User Stories Contracts in England

User Story
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 121 96
Rank change year-on-year -25 -25 +5
Contract jobs citing User Stories 597 1,022 1,919
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.60% 2.17% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.41% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 711 1,383
10th Percentile £352 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £658 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £505
% change year-on-year +0.84% +3.09% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £31.71 £40.55 £35.40
25th Percentile £32.03 £51.50 -
Median hourly rate £33.04 £64.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.38% +52.38% +6.53%
75th Percentile £57.77 £68.75 £47.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £72.00 £58.25
UK median hourly rate £33.04 £64.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -48.38% +52.38% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,789 42,321 64,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 89.92% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,644 29,706 45,695
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,352 1,534 1,708
10th Percentile £12.81 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in England

User Stories
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Stories in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for User Stories in England

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London -10 368 £550 +4.76% 118
South East -35 70 £475 - 25
North of England -22 67 £500 -8.05% 39
Yorkshire +10 41 £495 -10.00% 10
Midlands -7 38 £475 -5.00% 22
West Midlands -15 27 £488 -9.30% 21
South West -30 26 £583 +5.91% 22
North West -31 22 £538 +2.38% 22
East of England -19 11 £400 -11.11% 4
East Midlands +3 8 £425 -15.00% 1
North East 0 4 £440 -11.56% 7
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 50 (8.38%) Confluence
2 28 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.18%) CMS
4 8 (1.34%) Drupal
5 5 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.17%) Apache
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.84%) Sketch
5 5 (0.84%) Trello
6 4 (0.67%) InVision
6 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.50%) OmniGraffle
8 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.34%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 26 (4.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.01%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.84%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (0.84%) Shopify
4 5 (0.84%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.50%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.34%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Endur
7 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.17%) Softmar
7 1 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 131 (21.94%) Azure
2 64 (10.72%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (10.05%) Power Platform
4 48 (8.04%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (4.69%) AWS
6 18 (3.02%) Power Automate
7 17 (2.85%) SaaS
8 13 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (1.84%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.51%) Miro
12 8 (1.34%) Serverless
13 7 (1.17%) Figma
13 7 (1.17%) GCP
14 6 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.01%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 6 (1.01%) Snowflake
15 5 (0.84%) Lucidchart
15 5 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.17%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (1.01%) Firewall
3 5 (0.84%) DNS
4 4 (0.67%) DHCP
4 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.50%) Internet
5 3 (0.50%) Network Security
5 3 (0.50%) VPN
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.34%) DMVPN
6 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.34%) MPLS
6 2 (0.34%) OSPF
6 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.34%) SNA
6 2 (0.34%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.54%) Power BI
2 18 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.18%) BusinessObjects
6 11 (1.84%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.51%) Tableau
8 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.01%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 6 (1.01%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.01%) Tableau Server
10 5 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.84%) GIS
10 5 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.84%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.84%) Siebel EIM
11 4 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 89 (14.91%) JIRA
2 22 (3.69%) Git
3 19 (3.18%) SoapUI
4 18 (3.02%) Postman
5 16 (2.68%) Selenium
6 15 (2.51%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.51%) JUnit
7 11 (1.84%) JMeter
7 11 (1.84%) REST Assured
8 10 (1.68%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.51%) Appium
9 9 (1.51%) eggPlant
9 9 (1.51%) SOAtest
9 9 (1.51%) TestNG
9 9 (1.51%) WebDriver
10 8 (1.34%) Visual Studio Team System
11 6 (1.01%) GitLab
12 4 (0.67%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.34%) FitNesse
