User Stories Job Trends in West Yorkshire

User Story
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 96 126
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -33
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 10 10 16
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.55% 0.66% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.76% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £52,500 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +52.94% -29.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £61,035
90th Percentile £72,000 £68,750 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +47.06% -22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,490 1,314 1,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 82.55% 87.31% 93.32%
Number of salaries quoted 872 661 1,364
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,264 £53,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -4.40% +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,750 £84,964 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

User Stories job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

User Stories
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User Stories.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for User Stories in West Yorkshire

User Stories
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Leeds -17 8 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Bradford -13 2 £75,000 - 1
User Stories
Yorkshire

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Compliance Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 4 (40.00%) KYC
3 4 (40.00%) Market Research
3 4 (40.00%) Product Management
3 4 (40.00%) Product Requirements
3 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) IIBA
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft