User Stories Contracts with Work from Home Options

User Story
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 105 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 -25 +32
Contract jobs citing User Stories 321 556 1,360
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.19% 2.29% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.56% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 413 979
10th Percentile £400 £400 £390
25th Percentile £450 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £29.45
25th Percentile £67.50 £62.00 £35.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £64.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +40.66% -9.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £55.38
90th Percentile - - £61.15
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £64.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -48.84% +53.57% -16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

User Stories
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

User Stories trend for jobs with a WFH option

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing User Stories.

User Stories daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing User Stories over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

User Stories daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing User Stories.

User Stories hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 33 (10.28%) Confluence
2 14 (4.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.93%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.93%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.12%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.25%) Trello
6 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.62%) Sketch
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (4.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.56%) SimCorp Dimension
4 4 (1.25%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.31%) Maximo
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 71 (22.12%) Azure
2 30 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 21 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (6.23%) AWS
6 12 (3.74%) SaaS
7 10 (3.12%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.18%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.87%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 5 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.93%) Figma
12 3 (0.93%) Miro
12 3 (0.93%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 2 (0.62%) Adobe Analytics
13 2 (0.62%) GCP
13 2 (0.62%) GitHub
13 2 (0.62%) PaaS
13 2 (0.62%) Serverless
13 2 (0.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.62%) SNA
2 1 (0.31%) Broadband
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.92%) Power BI
2 7 (2.18%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.56%) GIS
3 5 (1.56%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.56%) Siebel EIM
3 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.62%) Big Data
5 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.62%) Delta Lake
5 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.62%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.62%) Tableau
6 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 63 (19.63%) JIRA
2 11 (3.43%) JMeter
3 10 (3.12%) Git
4 9 (2.80%) Selenium
5 7 (2.18%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.25%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.62%) Appium
7 2 (0.62%) eggPlant
7 2 (0.62%) JUnit
7 2 (0.62%) Postman
7 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.62%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.62%) SOAtest
7 2 (0.62%) TestNG
7 2 (0.62%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) GitLab
8 1 (0.31%) GoCD
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 109 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.94%) Finance
3 44 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.67%) Banking
5 15 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (2.80%) Back Office
6 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.18%) Retail
8 6 (1.87%) Marketing
8 6 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.56%) Legal
9 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.62%) Aviation
12 2 (0.62%) Billing
12 2 (0.62%) Games
12 2 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 165 (51.40%) Analyst
2 138 (42.99%) Business Analyst
3 46 (14.33%) Senior
4 26 (8.10%) Product Owner
5 25 (7.79%) Consultant
6 23 (7.17%) Technical Analyst
7 20 (6.23%) Senior Analyst
8 16 (4.98%) Architect
8 16 (4.98%) Lead
8 16 (4.98%) Senior Business Analyst
9 15 (4.67%) Developer
10 13 (4.05%) Digital Analyst
10 13 (4.05%) Digital Business Analyst
11 12 (3.74%) Agile Business Analyst
11 12 (3.74%) Product Manager
11 12 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.43%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.43%) Functional Consultant
12 11 (3.43%) Technical Business Analyst
13 10 (3.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.43%) Web Services
2 10 (3.12%) .NET
3 8 (2.49%) REST
4 6 (1.87%) HTML
4 6 (1.87%) JSON
4 6 (1.87%) React
4 6 (1.87%) XML
5 5 (1.56%) .NET Framework
5 5 (1.56%) Gherkin
5 5 (1.56%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.56%) Swagger
6 4 (1.25%) CSS
6 4 (1.25%) RESTful
7 3 (0.93%) ADO
7 3 (0.93%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.93%) OAuth
8 2 (0.62%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.62%) Node.js
8 2 (0.62%) OpenID
8 2 (0.62%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 76 (23.68%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.12%) Mobile App
3 5 (1.56%) CMDB
3 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.25%) Low-Code
5 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.62%) Mainframe
6 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.62%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.62%) Smart Meter
6 2 (0.62%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.31%) FMCG
7 1 (0.31%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Android
1 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.31%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (56.07%) Agile
2 118 (36.76%) Acceptance Criteria
3 88 (27.41%) Business Analysis
4 71 (22.12%) Requirements Gathering
5 65 (20.25%) Scrum
6 56 (17.45%) Epics
7 49 (15.26%) DevOps
7 49 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (15.26%) User Acceptance Testing
8 41 (12.77%) Roadmaps
9 34 (10.59%) Migration
9 34 (10.59%) Product Backlog
10 32 (9.97%) Analytics
11 31 (9.66%) Translating Business Requirements
12 30 (9.35%) Use Case
12 30 (9.35%) Workshop Facilitation
13 27 (8.41%) User Research
14 26 (8.10%) Backlog Management
14 26 (8.10%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.17%) SQL
2 13 (4.05%) Java
3 11 (3.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.49%) C#
5 7 (2.18%) Python
6 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.62%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) Bicep
8 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 43 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.61%) Degree
4 4 (1.25%) CSPO
4 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.93%) PMP
6 2 (0.62%) CBAP
6 2 (0.62%) IIBA
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) ISEB
7 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.31%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.08%) QA
2 13 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.87%) WCAG
6 5 (1.56%) PMO
7 3 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.93%) GxP
8 2 (0.62%) PSD2
8 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 2 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (0.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) Matomo
2 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.05%) SAP
2 13 (4.05%) ServiceNow
3 10 (3.12%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.80%) Oracle
5 5 (1.56%) Adobe
5 5 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (1.56%) Cadence
5 5 (1.56%) Siebel
5 5 (1.56%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.25%) ESRI
6 4 (1.25%) Guidewire
7 3 (0.93%) Conga
7 3 (0.93%) Duck Creek
7 3 (0.93%) Google
8 2 (0.62%) Civica
8 2 (0.62%) Databricks
8 2 (0.62%) DocuSign
8 2 (0.62%) Pega