User Stories Contracts in the Midlands

User Story
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 92 69
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 35 69 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.19% 2.14% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.45% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 50 137
10th Percentile £392 £375 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £581
90th Percentile £688 £688 £638
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

User Stories falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the Midlands

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands -11 26 £488 -9.30% 21
East Midlands -4 6 £425 -15.00% 3
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) GIS
2 1 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.86%) OLAP
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 3 (8.57%) Marketing
5 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Analyst
2 16 (45.71%) Business Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Product Owner
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Consultant
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) CRM Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) CRM Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Finance Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Business Transformation Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Service Designer
8 1 (2.86%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) IoT
3 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Taxonomies
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Smart Meter
5 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Roadmaps
3 10 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 10 (28.57%) Scrum
4 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Epics
6 5 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Product Backlog
6 5 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (14.29%) Project Management
6 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 5 (14.29%) Use Case
7 4 (11.43%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.86%) CBAP
1 1 (2.86%) IIBA
1 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Marketo
3 1 (2.86%) Anaplan
3 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.86%) Progress
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow