User Stories Contracts in the North East

User Story
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 33 33 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 4 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.23% 4.89% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 5.47% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £408 £396 £370
25th Percentile £420 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £498 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.56% -17.08% +11.63%
75th Percentile £460 £585 £638
90th Percentile £472 £631 £660
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 311 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.92% 89.37% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 239 334
10th Percentile £272 £247 £190
25th Percentile £363 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £704 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 2 15
10th Percentile £11.45 £32.74 £10.60
25th Percentile £12.13 £34.98 £12.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £39.34 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.43% +138.42% +26.92%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.07 £18.13
90th Percentile £68.75 £44.94 £33.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the North East

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the North East.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the North East

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -1 4 £440 -12.00% 5
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Trello
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (50.00%) SFIA
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility