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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 126 133
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing User Stories 513 292 337
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 2.25% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.44% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 178 235
10th Percentile £362 £400 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £615 £647 £600
90th Percentile £675 £732 £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 17,155 11,979 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,402 8,003 11,123
10th Percentile £358 £335 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 267 225 302
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £68.68
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -10 67 £575 +6.98% 51
West London -12 12 £520 -13.33% 5
South London - 4 £700 - 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 (14.81%) Confluence
2 21 (4.09%) CMS
3 8 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.97%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.78%) Camunda
6 3 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.58%) Kentico
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) Drupal
7 2 (0.39%) JBoss
7 2 (0.39%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.51%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.17%) Notion
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) InVision
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
7 1 (0.19%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.36%) 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 (0.58%) Actimize
5 3 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.58%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.58%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.58%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.39%) Shopify
6 2 (0.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 113 (22.03%) Azure
2 45 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (8.38%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.80%) AWS
5 17 (3.31%) GCP
6 16 (3.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 15 (2.92%) SaaS
8 13 (2.53%) GitHub
8 13 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 12 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.75%) Figma
11 8 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.56%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.56%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.17%) Collibra
12 6 (1.17%) Fivetran
12 6 (1.17%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.17%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.97%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.78%) Network Security
2 3 (0.58%) Firewall
3 2 (0.39%) Wireless
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
4 1 (0.19%) HTTP
4 1 (0.19%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.02%) Power BI
2 21 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.51%) Metadata
4 9 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 8 (1.56%) Tableau
6 7 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.36%) Parquet
7 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.58%) Data Hub
9 3 (0.58%) Redis
10 2 (0.39%) ClickHouse
10 2 (0.39%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 118 (23.00%) JIRA
2 17 (3.31%) Postman
3 13 (2.53%) Git
4 8 (1.56%) Selenium
5 7 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.78%) GitLab
8 4 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.78%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.58%) JUnit
10 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.39%) Maven
10 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Gatling
11 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) TestRail
11 1 (0.19%) VersionOne
General
1 190 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 168 (32.75%) Finance
3 139 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (15.98%) Banking
5 47 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.97%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (8.58%) Retail
8 28 (5.46%) Marketing
9 27 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (4.48%) Investment Banking
11 18 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (3.31%) Legal
13 15 (2.92%) Front Office
14 12 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.75%) Back Office
15 9 (1.75%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
16 8 (1.56%) Retail Banking
17 7 (1.36%) Local Government
17 7 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 283 (55.17%) Analyst
2 254 (49.51%) Business Analyst
3 77 (15.01%) Senior
4 62 (12.09%) Product Owner
5 59 (11.50%) Senior Analyst
6 56 (10.92%) Senior Business Analyst
7 40 (7.80%) Developer
8 34 (6.63%) Product Manager
8 34 (6.63%) Technical Analyst
9 31 (6.04%) Salesforce Business Analyst
10 30 (5.85%) Implementation Analyst
10 30 (5.85%) Salesforce Analyst
11 28 (5.46%) Technical Business Analyst
12 21 (4.09%) Lead
12 21 (4.09%) Project Analyst
13 19 (3.70%) Data Business Analyst
13 19 (3.70%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
13 19 (3.70%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
13 19 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (3.51%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.90%) REST
2 12 (2.34%) JSON
3 10 (1.95%) AngularJS
3 10 (1.95%) Lightning Web Components
4 9 (1.75%) ADO
5 8 (1.56%) .NET
5 8 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.36%) Kafka
6 7 (1.36%) VML
6 7 (1.36%) XML
6 7 (1.36%) YAML
7 5 (0.97%) Middleware
7 5 (0.97%) React
7 5 (0.97%) SOAP
8 4 (0.78%) NumPy
8 4 (0.78%) Pandas
9 3 (0.58%) JPA
9 3 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.58%) RESTful
9 3 (0.58%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 180 (35.09%) Product Ownership
2 25 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.29%) CMDB
4 21 (4.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.34%) Cloud Native
9 11 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.36%) FMCG
11 7 (1.36%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.17%) Life Science
12 6 (1.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.58%) Android
1 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Unix
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (62.57%) Agile
2 235 (45.81%) Acceptance Criteria
3 201 (39.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 133 (25.93%) Requirements Gathering
5 130 (25.34%) User Acceptance Testing
6 128 (24.95%) Scrum
7 111 (21.64%) Business Analysis
8 109 (21.25%) DevOps
9 104 (20.27%) Workshop Facilitation
10 98 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 94 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (17.15%) Sprint Planning
13 86 (16.76%) Product Backlog
14 84 (16.37%) Roadmaps
15 81 (15.79%) Backlog Management
15 81 (15.79%) Data Modelling
16 77 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 72 (14.04%) Validation
18 63 (12.28%) Analytics
19 61 (11.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 77 (15.01%) SQL
2 42 (8.19%) Python
3 24 (4.68%) Java
4 18 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.56%) Apex Code
5 8 (1.56%) C#
6 3 (0.58%) Korn
6 3 (0.58%) R
6 3 (0.58%) Ruby
6 3 (0.58%) Scala
7 2 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
7 2 (0.39%) PHP
7 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.39%) VBA
8 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 74 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.55%) Degree
4 17 (3.31%) CBAP
4 17 (3.31%) IIBA
5 10 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.75%) CSPO
7 8 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.97%) ISEB
9 5 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CISM
13 1 (0.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (14.42%) QA
2 36 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.68%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.14%) GDPR
5 8 (1.56%) NIST
6 7 (1.36%) GRC
7 5 (0.97%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.78%) GxP
8 4 (0.78%) SLA
9 3 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.39%) COBIT
10 2 (0.39%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.39%) PSD2
10 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.39%) WCAG
11 1 (0.19%) GMP
11 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (2.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.58%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.17%) Terraform
3 5 (0.97%) SCCM
4 1 (0.19%) CASB
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 71 (13.84%) Salesforce
3 44 (8.58%) SAP
4 40 (7.80%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.92%) Oracle
6 14 (2.73%) Google
7 10 (1.95%) Databricks
8 8 (1.56%) Workday
9 6 (1.17%) Adobe
9 6 (1.17%) Zscaler
10 5 (0.97%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.97%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.97%) Pega
10 5 (0.97%) Splunk
11 4 (0.78%) CyberArk
11 4 (0.78%) Kronos
11 4 (0.78%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.78%) Sage
12 3 (0.58%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.58%) Zuora