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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 108 147
Rank change year-on-year +3 +39 -31
Contract jobs citing User Stories 590 339 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.92% 2.52% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 2.72% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 222 186
10th Percentile £358 £381 £369
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £621
90th Percentile £688 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £42.78 - £33.01
25th Percentile £51.25 - £33.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.49 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year +74.66% -4.68% -45.17%
75th Percentile £60.63 £37.25 £33.05
90th Percentile £69.67 £40.70 £33.06
England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.49 £33.04
% change year-on-year +122.29% -4.68% -37.67%

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 17,987 12,459 14,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.61% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,238 9,752
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 256 181
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -19 77 £550 +2.33% 53
West London -3 20 £520 +108.00% 20
North London - 6 £575 -
South London - 4 £675 - 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 87 (14.75%) Confluence
2 23 (3.90%) CMS
3 9 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.02%) Camunda
4 6 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.51%) Kentico
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (3.22%) MS Visio
2 18 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.19%) Notion
6 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.85%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.51%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics SL
5 2 (0.34%) Endur
5 2 (0.34%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.17%) OneSumX
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 124 (21.02%) Azure
2 66 (11.19%) Power Platform
3 58 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (8.81%) AWS
5 29 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (4.92%) SaaS
6 19 (3.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 17 (2.88%) GCP
7 17 (2.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 15 (2.54%) Snowflake
9 13 (2.20%) GitHub
10 10 (1.69%) Figma
11 9 (1.53%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.19%) Collibra
12 7 (1.19%) PaaS
12 7 (1.19%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) Intranet
2 2 (0.34%) HTTP
2 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.34%) WAN
2 2 (0.34%) Wireless
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) SSH
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.64%) Power BI
2 29 (4.92%) Metadata
3 19 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.53%) Parquet
6 9 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.19%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.85%) ClickHouse
9 5 (0.85%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.85%) Tableau
10 4 (0.68%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.51%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.51%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.34%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 132 (22.37%) JIRA
2 17 (2.88%) Git
3 13 (2.20%) Postman
4 12 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.03%) Maven
5 9 (1.53%) Gradle
6 7 (1.19%) GitLab
6 7 (1.19%) JUnit
6 7 (1.19%) Mockito
6 7 (1.19%) REST Assured
6 7 (1.19%) Selenium
6 7 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.51%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 228 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 203 (34.41%) Finance
3 160 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (18.81%) Banking
5 57 (9.66%) Retail
6 52 (8.81%) Public Sector
7 47 (7.97%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (5.25%) Investment Banking
9 26 (4.41%) Marketing
10 22 (3.73%) Legal
11 20 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (3.22%) Front Office
13 18 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.54%) Retail Banking
15 14 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.20%) Local Government
17 12 (2.03%) Back Office
18 11 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
19 7 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 327 (55.42%) Analyst
2 291 (49.32%) Business Analyst
3 101 (17.12%) Senior
4 66 (11.19%) Senior Analyst
5 64 (10.85%) Product Owner
5 64 (10.85%) Senior Business Analyst
6 54 (9.15%) Developer
7 38 (6.44%) Product Manager
7 38 (6.44%) Technical Analyst
8 37 (6.27%) Lead
9 28 (4.75%) Technical Business Analyst
10 24 (4.07%) Salesforce Analyst
10 24 (4.07%) Salesforce Business Analyst
11 19 (3.22%) Data Analyst
12 18 (3.05%) Systems Analyst
13 16 (2.71%) Implementation Analyst
14 15 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
14 15 (2.54%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
15 14 (2.37%) Banking Analyst
15 14 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.24%) REST
2 16 (2.71%) JSON
3 13 (2.20%) Kafka
4 12 (2.03%) .NET
4 12 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 12 (2.03%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.86%) React
6 10 (1.69%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.69%) Spring
7 7 (1.19%) CSS
7 7 (1.19%) Hibernate
7 7 (1.19%) HTML
7 7 (1.19%) JPA
7 7 (1.19%) RESTful
7 7 (1.19%) SailPoint
7 7 (1.19%) SOAP
8 6 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (1.02%) YAML
9 5 (0.85%) ADO
9 5 (0.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 222 (37.63%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
4 19 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 17 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 16 (2.71%) CMDB
8 15 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.37%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.86%) FMCG
11 11 (1.86%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.36%) Life Science
13 8 (1.36%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.02%) Unix
2 5 (0.85%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Android
3 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (67.12%) Agile
2 278 (47.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 261 (44.24%) Acceptance Criteria
4 198 (33.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 180 (30.51%) User Acceptance Testing
6 161 (27.29%) Workshop Facilitation
7 156 (26.44%) Business Analysis
8 152 (25.76%) Scrum
9 125 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (19.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 112 (18.98%) DevOps
12 109 (18.47%) Sprint Planning
13 104 (17.63%) Backlog Management
14 102 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (16.95%) Product Backlog
16 97 (16.44%) AI
17 94 (15.93%) Validation
18 89 (15.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 86 (14.58%) Roadmaps
20 85 (14.41%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 109 (18.47%) SQL
2 47 (7.97%) Python
3 32 (5.42%) Java
4 20 (3.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.03%) Apex Code
6 11 (1.86%) C#
7 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.85%) Scala
9 4 (0.68%) Korn
10 3 (0.51%) R
10 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.34%) Ruby
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
12 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 79 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.63%) Degree
4 10 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 10 (1.69%) IIBA
5 9 (1.53%) CSPO
6 8 (1.36%) CBAP
6 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.36%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.36%) PMP
7 7 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.02%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.68%) ISEB
10 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.34%) CISSP
11 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.86%) QA
2 55 (9.32%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.20%) GDPR
5 8 (1.36%) GRC
5 8 (1.36%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.02%) NIST
7 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.68%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.68%) SEPA
9 3 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.51%) GxP
9 3 (0.51%) WCAG
10 2 (0.34%) COBIT
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.17%) FINREP
11 1 (0.17%) PMO
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (3.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.02%) IAG
Systems Management
1 16 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.51%) Grafana
2 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.34%) Argo
3 2 (0.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 96 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 40 (6.78%) SAP
4 29 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 15 (2.54%) Google
6 13 (2.20%) Oracle
7 11 (1.86%) Databricks
8 7 (1.19%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.19%) IBM
8 7 (1.19%) Zscaler
9 5 (0.85%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.85%) ION Trading
9 5 (0.85%) Pega
9 5 (0.85%) Veracode
10 4 (0.68%) Adobe
10 4 (0.68%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.68%) Kronos
11 3 (0.51%) Duck Creek
11 3 (0.51%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.51%) Sage