User Stories Contracts in Wales

User Story
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.73% 1.38% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.61% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 11
10th Percentile - £253 £356
25th Percentile - £368 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile - £541 £509
90th Percentile - £600 £540
UK median daily rate £538 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 327 559 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 79.56% 86.00% 83.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 427 625
10th Percentile £160 £180 £201
25th Percentile £313 £330 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £570 £564 £575
90th Percentile £665 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 35
10th Percentile £11.69 £14.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £14.57 £16.98 £19.02
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.14 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -27.44% +40.85%
75th Percentile £50.81 £25.00 £29.25
90th Percentile £86.18 £48.75 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Wales

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Wales.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Wales

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
South Wales +10 3 £650 +32.65% 7
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) Line Management
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace