Story Mapping Contracts in the UK excluding London

Story Mapping
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Story Mapping skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Story Mapping over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 385 430
Rank change year-on-year +62 +45 +58
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 11 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.043% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.051% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 18
10th Percentile - £428 £404
25th Percentile £413 £444 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £478 £491 £561
90th Percentile £484 £512 £565
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £548
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.24% -0.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Story Mapping 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Story Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Story Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Story Mapping in the UK excluding London

Story Mapping
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Mapping in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Story Mapping in the UK excluding London

Story Mapping
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Mapping within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Scotland +11 8 £425 -5.56%
Yorkshire - 2 £463 -
North of England - 2 £463 - 2
East of England - 1 - -
Story Mapping
UK

Story Mapping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Lucidchart
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Analyst
2 9 (81.82%) Business Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Technical Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) CMDB
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 2 (18.18%) Educational Technology
4 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) User Stories
2 9 (81.82%) Business Analysis
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Use Case
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Kanban
4 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Storyboarding
4 4 (36.36%) Wireframes
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 3 (27.27%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (18.18%) BPMN
6 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (18.18%) Time Management
6 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (18.18%) NetBackup
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dell
1 2 (18.18%) Veritas
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce