User Stories Contracts in England

User Story
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 118 94
Rank change year-on-year -36 -24 +8
Contract jobs citing User Stories 575 1,068 1,943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.58% 2.20% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.45% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 743 1,388
10th Percentile £353 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £31.71 £47.50 £38.70
25th Percentile £32.03 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.23% +54.76% -20.00%
75th Percentile £62.94 £68.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.00 £67.30
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.23% +54.76% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in England.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
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 User Stories within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -3 351 £550 +4.76% 133
North of England -22 70 £500 -5.88% 35
South East -32 68 £475 - 47
Yorkshire +17 45 £490 -10.91% 13
Midlands -16 35 £475 - 35
South West -43 26 £595 +8.14% 28
West Midlands -10 24 £488 -2.50% 30
North West -32 23 £538 +2.87% 15
East of England -11 9 £425 -5.56% 6
East Midlands +7 8 £425 -12.82% 5
North East -2 2 - - 7
User Stories
UK

User Stories
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 43 (7.48%) Confluence
2 29 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.09%) CMS
4 7 (1.22%) Drupal
5 5 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.17%) Moodle
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.70%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.70%) Sketch
6 3 (0.52%) InVision
6 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.17%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.17%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.22%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.87%) Shopify
4 5 (0.87%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.52%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.35%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.17%) Softmar
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 118 (20.52%) Azure
2 55 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
2 55 (9.57%) Power Platform
3 41 (7.13%) Dynamics 365
4 25 (4.35%) AWS
5 18 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 16 (2.78%) SaaS
7 12 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (1.57%) Miro
9 9 (1.57%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.39%) Figma
11 7 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.22%) Serverless
12 6 (1.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 6 (1.04%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.87%) BigCommerce
13 5 (0.87%) GCP
13 5 (0.87%) Lucidchart
13 5 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.22%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (1.04%) DNS
3 4 (0.70%) DHCP
3 4 (0.70%) Firewall
3 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.52%) Internet
5 2 (0.35%) SNA
5 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.17%) Broadband
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
6 1 (0.17%) HTTP
6 1 (0.17%) LAN
6 1 (0.17%) Network Security
6 1 (0.17%) SMS
6 1 (0.17%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.96%) Power BI
2 14 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.26%) Data Lake
4 10 (1.74%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.87%) SAP HANA
8 5 (0.87%) Siebel EIM
9 4 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.70%) GIS
9 4 (0.70%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.70%) Tableau
10 3 (0.52%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.35%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 82 (14.26%) JIRA
2 19 (3.30%) Git
3 18 (3.13%) SoapUI
4 17 (2.96%) Postman
4 17 (2.96%) Selenium
5 15 (2.61%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.43%) JUnit
7 12 (2.09%) JMeter
8 11 (1.91%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.57%) Appium
9 9 (1.57%) eggPlant
9 9 (1.57%) SOAtest
9 9 (1.57%) TestNG
9 9 (1.57%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.87%) GitLab
11 4 (0.70%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.35%) FitNesse
12 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
12 2 (0.35%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 186 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 145 (25.22%) Finance
3 75 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.35%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.22%) Banking
6 29 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 26 (4.52%) Marketing
8 23 (4.00%) Back Office
9 22 (3.83%) Retail
10 21 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.39%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.22%) Local Government
16 6 (1.04%) Games
17 5 (0.87%) Billing
17 5 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
17 5 (0.87%) Law
17 5 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 273 (47.48%) Analyst
2 234 (40.70%) Business Analyst
3 76 (13.22%) Senior
4 58 (10.09%) Product Owner
5 43 (7.48%) Developer
6 40 (6.96%) Senior Analyst
7 39 (6.78%) Consultant
7 39 (6.78%) Technical Analyst
8 32 (5.57%) Senior Business Analyst
9 29 (5.04%) Technical Business Analyst
10 21 (3.65%) Financial Analyst
11 19 (3.30%) Architect
11 19 (3.30%) Data Analyst
11 19 (3.30%) Data Business Analyst
11 19 (3.30%) Project Manager
12 18 (3.13%) Finance Business Analyst
12 18 (3.13%) Lead
13 16 (2.78%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 15 (2.61%) Agile Business Analyst
14 15 (2.61%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.35%) .NET
2 20 (3.48%) HTML
3 17 (2.96%) .NET Framework
3 17 (2.96%) CSS
4 14 (2.43%) XML
5 13 (2.26%) React
5 13 (2.26%) REST
6 12 (2.09%) SOAP
7 10 (1.74%) Gherkin
7 10 (1.74%) Web Services
8 9 (1.57%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.22%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.22%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (1.22%) Flask
9 7 (1.22%) JSON
9 7 (1.22%) LDAP
9 7 (1.22%) Node.js
10 5 (0.87%) ADO
10 5 (0.87%) RESTful
10 5 (0.87%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 158 (27.48%) Product Ownership
2 19 (3.30%) Mobile App
3 11 (1.91%) Management Information System
4 7 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.04%) Reinsurance
5 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.04%) Smart Meter
6 5 (0.87%) CMDB
6 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.70%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.70%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.74%) Linux
1 10 (1.74%) Windows
2 4 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (60.17%) Agile
2 192 (33.39%) Acceptance Criteria
3 152 (26.43%) Scrum
4 119 (20.70%) Requirements Gathering
5 114 (19.83%) Business Analysis
6 102 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (17.22%) DevOps
8 89 (15.48%) User Acceptance Testing
9 76 (13.22%) Epics
10 73 (12.70%) Roadmaps
11 70 (12.17%) Product Backlog
12 66 (11.48%) Test Automation
13 64 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (10.96%) Workshop Facilitation
15 59 (10.26%) Migration
16 51 (8.87%) Project Management
17 50 (8.70%) Data Modelling
18 48 (8.35%) Backlog Management
18 48 (8.35%) GAP Analysis
18 48 (8.35%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 62 (10.78%) SQL
2 30 (5.22%) Java
3 27 (4.70%) Python
4 23 (4.00%) C#
4 23 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.74%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.70%) C
7 4 (0.70%) Go
7 4 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.52%) VBA
9 2 (0.35%) Bicep
9 2 (0.35%) Ruby
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.17%) R
10 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (10.09%) Degree
2 53 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 44 (7.65%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.74%) DV Cleared
4 10 (1.74%) Master's Degree
5 8 (1.39%) CBAP
5 8 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.87%) PMP
8 4 (0.70%) CSPO
8 4 (0.70%) MBA
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.35%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CITP
11 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.52%) QA
2 31 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.09%) WCAG
6 7 (1.22%) GDPR
6 7 (1.22%) PMO
7 5 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.70%) SLA
9 3 (0.52%) IFRS
9 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.35%) GxP
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) Basel II
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (0.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.35%) Terraform
4 1 (0.17%) Matomo
Vendors
1 67 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.26%) SAP
3 21 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.96%) Oracle
5 14 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.26%) Adobe
7 9 (1.57%) Guidewire
8 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.04%) Sitecore
9 5 (0.87%) CyberSource
9 5 (0.87%) Databricks
9 5 (0.87%) Siebel
9 5 (0.87%) SimCorp
10 4 (0.70%) Dell
10 4 (0.70%) ESRI
10 4 (0.70%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.70%) Intel
10 4 (0.70%) Optimizely
10 4 (0.70%) Screaming Frog