User Stories Contracts in London

User Story
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 114 118
Rank change year-on-year -42 +4 -12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 221 359 588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.76% 2.01% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.27% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 264 391
10th Percentile £400 £366 £413
25th Percentile £457 £455 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £607
90th Percentile £694 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £59.20
25th Percentile - £31.71 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £33.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -49.23% -16.93%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.00
90th Percentile - £61.10 £74.00
England median hourly rate £61.75 £42.75 £64.50
% change year-on-year +44.44% -33.72% +36.51%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in London.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -26 34 £513 -6.82% 11
East London +14 4 £594 +10.00%
West London +9 4 £600 +50.00% 5
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (15.84%) Confluence
2 4 (1.81%) CMS
3 3 (1.36%) Drupal
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (6.33%) MS Visio
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.36%) Sketch
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.36%) SAP HCM
3 3 (1.36%) Shopify
4 2 (0.90%) Kondor
5 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.36%) Azure
2 18 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (8.14%) Power Platform
3 15 (6.79%) AWS
4 7 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.71%) Figma
5 6 (2.71%) GitHub
5 6 (2.71%) SaaS
6 4 (1.81%) GCP
6 4 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.36%) BigCommerce
7 3 (1.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.90%) Miro
8 2 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) Network Security
2 2 (0.90%) WebEx
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) Intranet
3 1 (0.45%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.79%) Power BI
2 9 (4.07%) Tableau
3 6 (2.71%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.81%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 4 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.81%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (1.36%) Big Data
6 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.90%) Cognos Query Studio
7 2 (0.90%) GIS
7 2 (0.90%) Tableau Server
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.45%) DTS
8 1 (0.45%) Metadata
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (22.17%) JIRA
2 9 (4.07%) Git
3 7 (3.17%) Postman
4 6 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.26%) Selenium
6 3 (1.36%) Axure RP
6 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.36%) Gatling
6 3 (1.36%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.90%) GitLab
7 2 (0.90%) JMeter
7 2 (0.90%) JUnit
7 2 (0.90%) MLflow
7 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.90%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.45%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) NUnit
General
1 95 (42.99%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.98%) Finance
3 38 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.76%) Banking
5 23 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.79%) Retail
7 11 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.71%) Marketing
10 5 (2.26%) Back Office
11 4 (1.81%) Front Office
11 4 (1.81%) Legal
11 4 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.36%) Local Government
13 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.90%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (56.11%) Analyst
2 108 (48.87%) Business Analyst
3 33 (14.93%) Senior
4 26 (11.76%) Product Owner
5 14 (6.33%) Data Business Analyst
6 13 (5.88%) Consultant
6 13 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 12 (5.43%) Data Analyst
7 12 (5.43%) Senior Business Analyst
7 12 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
7 12 (5.43%) Technical Business Analyst
8 11 (4.98%) Developer
9 10 (4.52%) Senior Product Owner
10 9 (4.07%) Product Manager
11 8 (3.62%) Salesforce Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) Salesforce Business Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) SAP Analyst
12 7 (3.17%) Architect
12 7 (3.17%) Digital Analyst
13 6 (2.71%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.17%) ADO
2 5 (2.26%) .NET
3 4 (1.81%) JSON
3 4 (1.81%) XML
4 3 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.36%) pytest
4 3 (1.36%) REST
4 3 (1.36%) VML
4 3 (1.36%) Web Services
5 2 (0.90%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.90%) Gherkin
5 2 (0.90%) Hugging Face
5 2 (0.90%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (0.90%) LangChain
5 2 (0.90%) NumPy
5 2 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (0.90%) Playwright
5 2 (0.90%) pydantic
5 2 (0.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.90%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.24%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.81%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.36%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.36%) PMI
4 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.90%) CMDB
5 2 (0.90%) Educational Technology
5 2 (0.90%) IoT
5 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (0.90%) Online Banking
5 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
5 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.90%) Wiki
6 1 (0.45%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (71.49%) Agile
2 64 (28.96%) Acceptance Criteria
3 53 (23.98%) Business Analysis
4 52 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
5 48 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (18.10%) Workshop Facilitation
7 38 (17.19%) Scrum
7 38 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (14.93%) Roadmaps
9 31 (14.03%) Analytics
9 31 (14.03%) DevOps
9 31 (14.03%) Product Backlog
9 31 (14.03%) User Experience
10 29 (13.12%) Epics
11 26 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
12 23 (10.41%) Backlog Management
12 23 (10.41%) CRM
12 23 (10.41%) Decision-Making
12 23 (10.41%) Sprint Planning
13 22 (9.95%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (10.86%) SQL
2 18 (8.14%) Python
3 11 (4.98%) Java
4 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.81%) R
5 3 (1.36%) Bash
5 3 (1.36%) C#
5 3 (1.36%) Ruby
6 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.90%) RPG
6 2 (0.90%) VBA
7 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (14.03%) Degree
2 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.17%) CBAP
5 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.26%) CSPO
5 5 (2.26%) IIBA
6 4 (1.81%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.36%) CISA
7 3 (1.36%) CISSP
7 3 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.90%) PMP
8 2 (0.90%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.45%) ACCA
9 1 (0.45%) CFA
9 1 (0.45%) CIMA
9 1 (0.45%) CLAS
9 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.74%) QA
2 8 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.81%) GDPR
3 4 (1.81%) NIST
4 3 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.36%) MiFID
4 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.90%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) COPPA
6 1 (0.45%) EMIR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.45%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (2.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.26%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.26%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) Ansible
2 3 (1.36%) Grafana
2 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
2 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.36%) Puppet
3 2 (0.90%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 27 (12.22%) Salesforce
2 24 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.60%) SAP
4 10 (4.52%) Oracle
5 6 (2.71%) Adobe
6 5 (2.26%) Google
7 4 (1.81%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.81%) Splunk
8 3 (1.36%) IBM
8 3 (1.36%) Palantir
8 3 (1.36%) Siebel
9 2 (0.90%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.90%) Ariba
9 2 (0.90%) Calypso
9 2 (0.90%) Citrix
9 2 (0.90%) Cognos
9 2 (0.90%) DataRobot
9 2 (0.90%) Foundry
9 2 (0.90%) Informatica
9 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow