User Stories Contracts in Wales

User Story
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 42 57
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 1 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.35% 0.76% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.97% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £238
25th Percentile £575 - £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £468
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +39.04% -1.58%
75th Percentile £625 - £521
90th Percentile - - £603
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% +1.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 250 310 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.72% 78.68% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 211 424
10th Percentile £185 £166 £181
25th Percentile £285 £358 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

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 3 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
South Wales +6 1 £600 -7.69% 5
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Angular 2
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google