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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 143 121
Rank change year-on-year +39 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing User Stories 493 236 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.68% 1.95% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.12% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 142 252
10th Percentile £356 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £37.80 - -
25th Percentile £46.59 - £31.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £32.36
75th Percentile £71.15 - £41.25
90th Percentile £75.59 - £56.10
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year +13.36% +87.12% -48.84%

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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +12 70 £575 +9.52% 36
West London -18 9 £520 -13.33% 5
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 76 (15.42%) Confluence
2 19 (3.85%) CMS
3 7 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.81%) Camunda
6 3 (0.61%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.61%) Kentico
7 2 (0.41%) Drupal
7 2 (0.41%) JBoss
7 2 (0.41%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) WordPress
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.85%) MS Visio
3 15 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.22%) Notion
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.41%) InVision
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
5 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.41%) Zeplin
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.22%) ProductWriter
4 5 (1.01%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.61%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (0.61%) Dynamics SL
6 3 (0.61%) Infor CloudSuite
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.61%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.41%) Actimize
7 2 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.41%) Exchequer
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.41%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.88%) Azure
2 41 (8.32%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.71%) AWS
4 34 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 15 (3.04%) SaaS
7 14 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.84%) GitHub
8 12 (2.43%) GCP
9 10 (2.03%) Figma
9 10 (2.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 8 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.62%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.42%) Lucidchart
11 7 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.22%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.22%) Fivetran
12 6 (1.22%) Snowflake
13 5 (1.01%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.81%) Network Security
2 3 (0.61%) Firewall
3 2 (0.41%) FTP
3 2 (0.41%) Wireless
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.49%) Power BI
2 18 (3.65%) Metadata
3 14 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.03%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.83%) Tableau
6 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.42%) Delta Lake
7 7 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.22%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.01%) Parquet
9 5 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.61%) Big Data
10 3 (0.61%) Redis
11 2 (0.41%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (0.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 110 (22.31%) JIRA
2 14 (2.84%) Postman
3 12 (2.43%) Git
4 7 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (1.22%) Selenium
5 6 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.01%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.81%) GitLab
8 3 (0.61%) JUnit
9 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.41%) Maven
9 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.20%) TestRail
10 1 (0.20%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.20%) VersionOne
General
1 181 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 175 (35.50%) Finance
3 132 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (14.81%) Banking
5 45 (9.13%) Documentation Skills
5 45 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.71%) Retail
7 30 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (5.27%) Marketing
9 18 (3.65%) Investment Banking
10 17 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.43%) Front Office
13 11 (2.23%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.23%) Legal
14 8 (1.62%) Back Office
14 8 (1.62%) Corporate Banking
14 8 (1.62%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 281 (57.00%) Analyst
2 252 (51.12%) Business Analyst
3 92 (18.66%) Senior
4 68 (13.79%) Senior Analyst
5 62 (12.58%) Senior Business Analyst
6 53 (10.75%) Product Owner
7 36 (7.30%) Developer
7 36 (7.30%) Salesforce Business Analyst
8 35 (7.10%) Salesforce Analyst
9 34 (6.90%) Technical Analyst
10 33 (6.69%) Product Manager
11 32 (6.49%) Implementation Analyst
12 30 (6.09%) Technical Business Analyst
13 22 (4.46%) Project Analyst
13 22 (4.46%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
13 22 (4.46%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
14 17 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (3.45%) Financial Analyst
14 17 (3.45%) Lead
14 17 (3.45%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.46%) REST
2 10 (2.03%) ADO
3 8 (1.62%) AngularJS
3 8 (1.62%) JSON
3 8 (1.62%) VML
4 6 (1.22%) .NET
4 6 (1.22%) XML
5 5 (1.01%) Kafka
5 5 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.01%) React
5 5 (1.01%) Web Services
6 4 (0.81%) HTML
6 4 (0.81%) NumPy
6 4 (0.81%) Pandas
6 4 (0.81%) YAML
7 3 (0.61%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.61%) CSS
7 3 (0.61%) Middleware
7 3 (0.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 162 (32.86%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (3.25%) CMDB
6 15 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.62%) PMI
10 7 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.22%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.81%) Windows
2 2 (0.41%) Android
2 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (61.05%) Agile
2 213 (43.20%) Acceptance Criteria
3 185 (37.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 118 (23.94%) Scrum
5 117 (23.73%) Requirements Gathering
6 111 (22.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 109 (22.11%) Workshop Facilitation
8 108 (21.91%) Business Analysis
9 98 (19.88%) DevOps
10 89 (18.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 84 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (16.84%) Data Modelling
12 83 (16.84%) Roadmaps
13 79 (16.02%) Sprint Planning
14 71 (14.40%) Product Backlog
15 66 (13.39%) Backlog Management
16 63 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (11.56%) Analytics
17 57 (11.56%) Migration
17 57 (11.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 69 (14.00%) SQL
2 37 (7.51%) Python
3 21 (4.26%) Java
4 17 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.22%) C#
6 4 (0.81%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.61%) R
7 3 (0.61%) Ruby
7 3 (0.61%) VBA
8 2 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.41%) Korn
8 2 (0.41%) PHP
8 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 70 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.34%) Degree
4 24 (4.87%) CBAP
5 19 (3.85%) IIBA
6 10 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.83%) CSPO
7 9 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.42%) ISEB
9 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.01%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.41%) PMP
13 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (15.21%) QA
2 34 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 25 (5.07%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.43%) GDPR
5 7 (1.42%) NIST
6 6 (1.22%) GRC
7 5 (1.01%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.81%) SLA
9 3 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.61%) PSD2
9 3 (0.61%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.61%) WCAG
10 2 (0.41%) COBIT
10 2 (0.41%) GxP
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.20%) Basel III
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (3.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) IAG
2 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.22%) Terraform
3 5 (1.01%) SCCM
4 1 (0.20%) CASB
4 1 (0.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.20%) Kibana
4 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 69 (14.00%) Salesforce
3 42 (8.52%) SAP
4 35 (7.10%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.45%) Oracle
6 10 (2.03%) Databricks
7 9 (1.83%) Google
8 8 (1.62%) Workday
9 7 (1.42%) Adobe
10 6 (1.22%) Guidewire
11 5 (1.01%) Cognizant
11 5 (1.01%) Splunk
11 5 (1.01%) Zuora
12 4 (0.81%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.61%) Adaptive Insights
13 3 (0.61%) Anaplan
13 3 (0.61%) Epicor
13 3 (0.61%) IFS
13 3 (0.61%) Sage
13 3 (0.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud