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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 541 638
Rank change year-on-year -1 +97 +133
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 14 21 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.054% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.063% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 24
10th Percentile £416 £381 £411
25th Percentile £425 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £500 £505 £581
90th Percentile £530 £578 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -17.43%

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 29,981 33,385 47,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,763 21,485 32,677
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,667 1,871 1,564
10th Percentile £14.17 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +84.42%

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 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Story Mapping in the UK

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Top 10 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 3 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
UK excluding London -2 9 £463 +2.78% 4
England +16 7 £475 +1.06% 10
Scotland -12 5 - -
London +3 3 £550 +8.64% 5
Work from Home +19 2 £455 +1.11% 2
North of England - 2 £463 -
Yorkshire - 2 £463 -
South East +23 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 2

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
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) Lucidchart
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Analyst
2 8 (57.14%) Business Analyst
3 6 (42.86%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (42.86%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Technical Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
6 1 (7.14%) T24 Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 2 (14.29%) OAuth
1 2 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 2 (14.29%) OpenID
1 2 (14.29%) RESTful
1 2 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (35.71%) CMDB
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) User Stories
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 7 (50.00%) Use Case
4 6 (42.86%) Storyboarding
5 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) User Experience
5 5 (35.71%) Wireframes
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
7 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
7 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
8 2 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dell
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) Temenos