User Stories Contracts in Yorkshire

User Story
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 65 79 67
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 42 42 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.42% 1.96% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.16% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 60
10th Percentile £363 £450 £373
25th Percentile £419 £463 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £525
90th Percentile - £690 £540
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,456 1,942 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.06% 90.54% 90.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,278 1,738
10th Percentile £275 £267 £254
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 62 81
10th Percentile £11.53 £9.80 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.01 £12.44
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.63 £20.99 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.53 £27.25
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Yorkshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire +33 33 £500 -9.09% 10
South Yorkshire -15 9 £438 -20.45% 3
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (4.76%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 7 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (14.29%) SAP PM
3 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) AWS
1 2 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
2 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.38%) GCP
2 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) GIS
2 2 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) JMeter
2 6 (14.29%) JUnit
3 5 (11.90%) Selenium
4 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.38%) Git
6 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Analyst
1 21 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) SAP Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) SAP Business Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Tester
5 3 (7.14%) Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) GIS Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) GIS Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Gherkin
2 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.14%) CSS
2 3 (7.14%) HTML
2 3 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (2.38%) OAuth
3 1 (2.38%) OpenID
3 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) CMDB
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Agile
2 21 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 21 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (45.24%) Scrum
4 14 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 13 (30.95%) Business Analysis
6 12 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 11 (26.19%) Test Scripting
8 10 (23.81%) Kanban
8 10 (23.81%) Software Testing
9 9 (21.43%) Analytics
9 9 (21.43%) DevOps
9 9 (21.43%) Test Strategy
10 7 (16.67%) Software Delivery
10 7 (16.67%) Waterfall
11 6 (14.29%) API Testing
11 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (14.29%) SDLC
11 6 (14.29%) System Testing
11 6 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) CBAP
3 3 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) QA
2 5 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.90%) WCAG
3 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.38%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (7.14%) ESRI
2 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.38%) Brio
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft