User Stories Contracts in the North West

User Story
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 113 85 110
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 -38
Contract jobs citing User Stories 22 69 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 2.29% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 2.55% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 49 52
10th Percentile £413 £398 £401
25th Percentile £475 £431 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £550
90th Percentile £635 £650 £624
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £33.04 £64.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -48.38% +52.38% +6.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -24 15 £538 -4.44% 17
Cheshire -6 5 £560 +18.52% 2
Lancashire +2 2 £488 +14.71% 1
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.55%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) GoCD
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Billing
4 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Billing Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Designer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Interaction Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Pega Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.55%) Jest
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) Sass
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
2 5 (22.73%) GAP Analysis
2 5 (22.73%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (22.73%) Scrum
2 5 (22.73%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
4 3 (13.64%) BPMN
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Security
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (13.64%) User Research
4 3 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (9.09%) Business Strategy
5 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Cost Management
5 2 (9.09%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.09%) CISSP
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Pega
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) Zscaler