Storytelling Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Storytelling
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Storytelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 105 108
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing Storytelling 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -13.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Storytelling 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 1,356 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.61% 86.92% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 845 999
10th Percentile £263 £223 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 46 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.97
25th Percentile £16.22 £16.38 £17.94
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.70 £50.94
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Storytelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Storytelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Storytelling job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Storytelling
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Storytelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Storytelling

Storytelling
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storytelling within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 2 £500 - 1
Shropshire - 1 - - 2
Storytelling
England

Storytelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Graphic Design
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
1 2 (66.67%) Video Editing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Denodo
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Talend