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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 143 124
Rank change year-on-year +32 -19 -28
Contract jobs citing User Stories 340 301 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.53% 1.86% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.09% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 190 332
10th Percentile £382 £362 £385
25th Percentile £450 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.98
25th Percentile - - £55.19
Median hourly rate £31.49 £33.07 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -45.11% -7.31%
75th Percentile £37.25 - £65.19
90th Percentile £40.70 - £67.33
England median hourly rate £31.49 £33.07 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.78% -37.60% -3.64%

All Process and 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 12,434 14,409 19,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.57% 89.23% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,225 9,616 14,380
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 180 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.67% +7.82%
75th Percentile £48.13 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +21 73 £550 -4.35% 72
West London - 3 £250 - 4
East London +1 1 £594 +12.34% 3
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 46 (13.53%) Confluence
2 9 (2.65%) CMS
3 6 (1.76%) WordPress
4 5 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.18%) Drupal
5 4 (1.18%) JBoss
5 4 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.88%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) Traefik
8 1 (0.29%) Appian
8 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.71%) MS Visio
2 15 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.88%) Sketch
6 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.29%) InVision
7 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.35%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.18%) Endur
4 4 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.88%) Shopify
6 2 (0.59%) HFM
6 2 (0.59%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.29%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.29%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.29%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.29%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.29%) Summit
7 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (14.71%) Azure
2 28 (8.24%) AWS
3 23 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (4.12%) GCP
6 13 (3.82%) GitHub
7 12 (3.53%) Figma
7 12 (3.53%) Miro
8 10 (2.94%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.06%) SaaS
11 5 (1.47%) Lucidchart
11 5 (1.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 5 (1.47%) Serverless
12 4 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.18%) dbt
12 4 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.18%) Slack
12 4 (1.18%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.59%) DNS
1 2 (0.59%) WebEx
2 1 (0.29%) Calico
2 1 (0.29%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) Intranet
2 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.82%) Power BI
2 12 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.65%) Tableau
5 8 (2.35%) Star Schema
6 7 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.88%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.88%) Tableau Desktop
10 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.59%) Metadata
10 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.59%) Tableau Server
11 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.29%) Big Data
11 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (22.94%) JIRA
2 11 (3.24%) Git
3 8 (2.35%) Postman
4 7 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.06%) MLflow
5 5 (1.47%) Selenium
6 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.18%) GitLab
6 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.18%) JUnit
7 3 (0.88%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.59%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.59%) ERwin
8 2 (0.59%) Gatling
8 2 (0.59%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.59%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.29%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 143 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 108 (31.76%) Finance
3 60 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.41%) Banking
4 32 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.18%) Marketing
5 21 (6.18%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (5.88%) Retail
7 16 (4.71%) Back Office
8 15 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (4.12%) Front Office
10 12 (3.53%) Investment Banking
10 12 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.35%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.35%) Law
12 7 (2.06%) Advertising
12 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 172 (50.59%) Analyst
2 169 (49.71%) Business Analyst
3 51 (15.00%) Product Owner
4 44 (12.94%) Senior
5 22 (6.47%) Senior Business Analyst
5 22 (6.47%) Technical Analyst
6 20 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
7 19 (5.59%) Senior Analyst
8 15 (4.41%) Product Manager
9 13 (3.82%) Lead
10 12 (3.53%) Consultant
10 12 (3.53%) Data Business Analyst
10 12 (3.53%) Developer
11 10 (2.94%) Architect
12 9 (2.65%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 7 (2.06%) Agile Business Analyst
13 7 (2.06%) Business Systems Analyst
13 7 (2.06%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (2.06%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 7 (2.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.35%) RESTful
1 8 (2.35%) SOAP
2 7 (2.06%) ADO
2 7 (2.06%) XML
3 5 (1.47%) Pandas
3 5 (1.47%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (1.18%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.18%) HTML
4 4 (1.18%) Playwright
4 4 (1.18%) pytest
4 4 (1.18%) REST
4 4 (1.18%) Swagger
5 3 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.88%) FastAPI
5 3 (0.88%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (0.88%) LangChain
5 3 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (0.88%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.88%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 102 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.29%) Reinsurance
3 12 (3.53%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.47%) Derivative
9 5 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.47%) PMI
10 4 (1.18%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.18%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) SCADA
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.65%) Linux
2 4 (1.18%) VMS
3 3 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (76.47%) Agile
2 85 (25.00%) Scrum
3 80 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 78 (22.94%) Acceptance Criteria
5 65 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (19.12%) Roadmaps
6 63 (18.53%) Business Analysis
7 62 (18.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 59 (17.35%) User Acceptance Testing
9 57 (16.76%) Product Backlog
10 53 (15.59%) Workshop Facilitation
11 51 (15.00%) Backlog Management
11 51 (15.00%) Data Modelling
12 50 (14.71%) DevOps
13 46 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 46 (13.53%) Use Case
14 45 (13.24%) Epics
15 44 (12.94%) Analytics
16 39 (11.47%) Sprint Planning
17 38 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (12.94%) SQL
2 31 (9.12%) Python
3 18 (5.29%) Java
4 7 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.76%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.47%) C#
6 5 (1.47%) Go
6 5 (1.47%) Ruby
6 5 (1.47%) VBA
7 4 (1.18%) Bash
8 3 (0.88%) Groovy
9 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.29%) Korn
10 1 (0.29%) PHP
10 1 (0.29%) R
10 1 (0.29%) SOQL
10 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (13.24%) Degree
2 36 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.76%) CSPO
6 5 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.18%) CBAP
8 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.88%) CFA
8 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 3 (0.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CCNA
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) IIBA
10 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.12%) QA
2 9 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.35%) GDPR
4 3 (0.88%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.88%) PSD2
4 3 (0.88%) SEPA
4 3 (0.88%) WCAG
5 2 (0.59%) EMIR
5 2 (0.59%) MiFID
5 2 (0.59%) PMO
5 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) Basel III
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) FATCA
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (4.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) etcd
2 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.53%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.53%) Terraform
2 8 (2.35%) Ansible
3 6 (1.76%) Puppet
4 4 (1.18%) Grafana
4 4 (1.18%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.59%) Istio
6 2 (0.59%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) Argo
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 36 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.71%) Salesforce
3 17 (5.00%) Oracle
4 14 (4.12%) SAP
5 8 (2.35%) Adobe
5 8 (2.35%) Temenos
6 5 (1.47%) Citrix
6 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.47%) Workday
7 4 (1.18%) Charles River
7 4 (1.18%) FIS
7 4 (1.18%) Google
7 4 (1.18%) Guidewire
7 4 (1.18%) Murex
8 3 (0.88%) Databricks
8 3 (0.88%) Dataiku
8 3 (0.88%) DataRobot
8 3 (0.88%) OpenLink
8 3 (0.88%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.88%) Splunk