User Stories Job Trends in Newport

User Story
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newport requiring User Stories skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 14 27
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 4 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport 1.30% 2.00% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.27% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,468 - £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 - £44,000
75th Percentile £55,873 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% +25.00% +18.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 44 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 70.36% 88.00% 71.90%
Number of salaries quoted 117 28 92
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,125 £26,500
25th Percentile £39,238 £46,689 £41,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £63,250 £52,101
Median % change year-on-year -16.21% +21.40% +15.78%
75th Percentile £61,875 £70,338 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,862 £71,375 £67,350
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +4.41%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Newport

User Stories
Salary Trend in Newport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing User Stories.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing User Stories

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior SEO Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) SEO Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (50.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Product Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft