User Story
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 191 123
Rank change year-on-year -86 -68 +63
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1,068 1,992 4,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.96% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.05% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 756 1,180 2,292
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories.

Salary trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
England -84 903 £57,965 -3.39% 284
UK excluding London -82 661 £55,000 - 164
Work from Home -69 471 £57,965 +0.59% 126
London -59 324 £72,000 +6.67% 134
North of England -33 182 £51,250 -6.82% 33
South East -42 142 £60,000 - 41
Midlands -66 113 £45,000 -10.00% 34
North West +9 111 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South West -45 96 £55,000 +10.00% 31
West Midlands -31 78 £53,000 +6.00% 28
Scotland -64 61 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire -4 56 £50,000 -7.41% 13
East Midlands -44 32 £37,500 -31.82% 6
East of England -47 32 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Wales -10 22 £50,000 +29.05% 9
North East -28 15 £57,965 +5.39% 3
Northern Ireland +31 13 £75,400 +43.62% 2

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 103 (9.64%) Confluence
2 39 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.12%) CMS
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.84%) WordPress
6 8 (0.75%) IIS
7 7 (0.66%) Kentico
8 6 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 1 (0.094%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.094%) nginx
Applications
1 38 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.15%) Sketch
3 22 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.03%) InVision
6 6 (0.56%) Trello
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.094%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 44 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.094%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 220 (20.60%) Azure
2 122 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
3 116 (10.86%) Power Platform
4 94 (8.80%) AWS
5 81 (7.58%) Dynamics 365
6 63 (5.90%) SaaS
7 46 (4.31%) Serverless
8 42 (3.93%) PowerApps
9 40 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.90%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.25%) GitHub
12 21 (1.97%) Azure Functions
13 20 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (1.87%) Figma
14 19 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (1.12%) dbt
18 11 (1.03%) Miro
19 10 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.50%) Broadband
2 13 (1.22%) Internet
3 10 (0.94%) WPA
4 6 (0.56%) Intranet
4 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.47%) WebEx
6 4 (0.37%) SSL
6 4 (0.37%) VPN
7 3 (0.28%) NaaS
7 3 (0.28%) Wireless
8 1 (0.094%) AMQP
8 1 (0.094%) Firewall
8 1 (0.094%) HTTP
8 1 (0.094%) LAN
8 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (7.87%) Power BI
2 57 (5.34%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.43%) Tableau
4 24 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 19 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.84%) Big Data
8 9 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.66%) Redis
11 6 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.56%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.47%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.47%) Metadata
13 4 (0.37%) GIS
13 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 232 (21.72%) JIRA
2 59 (5.52%) Git
3 36 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 34 (3.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 23 (2.15%) Selenium
6 17 (1.59%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.40%) GitLab
8 12 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.94%) TeamCity
10 9 (0.84%) Postman
11 8 (0.75%) JMeter
11 8 (0.75%) MSBuild
11 8 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.75%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.66%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.66%) git-flow
13 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
14 5 (0.47%) MSTest
14 5 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 309 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 266 (24.91%) Finance
3 177 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.30%) Marketing
5 89 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 65 (6.09%) Law
8 55 (5.15%) Retail
9 52 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (3.75%) Legal
12 38 (3.56%) Banking
13 15 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.84%) Advertising
17 7 (0.66%) Billing
17 7 (0.66%) Publishing
18 5 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 379 (35.49%) Analyst
2 323 (30.24%) Business Analyst
3 219 (20.51%) Senior
4 141 (13.20%) Developer
5 122 (11.42%) Product Owner
6 91 (8.52%) Product Manager
7 86 (8.05%) Lead
8 58 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
9 57 (5.34%) Technical Analyst
10 52 (4.87%) Technical Business Analyst
11 49 (4.59%) Senior Developer
12 47 (4.40%) Architect
12 47 (4.40%) Designer
13 43 (4.03%) Consultant
14 39 (3.65%) Senior Business Analyst
15 38 (3.56%) .NET Developer
16 37 (3.46%) Content Designer
16 37 (3.46%) Senior Designer
17 34 (3.18%) Senior Content Designer
18 26 (2.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.55%) .NET
2 59 (5.52%) HTML
3 58 (5.43%) CSS
4 51 (4.78%) ASP.NET
5 49 (4.59%) React
6 43 (4.03%) REST
7 36 (3.37%) AngularJS
8 35 (3.28%) XML
9 33 (3.09%) .NET Core
10 29 (2.72%) .NET Framework
11 25 (2.34%) JSON
12 24 (2.25%) Node.js
13 21 (1.97%) ASP.NET MVC
14 18 (1.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 17 (1.59%) Web Services
16 16 (1.50%) Vue
17 15 (1.40%) Kafka
18 14 (1.31%) Entity Framework
18 14 (1.31%) Gherkin
18 14 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 330 (30.90%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 41 (3.84%) Onboarding
4 32 (3.00%) NHS
5 27 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 23 (2.15%) Low-Code
8 18 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.69%) FMCG
9 17 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.94%) Derivative
15 9 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (0.84%) Reference Data
16 8 (0.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.68%) Linux
2 18 (1.69%) Windows
3 10 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.56%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.28%) Unix
7 1 (0.094%) VMS
7 1 (0.094%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (68.54%) Agile
2 319 (29.87%) Roadmaps
3 308 (28.84%) Scrum
4 255 (23.88%) Acceptance Criteria
5 244 (22.85%) DevOps
6 223 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
7 202 (18.91%) Product Backlog
8 180 (16.85%) Business Analysis
9 174 (16.29%) Requirements Gathering
10 154 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 153 (14.33%) User Experience
12 147 (13.76%) Mentoring
13 136 (12.73%) Epics
14 128 (11.99%) Analytics
15 126 (11.80%) Project Management
16 122 (11.42%) Product Roadmap
16 122 (11.42%) Workshop Facilitation
17 112 (10.49%) CI/CD
18 111 (10.39%) Backlog Management
19 102 (9.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 130 (12.17%) SQL
2 124 (11.61%) C#
3 109 (10.21%) JavaScript
4 67 (6.27%) Java
5 61 (5.71%) Python
6 46 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.12%) C++
7 12 (1.12%) R
7 12 (1.12%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.94%) PHP
9 8 (0.75%) C
9 8 (0.75%) VB.NET
10 7 (0.66%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.47%) Bash
13 4 (0.37%) Objective-C
13 4 (0.37%) Rust
13 4 (0.37%) Swift
14 3 (0.28%) Go
14 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 185 (17.32%) Degree
2 136 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 99 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 21 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.31%) CSPO
10 13 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.66%) IIBA
12 6 (0.56%) CISM
12 6 (0.56%) CISSP
12 6 (0.56%) GIAC
12 6 (0.56%) PMP
12 6 (0.56%) SANS
13 5 (0.47%) PhD
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (10.67%) QA
2 33 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.66%) NIST
5 6 (0.56%) COBIT
5 6 (0.56%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 5 (0.47%) WCAG
7 4 (0.37%) PMO
8 3 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (3.28%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.59%) Terraform
3 13 (1.22%) Ansible
4 9 (0.84%) Grafana
5 6 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.56%) Kibana
6 3 (0.28%) Packer
6 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.094%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.094%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.094%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.31%) Salesforce
3 26 (2.43%) ServiceNow
4 22 (2.06%) Google
5 13 (1.22%) Oracle
6 12 (1.12%) Adobe
7 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 9 (0.84%) Xero
8 8 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.66%) McAfee
9 7 (0.66%) SAP
10 6 (0.56%) Confluent
10 6 (0.56%) Hotjar
11 5 (0.47%) Intel
12 4 (0.37%) Databricks
12 4 (0.37%) IBM
12 4 (0.37%) Mercator
13 3 (0.28%) Conga
13 3 (0.28%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.28%) Marketo