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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 138 121
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 -15
Contract jobs citing User Stories 298 333 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.25% 1.89% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.14% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 232 380
10th Percentile £390 £350 £405
25th Percentile £457 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £625
90th Percentile £730 £650 £700
England median daily rate £505 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -5.61% +1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £57.80
25th Percentile - £31.71 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £33.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -49.23% +10.64%
75th Percentile - £33.07 £69.38
90th Percentile - £52.83 £74.00
England median hourly rate £61.75 £33.04 £64.00
% change year-on-year +86.92% -48.38% +52.38%

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 12,188 15,591 23,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.48% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,144 11,105 16,751
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 296 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +14 61 £538 -2.27% 113
West London +13 4 £600 +71.43% 31
East London +11 3 £567 +8.52% 6
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 38 (12.75%) Confluence
2 7 (2.35%) CMS
2 7 (2.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.34%) JBoss
3 4 (1.34%) WordPress
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.67%) Drupal
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
Applications
1 15 (5.03%) MS Visio
2 12 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.67%) Sketch
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.35%) Temenos T24
3 6 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (1.01%) SAP HCM
5 3 (1.01%) Shopify
6 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.34%) HFM
6 1 (0.34%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.34%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 47 (15.77%) Azure
2 22 (7.38%) AWS
2 22 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (3.69%) GCP
5 11 (3.69%) SaaS
6 10 (3.36%) Figma
6 10 (3.36%) GitHub
7 6 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.01%) Miro
7 6 (2.01%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.34%) dbt
8 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.01%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.01%) BigCommerce
9 3 (1.01%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.01%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) WebEx
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) HTTP
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) Intranet
2 1 (0.34%) MQTT
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.37%) Power BI
2 12 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.02%) Tableau
4 7 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.34%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.34%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.34%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.67%) Cognos Query Studio
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.34%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.34%) GIS
8 1 (0.34%) Metadata
8 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 64 (21.48%) JIRA
2 10 (3.36%) Git
3 7 (2.35%) Selenium
4 6 (2.01%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.01%) MLflow
4 6 (2.01%) Postman
5 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.01%) Axure RP
5 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.01%) Gatling
5 3 (1.01%) GitLab
5 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.67%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.67%) JMeter
6 2 (0.67%) JUnit
6 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.67%) TestCafe
6 2 (0.67%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 134 (44.97%) Social Skills
2 94 (31.54%) Finance
3 48 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.05%) Banking
6 23 (7.72%) Retail
7 17 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (5.37%) Marketing
9 10 (3.36%) Back Office
9 10 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.02%) Front Office
10 9 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.68%) Law
12 6 (2.01%) Advertising
12 6 (2.01%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.01%) Legal
13 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 169 (56.71%) Analyst
2 159 (53.36%) Business Analyst
3 36 (12.08%) Senior
4 32 (10.74%) Product Owner
5 20 (6.71%) Technical Analyst
6 19 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
7 18 (6.04%) Senior Business Analyst
7 18 (6.04%) Technical Business Analyst
8 17 (5.70%) Data Business Analyst
9 15 (5.03%) Data Analyst
9 15 (5.03%) Product Manager
10 13 (4.36%) Consultant
11 11 (3.69%) Architect
11 11 (3.69%) Developer
12 9 (3.02%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 8 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
13 8 (2.68%) Tester
14 7 (2.35%) Automation Tester
15 6 (2.01%) Agile Business Analyst
15 6 (2.01%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.35%) ADO
2 5 (1.68%) XML
3 4 (1.34%) Gherkin
3 4 (1.34%) pytest
3 4 (1.34%) SOAP
4 3 (1.01%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.01%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.01%) Hugging Face
4 3 (1.01%) JSON
4 3 (1.01%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (1.01%) NumPy
4 3 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.01%) REST
4 3 (1.01%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.01%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (1.01%) Swagger
4 3 (1.01%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.01%) VML
4 3 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (25.84%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.37%) Reinsurance
3 11 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.35%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.01%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.68%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.34%) CMDB
7 4 (1.34%) Derivative
7 4 (1.34%) PMI
8 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.01%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.01%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.01%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.68%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (72.15%) Agile
2 69 (23.15%) Acceptance Criteria
3 66 (22.15%) Business Analysis
4 57 (19.13%) Scrum
5 55 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (17.45%) Requirements Gathering
7 48 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (15.77%) Roadmaps
8 47 (15.77%) Workshop Facilitation
9 43 (14.43%) DevOps
10 42 (14.09%) User Acceptance Testing
11 41 (13.76%) Product Backlog
12 38 (12.75%) Backlog Management
13 36 (12.08%) Analytics
14 35 (11.74%) Epics
15 33 (11.07%) Data Modelling
15 33 (11.07%) Use Case
16 32 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (10.40%) Sprint Planning
17 31 (10.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.42%) SQL
2 26 (8.72%) Python
3 19 (6.38%) Java
4 7 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.01%) VBA
6 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
6 5 (1.68%) Ruby
7 4 (1.34%) R
8 3 (1.01%) Bash
8 3 (1.01%) C#
8 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.01%) Go
8 3 (1.01%) Groovy
9 2 (0.67%) RPG
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (12.08%) Degree
1 36 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.68%) CBAP
4 5 (1.68%) IIBA
4 5 (1.68%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.34%) CSPO
5 4 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.67%) PMP
7 2 (0.67%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.34%) CFA
8 1 (0.34%) CLAS
8 1 (0.34%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.34%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.44%) QA
2 7 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.34%) MiFID
4 3 (1.01%) GDPR
5 2 (0.67%) GRC
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.34%) COPPA
6 1 (0.34%) EMIR
6 1 (0.34%) FATCA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) UCITS
System Software
1 8 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.02%) Terraform
2 7 (2.35%) Ansible
2 7 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.01%) Puppet
4 3 (1.01%) Grafana
4 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) SCCM
6 1 (0.34%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 30 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.05%) Salesforce
3 18 (6.04%) Oracle
4 17 (5.70%) SAP
5 7 (2.35%) Temenos
6 5 (1.68%) Adobe
6 5 (1.68%) FIS
7 4 (1.34%) Murex
7 4 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.01%) Citrix
8 3 (1.01%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.01%) DataRobot
8 3 (1.01%) IBM
8 3 (1.01%) Palantir
8 3 (1.01%) Siebel
8 3 (1.01%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.01%) Splunk
8 3 (1.01%) Workday
9 2 (0.67%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.67%) Guidewire