User Stories Contracts in West Yorkshire

User Story
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 75 57
Rank change year-on-year +36 -18 +10
Contract jobs citing User Stories 33 35 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.30% 2.15% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 2.34% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 41
10th Percentile £363 £444 £413
25th Percentile £425 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £609 £540
90th Percentile £570 £650 £575
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 877 1,493 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.70% 91.60% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 1,021 1,281
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £568
90th Percentile £668 £700 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 45
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.12 £12.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -53.59% +53.06% -21.14%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.40
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.15
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in West Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in West Yorkshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in West Yorkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Leeds +13 19 £500 -9.09% 7
Bradford +16 13 £490 -
User Stories
Yorkshire

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (9.09%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (24.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (21.21%) SAP PM
3 3 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (3.03%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) Azure
2 1 (3.03%) AWS
2 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) GIS
2 3 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 3 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) JUnit
General
1 20 (60.61%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Games
5 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (72.73%) Analyst
1 24 (72.73%) Business Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) SAP Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) SAP Business Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Agile Business Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Architect
3 3 (9.09%) GIS Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) GIS Business Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) ITSM Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Test Leader
4 2 (6.06%) Tester
5 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.03%) CRM Architect
5 1 (3.03%) CRM Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Gherkin
2 2 (6.06%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) CSS
3 1 (3.03%) Express.js
3 1 (3.03%) OAuth
3 1 (3.03%) OpenID
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) Sass
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) CMDB
2 2 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (78.79%) Agile
2 20 (60.61%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (51.52%) Business Analysis
3 17 (51.52%) Requirements Gathering
4 15 (45.45%) Acceptance Criteria
5 12 (36.36%) Scrum
6 10 (30.30%) Waterfall
7 7 (21.21%) DevOps
7 7 (21.21%) SDLC
7 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.15%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (15.15%) CRM
8 5 (15.15%) User Experience
9 4 (12.12%) Analytics
9 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.12%) Test Strategy
10 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (9.09%) Product Management
10 3 (9.09%) Use Case
10 3 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.06%) Java
1 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.03%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) SAP
2 4 (12.12%) ESRI
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft