Story Points Contracts in England

Story Points
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 623 752
Rank change year-on-year +90 +129 -142
Contract jobs citing Story Points 9 16 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.034% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.037% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 29
10th Percentile £475 £448 £421
25th Percentile £503 £472 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.77%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £650
90th Percentile £744 £681 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +8.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Story Points 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Story Points as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Points in England.

Daily rate trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Points in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Story Points in England.

Hourly rate trend for Story Points in England

Story Points
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Points within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England - 5 £500 -
London +98 4 £625 +13.64% 3
Story Points
UK

Story Points
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (55.56%) Appian
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Unqork
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) GIS
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
General
1 3 (33.33%) Back Office
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Appian Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Senior
4 3 (33.33%) Product Owner
4 3 (33.33%) Senior Product Owner
5 1 (11.11%) Designer
5 1 (11.11%) Payments Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Payments Designer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) RESTful
2 5 (55.56%) SOAP
2 5 (55.56%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (22.22%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (22.22%) Freedom of Information Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Backlog Refinement
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Business Process Modelling
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (55.56%) Document Management
3 4 (44.44%) BDD
3 4 (44.44%) Product Backlog
3 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 3 (33.33%) Backlog Management
4 3 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) CRM
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) IBM
1 5 (55.56%) OpenText
1 5 (55.56%) Pega