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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 118 136
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing User Stories 555 324 311
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.77% 2.38% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.59% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 207 210
10th Percentile £354 £378 £363
25th Percentile £432 £444 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £733 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £40.16 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £31.71
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £32.36
75th Percentile £63.75 - £33.02
90th Percentile £72.63 - £33.05
England median hourly rate £72.50 £61.75 £32.36
% change year-on-year +17.41% +90.85% -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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -11 71 £565 +7.62% 25
West London -2 19 £520 -13.33% 8
South London - 5 £675 - 2
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 76 (13.69%) Confluence
2 24 (4.32%) CMS
3 10 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.90%) Camunda
4 5 (0.90%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.54%) Kentico
5 3 (0.54%) SAS
6 2 (0.36%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.24%) MS Visio
2 15 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.08%) Notion
6 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.08%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.54%) Actimize
5 3 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.54%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.54%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.54%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.36%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.36%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 117 (21.08%) Azure
2 54 (9.73%) Power Platform
3 46 (8.29%) AWS
4 45 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (3.78%) GCP
7 17 (3.06%) SaaS
8 16 (2.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 15 (2.70%) GitHub
10 14 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 12 (2.16%) Entra ID
12 11 (1.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (1.80%) Figma
14 8 (1.44%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.26%) Collibra
15 7 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.26%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 5 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (0.90%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) Network Security
2 3 (0.54%) Firewall
3 2 (0.36%) HTTP
3 2 (0.36%) Intranet
3 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.36%) WAN
3 2 (0.36%) Wireless
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.57%) Power BI
2 27 (4.86%) Metadata
3 20 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.62%) Delta Lake
5 9 (1.62%) Parquet
6 8 (1.44%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.26%) Tableau
8 6 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.90%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.54%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.36%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.36%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.36%) Redis
12 2 (0.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 126 (22.70%) JIRA
2 16 (2.88%) Postman
3 11 (1.98%) Git
4 8 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (1.26%) Selenium
6 6 (1.08%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.90%) GitLab
8 4 (0.72%) Maven
8 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.72%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.54%) Gradle
10 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.36%) JUnit
10 2 (0.36%) Mockito
10 2 (0.36%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 212 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 185 (33.33%) Finance
3 156 (28.11%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (17.48%) Banking
5 50 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.01%) Retail
6 48 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (5.59%) Marketing
8 30 (5.41%) Investment Banking
9 21 (3.78%) Legal
10 20 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (3.06%) Front Office
12 15 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.70%) Retail Banking
13 13 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.62%) Back Office
15 9 (1.62%) Local Government
16 8 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 303 (54.59%) Analyst
2 271 (48.83%) Business Analyst
3 81 (14.59%) Senior
4 70 (12.61%) Product Owner
5 58 (10.45%) Senior Analyst
6 55 (9.91%) Senior Business Analyst
7 44 (7.93%) Developer
8 38 (6.85%) Technical Analyst
9 35 (6.31%) Product Manager
10 31 (5.59%) Lead
10 31 (5.59%) Technical Business Analyst
11 28 (5.05%) Salesforce Business Analyst
12 27 (4.86%) Salesforce Analyst
13 23 (4.14%) Implementation Analyst
14 21 (3.78%) Systems Analyst
15 19 (3.42%) Data Analyst
16 17 (3.06%) Banking Analyst
17 16 (2.88%) Project Analyst
17 16 (2.88%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
17 16 (2.88%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.24%) JSON
2 17 (3.06%) REST
3 10 (1.80%) AngularJS
3 10 (1.80%) Kafka
4 9 (1.62%) .NET
4 9 (1.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 8 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (1.44%) React
6 7 (1.26%) ADO
7 6 (1.08%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.08%) YAML
8 5 (0.90%) Middleware
8 5 (0.90%) RESTful
8 5 (0.90%) XML
9 4 (0.72%) CSS
9 4 (0.72%) HTML
9 4 (0.72%) NumPy
9 4 (0.72%) SOAP
9 4 (0.72%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.72%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 208 (37.48%) Product Ownership
2 31 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.96%) CMDB
4 21 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.24%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.70%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.52%) Cloud Native
9 14 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.98%) FMCG
12 9 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.44%) Life Science
13 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.44%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.54%) Android
1 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.54%) Unix
2 2 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (64.86%) Agile
2 240 (43.24%) Acceptance Criteria
3 238 (42.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 165 (29.73%) Requirements Gathering
5 162 (29.19%) User Acceptance Testing
6 138 (24.86%) Scrum
7 132 (23.78%) Business Analysis
8 119 (21.44%) Workshop Facilitation
9 112 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (18.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 101 (18.20%) Sprint Planning
12 100 (18.02%) DevOps
13 96 (17.30%) Product Backlog
14 94 (16.94%) Backlog Management
14 94 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 87 (15.68%) Roadmaps
16 85 (15.32%) Data Modelling
17 82 (14.77%) Validation
18 80 (14.41%) AI
19 78 (14.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 92 (16.58%) SQL
2 49 (8.83%) Python
3 28 (5.05%) Java
4 19 (3.42%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.62%) Apex Code
6 7 (1.26%) C#
7 5 (0.90%) Scala
8 3 (0.54%) Korn
8 3 (0.54%) R
8 3 (0.54%) Ruby
8 3 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.36%) VBA
10 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.18%) SOQL
10 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 77 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 64 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.47%) Degree
4 10 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.62%) CSPO
5 9 (1.62%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.44%) IIBA
6 8 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.26%) PMP
8 6 (1.08%) CBAP
8 6 (1.08%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.90%) ISEB
9 5 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.35%) QA
2 52 (9.37%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.16%) GDPR
5 8 (1.44%) GRC
5 8 (1.44%) NIST
6 6 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.72%) GxP
8 4 (0.72%) SEPA
8 4 (0.72%) SLA
9 3 (0.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.54%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.54%) WCAG
10 2 (0.36%) COBIT
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.18%) FINREP
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (2.52%) Docker
2 8 (1.44%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.08%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.90%) SCCM
3 4 (0.72%) Terraform
4 1 (0.18%) Argo
4 1 (0.18%) CASB
4 1 (0.18%) Grafana
4 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.18%) Kibana
4 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 62 (11.17%) Salesforce
3 46 (8.29%) SAP
4 40 (7.21%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.42%) Google
6 14 (2.52%) Oracle
7 11 (1.98%) Databricks
8 10 (1.80%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.26%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.08%) Pega
10 6 (1.08%) Workday
11 5 (0.90%) Adobe
11 5 (0.90%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.90%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.90%) Splunk
12 4 (0.72%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.72%) IBM
12 4 (0.72%) Kronos
12 4 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.72%) Sage