User Stories Contracts in Tyne and Wear

User Story
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 30 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.57% 0.86% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 1.00% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile £350 - £429
25th Percentile £388 - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.44%
75th Percentile £475 - £616
90th Percentile £513 - £654
North East median daily rate £415 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 200 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.14% 86.21% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 92 209
10th Percentile £224 £313 £317
25th Percentile £350 £374 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £593 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £729
North East median daily rate £465 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 35 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.39 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £18.24 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% - -
75th Percentile £41.56 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -5.71% -57.06% +146.97%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Tyne and Wear

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Tyne and Wear

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Tyne and Wear

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 9 £415 - 8
User Stories
North East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Requirements Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Requirements Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) User Requirements Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (22.22%) Market Research
4 2 (22.22%) Product Management
4 2 (22.22%) Product Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) User Research
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Business Process Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Epics
5 1 (11.11%) Interaction Design
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 1 (11.11%) User Experience
5 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Virgin Media
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce