User Stories Job Trends in Milton Keynes

User Story
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring User Stories skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +5
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 10 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 1.61% 2.88% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 3.09% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,050 £46,925
25th Percentile £61,875 £61,375 £47,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,250 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +32.57% -9.17%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £72,125 - £65,875
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £65,000 £72,250 £54,500
% change year-on-year -10.03% +32.57% -9.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

User Stories falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 538 324 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 86.36% 93.37% 89.34%
Number of salaries quoted 355 230 408
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £92,000 £77,500
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

User Stories job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

User Stories
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing User Stories.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing User Stories

User Stories
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for User Stories in Milton Keynes

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Law
3 2 (20.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
5 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) ETL Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Epics
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) Affiliate Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google