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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 123 139
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing User Stories 529 307 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.69% 2.27% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.47% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 189 232
10th Percentile £362 £384 £350
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £726 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £37.80 - -
25th Percentile £46.59 - £31.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £33.00
75th Percentile £71.15 - £33.07
90th Percentile £75.59 - £52.83
England median hourly rate £72.50 £61.75 £33.04
% change year-on-year +17.41% +86.92% -48.38%

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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -6 65 £575 +9.52% 40
West London -8 14 £520 -13.33% 5
South London - 5 £675 - 1
North London - 2 - - 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 82 (15.50%) Confluence
2 22 (4.16%) CMS
3 10 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.76%) Camunda
6 3 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.57%) Kentico
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) Drupal
7 2 (0.38%) JBoss
7 2 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.59%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.13%) Notion
6 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) InVision
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
7 1 (0.19%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.13%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.57%) Actimize
5 3 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.57%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.57%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.57%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.38%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.38%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 117 (22.12%) Azure
2 47 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 42 (7.94%) AWS
5 17 (3.21%) GCP
6 16 (3.02%) SaaS
6 16 (3.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 13 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.46%) GitHub
7 13 (2.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (1.89%) Figma
9 9 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.70%) Snowflake
10 8 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.51%) Entra ID
11 7 (1.32%) Collibra
12 6 (1.13%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.13%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.95%) Miro
13 5 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.76%) Network Security
2 3 (0.57%) Firewall
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.38%) Wireless
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
4 1 (0.19%) Intranet
4 1 (0.19%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.18%) Power BI
2 21 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (3.97%) Metadata
3 9 (1.70%) Delta Lake
3 9 (1.70%) Parquet
3 9 (1.70%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.51%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.51%) Tableau
5 7 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.13%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.57%) Data Hub
8 3 (0.57%) Redis
9 2 (0.38%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.38%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.38%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.38%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 125 (23.63%) JIRA
2 17 (3.21%) Postman
3 13 (2.46%) Git
4 8 (1.51%) Selenium
5 7 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.76%) GitLab
8 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.57%) JUnit
10 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.38%) Maven
10 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.19%) VersionOne
General
1 201 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 171 (32.33%) Finance
3 143 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (15.69%) Banking
5 53 (10.02%) Public Sector
6 49 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (8.32%) Retail
8 28 (5.29%) Marketing
9 25 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (4.54%) Investment Banking
11 20 (3.78%) Legal
12 17 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.84%) Front Office
14 11 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.70%) Back Office
16 8 (1.51%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.51%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.51%) Retail Banking
17 7 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 289 (54.63%) Analyst
2 260 (49.15%) Business Analyst
3 73 (13.80%) Senior
4 65 (12.29%) Product Owner
5 55 (10.40%) Senior Analyst
6 52 (9.83%) Senior Business Analyst
7 41 (7.75%) Developer
8 33 (6.24%) Product Manager
8 33 (6.24%) Technical Analyst
9 30 (5.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
10 29 (5.48%) Salesforce Analyst
11 28 (5.29%) Implementation Analyst
11 28 (5.29%) Technical Business Analyst
12 22 (4.16%) Lead
13 20 (3.78%) Data Business Analyst
13 20 (3.78%) Systems Analyst
14 19 (3.59%) Data Analyst
14 19 (3.59%) Project Analyst
15 17 (3.21%) Banking Analyst
15 17 (3.21%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.78%) REST
2 15 (2.84%) JSON
3 10 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 10 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 9 (1.70%) ADO
5 8 (1.51%) .NET
5 8 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.32%) Kafka
7 6 (1.13%) React
7 6 (1.13%) VML
7 6 (1.13%) XML
7 6 (1.13%) YAML
8 5 (0.95%) Middleware
8 5 (0.95%) SOAP
9 4 (0.76%) NumPy
9 4 (0.76%) Pandas
9 4 (0.76%) RESTful
10 3 (0.57%) JWT
10 3 (0.57%) OpenAPI
10 3 (0.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 186 (35.16%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.10%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.35%) CMDB
4 20 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.32%) FMCG
10 7 (1.32%) Life Science
10 7 (1.32%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.95%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.57%) Android
1 3 (0.57%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (62.57%) Agile
2 239 (45.18%) Acceptance Criteria
3 210 (39.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 141 (26.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 136 (25.71%) User Acceptance Testing
6 131 (24.76%) Scrum
7 119 (22.50%) Business Analysis
8 109 (20.60%) DevOps
9 106 (20.04%) Workshop Facilitation
10 98 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (17.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 90 (17.01%) Sprint Planning
13 87 (16.45%) Product Backlog
14 85 (16.07%) Roadmaps
15 81 (15.31%) Data Modelling
16 80 (15.12%) Backlog Management
17 78 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 77 (14.56%) Validation
19 66 (12.48%) Analytics
20 63 (11.91%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (15.50%) SQL
2 44 (8.32%) Python
3 25 (4.73%) Java
4 19 (3.59%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.51%) Apex Code
5 8 (1.51%) C#
6 3 (0.57%) Korn
6 3 (0.57%) R
6 3 (0.57%) Ruby
6 3 (0.57%) Scala
6 3 (0.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.38%) PHP
7 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.38%) VBA
8 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 78 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.45%) Degree
4 15 (2.84%) IIBA
5 13 (2.46%) CBAP
6 11 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.70%) CSPO
8 8 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.13%) ISEB
11 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.38%) CISSP
14 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.38%) PMP
15 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.61%) QA
2 41 (7.75%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.08%) GDPR
5 8 (1.51%) NIST
6 7 (1.32%) GRC
7 6 (1.13%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.76%) GxP
9 4 (0.76%) SLA
10 3 (0.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.57%) SEPA
10 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.57%) WCAG
11 2 (0.38%) COBIT
11 2 (0.38%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.19%) GMP
12 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (2.84%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) IAG
2 4 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.13%) Terraform
3 5 (0.95%) SCCM
4 1 (0.19%) CASB
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 71 (13.42%) Salesforce
3 43 (8.13%) SAP
4 41 (7.75%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.84%) Google
5 15 (2.84%) Oracle
6 12 (2.27%) Databricks
7 8 (1.51%) Workday
8 6 (1.13%) Adobe
8 6 (1.13%) Zscaler
9 5 (0.95%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.95%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.95%) Pega
9 5 (0.95%) Splunk
10 4 (0.76%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.76%) Kronos
10 4 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.76%) Sage
11 3 (0.57%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.57%) Epicor