User Stories Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

User Story
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.38% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% - 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £818 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £837 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £855 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £385 £425
% change year-on-year -6.49% -9.41% -11.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 121 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 80.28% 82.88% 81.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 66 101
10th Percentile £183 £294 £306
25th Percentile £213 £409 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £714 £600 £738
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.23% -5.50% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 6
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.79 £8.66
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £10.76
Median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £12.89
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +84.71% +17.14%
75th Percentile £17.87 £54.56 £17.88
90th Percentile - £92.03 £22.63
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.58% +12.50% +18.84%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
Nottingham - 3 £837 - 8
User Stories
East Midlands

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Healthcare Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Healthcare Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Trainer
2 1 (33.33%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) e-Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft