User Stories Jobs

User Story
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 277 199 116
Rank change year-on-year -78 -83 +66
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1,060 1,718 5,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 1.84% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.93% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 743 1,063 2,349
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £39,333
25th Percentile £47,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories.

Salary trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -89 895 £57,965 -3.39% 227
UK excluding London -71 676 £55,000 - 134
Work from Home -69 462 £57,965 +0.81% 135
London -79 309 £72,500 +7.41% 112
North of England -62 183 £52,500 -4.55% 37
South East -29 151 £60,000 - 25
Midlands -78 113 £44,000 -16.19% 22
North West -17 112 £51,250 -6.82% 20
South West -19 99 £55,000 +7.32% 21
West Midlands -42 81 £55,000 +10.00% 21
Scotland -42 67 £50,000 -7.41% 13
Yorkshire -18 57 £50,000 -5.66% 10
East Midlands -49 29 £35,000 -36.36% 1
East of England -64 28 £57,500 - 4
Wales -4 27 £50,000 +22.69% 8
North East -36 14 £57,965 +5.39% 7
Northern Ireland +22 12 £75,400 +43.62% 5

User Stories
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:

Application Platforms
1 114 (10.75%) Confluence
2 35 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.85%) CMS
3 9 (0.85%) WordPress
4 8 (0.75%) IIS
4 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.47%) Kentico
7 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.094%) nginx
10 1 (0.094%) WildFly
Applications
1 35 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.45%) Sketch
3 24 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.32%) InVision
7 7 (0.66%) Trello
8 5 (0.47%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.094%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.094%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 47 (4.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.38%) Magento
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.094%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.094%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 211 (19.91%) Azure
2 115 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
3 108 (10.19%) Power Platform
4 100 (9.43%) AWS
5 83 (7.83%) Dynamics 365
6 59 (5.57%) SaaS
7 48 (4.53%) Serverless
8 40 (3.77%) PowerApps
9 32 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.92%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.26%) Figma
11 24 (2.26%) GitHub
12 22 (2.08%) Azure Functions
13 21 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.79%) dbt
15 15 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
18 9 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.51%) Broadband
2 13 (1.23%) Internet
3 10 (0.94%) WPA
4 6 (0.57%) Intranet
4 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.38%) VPN
6 3 (0.28%) HTTP
6 3 (0.28%) NaaS
6 3 (0.28%) SSL
6 3 (0.28%) WebEx
6 3 (0.28%) Wireless
7 2 (0.19%) DSL
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.094%) BGP
8 1 (0.094%) MPLS
8 1 (0.094%) Network Security
8 1 (0.094%) OSPF
8 1 (0.094%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.094%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.79%) Power BI
2 50 (4.72%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.08%) Tableau
4 19 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.66%) Big Data
10 7 (0.66%) Redis
10 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.57%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 231 (21.79%) JIRA
2 58 (5.47%) Git
3 38 (3.58%) Team Foundation Server
4 36 (3.40%) Visual Studio
5 26 (2.45%) Selenium
6 13 (1.23%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 11 (1.04%) Postman
9 10 (0.94%) JMeter
9 10 (0.94%) SpecFlow
10 8 (0.75%) MSBuild
10 8 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.66%) GitLab
12 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.47%) Axure RP
13 5 (0.47%) MSTest
14 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 319 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 248 (23.40%) Finance
3 164 (15.47%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.42%) Marketing
5 98 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (6.23%) Law
7 63 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 59 (5.57%) Retail
9 46 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (3.77%) Legal
12 35 (3.30%) Banking
13 11 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.85%) Advertising
15 9 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.75%) Billing
17 7 (0.66%) Publishing
18 5 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 354 (33.40%) Analyst
2 305 (28.77%) Business Analyst
3 213 (20.09%) Senior
4 128 (12.08%) Developer
5 121 (11.42%) Product Owner
6 99 (9.34%) Product Manager
7 97 (9.15%) Lead
8 56 (5.28%) Architect
