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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 155 118
Rank change year-on-year +52 -37 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 477 225 351
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.65% 1.82% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 1.97% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 136 251
10th Percentile £350 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £600
90th Percentile £675 £716 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +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 - £53.75
90th Percentile £75.59 - £61.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £42.75
% change year-on-year +13.36% +44.44% -34.23%

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 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 64 £565 +7.62% 23
West London -18 9 £520 -13.33%
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 78 (16.35%) Confluence
2 15 (3.14%) CMS
3 7 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.05%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.63%) Camunda
5 3 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) JBoss
6 2 (0.42%) SAS
6 2 (0.42%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.19%) MS Visio
3 15 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.26%) Notion
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.42%) InVision
6 2 (0.42%) Sketch
6 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.42%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.26%) ProductWriter
3 6 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
5 3 (0.63%) Dynamics SL
5 3 (0.63%) Infor CloudSuite
5 3 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.63%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.63%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.42%) Actimize
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.42%) Exchequer
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.42%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.03%) Azure
2 44 (9.22%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.97%) AWS
4 26 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.56%) SaaS
5 17 (3.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 16 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (2.73%) GCP
8 12 (2.52%) GitHub
9 10 (2.10%) Figma
9 10 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.10%) Power Automate
9 10 (2.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 9 (1.89%) Lucidchart
10 9 (1.89%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.26%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.05%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (1.05%) Collibra
13 5 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Network Security
2 3 (0.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) FTP
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) Wireless
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.55%) Power BI
2 17 (3.56%) Metadata
3 14 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.73%) Tableau
5 10 (2.10%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.68%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.47%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.05%) Parquet
9 5 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.63%) Big Data
10 3 (0.63%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 112 (23.48%) JIRA
2 14 (2.94%) Postman
3 12 (2.52%) Git
4 8 (1.68%) Selenium
5 7 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.26%) Zephyr
7 5 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.63%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.63%) GitLab
8 3 (0.63%) TestRail
9 2 (0.42%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.42%) JUnit
10 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.21%) Maven
10 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.21%) Subversion
10 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 172 (36.06%) Finance
2 170 (35.64%) Social Skills
3 125 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (15.09%) Banking
5 46 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.97%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (7.13%) Retail
8 31 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (5.66%) Marketing
10 18 (3.77%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.73%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.73%) Legal
12 12 (2.52%) Front Office
12 12 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.89%) Retail Banking
14 8 (1.68%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (1.26%) Back Office
15 6 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 276 (57.86%) Analyst
2 251 (52.62%) Business Analyst
3 95 (19.92%) Senior
4 70 (14.68%) Senior Analyst
5 65 (13.63%) Senior Business Analyst
6 50 (10.48%) Product Owner
7 39 (8.18%) Salesforce Business Analyst
8 38 (7.97%) Salesforce Analyst
9 35 (7.34%) Technical Analyst
10 33 (6.92%) Developer
11 32 (6.71%) Technical Business Analyst
12 29 (6.08%) Implementation Analyst
13 28 (5.87%) Product Manager
14 24 (5.03%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
14 24 (5.03%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
15 23 (4.82%) Project Analyst
16 18 (3.77%) Financial Analyst
17 17 (3.56%) Lead
18 16 (3.35%) Data Business Analyst
18 16 (3.35%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.61%) REST
2 10 (2.10%) ADO
3 8 (1.68%) AngularJS
3 8 (1.68%) JSON
3 8 (1.68%) VML
4 6 (1.26%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (1.26%) XML
5 5 (1.05%) HTML
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.05%) Web Services
6 4 (0.84%) .NET
6 4 (0.84%) NumPy
6 4 (0.84%) Pandas
7 3 (0.63%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.63%) CSS
7 3 (0.63%) Kafka
7 3 (0.63%) Middleware
7 3 (0.63%) RESTful
7 3 (0.63%) SOAP
7 3 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 155 (32.49%) Product Ownership
2 18 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
2 18 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.73%) CMDB
6 13 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.89%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.89%) PMI
8 8 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 7 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.26%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.84%) Windows
2 2 (0.42%) Android
2 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.21%) Linux
3 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (61.84%) Agile
2 198 (41.51%) Acceptance Criteria
3 174 (36.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 121 (25.37%) Requirements Gathering
5 115 (24.11%) Workshop Facilitation
6 111 (23.27%) Scrum
7 110 (23.06%) Business Analysis
8 106 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 87 (18.24%) DevOps
10 85 (17.82%) Roadmaps
11 83 (17.40%) Data Modelling
12 82 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 75 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (14.68%) Sprint Planning
15 65 (13.63%) Product Backlog
16 64 (13.42%) Backlog Management
17 63 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (12.16%) Analytics
18 58 (12.16%) Validation
19 56 (11.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (14.88%) SQL
2 37 (7.76%) Python
3 21 (4.40%) Java
4 17 (3.56%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.26%) C#
6 5 (1.05%) Apex Code
7 4 (0.84%) R
7 4 (0.84%) VBA
8 3 (0.63%) Ruby
9 2 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.42%) Korn
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.21%) Scala
10 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) X++
10 1 (0.21%) XPath
Qualifications
1 67 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.11%) Degree
4 31 (6.50%) CBAP
5 22 (4.61%) IIBA
6 11 (2.31%) CSPO
6 11 (2.31%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.89%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.47%) ISEB
9 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.42%) MBA
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.42%) PMP
13 1 (0.21%) CEH
13 1 (0.21%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (15.72%) QA
2 33 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 24 (5.03%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.31%) GDPR
5 7 (1.47%) NIST
6 6 (1.26%) SLA
7 5 (1.05%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.84%) WCAG
9 3 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.63%) PSD2
9 3 (0.63%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.42%) COBIT
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.21%) Basel III
11 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) GxP
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (3.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) IAG
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.26%) Terraform
3 5 (1.05%) SCCM
4 2 (0.42%) CASB
4 2 (0.42%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.21%) Kibana
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 73 (15.30%) Salesforce
3 41 (8.60%) SAP
4 30 (6.29%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.77%) Oracle
6 10 (2.10%) Databricks
7 9 (1.89%) Google
8 8 (1.68%) Adobe
8 8 (1.68%) Workday
8 8 (1.68%) Zuora
9 6 (1.26%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.26%) Splunk
10 5 (1.05%) Cognizant
11 4 (0.84%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco
11 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Zscaler
12 3 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
12 3 (0.63%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.63%) IFS