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

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing User Stories 3 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.86% 1.27% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.67% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £335 £380 £430
25th Percentile £381 £388 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £473 £421 £532
90th Percentile - £433 £573
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.24% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 297 300 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.34% 75.95% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 163 317
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £266 £209 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £412 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -10.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £488 £547 £588
90th Percentile £633 £634 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.28 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.92 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.50 £24.33 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.74% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £45.63 £40.63
90th Percentile - £53.15 £51.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +57.41%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Wales over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Wales

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing User Stories

User Stories
DemandTrendContract 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 24 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +4 3 £465 +16.25% 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Project Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft