Story Mapping Contracts

Story Mapping
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Story Mapping skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Story Mapping 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 548 642 766
Rank change year-on-year +94 +124 -89
Contract jobs citing Story Mapping 23 45 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.079% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.088% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 65
10th Percentile £394 £411 £420
25th Percentile £445 £453 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -6.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £575
90th Percentile £574 £593 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £527
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.87% +9.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Story Mapping 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Story Mapping
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Story Mapping as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Story Mapping in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Mapping.

Daily rate trend for Story Mapping in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Mapping over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Story Mapping in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Mapping within the UK 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
England +89 15 £500 -9.09% 3
London +95 14 £500 -11.50% 3
UK excluding London +51 9 £450 -5.26%
Scotland +42 8 £450 +5.88%
Work from Home +99 7 £450 -10.00% 1
South East +32 1 £525 +7.69%

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Miro
3 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (17.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 11 (47.83%) Public Sector
2 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (17.39%) Back Office
6 2 (8.70%) Marketing
7 1 (4.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Analyst
1 17 (73.91%) Business Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Finance Business Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Business Finance Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 2 (8.70%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Product Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Business Finance Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Designer
6 1 (4.35%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) SAP PI
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (21.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) User Stories
2 19 (82.61%) Agile
3 12 (52.17%) Scrum
4 11 (47.83%) Business Analysis
5 10 (43.48%) Roadmaps
6 8 (34.78%) Acceptance Criteria
6 8 (34.78%) Epics
7 7 (30.43%) Data Migration
7 7 (30.43%) GAP Analysis
7 7 (30.43%) Migration
7 7 (30.43%) Service Design
7 7 (30.43%) User Experience
8 6 (26.09%) Coaching
8 6 (26.09%) Data Mapping
8 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
8 6 (26.09%) Impact Assessments
8 6 (26.09%) User Research
8 6 (26.09%) UX Research
8 6 (26.09%) Value Proposition
9 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) CBAP
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) ISO 20022
1 5 (21.74%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Cadence
2 5 (21.74%) CyberSource
2 5 (21.74%) SAP