Hybrid/Remote Story Mapping Contract Job Trends

Story Mapping
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Story Mapping skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 304 359
Rank change year-on-year -7 +55 +136
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.050% 0.027% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.031% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £367 £363 £422
25th Percentile £421 £381 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -2.86% -22.57%
75th Percentile £464 £438 £481
90th Percentile £586 - £515
UK median daily rate £468 £399 £475
% change year-on-year +17.24% -16.05% -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Story Mapping falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,000 9,799 14,446
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.31% 89.53% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,909 6,151 9,801
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 187 377
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.80 £16.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -29.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

Story Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Story Mapping and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Story Mapping job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Story Mapping
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Story Mapping.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Story Mapping

Story Mapping
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Story Mapping over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Story Mapping daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Story Mapping
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Banking Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PMI
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Backlog Management
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Focus Group
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CBAP
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce