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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 36 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.45% 3.38% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 3.66% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £403 £432 £375
25th Percentile £406 £470 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +25.15% +3.58%
75th Percentile £638 £547 £450
90th Percentile £690 £569 £476
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £538 £420
% change year-on-year -2.33% +28.13% +0.48%

All Process & 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 335 191 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 80.72% 92.27% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 144 343
10th Percentile £230 £253 £279
25th Percentile £363 £402 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £735
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -5.09% +0.10% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 29
10th Percentile £16.24 £12.67 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.68 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.61 £15.35 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +92.90% -33.88% +22.18%
75th Percentile - £17.03 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £18.03 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £22.21 £35.60 £23.22
% change year-on-year -37.62% +53.35% +36.56%

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 10 February 2026.

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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Integration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Product Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Flutter
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Business Process Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) System Testing
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Objectives and Key Results
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) BT
1 1 (16.67%) Openreach
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
1 1 (16.67%) webMethods