13 2 (0.34%) LoadRunner
General
1 193 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 146 (24.46%) Finance
3 78 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.36%) Banking
6 29 (4.86%) Telecoms
7 26 (4.36%) Marketing
8 24 (4.02%) Back Office
8 24 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.85%) Retail
11 12 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.84%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.51%) Local Government
14 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.17%) Games
16 6 (1.01%) Billing
16 6 (1.01%) Publishing
17 5 (0.84%) Law
18 4 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 281 (47.07%) Analyst
2 239 (40.03%) Business Analyst
3 84 (14.07%) Senior
4 59 (9.88%) Product Owner
5 52 (8.71%) Developer
6 43 (7.20%) Consultant
6 43 (7.20%) Senior Analyst
7 37 (6.20%) Technical Analyst
8 32 (5.36%) Senior Business Analyst
9 27 (4.52%) Technical Business Analyst
10 22 (3.69%) Financial Analyst
11 20 (3.35%) Architect
12 19 (3.18%) Finance Business Analyst
12 19 (3.18%) Lead
13 18 (3.02%) Data Analyst
13 18 (3.02%) Insurance Business Analyst
14 17 (2.85%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.68%) Product Manager
15 16 (2.68%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.68%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.53%) .NET
2 29 (4.86%) HTML
3 25 (4.19%) .NET Framework
4 17 (2.85%) ASP.NET
4 17 (2.85%) CSS
5 14 (2.35%) XML
6 13 (2.18%) SOAP
7 12 (2.01%) React
7 12 (2.01%) REST
8 11 (1.84%) Gherkin
9 10 (1.68%) Web Services
10 8 (1.34%) Node.js
11 7 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (1.17%) JSON
11 7 (1.17%) LDAP
12 6 (1.01%) Flask
13 5 (0.84%) CSS3
13 5 (0.84%) SAP PI
13 5 (0.84%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (26.97%) Product Ownership
2 17 (2.85%) Mobile App
3 10 (1.68%) Management Information System
4 7 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.01%) Reinsurance
5 6 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 5 (0.84%) IoT
6 5 (0.84%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.84%) Smart Meter
7 4 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.67%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.67%) CMDB
7 4 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.68%) Windows
2 9 (1.51%) Linux
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (59.80%) Agile
2 195 (32.66%) Acceptance Criteria
3 161 (26.97%) Scrum
4 125 (20.94%) Requirements Gathering
5 119 (19.93%) Business Analysis
6 113 (18.93%) DevOps
7 106 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (16.42%) User Acceptance Testing
9 75 (12.56%) Epics
10 74 (12.40%) Workshop Facilitation
11 68 (11.39%) Roadmaps
12 67 (11.22%) Product Backlog
12 67 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 66 (11.06%) Test Automation
14 62 (10.39%) Use Case
15 60 (10.05%) Migration
16 56 (9.38%) Data Modelling
17 55 (9.21%) Project Management
18 49 (8.21%) Analytics
18 49 (8.21%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (11.73%) SQL
2 32 (5.36%) JavaScript
3 31 (5.19%) C#
3 31 (5.19%) Java
4 25 (4.19%) Python
5 12 (2.01%) T-SQL
6 10 (1.68%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.34%) VB.NET
8 6 (1.01%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.67%) C
9 4 (0.67%) Go
10 3 (0.50%) VBA
11 2 (0.34%) Bicep
11 2 (0.34%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (10.05%) Degree
2 47 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.34%) CBAP
4 8 (1.34%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (0.84%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.84%) PMP
7 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.67%) CSPO
8 3 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.34%) CCNA
9 2 (0.34%) CCNP
9 2 (0.34%) CISSP
9 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.34%) MBA
9 2 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.39%) QA
2 32 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 24 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.68%) WCAG
6 7 (1.17%) PMO
7 6 (1.01%) GDPR
8 5 (0.84%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.67%) SLA
10 3 (0.50%) IFRS
10 3 (0.50%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.50%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.34%) GxP
11 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) Basel II
12 1 (0.17%) Basel III
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (0.84%) Docker
2 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.50%) Terraform
3 2 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.17%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Matomo
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.54%) SAP
3 23 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 17 (2.85%) Oracle
5 14 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.01%) Adobe
7 9 (1.51%) Guidewire
8 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
9 5 (0.84%) CyberSource
9 5 (0.84%) Siebel
9 5 (0.84%) SimCorp
10 4 (0.67%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.67%) Dell
10 4 (0.67%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.67%) Intel
10 4 (0.67%) Optimizely
10 4 (0.67%) Screaming Frog
11 3 (0.50%) Zscaler