User Stories Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Story
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 25 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 10 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.46% 1.42% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 1.69% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 10
10th Percentile £350 - £429
25th Percentile - - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £454 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% -15.53% -3.59%
75th Percentile £475 - £616
90th Percentile £500 - £654
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £400 £454 £538
% change year-on-year -11.89% -15.53% -3.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 178 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.82% 84.36% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £574 £600 £650
90th Percentile £628 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Requirements Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Requirements Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Interaction Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) User Requirements Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (30.00%) User Research
3 2 (20.00%) Interaction Design
3 2 (20.00%) Market Research
3 2 (20.00%) Product Management
3 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) Epics
4 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (10.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce