User Stories Job Trends in Northern Ireland

User Story
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 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 71 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +32
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 3 5 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.32% 1.85% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 2.07% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £71,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year - -33.69% +43.62%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £79,600
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% -3.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 741 242 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 78.33% 89.63% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 282 66 297
10th Percentile - £32,681 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,221 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

User Stories
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing User Stories.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing User Stories

User Stories
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim -32 3 £50,000 -
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Order to Cash
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Record to Report
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) HND
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft