User Stories Contracts in Wiltshire

User Story
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 51 84 45
Rank change year-on-year +33 -39 +19
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 5 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.34% 0.53% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.64% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 37
10th Percentile £314 £453 -
25th Percentile £391 £494 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +3.14% +11.50%
75th Percentile £519 £613 £610
90th Percentile £560 £628 £612
South West median daily rate £575 £590 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Wiltshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Wiltshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Wiltshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon - 4 £370 - 4
User Stories
South West

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Designer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft Developer
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
1 1 (16.67%) Tester
1 1 (16.67%) UI Designer
1 1 (16.67%) UI/UX Designer
1 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Epics
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Objectives and Key Results
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Release Train
3 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
1 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP