User Stories Contracts in Northamptonshire

User Story
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 28 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -13
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.62% 2.11% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.37% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £245 - £318
25th Percentile £293 £663 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £688 £350
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +96.43% -15.15%
75th Percentile £418 £700 £393
90th Percentile £430 - £434
East Midlands median daily rate £438 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -12.50% +16.28% +4.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 211 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.73% 89.03% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 162 271
10th Percentile £275 £190 £220
25th Percentile £356 £300 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £520
90th Percentile £620 £575 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +13.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.12 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.96% +50.91% -38.89%
75th Percentile £51.30 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.30 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £18.56 £18.50
% change year-on-year -8.39% +0.31% +19.90%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Northamptonshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Northamptonshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Northamptonshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Northampton +1 2 £305 -56.43%
User Stories
East Midlands

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) OLAP
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft