User Stories Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Story
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 113 87
Rank change year-on-year -38 -26 +8
Contract jobs citing User Stories 276 524 906
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 2.28% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.55% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 381 656
10th Percentile £375 £388 £380
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.22%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £623 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £25.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +164.15% -36.90% +9.80%
75th Percentile £72.50 £27.25 £43.13
90th Percentile - - £48.25
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £65.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.23% +54.76% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Scotland +20 70 £500 +14.29% 8
North of England -21 70 £500 -6.98% 30
South East -20 67 £475 - 45
Yorkshire +13 45 £490 -10.91% 12
Midlands -11 35 £475 - 30
South West -43 26 £595 +8.14% 26
West Midlands -8 24 £488 -2.50% 28
North West -28 23 £538 +2.38% 13
East of England -17 9 £425 -5.56% 6
East Midlands +4 8 £425 -12.82% 2
North East -2 2 - - 5
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (11.96%) Confluence
2 6 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.45%) CMS
5 3 (1.09%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.72%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Appian
7 1 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 11 (3.99%) Sketch
2 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.90%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.54%) SAP PM
3 6 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.45%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.72%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.36%) Magento
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.39%) Azure
2 25 (9.06%) Dynamics 365
2 25 (9.06%) Power Platform
3 13 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.35%) AWS
5 11 (3.99%) Figma
6 8 (2.90%) SaaS
7 6 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.17%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.81%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.45%) Serverless
10 2 (0.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.72%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.72%) Veeva
11 1 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.36%) GCP
11 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.36%) Broadband
2 1 (0.36%) DNS
2 1 (0.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.36%) LAN
2 1 (0.36%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) SMS
2 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.07%) Power BI
2 12 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.45%) GIS
4 3 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.09%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.72%) Metadata
5 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.72%) Tableau
6 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.36%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 49 (17.75%) JIRA
2 9 (3.26%) JMeter
3 6 (2.17%) Selenium
4 5 (1.81%) Git
4 5 (1.81%) JUnit
5 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.36%) GoCD
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 93 (33.70%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.48%) Finance
3 45 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.06%) Telecoms
6 16 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.43%) Marketing
8 13 (4.71%) Banking
9 11 (3.99%) Retail
10 9 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.90%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.45%) Billing
13 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.45%) Electronics
13 4 (1.45%) Local Government
13 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.09%) French Language
14 3 (1.09%) Publishing
14 3 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (43.84%) Analyst
2 103 (37.32%) Business Analyst
3 31 (11.23%) Senior
4 25 (9.06%) Product Manager
5 20 (7.25%) Developer
6 19 (6.88%) Designer
6 19 (6.88%) Senior Analyst
7 18 (6.52%) Product Owner
8 17 (6.16%) Consultant
9 14 (5.07%) Senior Business Analyst
10 13 (4.71%) Technical Analyst
11 11 (3.99%) UX Designer
12 10 (3.62%) Digital Analyst
12 10 (3.62%) Digital Business Analyst
13 9 (3.26%) Architect
14 8 (2.90%) Project Manager
14 8 (2.90%) Test Engineer
15 7 (2.54%) Business Consultant
15 7 (2.54%) Data Analyst
15 7 (2.54%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.07%) React
2 11 (3.99%) HTML
3 10 (3.62%) CSS
4 9 (3.26%) XML
5 8 (2.90%) Gherkin
6 6 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.81%) REST
8 4 (1.45%) Flask
8 4 (1.45%) Web Services
9 3 (1.09%) .NET
9 3 (1.09%) JSON
9 3 (1.09%) LDAP
9 3 (1.09%) Node.js
9 3 (1.09%) RESTful
10 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.72%) ADO
10 2 (0.72%) React Native
10 2 (0.72%) Sass
10 2 (0.72%) Spring
10 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.64%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.26%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.17%) Smart Meter
5 5 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.09%) CMDB
7 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.09%) IoT
7 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.09%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.72%) Tandem
9 1 (0.36%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.36%) EPoS
9 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.36%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.36%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.99%) Android
1 11 (3.99%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.81%) Linux
2 5 (1.81%) Windows
3 4 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (64.13%) Agile
2 76 (27.54%) Scrum
3 68 (24.64%) Business Analysis
4 66 (23.91%) Acceptance Criteria
5 51 (18.48%) Epics
6 47 (17.03%) Requirements Gathering
7 45 (16.30%) Roadmaps
8 41 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (14.49%) Project Management
9 40 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (13.04%) DevOps
11 34 (12.32%) Product Backlog
11 34 (12.32%) User Experience
11 34 (12.32%) User Research
12 28 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
13 26 (9.42%) Analytics
13 26 (9.42%) Data Modelling
14 25 (9.06%) Impact Assessments
14 25 (9.06%) Product Management
15 24 (8.70%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.97%) Python
2 21 (7.61%) SQL
3 16 (5.80%) Java
4 15 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.45%) C#
5 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.36%) Bicep
6 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.06%) Degree
4 6 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.81%) CBAP
6 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.09%) CSPO
6 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.72%) APMP
7 2 (0.72%) IIBA
7 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.06%) QA
2 12 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.17%) GDPR
4 6 (2.17%) WCAG
5 4 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.45%) PMO
6 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) GxP
7 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.61%) SAP
3 7 (2.54%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.17%) Adobe
4 6 (2.17%) Cadence
5 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.45%) Ab Initio
6 4 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.45%) ESRI
7 3 (1.09%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.09%) Cognizant
7 3 (1.09%) Oracle
8 2 (0.72%) Google
8 2 (0.72%) IBM
8 2 (0.72%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.72%) Pega
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) Databricks
9 1 (0.36%) Workday