Story Points Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Story Points
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Story Points skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Story Points 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 302 344 465
Rank change year-on-year +42 +121 +136
Contract jobs citing Story Points 2 1 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.007% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.007% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £616
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.58%
75th Percentile - - £643
90th Percentile - - £681
UK median daily rate £350 £575 £616
% change year-on-year -39.13% -6.58% +11.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Story Points 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 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Story Points
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Story Points as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Story Points trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Story Points
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Story Points.

Story Points daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Story Points
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI Developer
1 1 (50.00%) UAT Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) SAP