User Stories Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Story
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 114 89
Rank change year-on-year -35 -25 +6
Contract jobs citing User Stories 282 490 887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.33% 2.16% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.42% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 353 649
10th Percentile £373 £388 £380
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £508
% change year-on-year +0.96% +2.46% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £27.60 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £30.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £37.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -10.71% +6.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.38 -
90th Percentile - £50.20 £42.90
UK median hourly rate £33.04 £64.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -48.38% +52.38% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,598 20,227 27,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 89.09% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 13,876 18,976
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,188 1,246 1,331
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.40 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
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 User Stories within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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 +23 71 £500 +13.64% 13
South East -34 69 £475 - 26
North of England -19 66 £500 -8.05% 44
Yorkshire +4 41 £495 -10.00% 13
Midlands -14 37 £475 -5.00% 25
West Midlands -17 26 £488 -9.30% 21
South West -34 26 £583 +5.91% 22
North West -31 21 £538 +2.38% 23
East of England -18 11 £400 -11.11% 4
East Midlands 0 8 £425 -15.00% 4
North East -2 4 £440 -11.56% 8
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 5
User Stories
UK

User Stories
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 36 (12.77%) Confluence
2 7 (2.48%) CMS
2 7 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.71%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.71%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 13 (4.61%) Sketch
2 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.71%) InVision
4 2 (0.71%) OmniGraffle
4 2 (0.71%) Trello
4 2 (0.71%) UXPin
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.13%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.42%) SAP Hybris
4 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.71%) SAP IS-U
5 2 (0.71%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.35%) Magento
6 1 (0.35%) Maximo
6 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 47 (16.67%) Azure
2 22 (7.80%) Dynamics 365
2 22 (7.80%) Power Platform
3 16 (5.67%) AWS
4 15 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.90%) Figma
6 9 (3.19%) SaaS
7 6 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.13%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.13%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.77%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.42%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.42%) Serverless
10 3 (1.06%) GCP
11 2 (0.71%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.71%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.71%) Veeva
12 1 (0.35%) Bloomreach
12 1 (0.35%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.13%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.06%) Network Security
3 2 (0.71%) BGP
3 2 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.71%) DMVPN
3 2 (0.71%) EIGRP
3 2 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 2 (0.71%) IPsec
3 2 (0.71%) MPLS
3 2 (0.71%) OSPF
3 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.71%) Sourcefire
3 2 (0.71%) VPN
3 2 (0.71%) WAN
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.61%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.61%) Power BI
2 5 (1.77%) GIS
3 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.42%) Metadata
4 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.35%) Tableau
6 1 (0.35%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 54 (19.15%) JIRA
2 8 (2.84%) JMeter
3 6 (2.13%) JUnit
4 5 (1.77%) Git
4 5 (1.77%) Selenium
5 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.71%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.71%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) GoCD
7 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 92 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.09%) Finance
3 45 (15.96%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.87%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.32%) Marketing
8 14 (4.96%) Banking
9 11 (3.90%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.48%) Retail
12 6 (2.13%) Billing
12 6 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.77%) Local Government
13 5 (1.77%) Publishing
14 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.42%) Electronics
15 3 (1.06%) Games
15 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (41.84%) Analyst
2 101 (35.82%) Business Analyst
3 36 (12.77%) Senior
4 25 (8.87%) Product Manager
5 24 (8.51%) Designer
6 22 (7.80%) Consultant
7 20 (7.09%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (6.74%) Developer
9 18 (6.38%) Product Owner
10 15 (5.32%) Senior Business Analyst
11 13 (4.61%) UX Designer
12 11 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.19%) Architect
13 9 (3.19%) Business Consultant
13 9 (3.19%) Content Designer
13 9 (3.19%) Lead
14 8 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.84%) Test Engineer
15 7 (2.48%) Senior Content Designer
15 7 (2.48%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.61%) React
2 12 (4.26%) HTML
3 10 (3.55%) CSS
4 9 (3.19%) Gherkin
4 9 (3.19%) XML
5 6 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.42%) JSON
6 4 (1.42%) Node.js
6 4 (1.42%) REST
6 4 (1.42%) Web Services
7 3 (1.06%) .NET
7 3 (1.06%) Flask
7 3 (1.06%) HTML5
7 3 (1.06%) LDAP
8 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.71%) ADO
8 2 (0.71%) CSS3
8 2 (0.71%) RESTful
8 2 (0.71%) Spring
8 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.82%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.13%) Mobile App
3 5 (1.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (1.77%) IoT
3 5 (1.77%) Smart Meter
4 4 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.06%) CMDB
5 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.35%) EPoS
6 1 (0.35%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.35%) NHS
6 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.90%) Android
1 11 (3.90%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.42%) Linux
2 4 (1.42%) Unix
2 4 (1.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (62.77%) Agile
2 80 (28.37%) Scrum
3 67 (23.76%) Business Analysis
4 62 (21.99%) Acceptance Criteria
5 53 (18.79%) Epics
6 47 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 45 (15.96%) Roadmaps
8 44 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (14.54%) Project Management
11 40 (14.18%) User Research
12 39 (13.83%) DevOps
13 32 (11.35%) User Experience
14 31 (10.99%) Product Backlog
15 29 (10.28%) Analytics
16 28 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
17 27 (9.57%) Product Management
18 25 (8.87%) Data Modelling
19 24 (8.51%) Use Case
20 23 (8.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.16%) SQL
2 21 (7.45%) Python
3 17 (6.03%) Java
4 16 (5.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.42%) C#
5 4 (1.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.42%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.87%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.16%) Degree
4 5 (1.77%) CBAP
5 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.06%) CSPO
6 3 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.71%) CCNA
7 2 (0.71%) CCNP
7 2 (0.71%) IIBA
8 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.22%) QA
2 15 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.84%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.77%) GDPR
4 5 (1.77%) PMO
4 5 (1.77%) WCAG
5 4 (1.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (1.06%) Terraform
2 2 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (9.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.45%) SAP
3 7 (2.48%) Cadence
3 7 (2.48%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.13%) Adobe
5 5 (1.77%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.42%) Ab Initio
6 4 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.06%) Cognizant
7 3 (1.06%) ESRI
7 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.71%) Aruba
8 2 (0.71%) F5
8 2 (0.71%) Marketo
8 2 (0.71%) McAfee
8 2 (0.71%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.71%) Pega