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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing User Stories 579 332 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.88% 2.48% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 2.68% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 214 194
10th Percentile £358 £382 £366
25th Percentile £450 £441 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £621
90th Percentile £710 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 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% -51.95%
75th Percentile £60.63 - £33.05
90th Percentile £69.67 - £33.06
England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.49 £33.04
% change year-on-year +122.29% -4.68% -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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -13 76 £565 +7.62% 54
West London -2 20 £520 +28.55% 26
North London - 4 £550 - 1
South London - 4 £675 - 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 84 (14.51%) Confluence
2 25 (4.32%) CMS
3 10 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.04%) Camunda
5 5 (0.86%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.52%) Kentico
7 2 (0.35%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (3.80%) MS Visio
2 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.21%) Notion
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.17%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.52%) 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%) 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 (0.17%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 124 (21.42%) Azure
2 64 (11.05%) Power Platform
3 56 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (8.81%) AWS
5 28 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (4.15%) SaaS
7 18 (3.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 16 (2.76%) GCP
8 16 (2.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 16 (2.76%) Snowflake
9 11 (1.90%) GitHub
10 10 (1.73%) Figma
11 8 (1.38%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.21%) Collibra
12 7 (1.21%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.69%) Network Security
2 3 (0.52%) Firewall
2 3 (0.52%) Intranet
3 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 2 (0.35%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.35%) WAN
3 2 (0.35%) Wireless
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) NGFW
4 1 (0.17%) SSH
4 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.46%) Power BI
2 29 (5.01%) Metadata
3 19 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.59%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.55%) Parquet
6 8 (1.38%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.21%) Delta Lake
7 7 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.04%) Tableau
9 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.86%) Data Hub
9 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.69%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.69%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.52%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.35%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 131 (22.63%) JIRA
2 15 (2.59%) Postman
3 11 (1.90%) Git
4 8 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.21%) Selenium
5 7 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.86%) GitLab
6 5 (0.86%) Maven
6 5 (0.86%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.69%) Gradle
7 4 (0.69%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.52%) JUnit
8 3 (0.52%) Mockito
8 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.35%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
General
1 225 (38.86%) Social Skills
2 195 (33.68%) Finance
3 165 (28.50%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (18.83%) Banking
5 52 (8.98%) Retail
6 49 (8.46%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (8.12%) Public Sector
8 31 (5.35%) Marketing
9 30 (5.18%) Investment Banking
10 21 (3.63%) Legal
11 20 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.94%) Front Office
14 15 (2.59%) Retail Banking
15 12 (2.07%) Local Government
15 12 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.73%) Back Office
18 9 (1.55%) Financial Institution
19 7 (1.21%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 323 (55.79%) Analyst
2 288 (49.74%) Business Analyst
3 85 (14.68%) Senior
4 66 (11.40%) Product Owner
5 59 (10.19%) Senior Analyst
6 56 (9.67%) Senior Business Analyst
7 49 (8.46%) Developer
8 41 (7.08%) Technical Analyst
9 38 (6.56%) Product Manager
10 35 (6.04%) Lead
11 31 (5.35%) Technical Business Analyst
12 26 (4.49%) Salesforce Analyst
12 26 (4.49%) Salesforce Business Analyst
13 20 (3.45%) Data Analyst
14 19 (3.28%) Implementation Analyst
14 19 (3.28%) Systems Analyst
15 16 (2.76%) Architect
15 16 (2.76%) Banking Analyst
15 16 (2.76%) Financial Analyst
16 15 (2.59%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.63%) REST
2 16 (2.76%) JSON
3 11 (1.90%) .NET
3 11 (1.90%) Kafka
3 11 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (1.73%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.55%) React
6 7 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (1.21%) SailPoint
7 6 (1.04%) ADO
7 6 (1.04%) Middleware
7 6 (1.04%) YAML
8 5 (0.86%) CSS
8 5 (0.86%) HTML
8 5 (0.86%) RESTful
8 5 (0.86%) SOAP
8 5 (0.86%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.69%) NumPy
9 4 (0.69%) Pandas
9 4 (0.69%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 221 (38.17%) Product Ownership
2 29 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 20 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (3.11%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.76%) CMDB
6 16 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.90%) FMCG
9 11 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.73%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.38%) Life Science
12 8 (1.38%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.21%) Derivative
13 7 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.52%) Android
1 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
1 3 (0.52%) Unix
2 2 (0.35%) Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (66.15%) Agile
2 263 (45.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 258 (44.56%) Acceptance Criteria
4 187 (32.30%) Requirements Gathering
5 178 (30.74%) User Acceptance Testing
6 150 (25.91%) Business Analysis
6 150 (25.91%) Workshop Facilitation
7 149 (25.73%) Scrum
8 123 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (20.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 114 (19.69%) DevOps
11 108 (18.65%) Sprint Planning
12 103 (17.79%) Backlog Management
13 100 (17.27%) Product Backlog
14 98 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 92 (15.89%) Validation
16 90 (15.54%) AI
16 90 (15.54%) Roadmaps
17 84 (14.51%) Analytics
17 84 (14.51%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (17.96%) SQL
2 49 (8.46%) Python
3 28 (4.84%) Java
4 17 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (1.90%) Apex Code
6 10 (1.73%) C#
7 5 (0.86%) Scala
8 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.69%) Korn
9 3 (0.52%) R
9 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.52%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.35%) Ruby
10 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.17%) SOSL
11 1 (0.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 80 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.29%) Degree
4 11 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.73%) CSPO
5 10 (1.73%) IIBA
6 9 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.38%) CBAP
7 8 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.21%) PMP
9 6 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.69%) ISEB
11 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.23%) QA
2 55 (9.50%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.25%) GDPR
5 9 (1.55%) GRC
5 9 (1.55%) NIST
6 7 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.04%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.86%) SLA
9 4 (0.69%) GxP
9 4 (0.69%) SEPA
10 3 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.52%) WCAG
11 2 (0.35%) COBIT
11 2 (0.35%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) FINREP
12 1 (0.17%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (2.42%) Docker
2 9 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.04%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.35%) Argo
2 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.17%) Ansible
3 1 (0.17%) CASB
Vendors
1 94 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.40%) Salesforce
3 42 (7.25%) SAP
4 32 (5.53%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.76%) Google
6 13 (2.25%) Oracle
7 12 (2.07%) Databricks
8 10 (1.73%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.21%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.04%) IBM
11 5 (0.86%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.86%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.86%) Pega
11 5 (0.86%) Splunk
12 4 (0.69%) Adobe
12 4 (0.69%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.69%) Kronos
12 4 (0.69%) Workday
13 3 (0.52%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.52%) Veracode