User Stories Contracts in the North of England

User Story
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 113 91 97
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing User Stories 70 134 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.52% 2.38% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.63% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 96 126
10th Percentile £392 £400 £383
25th Percentile £422 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +11.84% -
75th Percentile £566 £616 £539
90th Percentile £599 £650 £606
England median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% - +10.53%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.23% +54.76% -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the North of England

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the North of England

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the North of England

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the North of England

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire +17 45 £490 -10.91% 13
North West -32 23 £538 +2.87% 15
North East -2 2 - - 7
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (4.29%) ArcGIS
1 3 (4.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (12.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (10.00%) SAP PM
3 3 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.43%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (5.71%) AWS
2 4 (5.71%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.43%) Azure API Management
4 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.43%) GCP
4 1 (1.43%) SaaS
4 1 (1.43%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) GIS
2 3 (4.29%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (4.29%) Power BI
3 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.43%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) JMeter
2 6 (8.57%) Selenium
3 5 (7.14%) JUnit
4 4 (5.71%) Git
4 4 (5.71%) JIRA
5 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.43%) GoCD
7 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.57%) Finance
3 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Billing
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Analyst
1 34 (48.57%) Business Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) Developer
2 7 (10.00%) Senior
2 7 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 6 (8.57%) SAP Analyst
3 6 (8.57%) SAP Business Analyst
4 4 (5.71%) Consultant
4 4 (5.71%) Tester
5 3 (4.29%) Agile Business Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) GIS Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) GIS Business Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (2.86%) Lead
6 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) Gherkin
2 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
2 4 (5.71%) CSS
3 3 (4.29%) HTML
3 3 (4.29%) LDAP
4 2 (2.86%) React
4 2 (2.86%) Sass
4 2 (2.86%) Web Services
5 1 (1.43%) .NET
5 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.43%) Express.js
5 1 (1.43%) Jest
5 1 (1.43%) Node.js
5 1 (1.43%) OAuth
5 1 (1.43%) OpenID
5 1 (1.43%) RESTful
5 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.29%) CMDB
2 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Tandem
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) Agile
2 27 (38.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (34.29%) Scrum
5 22 (31.43%) Requirements Gathering
6 17 (24.29%) Business Analysis
7 13 (18.57%) Test Scripting
8 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.71%) DevOps
10 10 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 10 (14.29%) Software Testing
10 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (14.29%) Waterfall
11 9 (12.86%) Analytics
11 9 (12.86%) Kanban
11 9 (12.86%) SDLC
12 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
12 8 (11.43%) Test Strategy
13 7 (10.00%) Migration
13 7 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) Java
2 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.14%) SQL
3 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.29%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (1.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) CBAP
3 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.29%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.57%) QA
2 8 (11.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (8.57%) WCAG
4 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.43%) GDPR
5 1 (1.43%) GRC
5 1 (1.43%) GxP
5 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) SAP
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) ESRI
3 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Pega
5 1 (1.43%) Workday
5 1 (1.43%) Zscaler