User Stories Contracts in Swindon

User Story
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing User Stories 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 4.08% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £305 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.50%
75th Percentile £444 - £563
90th Percentile £476 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £470 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -18.26% +3.14% +11.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 92 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 90.82% 74.80% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 160
10th Percentile £311 £139 £359
25th Percentile £413 £263 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £650 £623 £696
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
% change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Swindon

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Swindon

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Swindon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Swindon

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) iPaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft Developer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Epics
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SAP