Story Points Contracts

Story Points
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Story Points skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Story Points 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 570 681 790
Rank change year-on-year +111 +109 -88
Contract jobs citing Story Points 14 16 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.029% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.032% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 43
10th Percentile £490 £400 £406
25th Percentile - £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £631 £552
Median % change year-on-year -20.76% +14.31% +9.31%
75th Percentile £588 £680 £675
90th Percentile £680 £681 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £680 £425
% change year-on-year -26.47% +60.00% -11.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Story Points 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Story Points
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Story Points as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Story Points.

Daily rate trend for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Story Points over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Story Points.

Hourly rate trend for Story Points in the UK

Story Points
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Story Points within the UK 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
England +82 9 £550 -14.06% 3
UK excluding London +30 8 £500 -26.47%
Work from Home +114 5 £625 -0.95% 1
East of England - 5 £500 -
London +80 4 £625 +13.64% 3
Scotland - 3 £500 -

Story Points
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 5 (35.71%) Appian
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP APO
1 2 (14.29%) SAP IBP
1 2 (14.29%) SAP MM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Unqork
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (21.43%) GIS
2 2 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Back Office
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Appian Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) Data Integration Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Project Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Product Owner
4 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Product Owner
5 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Functional Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP APO Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP APO Business Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP Business Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP MM Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) SAP MM Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) RESTful
2 5 (35.71%) SOAP
2 5 (35.71%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (14.29%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (14.29%) Freedom of Information Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 6 (42.86%) CRM
4 5 (35.71%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (35.71%) Business Process Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (35.71%) Document Management
5 4 (28.57%) BDD
5 4 (28.57%) Product Backlog
5 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (28.57%) User Stories
6 3 (21.43%) Asset Management
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) IBM
1 5 (35.71%) OpenText
1 5 (35.71%) Pega
2 3 (21.43%) Alteryx
2 3 (21.43%) Cognizant
3 2 (14.29%) SAP