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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 157 115
Rank change year-on-year +46 -42 -12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 354 260 453
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.55% 1.66% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 1.86% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 158 306
10th Percentile £346 £397 £400
25th Percentile £420 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £638 £635 £625
90th Percentile £732 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £52.98
25th Percentile - - £55.19
Median hourly rate £31.49 £33.07 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -45.11% -15.44%
75th Percentile £37.25 - £65.19
90th Percentile £40.70 - £67.33
England median hourly rate £74.26 £33.07 £52.75
% change year-on-year +124.55% -37.31% -4.09%

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 12,857 13,965 18,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.44% 89.14% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,458 8,984 13,161
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 163 244
10th Percentile £17.93 £17.30 £18.52
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile £46.81 £56.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 8 November 2025.

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
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 8 November 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 +26 73 £525 -14.81% 111
West London - 3 £250 - 5
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 58 (16.38%) Confluence
2 8 (2.26%) CMS
3 5 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.41%) WordPress
4 4 (1.13%) Drupal
4 4 (1.13%) JBoss
4 4 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.56%) nginx
5 2 (0.56%) Traefik
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) Kentico
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (5.08%) MS Visio
2 15 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.85%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.85%) Sketch
6 3 (0.85%) Trello
7 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.28%) InVision
8 1 (0.28%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.26%) Temenos T24
3 4 (1.13%) Endur
3 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.85%) ProductWriter
5 2 (0.56%) HFM
5 2 (0.56%) Shopify
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.28%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Summit
6 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.28%) Azure
2 32 (9.04%) AWS
3 26 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.93%) GCP
6 14 (3.95%) Miro
6 14 (3.95%) Snowflake
7 11 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.11%) Figma
8 10 (2.82%) SaaS
9 9 (2.54%) GitHub
10 8 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.26%) Serverless
11 7 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.98%) dbt
11 7 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.98%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (1.69%) Lucidchart
12 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.28%) Calico
2 1 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) LAN
2 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.28%) VPN
2 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.93%) Power BI
2 19 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (4.52%) Tableau
4 12 (3.39%) BigQuery
5 11 (3.11%) Star Schema
6 9 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.41%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.41%) Metadata
9 5 (1.41%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.13%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.85%) Tableau Desktop
12 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.56%) Tableau Server
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (26.55%) JIRA
2 8 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.98%) Git
4 6 (1.69%) Postman
5 5 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.41%) GitLab
5 5 (1.41%) MLflow
5 5 (1.41%) Selenium
6 4 (1.13%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.13%) ERwin
6 4 (1.13%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.85%) JUnit
7 3 (0.85%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.56%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.56%) Gatling
8 2 (0.56%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 153 (43.22%) Social Skills
2 105 (29.66%) Finance
3 69 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.47%) Banking
5 29 (8.19%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.50%) Marketing
7 22 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (5.37%) Back Office
9 17 (4.80%) Front Office
10 16 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (3.95%) Retail
13 13 (3.67%) Investment Banking
14 10 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (2.26%) Law
16 7 (1.98%) Financial Institution
17 6 (1.69%) Billing
17 6 (1.69%) Legal
17 6 (1.69%) Manufacturing
18 5 (1.41%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 189 (53.39%) Analyst
2 173 (48.87%) Business Analyst
3 53 (14.97%) Product Owner
4 43 (12.15%) Senior
5 31 (8.76%) Technical Analyst
6 29 (8.19%) Technical Business Analyst
7 20 (5.65%) Senior Analyst
8 18 (5.08%) Product Manager
8 18 (5.08%) Senior Business Analyst
9 15 (4.24%) Lead
10 12 (3.39%) Product Analyst
10 12 (3.39%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
11 11 (3.11%) Test Analyst
12 10 (2.82%) Data Business Analyst
13 9 (2.54%) Consultant
13 9 (2.54%) Developer
13 9 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
14 8 (2.26%) Architect
14 8 (2.26%) Data Analyst
14 8 (2.26%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.54%) RESTful
1 9 (2.54%) XML
2 8 (2.26%) ADO
3 7 (1.98%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (1.69%) Gherkin
4 6 (1.69%) SOAP
5 4 (1.13%) HTML
5 4 (1.13%) Pandas
5 4 (1.13%) Swagger
6 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.85%) Node.js
6 3 (0.85%) Playwright
6 3 (0.85%) React
6 3 (0.85%) REST
6 3 (0.85%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (0.56%) Flask
7 2 (0.56%) Kafka
7 2 (0.56%) NumPy
7 2 (0.56%) OAuth
7 2 (0.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 107 (30.23%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.80%) Reinsurance
3 14 (3.95%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.98%) PMI
9 6 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.69%) Derivative
9 6 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.13%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.13%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.26%) Windows
2 6 (1.69%) Linux
3 4 (1.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (75.14%) Agile
2 100 (28.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 99 (27.97%) Scrum
4 90 (25.42%) Acceptance Criteria
5 73 (20.62%) Requirements Gathering
6 68 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (18.64%) Backlog Management
7 66 (18.64%) Roadmaps
7 66 (18.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 63 (17.80%) Business Analysis
9 61 (17.23%) Data Modelling
9 61 (17.23%) Product Backlog
10 58 (16.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 52 (14.69%) Analytics
12 50 (14.12%) Use Case
13 49 (13.84%) DevOps
14 47 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (11.86%) Epics
16 40 (11.30%) Product Roadmap
16 40 (11.30%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 52 (14.69%) SQL
2 26 (7.34%) Python
3 15 (4.24%) Java
4 7 (1.98%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.41%) Go
5 5 (1.41%) VBA
6 4 (1.13%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.85%) C#
7 3 (0.85%) Korn
8 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.56%) Groovy
8 2 (0.56%) Ruby
8 2 (0.56%) Scala
9 1 (0.28%) Bash
9 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.28%) PHP
9 1 (0.28%) SOQL
9 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (13.56%) Degree
2 38 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.98%) CSPO
6 6 (1.69%) CBAP
6 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.41%) CFA
8 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.13%) PMP
9 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.85%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 3 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.12%) QA
2 13 (3.67%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.11%) GDPR
4 6 (1.69%) WCAG
5 5 (1.41%) SEPA
6 3 (0.85%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.85%) PSD2
7 2 (0.56%) EMIR
7 2 (0.56%) MiFID
7 2 (0.56%) PMO
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) Basel III
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) FATCA
8 1 (0.28%) PERC
8 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (3.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) etcd
3 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.54%) Terraform
3 4 (1.13%) Ansible
3 4 (1.13%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.85%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.56%) Istio
5 2 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 46 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.89%) Salesforce
3 20 (5.65%) Oracle
4 11 (3.11%) SAP
5 8 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.26%) Temenos
6 7 (1.98%) Adobe
6 7 (1.98%) Databricks
7 5 (1.41%) Workday
8 4 (1.13%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.13%) Charles River
8 4 (1.13%) FIS
8 4 (1.13%) Guidewire
8 4 (1.13%) Murex
9 3 (0.85%) Citrix
9 3 (0.85%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.85%) OneTrust
9 3 (0.85%) OpenLink
10 2 (0.56%) Tagetik
10 2 (0.56%) UiPath