User Stories Contracts in Warwickshire

User Story
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 43 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -13
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 2.91% 0.59% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 0.65% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £433 £554 £189
25th Percentile £444 £578 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £250
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +155.00% -60.00%
75th Percentile £538 £678 £438
90th Percentile £568 £691 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 309 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 89.97% 91.42% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 209 228
10th Percentile £235 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £638
90th Percentile £664 £850 £741
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 31 3
10th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 £14.39
25th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £14.43
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +55.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £28.18 £26.95 £19.13
90th Percentile £45.33 £35.00 £21.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Warwickshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Warwickshire

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Warwickshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Warwickshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwick -1 5 £463 -33.93% 5
Stratford-upon-Avon - 1 - - 2
User Stories
West Midlands

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (55.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) CRM Architect
3 1 (11.11%) CRM Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
1 5 (55.56%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Defect Management
3 5 (55.56%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (55.56%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Test Assurance
3 5 (55.56%) Test Management
3 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 4 (44.44%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (11.11%) API Management
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (11.11%) Decarbonisation
6 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
6 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) APMP
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) HP
1 5 (55.56%) MuleSoft
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow