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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 127 126
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 511 271 350
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.67% 2.15% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.32% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 163 245
10th Percentile £359 £392 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £675 £736 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +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 - £33.07
90th Percentile £75.59 - £52.83
England median hourly rate £72.50 £61.75 £33.04
% change year-on-year +17.41% +86.92% -48.38%

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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +2 69 £570 +6.05% 11
West London -20 11 £520 -13.33% 2
South London - 4 £700 -
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 75 (14.68%) Confluence
2 20 (3.91%) CMS
3 8 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.78%) Camunda
6 3 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.59%) Kentico
6 3 (0.59%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) Drupal
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
7 2 (0.39%) WordPress
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 16 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.17%) Notion
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) InVision
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.17%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.59%) Actimize
5 3 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.59%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.59%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.59%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.39%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.39%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (21.72%) Azure
2 44 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (7.44%) Power Platform
4 36 (7.05%) AWS
5 17 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (2.94%) GCP
7 14 (2.74%) GitHub
7 14 (2.74%) SaaS
8 12 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 9 (1.76%) Figma
11 8 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.57%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.57%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.17%) Fivetran
12 6 (1.17%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.17%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.98%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (0.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) Network Security
2 3 (0.59%) Firewall
3 2 (0.39%) Wireless
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.07%) Power BI
2 17 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (3.33%) Metadata
3 9 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.57%) Tableau
5 7 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.37%) Delta Lake
5 7 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.17%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.17%) Parquet
6 6 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.59%) Redis
9 2 (0.39%) Big Data
9 2 (0.39%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (0.20%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 118 (23.09%) JIRA
2 17 (3.33%) Postman
3 13 (2.54%) Git
4 8 (1.57%) Selenium
5 7 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.78%) GitLab
8 4 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.78%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.59%) JUnit
10 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.39%) Maven
10 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.20%) Mockito
11 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 187 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 167 (32.68%) Finance
3 135 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (16.44%) Banking
5 47 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 45 (8.81%) Documentation Skills
6 45 (8.81%) Retail
7 28 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (5.28%) Marketing
9 22 (4.31%) Investment Banking
10 17 (3.33%) Legal
11 16 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.54%) Front Office
12 13 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.96%) Back Office
13 10 (1.96%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.57%) Corporate Banking
14 8 (1.57%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 283 (55.38%) Analyst
2 254 (49.71%) Business Analyst
3 86 (16.83%) Senior
4 64 (12.52%) Senior Analyst
5 60 (11.74%) Product Owner
5 60 (11.74%) Senior Business Analyst
6 40 (7.83%) Developer
7 35 (6.85%) Product Manager
8 33 (6.46%) Salesforce Business Analyst
9 32 (6.26%) Salesforce Analyst
9 32 (6.26%) Technical Analyst
10 30 (5.87%) Implementation Analyst
11 27 (5.28%) Technical Business Analyst
12 22 (4.31%) Project Analyst
13 21 (4.11%) Lead
14 20 (3.91%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
14 20 (3.91%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
15 19 (3.72%) Data Business Analyst
15 19 (3.72%) Systems Analyst
16 18 (3.52%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.91%) REST
2 10 (1.96%) JSON
3 9 (1.76%) ADO
3 9 (1.76%) AngularJS
4 8 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 8 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (1.57%) VML
5 7 (1.37%) .NET
5 7 (1.37%) XML
6 5 (0.98%) Kafka
6 5 (0.98%) React
6 5 (0.98%) YAML
7 4 (0.78%) NumPy
7 4 (0.78%) Pandas
8 3 (0.59%) JWT
8 3 (0.59%) PySpark
8 3 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.59%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.59%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 176 (34.44%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (3.91%) CMDB
5 18 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.15%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.76%) PMI
10 8 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.37%) FMCG
11 7 (1.37%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.17%) Life Science
13 5 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.59%) Android
1 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (61.64%) Agile
2 231 (45.21%) Acceptance Criteria
3 197 (38.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 130 (25.44%) User Acceptance Testing
5 129 (25.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 121 (23.68%) Scrum
7 111 (21.72%) Business Analysis
8 109 (21.33%) DevOps
9 106 (20.74%) Workshop Facilitation
10 96 (18.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 88 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
12 87 (17.03%) Sprint Planning
13 83 (16.24%) Product Backlog
13 83 (16.24%) Roadmaps
14 78 (15.26%) Backlog Management
15 77 (15.07%) Data Modelling
16 74 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (13.89%) Validation
18 59 (11.55%) Analytics
19 58 (11.35%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (13.89%) SQL
2 38 (7.44%) Python
3 22 (4.31%) Java
4 18 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.37%) C#
6 6 (1.17%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.59%) Korn
7 3 (0.59%) R
7 3 (0.59%) Ruby
8 2 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.39%) PHP
8 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.39%) VBA
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) Scala
9 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 74 (14.48%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.35%) SC Cleared
3 53 (10.37%) Degree
4 22 (4.31%) CBAP
5 18 (3.52%) IIBA
6 10 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.76%) CSPO
8 8 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.98%) ISEB
12 4 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.39%) CISSP
14 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.20%) CEH
15 1 (0.20%) CISM
15 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (15.07%) QA
2 34 (6.65%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.70%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.15%) GDPR
5 8 (1.57%) NIST
6 7 (1.37%) GRC
7 6 (1.17%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.78%) GxP
9 4 (0.78%) SLA
10 3 (0.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.59%) PSD2
10 3 (0.59%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.39%) COBIT
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.39%) WCAG
12 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (2.94%) Docker
2 4 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.39%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.17%) Terraform
3 5 (0.98%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) CASB
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.20%) Kibana
4 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 70 (13.70%) Salesforce
3 44 (8.61%) SAP
4 38 (7.44%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.13%) Oracle
6 12 (2.35%) Google
7 10 (1.96%) Databricks
8 8 (1.57%) Workday
9 6 (1.17%) Adobe
9 6 (1.17%) Zscaler
10 5 (0.98%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.98%) Splunk
11 4 (0.78%) Cognizant
11 4 (0.78%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.78%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.78%) Kronos
11 4 (0.78%) Pega
11 4 (0.78%) Sage
12 3 (0.59%) Epicor
12 3 (0.59%) QAD