User Stories Contracts in Yorkshire

User Story
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 59 76 60
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 +7
Contract jobs citing User Stories 45 47 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.71% 2.10% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.31% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 33 63
10th Percentile £378 £440 £380
25th Percentile £416 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +15.79% +2.70%
75th Percentile £555 £638 £525
90th Percentile £575 £650 £550
England median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,425 2,034 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.84% 90.93% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,335 1,779
10th Percentile £275 £275 £260
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 83
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.64
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.22
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.45
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +28 35 £500 -9.09% 10
South Yorkshire -11 10 £425 -22.73% 2
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (6.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (17.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (15.56%) SAP PM
3 3 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (2.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.44%) AWS
1 2 (4.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.22%) GCP
2 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) GIS
2 3 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.22%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) JMeter
2 6 (13.33%) Selenium
3 5 (11.11%) JUnit
4 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.44%) Git
5 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Games
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Analyst
1 24 (53.33%) Business Analyst
2 7 (15.56%) Test Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) SAP Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) SAP Business Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Tester
5 3 (6.67%) Agile Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) GIS Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) GIS Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Gherkin
2 4 (8.89%) CSS
3 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.67%) HTML
3 3 (6.67%) LDAP
4 1 (2.22%) Express.js
4 1 (2.22%) OAuth
4 1 (2.22%) OpenID
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (2.22%) Sass
4 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) CMDB
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Agile
2 25 (55.56%) Acceptance Criteria
3 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (42.22%) Scrum
5 17 (37.78%) Requirements Gathering
6 15 (33.33%) Business Analysis
7 11 (24.44%) Test Automation
7 11 (24.44%) Test Scripting
8 10 (22.22%) DevOps
8 10 (22.22%) Waterfall
9 9 (20.00%) Kanban
9 9 (20.00%) Software Testing
10 8 (17.78%) Analytics
10 8 (17.78%) Test Strategy
11 7 (15.56%) SDLC
11 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (13.33%) Software Delivery
13 5 (11.11%) API Testing
13 5 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Java
2 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.67%) Python
4 2 (4.44%) SQL
5 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) CBAP
3 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) QA
2 6 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (13.33%) WCAG
3 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) SAP
2 4 (8.89%) ESRI
3 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft