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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 195 114
Rank change year-on-year -93 -81 +73
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1,049 1,780 5,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.88% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.97% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 742 1,083 2,323
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 £85,000 £84,750 £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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
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 1 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 1 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 -94 888 £57,965 -3.39% 254
UK excluding London -85 661 £55,000 - 151
Work from Home -69 456 £57,965 +0.81% 124
London -64 312 £72,500 +7.41% 128
North of England -51 180 £52,500 -4.55% 33
South East -38 149 £60,000 - 27
Midlands -65 111 £44,000 -12.00% 28
North West -16 110 £51,250 -6.82% 18
South West -17 96 £55,000 +10.00% 23
West Midlands -52 80 £55,000 +10.00% 25
Scotland -53 63 £50,000 -5.66% 22
Yorkshire -24 56 £50,000 -5.66% 8
East of England -59 29 £56,250 -2.17% 6
East Midlands -37 28 £35,000 -36.36% 3
Wales -5 25 £50,000 +22.69% 8
North East -33 14 £57,965 +5.39% 7
Northern Ireland +22 12 £75,400 +43.62% 4

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
1 111 (10.58%) Confluence
2 35 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.86%) CMS
3 9 (0.86%) WordPress
4 8 (0.76%) IIS
4 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.48%) Kentico
7 4 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) nginx
Applications
1 36 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.38%) Sketch
3 23 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.91%) MS Visio
6 13 (1.24%) InVision
7 6 (0.57%) Trello
8 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.095%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.095%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 47 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.38%) Magento
5 3 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 212 (20.21%) Azure
2 116 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
3 108 (10.30%) Power Platform
4 100 (9.53%) AWS
5 83 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
6 58 (5.53%) SaaS
7 48 (4.58%) Serverless
8 40 (3.81%) PowerApps
9 34 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (2.96%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.29%) GitHub
12 22 (2.10%) Azure Functions
12 22 (2.10%) Figma
13 21 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (1.81%) dbt
15 16 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
18 10 (0.95%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.53%) Broadband
2 13 (1.24%) Internet
3 10 (0.95%) WPA
4 6 (0.57%) Intranet
4 6 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.38%) VPN
6 3 (0.29%) HTTP
6 3 (0.29%) NaaS
6 3 (0.29%) SSL
6 3 (0.29%) WebEx
6 3 (0.29%) Wireless
7 2 (0.19%) DSL
7 2 (0.19%) Firewall
7 2 (0.19%) WAN
8 1 (0.095%) BGP
8 1 (0.095%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.095%) IPsec
8 1 (0.095%) LAN
8 1 (0.095%) MPLS
8 1 (0.095%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.96%) Power BI
2 51 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 22 (2.10%) Tableau
4 18 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.67%) Big Data
10 7 (0.67%) Redis
10 7 (0.67%) 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 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.48%) Metadata
13 4 (0.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 227 (21.64%) JIRA
2 59 (5.62%) Git
3 38 (3.62%) Team Foundation Server
4 36 (3.43%) Visual Studio
5 25 (2.38%) Selenium
6 14 (1.33%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.05%) Postman
7 11 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.86%) JMeter
8 9 (0.86%) SpecFlow
9 8 (0.76%) GitLab
9 8 (0.76%) MSBuild
9 8 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.48%) MSTest
12 4 (0.38%) git-flow
12 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 314 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 245 (23.36%) Finance
3 167 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (11.15%) Marketing
5 97 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (6.20%) Law
7 63 (6.01%) Public Sector
8 57 (5.43%) Retail
9 46 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (3.81%) Legal
12 35 (3.34%) Banking
13 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.95%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.86%) Advertising
16 8 (0.76%) Billing
16 8 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.67%) Publishing
18 5 (0.48%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 351 (33.46%) Analyst
2 307 (29.27%) Business Analyst
3 211 (20.11%) Senior
4 127 (12.11%) Developer
5 120 (11.44%) Product Owner
6 99 (9.44%) Product Manager
7 97 (9.25%) Lead
8 56 (5.34%) Architect
9 55 (5.24%) Technical Analyst
10 54 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
11 52 (4.96%) Technical Business Analyst
12 49 (4.67%) Senior Developer
13 48 (4.58%) Designer
14 39 (3.72%) .NET Developer
15 38 (3.62%) Consultant
16 37 (3.53%) Senior Designer
17 36 (3.43%) Content Designer
18 35 (3.34%) Senior Business Analyst
19 34 (3.24%) Senior Content Designer
20 26 (2.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (9.91%) .NET
2 54 (5.15%) CSS
3 53 (5.05%) HTML
4 51 (4.86%) React
5 49 (4.67%) REST
6 45 (4.29%) ASP.NET
7 35 (3.34%) AngularJS
8 34 (3.24%) XML
9 30 (2.86%) .NET Core
10 28 (2.67%) JSON
10 28 (2.67%) Node.js
11 24 (2.29%) .NET Framework
12 18 (1.72%) Django
12 18 (1.72%) Gherkin
12 18 (1.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 18 (1.72%) Vue
13 17 (1.62%) Web Services
14 15 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
14 15 (1.43%) HTML5
14 15 (1.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 335 (31.94%) Product Ownership
2 42 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 36 (3.43%) NHS
4 35 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.19%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.72%) FMCG
8 18 (1.72%) Low-Code
9 16 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.95%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.95%) Derivative
12 10 (0.95%) Reinsurance
12 10 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 9 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.86%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.48%) Linux
2 18 (1.72%) Windows
3 12 (1.14%) Android
3 12 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.095%) tvOS
6 1 (0.095%) VMS
6 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 726 (69.21%) Agile
2 334 (31.84%) Roadmaps
3 307 (29.27%) Scrum
4 259 (24.69%) Acceptance Criteria
5 243 (23.16%) DevOps
6 225 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
7 194 (18.49%) Product Backlog
8 170 (16.21%) Requirements Gathering
9 163 (15.54%) Business Analysis
10 155 (14.78%) User Experience
11 153 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
12 150 (14.30%) Mentoring
13 130 (12.39%) Project Management
14 129 (12.30%) Epics
15 128 (12.20%) Product Roadmap
16 126 (12.01%) CI/CD
17 117 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
18 106 (10.10%) Analytics
19 102 (9.72%) Backlog Management
20 99 (9.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (11.73%) SQL
2 122 (11.63%) C#
3 104 (9.91%) JavaScript
4 68 (6.48%) Python
5 62 (5.91%) Java
6 39 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.14%) C++
7 12 (1.14%) R
8 10 (0.95%) PHP
8 10 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.76%) C
9 8 (0.76%) VB.NET
10 6 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.48%) Bash
12 4 (0.38%) Rust
12 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.29%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Perl
13 3 (0.29%) Scala
13 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 185 (17.64%) Degree
2 137 (13.06%) Security Cleared
3 102 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.05%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.43%) CSPO
9 13 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.76%) IIBA
11 7 (0.67%) CISSP
12 6 (0.57%) CISM
12 6 (0.57%) GIAC
12 6 (0.57%) PMP
12 6 (0.57%) SANS
13 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.25%) QA
2 33 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.67%) NIST
5 6 (0.57%) COBIT
5 6 (0.57%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.48%) GDPR
6 5 (0.48%) GRC
6 5 (0.48%) WCAG
7 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.095%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.095%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (3.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) Firmware
4 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.53%) Terraform
3 10 (0.95%) Ansible
4 9 (0.86%) Grafana
5 6 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.57%) Kibana
6 3 (0.29%) Packer
6 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.095%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.095%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.095%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.095%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.095%) SCCM
Vendors
1 186 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 43 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 26 (2.48%) ServiceNow
4 18 (1.72%) Google
5 15 (1.43%) Adobe
6 12 (1.14%) Oracle
7 10 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 10 (0.95%) SAP
8 9 (0.86%) Xero
9 6 (0.57%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.57%) Confluent
9 6 (0.57%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.48%) Databricks
10 5 (0.48%) McAfee
11 4 (0.38%) Intel
11 4 (0.38%) Mercator
12 3 (0.29%) BT
12 3 (0.29%) Cadence
12 3 (0.29%) Coverity
12 3 (0.29%) Remedy