User Stories Contracts in London

User Story
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 116 106
Rank change year-on-year -11 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 363 589 1,018
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.04% 2.19% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.41% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 393 736
10th Percentile £359 £413 £400
25th Percentile £453 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £538 £525 £516
% change year-on-year +2.38% +1.69% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile - £59.20 £58.38
25th Percentile £31.71 £62.00 £69.06
Median hourly rate £33.00 £65.00 £78.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.23% -16.93% +17.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £61.10 £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £42.75 £64.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year -33.72% +36.51% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,768 24,449 35,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.61% 91.02% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,296 17,572 26,215
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 279 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.60 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +7.11% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.88 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.90 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in London.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +32 66 £550 +4.76% 20
West London +2 7 £400 -33.33% 2
East London -2 5 £540 +20.00% 3
South London +9 3 £425 -38.63% 1
North London - 1 - -
User Stories
England

User Stories
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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (6.61%) SharePoint
2 23 (6.34%) Confluence
3 11 (3.03%) CMS
4 7 (1.93%) Drupal
5 5 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) Camunda
8 1 (0.28%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.28%) Moodle
8 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.65%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.65%) Sketch
3 5 (1.38%) InVision
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.83%) Trello
4 3 (0.83%) Zeplin
5 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.28%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 14 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.38%) Shopify
3 4 (1.10%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.83%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.28%) Endur
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.28%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 80 (22.04%) Azure
2 46 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 18 (4.96%) AWS
5 17 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (3.03%) Power Automate
6 11 (3.03%) SaaS
7 10 (2.75%) Figma
8 8 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.93%) Miro
10 6 (1.65%) GCP
11 5 (1.38%) BigCommerce
11 5 (1.38%) PaaS
12 4 (1.10%) Lucidchart
12 4 (1.10%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.83%) GitHub
13 3 (0.83%) IBM Blueworks
13 3 (0.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 2 (0.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.38%) DNS
1 5 (1.38%) SNA
2 4 (1.10%) DHCP
2 4 (1.10%) Firewall
2 4 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.55%) Internet
3 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.99%) Power BI
2 17 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (3.58%) Data Lake
4 9 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.38%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.38%) Siebel EIM
7 4 (1.10%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.83%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.55%) Looker
9 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.55%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.55%) Tableau
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.28%) Big Data
10 1 (0.28%) Metadata
10 1 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (11.85%) JIRA
2 16 (4.41%) Postman
2 16 (4.41%) SoapUI
3 15 (4.13%) Git
4 11 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.48%) Appium
5 9 (2.48%) eggPlant
5 9 (2.48%) JUnit
5 9 (2.48%) REST Assured
5 9 (2.48%) Selenium
5 9 (2.48%) SOAtest
5 9 (2.48%) TestNG
5 9 (2.48%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.38%) GitLab
7 4 (1.10%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.83%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.55%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.55%) JMeter
9 2 (0.55%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 106 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 105 (28.93%) Finance
3 54 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.34%) Banking
6 20 (5.51%) Back Office
7 16 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.13%) Marketing
9 13 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.31%) Retail
11 8 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.38%) Front Office
14 5 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.38%) Military
14 5 (1.38%) Publishing
15 4 (1.10%) Games
16 3 (0.83%) Aviation
16 3 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 169 (46.56%) Analyst
2 146 (40.22%) Business Analyst
3 48 (13.22%) Senior
4 41 (11.29%) Product Owner
5 27 (7.44%) Technical Analyst
6 23 (6.34%) Developer
7 22 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
8 21 (5.79%) Consultant
8 21 (5.79%) Senior Business Analyst
9 20 (5.51%) Data Business Analyst
10 19 (5.23%) Financial Analyst
11 17 (4.68%) Data Analyst
11 17 (4.68%) Project Manager
12 16 (4.41%) Finance Business Analyst
12 16 (4.41%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 13 (3.58%) Data Migration Analyst
13 13 (3.58%) Data Migration Business Analyst
13 13 (3.58%) Migration Analyst
14 12 (3.31%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.51%) .NET
2 15 (4.13%) .NET Framework
3 9 (2.48%) SOAP
4 8 (2.20%) ASP.NET
4 8 (2.20%) HTML
4 8 (2.20%) React
5 7 (1.93%) CSS
6 6 (1.65%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (1.65%) REST
6 6 (1.65%) Web Services
7 5 (1.38%) ADO
7 5 (1.38%) VML
8 4 (1.10%) Flask
8 4 (1.10%) LDAP
8 4 (1.10%) Node.js
8 4 (1.10%) SAP PI
9 3 (0.83%) CSS3
9 3 (0.83%) JSON
9 3 (0.83%) RESTful
9 3 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (28.10%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.31%) Mobile App
3 7 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (1.65%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.38%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.38%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.10%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.83%) Clustering
7 3 (0.83%) CMDB
7 3 (0.83%) LIMS
7 3 (0.83%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (0.55%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.38%) Linux
2 4 (1.10%) Windows
3 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (58.95%) Agile
2 124 (34.16%) Acceptance Criteria
3 83 (22.87%) Scrum
4 73 (20.11%) Requirements Gathering
5 71 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (19.28%) DevOps
7 58 (15.98%) Business Analysis
8 55 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
9 53 (14.60%) Epics
10 50 (13.77%) Workshop Facilitation
11 43 (11.85%) Roadmaps
12 41 (11.29%) Product Backlog
13 40 (11.02%) Migration
13 40 (11.02%) Test Automation
14 35 (9.64%) Backlog Management
14 35 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (8.82%) Use Case
16 31 (8.54%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 31 (8.54%) Data Analysis
16 31 (8.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (12.12%) SQL
2 19 (5.23%) C#
3 17 (4.68%) Python
4 13 (3.58%) Java
5 8 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.10%) C
7 4 (1.10%) Go
8 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.83%) VBA
9 2 (0.55%) Ruby
10 1 (0.28%) Bicep
10 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.28%) R
10 1 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 37 (10.19%) Degree
2 37 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.20%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.20%) PMI Certification
3 8 (2.20%) PMP
4 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.10%) MBA
6 3 (0.83%) CBAP
6 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CEH
8 1 (0.28%) CISM
8 1 (0.28%) CISSP
8 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (13.22%) QA
2 24 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.20%) WCAG
6 5 (1.38%) IFRS
6 5 (1.38%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.83%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.83%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.55%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.28%) Basel II
9 1 (0.28%) Basel III
9 1 (0.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (1.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Matomo
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.41%) SAP
3 14 (3.86%) Oracle
4 12 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.75%) Adobe
6 8 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.65%) Google
8 5 (1.38%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.38%) Siebel
8 5 (1.38%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.10%) Databricks
9 4 (1.10%) Dell
9 4 (1.10%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.10%) Hotjar
9 4 (1.10%) Informatica
9 4 (1.10%) Intel
9 4 (1.10%) Screaming Frog
9 4 (1.10%) SimCorp
10 3 (0.83%) CyberSource
10 3 (0.83%) MicroStrategy