User Stories Contract Job Trends in North London

User Story
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North London requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in North London 6.67% - 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.00% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North 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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25 18 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 83.33% 94.74% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 16
10th Percentile £263 £406 £250
25th Percentile £391 £447 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 £380
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +44.74% -20.00%
75th Percentile £518 £575 £484
90th Percentile £566 £650 £592
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.03
Median hourly rate - - £21.12
75th Percentile - - £22.20
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in North London

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in North London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing User Stories

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in North 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 North London region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Enfield - 2 - - 1
User Stories
London

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Police
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Housing
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow