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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 114 148
Rank change year-on-year +10 +34 -29
Contract jobs citing User Stories 601 334 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.97% 2.49% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 2.69% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 232 173
10th Percentile £358 £381 £400
25th Percentile £433 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £683 £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 £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.49 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +74.66% -4.78% -45.11%
75th Percentile £62.19 £37.25 -
90th Percentile £71.15 £40.70 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £31.49 £33.07
% change year-on-year +130.23% -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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £664 £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 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 8 October 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 8 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 -9 82 £550 - 70
West London -3 17 £520 +108.00% 5
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
1 106 (17.64%) Confluence
2 23 (3.83%) CMS
3 6 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.83%) Camunda
5 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.50%) Kentico
7 2 (0.33%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (3.66%) MS Visio
2 20 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.16%) Notion
6 3 (0.50%) Productboard
7 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.67%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.50%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics SL
5 2 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.33%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) OneSumX
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (22.13%) Azure
2 80 (13.31%) Power Platform
3 67 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (8.65%) AWS
5 32 (5.32%) SaaS
6 28 (4.66%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 18 (3.00%) Snowflake
8 17 (2.83%) GCP
9 15 (2.50%) GitHub
9 15 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 12 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.66%) Miro
11 10 (1.66%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.50%) PaaS
13 8 (1.33%) Figma
14 7 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Intranet
2 2 (0.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.33%) WAN
2 2 (0.33%) Wireless
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) CTI
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) PBX
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
3 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.82%) Power BI
2 31 (5.16%) Metadata
3 30 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.16%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.00%) Parquet
9 5 (0.83%) ClickHouse
9 5 (0.83%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.83%) Tableau
10 4 (0.67%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.67%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.50%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.50%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 145 (24.13%) JIRA
2 19 (3.16%) Git
3 13 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.16%) Maven
4 11 (1.83%) Gradle
5 10 (1.66%) Postman
6 7 (1.16%) GitLab
6 7 (1.16%) JUnit
6 7 (1.16%) Mockito
6 7 (1.16%) REST Assured
6 7 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.00%) Selenium
7 6 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 231 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 214 (35.61%) Finance
3 154 (25.62%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (19.30%) Banking
5 57 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 54 (8.99%) Retail
7 49 (8.15%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (6.32%) Investment Banking
9 25 (4.16%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.83%) Legal
10 23 (3.83%) Marketing
11 19 (3.16%) Front Office
12 15 (2.50%) Local Government
12 15 (2.50%) Retail Banking
13 13 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.00%) Back Office
15 11 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 330 (54.91%) Analyst
2 293 (48.75%) Business Analyst
3 97 (16.14%) Senior
4 69 (11.48%) Product Owner
5 61 (10.15%) Senior Analyst
6 60 (9.98%) Senior Business Analyst
7 54 (8.99%) Developer
8 49 (8.15%) Product Manager
9 40 (6.66%) Technical Analyst
10 35 (5.82%) Lead
11 26 (4.33%) Technical Business Analyst
12 22 (3.66%) Data Analyst
13 20 (3.33%) Data Business Analyst
14 18 (3.00%) Salesforce Analyst
15 17 (2.83%) Salesforce Business Analyst
16 15 (2.50%) Consultant
16 15 (2.50%) Insurance Business Analyst
16 15 (2.50%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.50%) Systems Analyst
17 14 (2.33%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.49%) REST
2 18 (3.00%) JSON
3 14 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 13 (2.16%) Kafka
4 13 (2.16%) Lightning Web Components
4 13 (2.16%) SOAP
5 12 (2.00%) .NET
5 12 (2.00%) Spring
6 11 (1.83%) React
7 10 (1.66%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.33%) ADO
8 8 (1.33%) Hibernate
8 8 (1.33%) JPA
9 7 (1.16%) CSS
9 7 (1.16%) HTML
9 7 (1.16%) RESTful
9 7 (1.16%) SailPoint
10 6 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (1.00%) Terraform
10 6 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 229 (38.10%) Product Ownership
2 30 (4.99%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.00%) AI Agents
3 18 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.83%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.33%) CMDB
5 14 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.16%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.83%) FMCG
8 11 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.33%) Derivative
10 8 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.16%) IoT
11 7 (1.16%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.16%) Unix
2 6 (1.00%) Linux
3 3 (0.50%) Android
3 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (68.72%) Agile
2 294 (48.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 278 (46.26%) Acceptance Criteria
4 215 (35.77%) Requirements Gathering
5 186 (30.95%) User Acceptance Testing
6 172 (28.62%) Workshop Facilitation
7 166 (27.62%) Business Analysis
8 160 (26.62%) Scrum
9 120 (19.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 118 (19.63%) Product Backlog
11 116 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 113 (18.80%) DevOps
13 110 (18.30%) Validation
14 109 (18.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 109 (18.14%) Sprint Planning
15 107 (17.80%) Backlog Management
16 104 (17.30%) Roadmaps
17 99 (16.47%) AI
18 97 (16.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 123 (20.47%) SQL
2 41 (6.82%) Python
3 31 (5.16%) Java
4 20 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.83%) Apex Code
5 11 (1.83%) C#
6 7 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.83%) Korn
8 5 (0.83%) Scala
9 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.33%) R
10 2 (0.33%) Ruby
10 2 (0.33%) SOQL
11 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 85 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 72 (11.98%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.48%) Degree
4 14 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.16%) CBAP
5 13 (2.16%) PMP
6 11 (1.83%) IIBA
7 10 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.16%) CSPO
10 4 (0.67%) ISEB
10 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) CISSP
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.17%) CRISC
12 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.31%) QA
2 61 (10.15%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.33%) GDPR
4 13 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.33%) GRC
5 8 (1.33%) ISO 20022
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
7 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.67%) SEPA
8 3 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.50%) GxP
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) Basel III
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.17%) COBIT
10 1 (0.17%) EMIR
10 1 (0.17%) FINREP
System Software
1 23 (3.83%) Docker
2 11 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.83%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.33%) Argo
4 2 (0.33%) Istio
4 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 106 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.15%) Salesforce
3 34 (5.66%) SAP
4 27 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.33%) Oracle
6 13 (2.16%) Google
7 12 (2.00%) Databricks
8 8 (1.33%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.16%) IBM
9 7 (1.16%) Pega
9 7 (1.16%) Zscaler
10 5 (0.83%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.83%) Guidewire
10 5 (0.83%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.83%) Planview
10 5 (0.83%) Veracode
11 4 (0.67%) Adobe
11 4 (0.67%) Kronos
11 4 (0.67%) UiPath
12 3 (0.50%) Sage