User Stories Job Trends in the Scottish Borders

User Story
Scotland > Scottish Borders

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Scottish Borders requiring User Stories skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Scottish Borders 33.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 - -
75th Percentile £40,919 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scottish Borders

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 the Scottish Borders.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Scottish Borders 100.00% 33.33% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £38,615 - £20,475
25th Percentile £39,135 £29,750 £22,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £31,500 £28,750
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +9.57% -55.77%
75th Percentile £40,460 £33,250 £36,188
90th Percentile £40,735 - £39,225
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the Scottish Borders

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in the Scottish Borders

User Stories
Job Locations in the Scottish Borders

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Scottish Borders region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Galashiels - 1 £39,594 -
User Stories
Scotland

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Scottish Borders 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 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy