Story Mapping Contracts

Story Mapping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 564 663
Rank change year-on-year +58 +99 +124
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 14 18 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.041% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.048% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 43
10th Percentile - £375 £411
25th Percentile £413 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £488 £531 £575
90th Percentile £525 £580 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Story Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Story Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Story Mapping in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Mapping.

Daily rate trend for Story Mapping in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Mapping over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Story Mapping in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +66 12 £438 -2.78% 6
Scotland +13 8 £425 -5.56%
England +53 6 £475 -5.00% 14
Work from Home +36 2 £425 -5.56% 9
London +31 2 £550 +10.00% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £463 -
North of England - 2 £463 - 1
South East +46 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -

Story Mapping
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Lucidchart
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Analyst
2 10 (71.43%) Business Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Technical Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
6 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Product Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) CMDB
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (14.29%) Educational Technology
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) User Stories
2 10 (71.43%) Business Analysis
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Use Case
4 6 (42.86%) Storyboarding
5 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) Wireframes
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
6 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
7 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
7 3 (21.43%) Product Management
7 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (21.43%) User Experience
7 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dell
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas
2 1 (7.14%) Genesys
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce