User Stories Contracts in Northamptonshire

User Story
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.42% 1.53% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 1.71% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £245 -
25th Percentile £356 £293 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £385 £688
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% -44.00% +85.81%
75th Percentile - £418 £700
90th Percentile - £430 -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -18.17% -7.89% +8.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

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
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 1 May 2025. 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 5 £358 +17.38%
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (60.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Product Management
2 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) UX Design
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Case
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) COREP
1 2 (40.00%) FINREP