User Stories Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Story
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 153 115 86
Rank change year-on-year -38 -29 +7
Contract jobs citing User Stories 284 490 893
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.35% 2.16% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.42% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 353 652
10th Percentile £373 £388 £380
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £505
% change year-on-year +0.84% +3.09% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £27.60 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £30.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £37.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -10.71% +6.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.38 -
90th Percentile - £50.20 £42.90
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +27 71 £500 +13.64% 13
South East -35 70 £475 - 25
North of England -22 67 £500 -8.05% 37
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% 21
North West -31 22 £538 +2.38% 20
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
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 5
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 37 (13.03%) Confluence
2 7 (2.46%) CMS
2 7 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.70%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Sketch
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.70%) InVision
4 2 (0.70%) OmniGraffle
4 2 (0.70%) Trello
4 2 (0.70%) UXPin
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.11%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.41%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (0.70%) SAP IS-U
4 2 (0.70%) VisionPLUS
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.35%) Magento
5 1 (0.35%) Maximo
5 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.90%) Azure
2 23 (8.10%) Dynamics 365
2 23 (8.10%) Power Platform
3 16 (5.63%) AWS
4 15 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.87%) Figma
6 9 (3.17%) SaaS
7 6 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.11%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.41%) Serverless
10 3 (1.06%) GCP
11 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.70%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.70%) Veeva
12 1 (0.35%) Bloomreach
12 1 (0.35%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.06%) Network Security
3 2 (0.70%) BGP
3 2 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.70%) DMVPN
3 2 (0.70%) EIGRP
3 2 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (0.70%) Firewall
3 2 (0.70%) IPsec
3 2 (0.70%) MPLS
3 2 (0.70%) OSPF
3 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.70%) Sourcefire
3 2 (0.70%) VPN
3 2 (0.70%) WAN
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.58%) MongoDB
1 13 (4.58%) Power BI
2 5 (1.76%) GIS
3 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.41%) Metadata
4 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.35%) OLAP
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.35%) Tableau
6 1 (0.35%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 55 (19.37%) JIRA
2 8 (2.82%) JMeter
3 6 (2.11%) JUnit
4 5 (1.76%) Git
4 5 (1.76%) Selenium
5 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.70%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
7 1 (0.35%) GoCD
7 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 92 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.96%) Finance
3 45 (15.85%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.80%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.28%) Marketing
8 14 (4.93%) Banking
9 11 (3.87%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.82%) Retail
12 6 (2.11%) Billing
12 6 (2.11%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.76%) Local Government
13 5 (1.76%) Publishing
14 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.41%) Electronics
15 3 (1.06%) Games
15 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (41.90%) Analyst
2 102 (35.92%) Business Analyst
3 36 (12.68%) Senior
4 25 (8.80%) Product Manager
5 24 (8.45%) Designer
6 22 (7.75%) Consultant
7 20 (7.04%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (6.69%) Developer
9 18 (6.34%) Product Owner
10 15 (5.28%) Senior Business Analyst
11 13 (4.58%) UX Designer
12 11 (3.87%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (3.52%) Architect
14 9 (3.17%) Content Designer
14 9 (3.17%) Lead
14 9 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.82%) Business Consultant
15 8 (2.82%) Test Engineer
16 7 (2.46%) Agile Business Analyst
16 7 (2.46%) Senior Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.58%) React
2 12 (4.23%) HTML
3 10 (3.52%) CSS
4 9 (3.17%) Gherkin
4 9 (3.17%) XML
5 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.41%) JSON
6 4 (1.41%) Node.js
6 4 (1.41%) REST
6 4 (1.41%) Web Services
7 3 (1.06%) .NET
7 3 (1.06%) Flask
7 3 (1.06%) HTML5
7 3 (1.06%) LDAP
8 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.70%) ADO
8 2 (0.70%) CSS3
8 2 (0.70%) Framer.js
8 2 (0.70%) Spring
8 2 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.65%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.46%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.76%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (1.76%) IoT
4 5 (1.76%) Smart Meter
5 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.06%) CMDB
6 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.35%) EPoS
7 1 (0.35%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.35%) NHS
7 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.87%) Android
1 11 (3.87%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.41%) Linux
2 4 (1.41%) Unix
2 4 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (63.38%) Agile
2 80 (28.17%) Scrum
3 66 (23.24%) Business Analysis
4 62 (21.83%) Acceptance Criteria
5 53 (18.66%) Epics
6 47 (16.55%) Requirements Gathering
7 44 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (15.49%) Roadmaps
7 44 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 41 (14.44%) Project Management
9 40 (14.08%) User Research
10 39 (13.73%) DevOps
11 32 (11.27%) User Experience
12 31 (10.92%) Product Backlog
13 29 (10.21%) User Acceptance Testing
14 28 (9.86%) Analytics
15 26 (9.15%) Product Management
16 25 (8.80%) Data Modelling
17 24 (8.45%) Migration
18 23 (8.10%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.10%) SQL
2 21 (7.39%) Python
3 17 (5.99%) Java
4 16 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.41%) C#
5 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.10%) Degree
4 5 (1.76%) CBAP
5 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.06%) CSPO
6 3 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.70%) CCNA
7 2 (0.70%) CCNP
7 2 (0.70%) IIBA
8 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.15%) QA
2 15 (5.28%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.11%) GDPR
5 5 (1.76%) PMO
5 5 (1.76%) WCAG
6 4 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (1.06%) Terraform
2 2 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.75%) SAP
3 7 (2.46%) Cadence
3 7 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.11%) Adobe
5 5 (1.76%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.41%) Ab Initio
6 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.06%) Cognizant
7 3 (1.06%) ESRI
7 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 3 (1.06%) Zscaler
8 2 (0.70%) Aruba
8 2 (0.70%) F5
8 2 (0.70%) Juniper
8 2 (0.70%) Marketo
8 2 (0.70%) Optimizely
8 2 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.70%) Pega