User Stories Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

User Story
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +34
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.58% 1.80% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.07% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £404 £478 £373
25th Percentile £406 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £525 £411
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +27.66% +1.54%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £446
90th Percentile £664 £573 £459
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £469 £525 £411
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.66% -1.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 242 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 84.24% 87.05% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 173 355
10th Percentile £224 £250 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £600
90th Percentile £628 £656 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 15
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.01 £14.30
25th Percentile £23.81 £17.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +9.79% +43.28%
75th Percentile £32.81 £36.50 £28.50
90th Percentile £36.00 £37.40 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.88
% change year-on-year -30.14% +50.79% +54.03%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

User Stories job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Milton Keynes

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Analyst
1 8 (88.89%) Business Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Fibre Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Flutter
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Waterfall
3 4 (44.44%) Wireframes
4 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
4 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Business Process Mapping
5 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (22.22%) Project Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) System Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) BT
2 1 (11.11%) Openreach
2 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 1 (11.11%) webMethods