User Stories Contracts in Tyne and Wear

User Story
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 30 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +7
Contract jobs citing User Stories 4 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.69% 5.99% 4.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 6.61% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 15
10th Percentile £408 £426 £370
25th Percentile £420 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £460 £588 £638
90th Percentile £472 £638 £660
North East median daily rate £440 £498 £600
% change year-on-year -11.56% -17.08% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

User Stories falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 242 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.34% 90.64% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 183 281
10th Percentile £329 £313 £200
25th Percentile £391 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £749 £688
North East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 12
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.53
25th Percentile £12.13 - £12.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £16.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £17.31
90th Percentile £68.75 - £18.63
North East median hourly rate £19.50 £39.34 £16.50
% change year-on-year -50.43% +138.42% +26.92%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Tyne and Wear

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Tyne and Wear

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 10 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
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 4 £440 -12.00% 5
User Stories
North East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Trello
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (50.00%) SFIA
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility