User Stories Contract Job Trends in Solihull

User Story
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 5.77% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £549 - -
90th Percentile £572 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £483 £444
% change year-on-year +1.86% +8.85% +3.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 22 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 80.77% 91.67% 78.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 24
10th Percentile £214 £164 £260
25th Percentile £348 £196 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £379 £482
Median % change year-on-year +18.49% -21.39% +7.00%
75th Percentile £609 £476 £747
90th Percentile £1,081 £558 £830
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Solihull

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality