Story Points Contracts in the UK excluding London

Story Points
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Story Points skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Story Points over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 355 431
Rank change year-on-year +5 +76 +83
Contract jobs citing Story Points 9 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.060% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.072% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £302 £404 £356
25th Percentile £349 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -27.20% +29.03% -29.55%
75th Percentile £395 - £416
90th Percentile - £540 £429
UK median daily rate £370 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -26.00% -2.44% -9.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Story Points 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 13,682 15,214 19,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.07% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,212 9,119 13,131
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £369 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,350 1,552 1,202
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.84 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -1.19% +58.49%

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in the UK excluding London

Story Points
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Story Points in the UK excluding London

Story Points
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Points in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Story Points in the UK excluding London

Story Points
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Story Points in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Story Points in the UK excluding London

Story Points
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 Points within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Yorkshire - 7 £370 - 2
North of England - 7 £370 - 2
Scotland -12 1 £200 -56.76%
South East - 1 - -
Story Points
UK

Story Points
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DocumentDB
1 3 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
3 3 (33.33%) Babel
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) webpack
4 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (22.22%) Postman
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Automotive
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (11.11%) React Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) React
2 5 (55.56%) Kafka
3 4 (44.44%) Node.js
4 3 (33.33%) Redux
4 3 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
5 2 (22.22%) CSS
5 2 (22.22%) CSS3
5 2 (22.22%) DOM
5 2 (22.22%) HTML
5 2 (22.22%) HTML5
5 2 (22.22%) Jest
5 2 (22.22%) lodash
6 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (44.44%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Atomic Design
4 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 3 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (44.44%) WCAG
3 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks