Storybook Contract Job Trends

Storybook
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Storybook skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 525 541
Rank change year-on-year -126 +16 +77
Contract jobs citing Storybook 31 35 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.11% 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.49% 0.69% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 12
10th Percentile £463 £385 £353
25th Percentile £514 £404 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £491
90th Percentile £775 £636 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £433 £425
% change year-on-year +7.12% +1.76% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Storybook falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,356 5,044 5,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.63% 15.37% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,407 3,129
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £31.43
25th Percentile £49.38 £46.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Storybook
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Storybook relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Storybook job vacancy trend in the UK

Storybook
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Storybook.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Storybook

Storybook
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storybook over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Storybook in the UK

Storybook
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Storybook.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Storybook

Storybook
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storybook within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
England -118 25 £560 +31.76% 51
London -81 20 £574 -6.14% 30
Work from Home -75 6 £488 -18.75% 23
UK excluding London -121 5 £463 +7.12% 24
Midlands - 5 £463 - 3
West Midlands - 5 £463 - 2

Storybook
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) Figma
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) AWS
3 7 (22.58%) GitHub
4 6 (19.35%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (12.90%) SaaS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.23%) ChatGPT
7 1 (3.23%) Fastly
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Cypress.io
2 8 (25.81%) Git
3 5 (16.13%) Vite
4 2 (6.45%) Ant
4 2 (6.45%) rollup.js
4 2 (6.45%) webpack
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (61.29%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) React Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (22.58%) UI Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Architect
4 6 (19.35%) UI Architect
5 5 (16.13%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.68%) UI Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (3.23%) Design Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior React Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) UI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (83.87%) React
2 23 (74.19%) CSS
3 22 (70.97%) HTML
4 15 (48.39%) REST
5 13 (41.94%) Playwright
6 12 (38.71%) CSS3
6 12 (38.71%) HTML5
6 12 (38.71%) Jest
7 11 (35.48%) OAuth
7 11 (35.48%) OAuth2
7 11 (35.48%) Redux
8 9 (29.03%) RESTful
9 7 (22.58%) Material-UI
9 7 (22.58%) Node.js
10 6 (19.35%) JWT
10 6 (19.35%) Kafka
11 5 (16.13%) OpenAPI
11 5 (16.13%) OpenID
11 5 (16.13%) Vitest
11 5 (16.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (16.13%) Fixed Income
3 4 (12.90%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) User Experience
2 17 (54.84%) Test Automation
3 15 (48.39%) API Integration
3 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
4 13 (41.94%) AI
4 13 (41.94%) Front End Development
5 12 (38.71%) Micro Frontends
6 11 (35.48%) Backends for Frontends
6 11 (35.48%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (32.26%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (32.26%) UX Design
8 9 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (25.81%) DevOps
10 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
10 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (22.58%) Observability
11 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
11 6 (19.35%) Fintech
11 6 (19.35%) Prompt Engineering
11 6 (19.35%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) TypeScript
2 20 (64.52%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) CFML
5 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (48.39%) Accessibility
2 11 (35.48%) WCAG
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Grafana
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
1 7 (22.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft