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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 155 118
Rank change year-on-year +47 -37 +3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 463 219 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 1.73% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 1.88% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 129 261
10th Percentile £350 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% +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 - £53.75
90th Percentile £75.59 - £61.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +17.62% -18.60%

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 15,580 11,677 15,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 92.12% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,440 7,940 11,323
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 173 329
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.23 £63.65 £66.10
England median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +16 66 £550 +7.32% 11
West London -21 7 £520 -13.33%
South London - 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 84 (18.14%) Confluence
2 14 (3.02%) CMS
3 11 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.86%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.65%) Camunda
6 2 (0.43%) Drupal
6 2 (0.43%) JBoss
6 2 (0.43%) SAS
6 2 (0.43%) WordPress
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.75%) MS Visio
3 15 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.65%) Notion
5 3 (0.65%) Sketch
6 2 (0.43%) InVision
6 2 (0.43%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.73%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.86%) ProductWriter
5 3 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.65%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.65%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.65%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.65%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.43%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.43%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (16.20%) Azure
2 41 (8.86%) Power Platform
3 30 (6.48%) AWS
4 26 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (3.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (3.24%) GCP
7 14 (3.02%) Power Automate
8 12 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.59%) PowerApps
9 11 (2.38%) Figma
9 11 (2.38%) SaaS
9 11 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 10 (2.16%) GitHub
11 9 (1.94%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.30%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.08%) Miro
13 5 (1.08%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.86%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.86%) Firewall
1 4 (0.86%) HTTP
1 4 (0.86%) Network Security
2 3 (0.65%) FTP
3 1 (0.22%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.22%) NGFW
3 1 (0.22%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.13%) Power BI
2 16 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.81%) Metadata
4 11 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 11 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.38%) Tableau
5 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.08%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.65%) Big Data
8 3 (0.65%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.65%) Parquet
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.43%) Redis
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 116 (25.05%) JIRA
2 12 (2.59%) Postman
3 11 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.16%) Git
5 8 (1.73%) Selenium
5 8 (1.73%) Zephyr
6 6 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.86%) GitLab
7 4 (0.86%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.86%) TestRail
8 3 (0.65%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.65%) JUnit
9 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
General
1 178 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 157 (33.91%) Finance
3 122 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.17%) Banking
5 52 (11.23%) Public Sector
6 35 (7.56%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (6.48%) Retail
9 23 (4.97%) Marketing
10 15 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.81%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.59%) Front Office
12 12 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.59%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.16%) Legal
14 6 (1.30%) Back Office
14 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.30%) Publishing
15 5 (1.08%) Military
16 4 (0.86%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 278 (60.04%) Analyst
2 256 (55.29%) Business Analyst
3 94 (20.30%) Senior
4 71 (15.33%) Senior Analyst
5 65 (14.04%) Senior Business Analyst
6 35 (7.56%) Product Owner
7 34 (7.34%) Salesforce Business Analyst
8 33 (7.13%) Salesforce Analyst
9 32 (6.91%) Technical Analyst
10 30 (6.48%) Technical Business Analyst
11 29 (6.26%) Product Manager
12 28 (6.05%) Developer
13 25 (5.40%) Implementation Analyst
14 20 (4.32%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
14 20 (4.32%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
15 19 (4.10%) Project Analyst
16 18 (3.89%) Financial Analyst
16 18 (3.89%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
17 17 (3.67%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (3.46%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.10%) REST
2 9 (1.94%) ADO
3 8 (1.73%) VML
3 8 (1.73%) XML
4 6 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.08%) HTML
5 5 (1.08%) JSON
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.08%) Web Services
6 4 (0.86%) .NET
6 4 (0.86%) Akka
6 4 (0.86%) Kafka
6 4 (0.86%) NumPy
6 4 (0.86%) Pandas
7 3 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.65%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.65%) CSS
7 3 (0.65%) JWT
7 3 (0.65%) PySpark
7 3 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 135 (29.16%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (3.02%) CMDB
4 14 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.16%) PMI
7 9 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.08%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.08%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.08%) NHS
10 5 (1.08%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.86%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.51%) Windows
2 2 (0.43%) Linux
3 1 (0.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (62.42%) Agile
2 194 (41.90%) Acceptance Criteria
3 160 (34.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 122 (26.35%) Requirements Gathering
4 122 (26.35%) Workshop Facilitation
5 118 (25.49%) Business Analysis
6 107 (23.11%) Scrum
7 105 (22.68%) User Acceptance Testing
8 83 (17.93%) DevOps
9 81 (17.49%) Data Modelling
9 81 (17.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 74 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (15.33%) Roadmaps
12 65 (14.04%) Sprint Planning
13 63 (13.61%) Backlog Management
14 59 (12.74%) Migration
15 57 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (11.66%) Analytics
17 50 (10.80%) Product Backlog
18 48 (10.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 58 (12.53%) SQL
2 30 (6.48%) Python
3 19 (4.10%) Java
4 12 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.51%) C#
6 5 (1.08%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.86%) R
7 4 (0.86%) Scala
7 4 (0.86%) VBA
8 3 (0.65%) Korn
9 2 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.43%) PHP
9 2 (0.43%) Ruby
9 2 (0.43%) XPath
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 74 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 61 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.80%) Degree
4 31 (6.70%) CBAP
5 22 (4.75%) IIBA
6 12 (2.59%) CSPO
6 12 (2.59%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.51%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.30%) ISEB
10 4 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.43%) MBA
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) PMP
13 1 (0.22%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (15.77%) QA
2 29 (6.26%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.18%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.38%) GDPR
5 6 (1.30%) SLA
6 5 (1.08%) NIST
6 5 (1.08%) PSD2
6 5 (1.08%) WCAG
7 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.43%) NCSC
9 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.22%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.22%) PERC
10 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (3.02%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) IAG
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.30%) Terraform
3 5 (1.08%) SCCM
4 2 (0.43%) CASB
4 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.22%) Kibana
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 69 (14.90%) Salesforce
3 37 (7.99%) SAP
4 31 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.54%) Oracle
6 10 (2.16%) Adobe
7 9 (1.94%) Databricks
7 9 (1.94%) Google
8 8 (1.73%) Workday
8 8 (1.73%) Zuora
9 6 (1.30%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.30%) Splunk
10 5 (1.08%) Cognizant
11 4 (0.86%) Cisco
11 4 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.86%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.65%) Adaptive Insights
12 3 (0.65%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.65%) Jitterbit