User Stories Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

User Story
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.49% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £445 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +9.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 74 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 92.16% 82.22% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 61 25
10th Percentile £350 £160 £313
25th Percentile £414 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £435 £480
Median % change year-on-year +17.85% -9.38% -9.43%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £550
90th Percentile £548 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £23.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year - -16.18% +55.19%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Shropshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Telford - 1 £430 - 3
User Stories
West Midlands

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility