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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 114 151
Rank change year-on-year +12 +37 -31
Contract jobs citing User Stories 599 340 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.94% 2.52% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 2.73% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 227 180
10th Percentile £358 £388 £396
25th Percentile £450 £453 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £42.78 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.49 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +74.66% -4.78% -45.11%
75th Percentile £60.63 £37.25 -
90th Percentile £69.67 £40.70 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.49 £33.07
% change year-on-year +122.29% -4.78% -37.60%

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -18 82 £550 - 69
West London -3 20 £520 +108.00% 19
North London - 6 £575 -
South London - 5 £650 - 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 95 (15.86%) Confluence
2 24 (4.01%) CMS
3 9 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.83%) Camunda
6 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.50%) Kentico
8 2 (0.33%) Traefik
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.34%) MS Visio
2 17 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.17%) Notion
5 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.83%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.50%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics SL
5 2 (0.33%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.33%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) OneSumX
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 128 (21.37%) Azure
2 75 (12.52%) Power Platform
3 61 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (9.02%) AWS
5 31 (5.18%) SaaS
6 30 (5.01%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (3.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 17 (2.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 17 (2.84%) Snowflake
9 16 (2.67%) GCP
10 14 (2.34%) GitHub
11 10 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.67%) Figma
11 10 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (1.67%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.50%) Miro
13 8 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.34%) PaaS
14 7 (1.17%) Collibra
14 7 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) Intranet
2 2 (0.33%) HTTP
2 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.33%) WAN
2 2 (0.33%) Wireless
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.85%) Power BI
2 31 (5.18%) Metadata
3 26 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.50%) Parquet
6 9 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.17%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.83%) ClickHouse
9 5 (0.83%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.83%) Tableau
10 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.50%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.50%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 136 (22.70%) JIRA
2 17 (2.84%) Git
3 12 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.00%) Maven
3 12 (2.00%) Postman
4 10 (1.67%) Gradle
5 7 (1.17%) GitLab
5 7 (1.17%) JUnit
5 7 (1.17%) Mockito
5 7 (1.17%) REST Assured
5 7 (1.17%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.00%) Selenium
6 6 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.33%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 221 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 210 (35.06%) Finance
3 156 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (18.20%) Banking
5 56 (9.35%) Retail
6 51 (8.51%) Public Sector
7 45 (7.51%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (5.18%) Investment Banking
9 26 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.34%) Marketing
10 21 (3.51%) Legal
11 18 (3.01%) Front Office
12 16 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.50%) Retail Banking
14 13 (2.17%) Local Government
14 13 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (2.00%) Back Office
16 9 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
17 7 (1.17%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 327 (54.59%) Analyst
2 294 (49.08%) Business Analyst
3 102 (17.03%) Senior
4 66 (11.02%) Product Owner
5 65 (10.85%) Senior Analyst
6 64 (10.68%) Senior Business Analyst
7 53 (8.85%) Developer
8 44 (7.35%) Product Manager
9 39 (6.51%) Technical Analyst
10 35 (5.84%) Lead
11 29 (4.84%) Technical Business Analyst
12 22 (3.67%) Data Analyst
13 20 (3.34%) Salesforce Analyst
13 20 (3.34%) Salesforce Business Analyst
14 19 (3.17%) Data Business Analyst
15 17 (2.84%) Systems Analyst
16 15 (2.50%) Insurance Business Analyst
16 15 (2.50%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
17 14 (2.34%) Banking Analyst
17 14 (2.34%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.17%) REST
2 17 (2.84%) JSON
3 13 (2.17%) Kafka
3 13 (2.17%) SOAP
3 13 (2.17%) Spring Boot
4 12 (2.00%) .NET
4 12 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
5 11 (1.84%) React
5 11 (1.84%) Spring
6 9 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.17%) CSS
7 7 (1.17%) Hibernate
7 7 (1.17%) HTML
7 7 (1.17%) JPA
7 7 (1.17%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.00%) Middleware
8 6 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.00%) RESTful
8 6 (1.00%) Web Services
8 6 (1.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 232 (38.73%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (3.01%) AI Agents
4 18 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.67%) CMDB
5 16 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.84%) FMCG
10 10 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.34%) Derivative
12 8 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.34%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (1.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.17%) Unix
2 6 (1.00%) Linux
3 3 (0.50%) Android
3 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (67.28%) Agile
2 284 (47.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 269 (44.91%) Acceptance Criteria
4 202 (33.72%) Requirements Gathering
5 180 (30.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 167 (27.88%) Workshop Facilitation
7 161 (26.88%) Business Analysis
8 154 (25.71%) Scrum
9 119 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 116 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (18.53%) DevOps
12 110 (18.36%) Product Backlog
13 108 (18.03%) Backlog Management
13 108 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (17.70%) Sprint Planning
15 104 (17.36%) Validation
16 99 (16.53%) AI
16 99 (16.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 97 (16.19%) Analytics
18 95 (15.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (19.20%) SQL
2 46 (7.68%) Python
3 31 (5.18%) Java
4 19 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.84%) C#
6 10 (1.67%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.83%) Korn
8 5 (0.83%) Scala
9 3 (0.50%) R
9 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.33%) Ruby
10 2 (0.33%) SOQL
11 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 82 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.35%) SC Cleared
3 51 (8.51%) Degree
4 13 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 13 (2.17%) PMP
5 10 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.67%) IIBA
6 8 (1.34%) CBAP
6 8 (1.34%) CSPO
6 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.67%) ISEB
8 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.33%) CISSP
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (10.85%) QA
2 63 (10.52%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.34%) GDPR
4 13 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.34%) GRC
5 8 (1.34%) ISO 20022
6 5 (0.83%) NIST
7 4 (0.67%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.67%) SEPA
8 3 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.50%) GxP
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.17%) FINREP
10 1 (0.17%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (3.51%) Docker
2 10 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.00%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.01%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.50%) Grafana
2 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.33%) Argo
3 2 (0.33%) Istio
3 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 102 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.18%) Salesforce
3 35 (5.84%) SAP
4 30 (5.01%) ServiceNow
5 14 (2.34%) Google
5 14 (2.34%) Oracle
6 12 (2.00%) Databricks
7 8 (1.34%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.17%) IBM
8 7 (1.17%) Pega
8 7 (1.17%) Zscaler
9 5 (0.83%) Adobe
9 5 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.83%) Guidewire
9 5 (0.83%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.83%) Planview
9 5 (0.83%) Veracode
10 4 (0.67%) Kronos
10 4 (0.67%) UiPath
11 3 (0.50%) Sage