9 55 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
9 55 (5.19%) Technical Analyst
10 52 (4.91%) Technical Business Analyst
11 50 (4.72%) Designer
11 50 (4.72%) Senior Developer
12 39 (3.68%) .NET Developer
13 37 (3.49%) Senior Designer
14 36 (3.40%) Consultant
14 36 (3.40%) Content Designer
15 35 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
16 34 (3.21%) Senior Content Designer
17 26 (2.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (9.81%) .NET
2 55 (5.19%) CSS
2 55 (5.19%) HTML
3 51 (4.81%) React
4 49 (4.62%) REST
5 44 (4.15%) ASP.NET
6 36 (3.40%) AngularJS
7 34 (3.21%) XML
8 30 (2.83%) .NET Core
9 28 (2.64%) JSON
9 28 (2.64%) Node.js
10 23 (2.17%) .NET Framework
11 19 (1.79%) Gherkin
12 18 (1.70%) Django
12 18 (1.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 18 (1.70%) Vue
13 17 (1.60%) Web Services
14 15 (1.42%) HTML5
14 15 (1.42%) Kafka
15 14 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 331 (31.23%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 38 (3.58%) NHS
4 33 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.26%) Mobile App
6 23 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (1.98%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.79%) FMCG
8 19 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 18 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.94%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.94%) Derivative
12 10 (0.94%) Reinsurance
13 9 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.72%) Linux
2 17 (1.60%) Windows
3 12 (1.13%) Android
3 12 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.094%) tvOS
6 1 (0.094%) VMS
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (68.77%) Agile
2 334 (31.51%) Roadmaps
3 309 (29.15%) Scrum
4 262 (24.72%) Acceptance Criteria
5 245 (23.11%) DevOps
6 230 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
7 193 (18.21%) Product Backlog
8 169 (15.94%) Requirements Gathering
9 164 (15.47%) Business Analysis
10 160 (15.09%) User Experience
11 156 (14.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 152 (14.34%) Mentoring
13 132 (12.45%) Project Management
14 130 (12.26%) Product Roadmap
15 128 (12.08%) Epics
16 127 (11.98%) CI/CD
17 118 (11.13%) Workshop Facilitation
18 104 (9.81%) Analytics
19 102 (9.62%) Test Automation
20 99 (9.34%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (11.70%) C#
2 123 (11.60%) SQL
3 105 (9.91%) JavaScript
4 70 (6.60%) Python
5 63 (5.94%) Java
6 39 (3.68%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.13%) C++
7 12 (1.13%) R
8 10 (0.94%) PHP
8 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.75%) C
9 8 (0.75%) VB.NET
10 6 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.47%) Bash
12 4 (0.38%) Rust
13 3 (0.28%) Go
13 3 (0.28%) Perl
13 3 (0.28%) Scala
13 3 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (17.64%) Degree
2 140 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 104 (9.81%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 30 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.42%) CSPO
9 14 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 13 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.85%) IIBA
12 8 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.66%) CISSP
13 7 (0.66%) PMP
14 6 (0.57%) CISM
14 6 (0.57%) GIAC
14 6 (0.57%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.57%) SANS
15 5 (0.47%) PhD
16 4 (0.38%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.23%) QA
2 34 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.66%) NIST
5 6 (0.57%) COBIT
5 6 (0.57%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 5 (0.47%) GRC
6 5 (0.47%) WCAG
7 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.28%) PMO
8 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.094%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (3.21%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Firmware
3 4 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.51%) Terraform
3 9 (0.85%) Ansible
3 9 (0.85%) Grafana
4 6 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 6 (0.57%) Kibana
5 3 (0.28%) Packer
5 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.094%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.094%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.094%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 184 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 42 (3.96%) Salesforce
3 26 (2.45%) ServiceNow
4 16 (1.51%) Adobe
4 16 (1.51%) Google
5 12 (1.13%) Oracle
6 11 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 10 (0.94%) SAP
8 9 (0.85%) Xero
9 6 (0.57%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.57%) Confluent
9 6 (0.57%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.47%) Databricks
11 4 (0.38%) McAfee
11 4 (0.38%) Mercator
12 3 (0.28%) BT
12 3 (0.28%) Cadence
12 3 (0.28%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.28%) Intel
12 3 (0.28%) Remedy