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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 116 142
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 -22
Contract jobs citing User Stories 568 336 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.83% 2.50% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 2.71% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 216 207
10th Percentile £358 £383 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £617
90th Percentile £714 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £42.78 - £33.01
25th Percentile £51.25 - £33.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £33.04
75th Percentile £60.63 - £33.05
90th Percentile £69.67 - £33.06
England median hourly rate £70.00 £53.50 £33.04
% change year-on-year +30.84% +61.95% -51.06%

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -5 75 £565 +7.62% 49
West London -3 20 £520 +28.55% 8
South London - 5 £675 - 2
North London - 4 £550 - 3
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 83 (14.61%) Confluence
2 24 (4.23%) CMS
3 10 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.88%) Camunda
4 5 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Kentico
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.17%) MS Visio
2 17 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.23%) Notion
5 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.06%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.53%) Actimize
4 3 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.53%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.35%) Dynamics SL
5 2 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.35%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.18%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (20.60%) Azure
2 62 (10.92%) Power Platform
3 50 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (8.63%) AWS
5 28 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (3.70%) SaaS
7 18 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 16 (2.82%) GCP
8 16 (2.82%) Snowflake
9 14 (2.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 11 (1.94%) GitHub
11 9 (1.58%) Figma
11 9 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.41%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.41%) PowerApps
13 7 (1.23%) Collibra
13 7 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.70%) Network Security
2 3 (0.53%) Firewall
3 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 2 (0.35%) Intranet
3 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.35%) WAN
3 2 (0.35%) Wireless
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) NGFW
4 1 (0.18%) SSH
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.27%) Power BI
2 29 (5.11%) Metadata
3 21 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.58%) Parquet
6 8 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.23%) Delta Lake
7 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.06%) Tableau
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.88%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.53%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.35%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) Redis
12 2 (0.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 131 (23.06%) JIRA
2 15 (2.64%) Postman
3 10 (1.76%) Git
4 7 (1.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.06%) Selenium
6 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.70%) GitLab
7 4 (0.70%) Maven
7 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.70%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.53%) Gradle
9 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.35%) Mockito
9 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.18%) TestCafe
General
1 226 (39.79%) Social Skills
2 192 (33.80%) Finance
3 162 (28.52%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (18.66%) Banking
5 52 (9.15%) Retail
6 50 (8.80%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (8.63%) Public Sector
8 32 (5.63%) Marketing
9 30 (5.28%) Investment Banking
10 22 (3.87%) Legal
11 21 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (2.64%) Front Office
13 15 (2.64%) Retail Banking
14 12 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.94%) Local Government
15 11 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.76%) Back Office
17 8 (1.41%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 313 (55.11%) Analyst
2 281 (49.47%) Business Analyst
3 81 (14.26%) Senior
4 66 (11.62%) Product Owner
5 57 (10.04%) Senior Analyst
6 54 (9.51%) Senior Business Analyst
7 47 (8.27%) Developer
8 41 (7.22%) Technical Analyst
9 39 (6.87%) Product Manager
10 35 (6.16%) Lead
11 32 (5.63%) Technical Business Analyst
12 26 (4.58%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 25 (4.40%) Salesforce Analyst
14 20 (3.52%) Data Analyst
15 19 (3.35%) Implementation Analyst
15 19 (3.35%) Systems Analyst
16 16 (2.82%) Architect
16 16 (2.82%) Banking Analyst
16 16 (2.82%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (2.64%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.52%) REST
2 16 (2.82%) JSON
3 11 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (1.76%) .NET
4 10 (1.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.76%) Kafka
5 8 (1.41%) React
6 7 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.06%) ADO
7 6 (1.06%) Middleware
7 6 (1.06%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.06%) YAML
8 5 (0.88%) RESTful
8 5 (0.88%) SOAP
9 4 (0.70%) CSS
9 4 (0.70%) HTML
9 4 (0.70%) NumPy
9 4 (0.70%) Pandas
9 4 (0.70%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.70%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (38.38%) Product Ownership
2 29 (5.11%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 19 (3.35%) AI Agents
5 18 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.99%) CMDB
7 14 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.94%) FMCG
9 11 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.41%) Life Science
12 8 (1.41%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.23%) Derivative
13 7 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.53%) Android
1 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.53%) Unix
2 2 (0.35%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (65.85%) Agile
2 260 (45.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 248 (43.66%) Acceptance Criteria
4 177 (31.16%) Requirements Gathering
5 171 (30.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 147 (25.88%) Business Analysis
7 146 (25.70%) Scrum
8 145 (25.53%) Workshop Facilitation
9 121 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (19.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 109 (19.19%) Sprint Planning
12 106 (18.66%) DevOps
13 99 (17.43%) Backlog Management
14 96 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (16.90%) Product Backlog
15 89 (15.67%) AI
16 88 (15.49%) Roadmaps
17 87 (15.32%) Validation
18 83 (14.61%) Backlog Refinement
19 82 (14.44%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 102 (17.96%) SQL
2 47 (8.27%) Python
3 26 (4.58%) Java
4 16 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.94%) Apex Code
6 9 (1.58%) C#
7 5 (0.88%) Scala
8 4 (0.70%) Korn
9 3 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.53%) R
9 3 (0.53%) Ruby
9 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 1 (0.18%) SOSL
11 1 (0.18%) X++
Qualifications
1 82 (14.44%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.92%) Degree
4 11 (1.94%) IIBA
5 10 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.76%) CSPO
6 9 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.41%) CBAP
7 8 (1.41%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.23%) PMP
9 5 (0.88%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.70%) ISEB
10 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.27%) QA
2 54 (9.51%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.29%) GDPR
5 9 (1.58%) GRC
6 8 (1.41%) NIST
7 6 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.88%) SLA
9 4 (0.70%) GxP
9 4 (0.70%) SEPA
10 3 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.53%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.53%) WCAG
11 2 (0.35%) COBIT
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.18%) FINREP
12 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (2.46%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.06%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.18%) Argo
3 1 (0.18%) CASB
3 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 92 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 64 (11.27%) Salesforce
3 41 (7.22%) SAP
4 33 (5.81%) ServiceNow
5 17 (2.99%) Google
6 11 (1.94%) Databricks
6 11 (1.94%) Oracle
7 10 (1.76%) Zscaler
8 7 (1.23%) CyberArk
9 6 (1.06%) Pega
10 5 (0.88%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.88%) IBM
10 5 (0.88%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.88%) Splunk
11 4 (0.70%) Adobe
11 4 (0.70%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.70%) Kronos
11 4 (0.70%) Workday
12 3 (0.53%) Duck Creek
12 3 (0.53%) LexisNexis