User Stories Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

User Story
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 68 41 40
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing User Stories 20 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.53% 0.34% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 0.36% 3.33%
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
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.50% +8.11% -2.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 275 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.56% 92.59% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 163 256
10th Percentile £318 £210 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £626
90th Percentile £627 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.53% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.79 £12.63
25th Percentile £19.50 £14.35 £15.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.99% -19.58% +129.59%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £27.50
90th Percentile - £21.05 £50.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.10
% change year-on-year +19.76% -0.49% +12.55%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in South Yorkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield -29 19 £513 - 1
Doncaster - 1 - -
User Stories
Yorkshire

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (90.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) CloudBees
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Cohesity
3 4 (20.00%) GitHub
3 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Power Query
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (90.00%) JIRA
2 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (45.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Data Protection Engineer
3 8 (40.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Product Owner
5 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Mobile Test Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) SCM Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) DevOps
2 16 (80.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 15 (75.00%) Scrum
4 13 (65.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (65.00%) Data Protection
4 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
5 12 (60.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 12 (60.00%) Configuration Management
6 8 (40.00%) Agile
7 7 (35.00%) Backlog Management
8 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (25.00%) Product Backlog
10 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
10 4 (20.00%) Product Vision
10 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
10 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (20.00%) Sprint Review
11 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Ansible
1 13 (65.00%) NetBackup
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Commvault
1 13 (65.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (45.00%) Veritas
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle