User Stories Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

User Story
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 237 173
Rank change year-on-year -93 -64 -50
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 138 461 865
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 1.36% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.50% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 108 326 541
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,965 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +0.81% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,496 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.51% -3.39% +0.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 30,831 39,032
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.25% 91.25% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,801 23,355 27,082
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

User Stories
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

User Stories trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

User Stories
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing User Stories.

User Stories salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

User Stories
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing User Stories over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

User Stories salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (7.25%) Confluence
2 6 (4.35%) CMS
3 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Appian
4 1 (0.72%) Mendix
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (4.35%) Trello
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.72%) InVision
5 1 (0.72%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Magento
2 2 (1.45%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.04%) SaaS
2 15 (10.87%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.97%) AWS
4 9 (6.52%) Azure
5 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.07%) Google Analytics
5 7 (5.07%) Serverless
6 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.45%) GCP
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.72%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) Power BI
2 6 (4.35%) Tableau
3 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.72%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.72%) Power Query
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (13.77%) JIRA
2 2 (1.45%) Git
2 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.72%) ERwin
3 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (49.28%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.64%) Finance
3 32 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (19.57%) Marketing
5 23 (16.67%) Publishing
6 12 (8.70%) Banking
7 10 (7.25%) Health Technology
7 10 (7.25%) Law
7 10 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.35%) Legal
9 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.90%) Retail
10 4 (2.90%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.45%) Finnish Language
12 1 (0.72%) French Language
12 1 (0.72%) German Language
12 1 (0.72%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 42 (30.43%) Analyst
2 32 (23.19%) Business Analyst
3 27 (19.57%) Product Owner
4 22 (15.94%) Product Manager
5 11 (7.97%) Lead
6 10 (7.25%) Senior
7 9 (6.52%) Administrator
7 9 (6.52%) Salesforce Administrator
8 8 (5.80%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 8 (5.80%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (5.07%) Technical Business Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) Software Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Development Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Project Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.62%) Software Development Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Systems Analyst
12 4 (2.90%) Developer
12 4 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.80%) CSS
1 8 (5.80%) HTML
2 6 (4.35%) React
3 4 (2.90%) JSON
3 4 (2.90%) Node.js
3 4 (2.90%) REST
3 4 (2.90%) RESTful
3 4 (2.90%) SOAP
3 4 (2.90%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.17%) .NET
4 3 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.17%) FHIR
4 3 (2.17%) Spring
4 3 (2.17%) XML
5 2 (1.45%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.45%) Middleware
5 2 (1.45%) Swagger
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.72%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.71%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (3.62%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (3.62%) Mainframe
5 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.90%) PMI
6 3 (2.17%) NHS
7 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.72%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.72%) Femtech
8 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.45%) Windows
1 2 (1.45%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (81.88%) Agile
2 45 (32.61%) Acceptance Criteria
2 45 (32.61%) Roadmaps
3 38 (27.54%) User Experience
4 34 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (24.64%) Scrum
5 30 (21.74%) Analytics
6 29 (21.01%) Product Management
7 26 (18.84%) Product Vision
8 25 (18.12%) Business Analysis
8 25 (18.12%) Customer Service
9 23 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 23 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
10 22 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (15.94%) Workflow
11 21 (15.22%) Product Backlog
12 20 (14.49%) Backlog Management
13 19 (13.77%) CI/CD
14 18 (13.04%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.87%) SQL
2 11 (7.97%) Python
3 6 (4.35%) Java
3 6 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.62%) C#
5 3 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.72%) Bicep
6 1 (0.72%) R
6 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (18.12%) Degree
2 8 (5.80%) CSPO
3 7 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.17%) PMP
7 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.01%) QA
2 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.62%) PMO
3 3 (2.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (2.17%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.72%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.72%) Grafana
1 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 8 (5.80%) Google
3 7 (5.07%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.62%) Mercator
5 4 (2.90%) Adobe
6 2 (1.45%) Databricks
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.72%) Facebook
7 1 (0.72%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.72%) Pega