User Stories Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Story
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing User Stories 5 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.07% 3.37% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.70% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £487 £406 £408
25th Percentile £495 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -10.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £575 £485 £581
90th Percentile - £495 £593
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £538 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -10.00% -15.25%

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 212 162 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 87.60% 91.01% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 67 96
10th Percentile £205 £312 £350
25th Percentile £403 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.55% -7.87%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £600
90th Percentile £642 £678 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 7
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +22.95%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £48.40 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User Stories

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) BDD
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) TDD
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) API Design
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes