User Stories Contracts in Buckinghamshire

User Story
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 35 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.85% 4.04% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 4.32% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 27
10th Percentile £350 - £413
25th Percentile £375 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £450 £450 £475
90th Percentile £480 - £515
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 397 810 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 81.69% 93.53% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 642 653
10th Percentile £271 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.63% +3.26%
75th Percentile £560 £584 £575
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 42
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.31 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.54 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.57 £12.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.23% +11.41% -6.31%
75th Percentile £30.00 £16.16 £14.32
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.71 £52.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Buckinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Buckinghamshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +6 9 £425 -3.41% 2
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 6 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
3 5 (55.56%) Data Design
3 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Kanban
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Story Mapping
7 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 1 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
7 1 (11.11%) ETL
7 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Ab Initio