User Stories Contracts in Yorkshire

User Story
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 75 55 78
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing User Stories 17 45 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.67% 2.66% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 3.08% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 30
10th Percentile £395 £378 £435
25th Percentile £400 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £544
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -11.72% +11.54%
75th Percentile £503 £528 £594
90th Percentile £519 £575 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +1.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire -4 14 £450 -8.16% 9
North Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 4
South Yorkshire -3 1 £513 +20.59% 1
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (35.29%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.88%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JIRA
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Analyst
1 10 (58.82%) Business Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Designer
2 3 (17.65%) Interaction Designer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) CRM Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Software Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Business Analysis
3 8 (47.06%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) Kanban
5 5 (29.41%) Use Case
5 5 (29.41%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (23.53%) BPMN
6 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 4 (23.53%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (23.53%) Product Vision
6 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
7 3 (17.65%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) CBAP
3 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Dell
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Veritas
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.88%) ESRI
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) SAP