User Stories Contracts in South Lanarkshire

User Story
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Lanarkshire 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 22 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 10.11% 24.44% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.54% 25.88% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 1
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £525 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £600 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £440 £427
% change year-on-year +13.64% +3.04% +2.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 85 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 87.64% 94.44% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 55 32
10th Percentile £363 £400 £305
25th Percentile £450 £433 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - +21.62%
75th Percentile £700 £485 £550
90th Percentile £750 £562 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.09
25th Percentile - - £12.17
Median hourly rate - - £12.69
75th Percentile - - £16.67
90th Percentile - - £18.67
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
% change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in South Lanarkshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in South Lanarkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 8 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 Kilbride -4 9 £575 +27.78%
User Stories
Scotland

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 9 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Product Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Epics
2 8 (88.89%) User Research
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
4 3 (33.33%) Backlog Management
4 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 3 (33.33%) Product Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Case
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Minimum Viable Product
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
5 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft