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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 122 130
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing User Stories 537 315 327
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.72% 2.32% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.52% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 198 230
10th Percentile £358 £389 £350
25th Percentile £430 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £727 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £37.80 - -
25th Percentile £46.59 - £31.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £32.36
75th Percentile £71.15 - £33.02
90th Percentile £75.59 - £33.05
England median hourly rate £72.50 £61.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.41% +87.12% -48.44%

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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -20 66 £558 +11.50% 17
West London -2 16 £520 -13.33% 4
South London - 5 £675 - 1
North London - 3 - - 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 81 (15.08%) Confluence
2 23 (4.28%) CMS
3 10 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.93%) Camunda
4 5 (0.93%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.56%) Kentico
5 3 (0.56%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) Drupal
6 2 (0.37%) JBoss
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.54%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.12%) Notion
6 2 (0.37%) 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 10 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.12%) ProductWriter
4 4 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.56%) Actimize
5 3 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.56%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.56%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.56%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.37%) Shopify
6 2 (0.37%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 119 (22.16%) Azure
2 47 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
2 47 (8.75%) Power Platform
3 42 (7.82%) AWS
4 19 (3.54%) GCP
5 17 (3.17%) SaaS
5 17 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (2.61%) GitHub
6 14 (2.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 11 (2.05%) Figma
7 11 (2.05%) Snowflake
8 10 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.30%) Collibra
10 7 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.12%) Lucidchart
11 6 (1.12%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.74%) Network Security
2 3 (0.56%) Firewall
3 2 (0.37%) HTTP
3 2 (0.37%) Intranet
3 2 (0.37%) Wireless
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
4 1 (0.19%) NGFW
4 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.26%) Power BI
2 26 (4.84%) Metadata
3 23 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.68%) Data Lake
4 9 (1.68%) Delta Lake
4 9 (1.68%) Parquet
4 9 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.49%) Tableau
6 6 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.74%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.37%) ClickHouse
9 2 (0.37%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 126 (23.46%) JIRA
2 17 (3.17%) Postman
3 13 (2.42%) Git
4 8 (1.49%) Selenium
5 7 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.93%) GitLab
7 5 (0.93%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.74%) JUnit
8 4 (0.74%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.56%) Maven
10 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.37%) Gradle
10 2 (0.37%) Mockito
10 2 (0.37%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 202 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 170 (31.66%) Finance
3 148 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (15.64%) Banking
5 53 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 49 (9.12%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (8.94%) Retail
8 31 (5.77%) Marketing
9 24 (4.47%) Investment Banking
9 24 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (3.72%) Legal
11 16 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.79%) Front Office
13 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.68%) Back Office
14 9 (1.68%) Local Government
14 9 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
15 8 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 296 (55.12%) Analyst
2 265 (49.35%) Business Analyst
3 75 (13.97%) Senior
4 63 (11.73%) Product Owner
5 55 (10.24%) Senior Analyst
6 52 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
7 40 (7.45%) Developer
8 35 (6.52%) Product Manager
9 33 (6.15%) Technical Analyst
10 30 (5.59%) Salesforce Business Analyst
11 29 (5.40%) Salesforce Analyst
12 27 (5.03%) Technical Business Analyst
13 26 (4.84%) Implementation Analyst
14 24 (4.47%) Lead
15 21 (3.91%) Data Analyst
15 21 (3.91%) Data Business Analyst
16 20 (3.72%) Systems Analyst
17 18 (3.35%) Project Analyst
18 17 (3.17%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
18 17 (3.17%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.35%) REST
2 16 (2.98%) JSON
3 11 (2.05%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (1.86%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.68%) ADO
5 9 (1.68%) Kafka
6 8 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.30%) .NET
7 7 (1.30%) React
7 7 (1.30%) YAML
8 6 (1.12%) XML
9 5 (0.93%) Middleware
9 5 (0.93%) VML
10 4 (0.74%) CSS
10 4 (0.74%) Hibernate
10 4 (0.74%) HTML
10 4 (0.74%) JPA
10 4 (0.74%) NumPy
10 4 (0.74%) SOAP
10 4 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 193 (35.94%) Product Ownership
2 28 (5.21%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.47%) CMDB
4 21 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.23%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.68%) FMCG
10 9 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (1.49%) Life Science
11 8 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.30%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.56%) Android
1 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.37%) Unix
3 1 (0.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (64.25%) Agile
2 241 (44.88%) Acceptance Criteria
3 219 (40.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 148 (27.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 147 (27.37%) User Acceptance Testing
6 130 (24.21%) Scrum
7 123 (22.91%) Business Analysis
8 109 (20.30%) Workshop Facilitation
9 108 (20.11%) DevOps
10 104 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
11 97 (18.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 94 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
13 89 (16.57%) Product Backlog
14 86 (16.01%) Backlog Management
15 85 (15.83%) Roadmaps
16 84 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 82 (15.27%) Data Modelling
18 81 (15.08%) Validation
19 71 (13.22%) Analytics
20 69 (12.85%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 85 (15.83%) SQL
2 45 (8.38%) Python
3 27 (5.03%) Java
4 20 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 9 (1.68%) Apex Code
6 7 (1.30%) C#
7 4 (0.74%) Scala
8 3 (0.56%) Korn
8 3 (0.56%) R
8 3 (0.56%) Ruby
8 3 (0.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.37%) PHP
9 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.37%) VBA
10 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.19%) SOQL
10 1 (0.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 75 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.75%) Degree
4 12 (2.23%) CBAP
4 12 (2.23%) IIBA
5 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.68%) CSPO
7 8 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.49%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.93%) ISEB
10 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) PMP
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.66%) QA
2 44 (8.19%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.42%) GDPR
5 8 (1.49%) NIST
6 7 (1.30%) GRC
6 7 (1.30%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.74%) GxP
8 4 (0.74%) SEPA
8 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 4 (0.74%) WCAG
9 3 (0.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.37%) COBIT
10 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (2.61%) Docker
2 6 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.93%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.12%) Terraform
3 5 (0.93%) 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 83 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.85%) Salesforce
3 44 (8.19%) SAP
4 41 (7.64%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.17%) Google
6 14 (2.61%) Oracle
7 13 (2.42%) Databricks
8 8 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.30%) Workday
10 6 (1.12%) Adobe
10 6 (1.12%) Pega
11 5 (0.93%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.93%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.93%) Splunk
12 4 (0.74%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.74%) IBM
12 4 (0.74%) Kronos
12 4 (0.74%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.74%) Sage
13 3 (0.56%) Epicor