User Stories Contract Job Trends in Surrey

User Story
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring User Stories skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 52 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 4 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.12% 0.92% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.08% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile £389 £333 £378
25th Percentile £400 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.07% -10.59% -24.94%
75th Percentile £525 £385 £528
90th Percentile £570 £394 £549
South East median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 465 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.10% 85.64% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 340 540
10th Percentile £204 £203 £202
25th Percentile £250 £275 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £650
90th Percentile £600 £651 £739
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 34 30
10th Percentile £16.71 £12.17 £22.57
25th Percentile £25.15 £31.88 £43.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.78% +25.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.59
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.95% +9.24% +63.02%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing User Stories

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Staines - 2 £494 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £413 -
Epsom - 1 £500 -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Epics
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Kaizen
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Storyboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Target Operating Model
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IFS