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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 44 53
Rank change year-on-year -21 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.45% 2.01% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 2.13% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £381 -
25th Percentile - £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £456 £390
Median % change year-on-year +42.47% +16.99% -8.24%
75th Percentile - £575 £422
90th Percentile - £625 £461
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -5.26% -3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Process & 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 556 328 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.99% 93.98% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 213 291
10th Percentile £204 £201 £203
25th Percentile £367 £221 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £645 £625 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 35 21
10th Percentile £14.20 £20.16 -
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.15 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £20.79 £58.49
% change year-on-year +116.45% -64.46% +7.58%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

User Stories job vacancy trend 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
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 15 October 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
Guildford - 1 - - 1
Woking - 1 - - 8
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ChatGPT
2 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Axway
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft