.56%) Banking Analyst
15 15 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
15 15 (2.56%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
16 14 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.92%) REST
2 16 (2.73%) JSON
3 13 (2.22%) Kafka
4 12 (2.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (1.88%) .NET
5 11 (1.88%) AngularJS
5 11 (1.88%) React
6 9 (1.54%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.19%) CSS
7 7 (1.19%) Hibernate
7 7 (1.19%) HTML
7 7 (1.19%) JPA
7 7 (1.19%) RESTful
7 7 (1.19%) SailPoint
7 7 (1.19%) SOAP
7 7 (1.19%) Spring
8 6 (1.02%) ADO
8 6 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.02%) YAML
9 5 (0.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 218 (37.20%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (3.07%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.90%) CMDB
6 17 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.56%) Cloud Native
9 13 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.88%) FMCG
10 11 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.88%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.37%) Life Science
12 8 (1.37%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.19%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.51%) Android
1 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.51%) Unix
2 2 (0.34%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (66.72%) Agile
2 268 (45.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 259 (44.20%) Acceptance Criteria
4 191 (32.59%) Requirements Gathering
5 181 (30.89%) User Acceptance Testing
6 157 (26.79%) Workshop Facilitation
7 153 (26.11%) Scrum
8 151 (25.77%) Business Analysis
9 126 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (19.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 114 (19.45%) DevOps
12 109 (18.60%) Sprint Planning
13 103 (17.58%) Backlog Management
14 101 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 101 (17.24%) Product Backlog
15 94 (16.04%) Validation
16 89 (15.19%) AI
16 89 (15.19%) Roadmaps
17 83 (14.16%) Analytics
18 82 (13.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (17.92%) SQL
2 47 (8.02%) Python
3 30 (5.12%) Java
4 20 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.05%) Apex Code
6 10 (1.71%) C#
7 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.85%) Scala
9 4 (0.68%) Korn
10 3 (0.51%) R
10 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.34%) Ruby
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 70 (11.95%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.02%) Degree
4 12 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.71%) IIBA
6 9 (1.54%) CSPO
6 9 (1.54%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.37%) CBAP
7 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.19%) PMP
9 6 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.68%) ISEB
11 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) CISSP
12 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (11.26%) QA
2 56 (9.56%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.22%) GDPR
5 9 (1.54%) GRC
6 6 (1.02%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.02%) NIST
7 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.68%) GxP
8 4 (0.68%) SEPA
9 3 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.51%) SLA
9 3 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.34%) COBIT
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.17%) FINREP
11 1 (0.17%) PMO
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.56%) Docker
2 10 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.02%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.51%) Grafana
2 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.34%) Argo
3 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 95 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.26%) Salesforce
3 42 (7.17%) SAP
4 30 (5.12%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.73%) Google
6 12 (2.05%) Databricks
6 12 (2.05%) Oracle
7 8 (1.37%) IBM
8 7 (1.19%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.19%) Zscaler
9 5 (0.85%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.85%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.85%) Pega
9 5 (0.85%) Veracode
10 4 (0.68%) Adobe
10 4 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.68%) Kronos
11 3 (0.51%) Duck Creek
11 3 (0.51%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.51%) Workday