User Stories Contracts in the Midlands

User Story
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 102 86 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 -22 +3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 35 71 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.30% 2.15% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.45% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 53 132
10th Percentile - £378 £380
25th Percentile £413 £425 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -7.99% +19.71%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £683 £680 £638
England median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,903 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.06% 88.08% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,037 3,263
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 103 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.26 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.98% +15.14%
75th Percentile £33.25 £37.66 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands -10 24 £488 -2.50% 30
East Midlands +7 8 £425 -12.82% 5
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
1 1 (2.86%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) OLAP
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
1 1 (2.86%) Tableau
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Analyst
2 14 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Mobile Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) CRM Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) CRM Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.57%) Taxonomies
3 2 (5.71%) IoT
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.86%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Scrum
3 10 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 9 (25.71%) Business Analysis
5 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (17.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (17.14%) Product Backlog
7 6 (17.14%) Product Roadmap
7 6 (17.14%) Project Management
8 5 (14.29%) Business Transformation
8 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (14.29%) CRM
8 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
8 5 (14.29%) Migration
8 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 5 (14.29%) Wireframes
9 4 (11.43%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.86%) CBAP
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.86%) IIBA
1 1 (2.86%) ISEB
1 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Anaplan
2 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.86%) Marketo
2 1 (2.86%) Progress
2 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow