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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 155 120
Rank change year-on-year +44 -35 -17
Contract jobs citing User Stories 369 252 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 1.59% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.78% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 153 302
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £420 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £690 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -
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 £67.44 £33.07 £52.75
% change year-on-year +103.92% -37.31% -4.09%

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 12,890 14,145 17,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.50% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,461 9,134 12,846
10th Percentile £335 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.21% -3.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 170 241
10th Percentile £18.06 £17.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +3.36% -6.97%
75th Percentile £47.38 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.80 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +32 76 £510 -20.27% 16
West London - 3 £250 - 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 63 (17.07%) Confluence
2 9 (2.44%) CMS
3 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.08%) Drupal
4 4 (1.08%) JBoss
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.08%) WordPress
5 2 (0.54%) nginx
5 2 (0.54%) Traefik
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.27%) Appian
6 1 (0.27%) Kentico
6 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.88%) MS Visio
2 15 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.81%) Sketch
6 3 (0.81%) Trello
7 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.27%) InVision
8 1 (0.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 13 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.17%) Temenos T24
3 4 (1.08%) Endur
3 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.81%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.54%) HFM
5 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.54%) Shopify
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.27%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.27%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.27%) Summit
6 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.55%) Azure
2 30 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (7.59%) AWS
4 23 (6.23%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.42%) GCP
6 13 (3.52%) Miro
6 13 (3.52%) Snowflake
7 12 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (2.44%) Figma
9 8 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.17%) PowerApps
9 8 (2.17%) SaaS
9 8 (2.17%) Serverless
10 7 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.90%) dbt
10 7 (1.90%) GitHub
10 7 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 7 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) DNS
1 2 (0.54%) Firewall
1 2 (0.54%) HTTP
1 2 (0.54%) VPN
2 1 (0.27%) Calico
2 1 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.27%) FTP
2 1 (0.27%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) LAN
2 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.69%) Power BI
2 18 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (4.34%) Tableau
4 13 (3.52%) BigQuery
5 9 (2.44%) Star Schema
6 8 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.63%) Metadata
9 5 (1.36%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.81%) Tableau Desktop
12 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.54%) Tableau Server
13 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.27%) Big Data
13 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 103 (27.91%) JIRA
2 12 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.17%) Postman
4 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
4 7 (1.90%) Git
5 6 (1.63%) GitLab
5 6 (1.63%) Selenium
6 5 (1.36%) Zephyr
7 4 (1.08%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.08%) ERwin
7 4 (1.08%) JUnit
7 4 (1.08%) MLflow
7 4 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.54%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.54%) Gatling
9 2 (0.54%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.54%) Maven
9 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 154 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 102 (27.64%) Finance
3 68 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.67%) Banking
6 23 (6.23%) Marketing
7 21 (5.69%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (4.88%) Back Office
9 18 (4.88%) Retail
10 17 (4.61%) Front Office
11 14 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (3.79%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.63%) Billing
13 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.63%) Law
13 6 (1.63%) Legal
13 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 201 (54.47%) Analyst
2 187 (50.68%) Business Analyst
3 48 (13.01%) Product Owner
4 46 (12.47%) Senior
5 33 (8.94%) Technical Analyst
6 32 (8.67%) Technical Business Analyst
7 23 (6.23%) Senior Analyst
8 21 (5.69%) Product Manager
8 21 (5.69%) Senior Business Analyst
9 16 (4.34%) Lead
10 12 (3.25%) Test Analyst
11 11 (2.98%) Consultant
11 11 (2.98%) Product Analyst
11 11 (2.98%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 10 (2.71%) Data Business Analyst
12 10 (2.71%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 9 (2.44%) Agile Business Analyst
13 9 (2.44%) Business Systems Analyst
13 9 (2.44%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.44%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.98%) XML
2 9 (2.44%) ADO
2 9 (2.44%) RESTful
3 7 (1.90%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (1.90%) Gherkin
4 6 (1.63%) SOAP
5 5 (1.36%) HTML
5 5 (1.36%) REST
6 4 (1.08%) JSON
6 4 (1.08%) Playwright
6 4 (1.08%) React
6 4 (1.08%) Swagger
7 3 (0.81%) Akka
7 3 (0.81%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.81%) Kafka
7 3 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.81%) Node.js
7 3 (0.81%) Pandas
8 2 (0.54%) Flask
8 2 (0.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 108 (29.27%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.07%) Reinsurance
3 14 (3.79%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (2.44%) PMI
8 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.90%) Derivative
9 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.08%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.08%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.44%) Windows
2 7 (1.90%) Linux
3 4 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (75.07%) Agile
2 109 (29.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (27.64%) Scrum
4 98 (26.56%) Acceptance Criteria
5 90 (24.39%) Requirements Gathering
6 72 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (19.51%) User Acceptance Testing
7 70 (18.97%) Workshop Facilitation
8 69 (18.70%) Business Analysis
9 68 (18.43%) Backlog Management
10 63 (17.07%) Roadmaps
11 62 (16.80%) Data Modelling
12 58 (15.72%) DevOps
12 58 (15.72%) Product Backlog
13 53 (14.36%) Analytics
14 51 (13.82%) Use Case
15 48 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 42 (11.38%) Epics
16 42 (11.38%) Sprint Planning
17 41 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (13.28%) SQL
2 22 (5.96%) Python
3 19 (5.15%) Java
4 6 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.08%) C#
5 4 (1.08%) Korn
5 4 (1.08%) VBA
6 3 (0.81%) Go
6 3 (0.81%) Scala
7 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.54%) Ruby
8 1 (0.27%) Bash
8 1 (0.27%) PHP
8 1 (0.27%) SOQL
8 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 48 (13.01%) Degree
2 46 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 43 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.25%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.17%) CBAP
5 8 (2.17%) CSPO
6 7 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.36%) CFA
9 4 (1.08%) PMP
10 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.81%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 3 (0.81%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (14.63%) QA
2 13 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.25%) GDPR
4 7 (1.90%) WCAG
5 5 (1.36%) PSD2
5 5 (1.36%) SEPA
6 3 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.54%) EMIR
7 2 (0.54%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.54%) MiFID
7 2 (0.54%) NCSC
7 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) FATCA
8 1 (0.27%) PERC
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (3.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) etcd
3 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.63%) Terraform
3 4 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.81%) Grafana
4 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.54%) Ansible
5 2 (0.54%) Istio
6 1 (0.27%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 46 (12.47%) Microsoft
2 38 (10.30%) Salesforce
3 22 (5.96%) Oracle
4 11 (2.98%) SAP
4 11 (2.98%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.17%) Adobe
5 8 (2.17%) Temenos
6 7 (1.90%) Databricks
7 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.36%) Workday
8 4 (1.08%) Charles River
8 4 (1.08%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.08%) Murex
9 3 (0.81%) Citrix
9 3 (0.81%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.81%) OneTrust
9 3 (0.81%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.54%) FIS
10 2 (0.54%) Tagetik
10 2 (0.54%) UiPath