User Stories Contracts in Surrey

User Story
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 50 54
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing User Stories 5 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.77% 1.41% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.70% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £405 - £263
25th Percentile £441 £300 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £445
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -26.97% -11.00%
75th Percentile £550 £413 £538
90th Percentile £580 £425 £549
South East median daily rate £506 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.26% -4.04%

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 260 528 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 91.87% 82.89% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 386 518
10th Percentile £200 £203 £211
25th Percentile £313 £320 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £576 £638
90th Percentile £596 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 64 30
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.71 £18.23
25th Percentile £24.00 £15.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £61.90
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.88
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Surrey

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 6 July 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
Reigate - 2 - - 2
Staines - 2 £494 - 2
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 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Billing
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IFS Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IFS Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Kaizen
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IFS