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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 118 146
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -26
Contract jobs citing User Stories 617 328 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.01% 2.45% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 2.65% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 224 169
10th Percentile £358 £363 £393
25th Percentile £435 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £50.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.49 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +74.66% -4.78% -45.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £37.25 -
90th Percentile £60.63 £40.70 -
England median hourly rate £76.21 £31.49 £33.07
% change year-on-year +142.00% -4.78% -37.60%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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
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 15 October 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 -11 88 £550 - 10
West London -6 16 £520 +108.00% 2
North London - 6 £575 -
South London - 5 £650 -
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
1 111 (17.99%) Confluence
2 24 (3.89%) CMS
3 5 (0.81%) Camunda
3 5 (0.81%) Kentico
3 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.65%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.65%) Traefik
5 3 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.49%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.73%) MS Visio
2 20 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.13%) Notion
6 3 (0.49%) Productboard
6 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 17 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.49%) ProductWriter
3 3 (0.49%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics SL
4 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.32%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) OneSumX
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 137 (22.20%) Azure
2 81 (13.13%) Power Platform
3 71 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (8.43%) AWS
5 32 (5.19%) SaaS
6 29 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (3.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 18 (2.92%) GitHub
8 18 (2.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 18 (2.92%) Snowflake
9 16 (2.59%) GCP
10 12 (1.94%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (1.62%) Miro
11 10 (1.62%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.46%) PaaS
13 8 (1.30%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.30%) Figma
13 8 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) Intranet
2 2 (0.32%) HTTP
2 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.32%) WAN
2 2 (0.32%) Wireless
3 1 (0.16%) 5G
3 1 (0.16%) CTI
3 1 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.16%) PBX
3 1 (0.16%) SSH
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (10.70%) Power BI
2 31 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (5.02%) Metadata
3 21 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (0.97%) Parquet
8 5 (0.81%) ClickHouse
8 5 (0.81%) Data Hub
8 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.81%) Tableau
9 4 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.65%) Delta Lake
9 4 (0.65%) MySQL
10 3 (0.49%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.49%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.49%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.32%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 153 (24.80%) JIRA
2 20 (3.24%) Git
3 14 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.11%) Maven
5 12 (1.94%) Gradle
6 10 (1.62%) Postman
7 8 (1.30%) GitLab
7 8 (1.30%) REST Assured
8 7 (1.13%) JUnit
8 7 (1.13%) Mockito
8 7 (1.13%) Selenium
8 7 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.32%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 232 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 223 (36.14%) Finance
3 157 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (19.12%) Banking
5 57 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 54 (8.75%) Retail
7 51 (8.27%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (6.48%) Investment Banking
9 26 (4.21%) Legal
10 24 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (3.73%) Marketing
12 21 (3.40%) Front Office
13 15 (2.43%) Local Government
13 15 (2.43%) Retail Banking
14 12 (1.94%) Back Office
15 11 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.46%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 342 (55.43%) Analyst
2 306 (49.59%) Business Analyst
3 104 (16.86%) Senior
4 68 (11.02%) Product Owner
5 65 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
6 64 (10.37%) Senior Business Analyst
7 53 (8.59%) Developer
8 47 (7.62%) Product Manager
9 39 (6.32%) Technical Analyst
10 37 (6.00%) Lead
11 26 (4.21%) Technical Business Analyst
12 23 (3.73%) Data Analyst
13 21 (3.40%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.76%) Consultant
14 17 (2.76%) Salesforce Analyst
15 16 (2.59%) Salesforce Business Analyst
16 15 (2.43%) Insurance Business Analyst
16 15 (2.43%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.27%) Banking Analyst
17 14 (2.27%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.54%) REST
2 18 (2.92%) JSON
3 17 (2.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (2.43%) SOAP
4 15 (2.43%) Spring Boot
5 14 (2.27%) .NET
6 13 (2.11%) Spring
7 12 (1.94%) Kafka
8 10 (1.62%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.62%) React
9 8 (1.30%) ADO
9 8 (1.30%) Hibernate
9 8 (1.30%) JPA
9 8 (1.30%) Middleware
9 8 (1.30%) RESTful
10 7 (1.13%) CSS
10 7 (1.13%) HTML
10 7 (1.13%) SailPoint
10 7 (1.13%) Swagger
10 7 (1.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 231 (37.44%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.40%) AI Agents
4 19 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.92%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.11%) CMDB
6 13 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.78%) FMCG
9 10 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.30%) Derivative
11 8 (1.30%) Market Risk
11 8 (1.30%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.13%) Unix
2 6 (0.97%) Linux
3 4 (0.65%) Android
3 4 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (68.40%) Agile
2 301 (48.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 295 (47.81%) Acceptance Criteria
4 224 (36.30%) Requirements Gathering
5 191 (30.96%) User Acceptance Testing
6 183 (29.66%) Workshop Facilitation
7 175 (28.36%) Business Analysis
8 162 (26.26%) Scrum
9 121 (19.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 117 (18.96%) DevOps
10 117 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (18.96%) Product Backlog
11 112 (18.15%) Validation
12 111 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (17.83%) Sprint Planning
14 109 (17.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 107 (17.34%) Backlog Management
16 106 (17.18%) AI
17 105 (17.02%) Roadmaps
18 99 (16.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 125 (20.26%) SQL
2 41 (6.65%) Python
3 32 (5.19%) Java
4 20 (3.24%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.94%) Apex Code
6 10 (1.62%) C#
7 7 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.81%) Korn
8 5 (0.81%) Scala
8 5 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.32%) R
10 2 (0.32%) Ruby
10 2 (0.32%) SOQL
11 1 (0.16%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.16%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 88 (14.26%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 59 (9.56%) Degree
4 14 (2.27%) IIBA
4 14 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.11%) CBAP
5 13 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.11%) PMP
6 10 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.46%) CSPO
8 8 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.65%) ISEB
9 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.32%) CISSP
10 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.35%) QA
2 61 (9.89%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.11%) GDPR
5 8 (1.30%) GRC
5 8 (1.30%) ISO 20022
6 5 (0.81%) NIST
6 5 (0.81%) WCAG
7 4 (0.65%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.65%) SEPA
8 3 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.49%) GxP
9 2 (0.32%) Basel III
9 2 (0.32%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.16%) COBIT
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (4.05%) Docker
2 11 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.65%) IAG
Systems Management
1 20 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.65%) Grafana
2 4 (0.65%) Istio
2 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.32%) Argo
3 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.16%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 108 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.56%) Salesforce
3 32 (5.19%) SAP
4 26 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 17 (2.76%) Oracle
6 12 (1.94%) Google
7 11 (1.78%) Databricks
8 8 (1.30%) CyberArk
8 8 (1.30%) IBM
9 7 (1.13%) Pega
9 7 (1.13%) Zscaler
10 5 (0.81%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.81%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.81%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.81%) Planview
10 5 (0.81%) Veracode
11 4 (0.65%) Adobe
11 4 (0.65%) Kronos
11 4 (0.65%) UiPath
11 4 (0.65%) webMethods