User Stories Contracts in Manchester

User Story
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 82 62 92
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 -30
Contract jobs citing User Stories 15 51 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.04% 2.85% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 3.15% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 39 38
10th Percentile £471 £400 £404
25th Percentile £497 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% +6.74%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £545
90th Percentile £638 £650 £629
North West median daily rate £525 £523 £475
% change year-on-year +0.48% +10.00% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,618 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.36% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,188 1,827
10th Percentile £325 £318 £264
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 55 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.28 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.80 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Manchester

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Manchester

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Manchester

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 1 £600 - 1
User Stories
North West

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) GoCD
General
1 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
1 6 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Billing Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Designer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) Jest
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (26.67%) GAP Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (20.00%) BPMN
3 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Logistics
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Pega
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Workday