User Stories Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

User Story
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 40 41
Rank change year-on-year -29 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing User Stories 19 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.57% 0.37% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 0.40% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 13
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £471 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £529 - £450
90th Percentile £532 - £563
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 699 250 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.72% 92.59% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 145 231
10th Percentile £325 £220 £384
25th Percentile £402 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £611 £686 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -5.33% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.79 £12.11
25th Percentile £19.50 £14.35 £17.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% -14.85% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £26.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.99% -19.58% +129.59%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Sheffield

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Sheffield

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 18 (94.74%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) CloudBees
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) GCP
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Cohesity
3 4 (21.05%) GitHub
3 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Power Query
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (94.74%) JIRA
2 10 (52.63%) Jenkins
3 9 (47.37%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Data Protection Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Data Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Product Owner
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Mobile Test Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) SCM Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) RESTful
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) DevOps
2 16 (84.21%) Sprint Retrospective
3 15 (78.95%) Scrum
4 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
4 13 (68.42%) Data Protection
4 13 (68.42%) Test Automation
5 12 (63.16%) Backlog Refinement
5 12 (63.16%) Configuration Management
6 7 (36.84%) Agile
7 6 (31.58%) Backlog Management
8 5 (26.32%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (26.32%) Product Backlog
8 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
9 4 (21.05%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (21.05%) Product Vision
9 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
9 4 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (21.05%) Sprint Review
10 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Ansible
1 13 (68.42%) NetBackup
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Commvault
1 13 (68.42%) Red Hat
2 9 (47.37%) Veritas
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle