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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 121 131
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing User Stories 564 331 304
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.80% 2.43% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.64% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 211 208
10th Percentile £356 £380 £363
25th Percentile £437 £444 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £616
90th Percentile £695 £738 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £40.97 - -
25th Percentile £50.63 - £31.71
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £32.36
75th Percentile £62.19 - £33.02
90th Percentile £71.15 - £33.05
England median hourly rate £71.25 £53.50 £32.36
% change year-on-year +33.18% +65.35% -49.45%

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -5 73 £565 +7.62% 42
West London +1 20 £520 -13.33% 6
South London - 5 £675 - 3
North London - 3 - - 1
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 78 (13.83%) Confluence
2 24 (4.26%) CMS
3 10 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.89%) Camunda
4 5 (0.89%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Kentico
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (3.37%) MS Visio
2 15 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.24%) Notion
5 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.06%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.71%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.53%) Actimize
5 3 (0.53%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.53%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.53%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.53%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.35%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 120 (21.28%) Azure
2 59 (10.46%) Power Platform
3 48 (8.51%) AWS
3 48 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (3.55%) GCP
6 18 (3.19%) SaaS
7 17 (3.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 15 (2.66%) GitHub
8 15 (2.66%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 10 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.77%) Figma
11 8 (1.42%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.24%) Collibra
12 7 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (0.89%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (0.89%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.71%) Network Security
2 3 (0.53%) Firewall
3 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 2 (0.35%) Intranet
3 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.35%) WAN
3 2 (0.35%) Wireless
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) NGFW
4 1 (0.18%) SSH
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.62%) Power BI
2 29 (5.14%) Metadata
3 21 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.60%) Parquet
6 8 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.42%) Delta Lake
7 7 (1.24%) Tableau
8 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.89%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.35%) Redis
11 2 (0.35%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 126 (22.34%) JIRA
2 16 (2.84%) Postman
3 11 (1.95%) Git
4 8 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.06%) Selenium
6 5 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.89%) GitLab
7 4 (0.71%) Maven
7 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.71%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.53%) Gradle
9 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.35%) Mockito
9 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.18%) TestCafe
General
1 217 (38.48%) Social Skills
2 187 (33.16%) Finance
3 160 (28.37%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (18.09%) Banking
5 52 (9.22%) Public Sector
6 51 (9.04%) Retail
7 47 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (5.67%) Marketing
9 31 (5.50%) Investment Banking
10 21 (3.72%) Legal
11 20 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (3.01%) Front Office
13 16 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (2.66%) Retail Banking
15 14 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (2.13%) Local Government
17 11 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.60%) Back Office
19 8 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
19 8 (1.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 307 (54.43%) Analyst
2 276 (48.94%) Business Analyst
3 81 (14.36%) Senior
4 69 (12.23%) Product Owner
5 56 (9.93%) Senior Analyst
6 53 (9.40%) Senior Business Analyst
7 45 (7.98%) Developer
8 39 (6.91%) Technical Analyst
9 38 (6.74%) Product Manager
10 35 (6.21%) Lead
11 32 (5.67%) Technical Business Analyst
12 26 (4.61%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 25 (4.43%) Salesforce Analyst
14 21 (3.72%) Implementation Analyst
15 20 (3.55%) Data Analyst
15 20 (3.55%) Systems Analyst
16 17 (3.01%) Banking Analyst
17 16 (2.84%) Data Business Analyst
18 15 (2.66%) Architect
19 14 (2.48%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.37%) REST
2 18 (3.19%) JSON
3 11 (1.95%) .NET
3 11 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (1.77%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.77%) Kafka
5 8 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (1.42%) React
6 7 (1.24%) ADO
7 6 (1.06%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.06%) YAML
8 5 (0.89%) Middleware
8 5 (0.89%) RESTful
8 5 (0.89%) SOAP
8 5 (0.89%) XML
9 4 (0.71%) CSS
9 4 (0.71%) HTML
9 4 (0.71%) Pandas
9 4 (0.71%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.71%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (37.77%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (3.55%) CMDB
4 20 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.01%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.66%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.95%) FMCG
11 9 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.42%) Life Science
12 8 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.24%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.53%) Android
1 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.53%) Unix
2 2 (0.35%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (65.96%) Agile
2 247 (43.79%) Acceptance Criteria
3 246 (43.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 166 (29.43%) Requirements Gathering
4 166 (29.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 139 (24.65%) Scrum
6 137 (24.29%) Business Analysis
7 125 (22.16%) Workshop Facilitation
8 115 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (18.79%) DevOps
10 103 (18.26%) Sprint Planning
10 103 (18.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (17.02%) Product Backlog
12 94 (16.67%) Backlog Management
13 92 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 92 (16.31%) Roadmaps
14 86 (15.25%) AI
15 85 (15.07%) Data Modelling
16 83 (14.72%) Validation
17 81 (14.36%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (17.38%) SQL
2 49 (8.69%) Python
3 28 (4.96%) Java
4 18 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.95%) Apex Code
6 8 (1.42%) C#
7 5 (0.89%) Scala
8 4 (0.71%) Korn
9 3 (0.53%) R
9 3 (0.53%) Ruby
9 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.35%) SOQL
10 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.18%) SOSL
11 1 (0.18%) VBA
11 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 78 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 65 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.51%) Degree
4 10 (1.77%) CSPO
5 9 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.60%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.60%) IIBA
6 8 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.24%) PMP
8 6 (1.06%) CBAP
8 6 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.89%) ISEB
9 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.17%) QA
2 56 (9.93%) Data Quality
3 21 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.48%) GDPR
5 8 (1.42%) GRC
5 8 (1.42%) NIST
6 6 (1.06%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.89%) SLA
8 4 (0.71%) GxP
8 4 (0.71%) SEPA
9 3 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.53%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.53%) WCAG
10 2 (0.35%) COBIT
10 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.18%) FINREP
11 1 (0.18%) HL7
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 14 (2.48%) Docker
2 8 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.06%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.71%) Terraform
3 3 (0.53%) SCCM
4 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Argo
5 1 (0.18%) CASB
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 89 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.17%) Salesforce
3 43 (7.62%) SAP
4 37 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.19%) Google
6 14 (2.48%) Oracle
7 10 (1.77%) Databricks
7 10 (1.77%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.24%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.06%) Adobe
9 6 (1.06%) Pega
10 5 (0.89%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.89%) IBM
10 5 (0.89%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.89%) Splunk
10 5 (0.89%) Workday
11 4 (0.71%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.71%) Kronos
11 4 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.71%) Sage