User Stories Contract Job Trends in Swindon

User Story
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring User Stories skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 5.50% - 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% - 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £292 - -
25th Percentile £336 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £498 - £563
90th Percentile £541 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £419 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -30.21% - +23.08%

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 99 94 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 90.83% 78.33% 82.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 93
10th Percentile £208 £213 £359
25th Percentile £308 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +12.03%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £638
90th Percentile £611 £636 £698
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Swindon over the 6 months to 20 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) iPaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (16.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Biotechnology
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Epics
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Minimum Viable Product
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle