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

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 48 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -30
Contract jobs citing User Stories 14 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 2.83% 0.52% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 0.59% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £375 £470 £259
25th Percentile £425 £481 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +27.27% -25.00%
75th Percentile £508 £581 £509
90th Percentile £575 £600 £556
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -2.56%

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 441 341 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 89.09% 88.34% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 231 247
10th Percentile £313 £375 £261
25th Percentile £400 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +5.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £725
90th Percentile £695 £775 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 5
10th Percentile £16.13 £13.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £28.18 £13.84 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.46 £14.70 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +175.24% -34.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £33.64 £30.00
90th Percentile - £35.00 £32.70
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +15.90% -22.22% +54.29%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwick +5 9 £425 -10.53% 3
Leamington Spa - 2 £558 -
Gaydon - 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Converged Networks
1 1 (7.14%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) TestPartner
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) QA Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) OAT Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 7 (50.00%) SCADA
2 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 3 (21.43%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Product Vision
2 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 6 (42.86%) Scrum
2 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 5 (35.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
3 5 (35.71%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (35.71%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
4 4 (28.57%) Product Management
4 4 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Test Management
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Key Management
5 3 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) FIPS 140-2
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 3 (21.43%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) MuleSoft
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce