User Stories Contracts in Reading

User Story
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 67 74
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -32
Contract jobs citing User Stories 32 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.65% 2.04% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.24% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 21
10th Percentile £413 £464 £363
25th Percentile £452 £482 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +9.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £606 £553 £513
90th Percentile £691 £560 £613
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +0.96% +9.47% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,095 981 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.80% 91.17% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 652 821
10th Percentile £213 £365 £256
25th Percentile £400 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 10
10th Percentile £26.10 £42.35 £13.58
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.25 £22.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £71.44 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £60.89
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -4.45%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Reading

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Reading

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Reading over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Reading

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.13%) AWS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 16 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.38%) Billing
5 3 (9.38%) Finance
6 2 (6.25%) Local Government
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Business Consultant
4 6 (18.75%) Consultant
5 5 (15.63%) Associate Business Consultant
5 5 (15.63%) Associate Consultant
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Business Requirements Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Product Owner
6 3 (9.38%) Requirements Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Requirements Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Telecoms Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (37.50%) Scrum
3 8 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 7 (21.88%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (21.88%) Commercial Awareness
4 7 (21.88%) Critical Thinking
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Management
4 7 (21.88%) Portfolio Management
4 7 (21.88%) Project Management
5 6 (18.75%) Customer-Centricity
5 6 (18.75%) Epics
5 6 (18.75%) Storyboarding
6 5 (15.63%) Backlog Management
6 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
6 5 (15.63%) Product Backlog
6 5 (15.63%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Ab Initio
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce