User Stories Contracts in West Yorkshire

User Story
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 42 70
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 -17
Contract jobs citing User Stories 14 33 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.53% 3.32% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 3.79% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 15
10th Percentile £380 £363 £443
25th Percentile £400 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -8.84% +7.50%
75th Percentile £498 £556 £619
90th Percentile £512 £575 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £480 £544
% change year-on-year -11.46% -11.72% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 508 870 1,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.70% 87.53% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 510 1,018
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £643 £657 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
Leeds -4 10 £425 -15.00% 13
Bradford -1 2 £495 +1.02% 3
Halifax - 2 - -
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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Lucidchart
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Interaction Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) GIS Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 5 (35.71%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (28.57%) Product Vision
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 3 (21.43%) Interaction Design
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dell
1 2 (14.29%) Veritas
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) ESRI
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) SAP