User Stories Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Story
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 204 127
Rank change year-on-year -90 -77 +55
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 639 1,026 2,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 1.73% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.81% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 458 550 1,080
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,560 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year -3.39% +0.42% +8.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the UK excluding London

User Stories
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -47 174 £52,500 -4.55% 38
South East -40 138 £60,000 - 47
Midlands -70 109 £44,000 -12.00% 34
North West -14 108 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South West -27 97 £55,000 +10.00% 28
West Midlands -38 78 £55,000 +10.00% 29
Scotland -59 60 £50,000 -9.09% 11
Yorkshire -13 53 £50,000 -5.66% 14
East of England -55 31 £55,000 -4.35% 6
East Midlands -43 28 £35,000 -36.36% 5
Wales -12 23 £50,000 +29.05% 6
North East -28 13 £57,965 +5.39% 7
Northern Ireland +31 11 £75,400 +43.62% 3
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 73 (11.42%) Confluence
2 25 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.41%) CMS
3 9 (1.41%) WordPress
4 8 (1.25%) IIS
5 5 (0.78%) Headless CMS
5 5 (0.78%) Kentico
5 5 (0.78%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 26 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.44%) Sketch
3 18 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.56%) InVision
6 6 (0.94%) Trello
7 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 35 (5.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 126 (19.72%) Azure
2 81 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (10.49%) Power Platform
4 48 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
5 42 (6.57%) AWS
6 33 (5.16%) SaaS
7 25 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.76%) Serverless
9 19 (2.97%) Figma
9 19 (2.97%) Power Automate
9 19 (2.97%) PowerApps
10 14 (2.19%) Azure Functions
11 13 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (1.72%) dbt
12 11 (1.72%) GitHub
13 10 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.41%) Google Drive
15 6 (0.94%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (0.94%) Miro
16 5 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.88%) Broadband
2 11 (1.72%) Internet
3 10 (1.56%) WPA
4 6 (0.94%) Intranet
5 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.31%) DSL
6 2 (0.31%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (7.82%) Power BI
2 44 (6.89%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.82%) Tableau
4 13 (2.03%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.10%) Big Data
7 7 (1.10%) Redis
8 6 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 6 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.94%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.63%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.47%) GIS
11 3 (0.47%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 178 (27.86%) JIRA
2 41 (6.42%) Git
3 31 (4.85%) Visual Studio
4 23 (3.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 19 (2.97%) Selenium
6 10 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.56%) TeamCity
7 8 (1.25%) MSBuild
7 8 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.25%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.10%) JMeter
9 5 (0.78%) MSTest
9 5 (0.78%) Postman
10 4 (0.63%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.47%) GitLab
11 3 (0.47%) Moq
11 3 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 159 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 147 (23.00%) Finance
3 78 (12.21%) Marketing
4 70 (10.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (9.23%) Law
7 48 (7.51%) Retail
8 37 (5.79%) Public Sector
9 28 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (4.23%) Legal
11 19 (2.97%) Banking
12 9 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.10%) Publishing
15 5 (0.78%) Retail Finance
16 3 (0.47%) Automotive
16 3 (0.47%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 235 (36.78%) Analyst
2 214 (33.49%) Business Analyst
3 141 (22.07%) Senior
4 86 (13.46%) Developer
5 62 (9.70%) Product Manager
6 52 (8.14%) Product Owner
7 45 (7.04%) Lead
8 41 (6.42%) Designer
9 37 (5.79%) Senior Designer
9 37 (5.79%) Technical Business Analyst
10 36 (5.63%) Content Designer
10 36 (5.63%) Technical Analyst
11 35 (5.48%) Senior Developer
12 34 (5.32%) .NET Developer
12 34 (5.32%) Senior Content Designer
13 31 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (4.23%) Architect
15 26 (4.07%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.29%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (3.13%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.05%) .NET
2 45 (7.04%) ASP.NET
3 44 (6.89%) HTML
4 43 (6.73%) CSS
5 31 (4.85%) React
6 30 (4.69%) XML
7 29 (4.54%) AngularJS
7 29 (4.54%) REST
8 25 (3.91%) .NET Core
9 24 (3.76%) .NET Framework
10 22 (3.44%) JSON
11 18 (2.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 17 (2.66%) ASP.NET MVC
13 16 (2.50%) Node.js
14 14 (2.19%) Gherkin
15 12 (1.88%) Entity Framework
15 12 (1.88%) HTML5 Canvas
15 12 (1.88%) Vue
16 11 (1.72%) HTML5
16 11 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 208 (32.55%) Product Ownership
2 31 (4.85%) NHS
3 24 (3.76%) Management Information System
3 24 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.19%) FMCG
8 12 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.56%) Derivative
10 10 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.10%) Credit Derivative
12 7 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.10%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.10%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.10%) Interest Rate Derivative
12 7 (1.10%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.50%) Linux
2 12 (1.88%) Windows
3 6 (0.94%) Android
3 6 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.16%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (70.58%) Agile
2 197 (30.83%) Roadmaps
3 154 (24.10%) Scrum
4 152 (23.79%) Acceptance Criteria
5 147 (23.00%) DevOps
5 147 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
6 113 (17.68%) Mentoring
7 112 (17.53%) Requirements Gathering
8 106 (16.59%) Product Backlog
9 101 (15.81%) User Experience
10 100 (15.65%) Business Analysis
11 97 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 81 (12.68%) Workshop Facilitation
13 78 (12.21%) Project Management
14 75 (11.74%) Analytics
15 71 (11.11%) Coaching
16 63 (9.86%) CI/CD
17 62 (9.70%) Epics
18 61 (9.55%) Migration
18 61 (9.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (14.24%) C#
2 74 (11.58%) JavaScript
3 68 (10.64%) SQL
4 39 (6.10%) Python
5 28 (4.38%) Java
6 27 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.41%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.25%) R
8 8 (1.25%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.10%) C
9 7 (1.10%) C++
10 5 (0.78%) Bash
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 3 (0.47%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) Rust
11 3 (0.47%) VB
12 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.31%) Tcl
13 1 (0.16%) Go
13 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 113 (17.68%) Degree
2 81 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 63 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.94%) IIBA
9 5 (0.78%) PhD
10 4 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.31%) CBAP
12 2 (0.31%) CSPO
12 2 (0.31%) HND
12 2 (0.31%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.16%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (13.30%) QA
2 26 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.78%) GDPR
5 4 (0.63%) WCAG
6 2 (0.31%) GRC
6 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (2.97%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.94%) Grafana
3 5 (0.78%) Kibana
4 2 (0.31%) Terraform
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) Packer
5 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 121 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.07%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 11 (1.72%) Google
4 11 (1.72%) Oracle
5 9 (1.41%) Adobe
5 9 (1.41%) Xero
6 7 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 6 (0.94%) Hotjar
7 6 (0.94%) SAP
8 4 (0.63%) Confluent
8 4 (0.63%) Intel
9 3 (0.47%) Cadence
9 3 (0.47%) Coverity
10 2 (0.31%) BT
10 2 (0.31%) Intapp
10 2 (0.31%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.16%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.16%) Pardot
11 1 (0.16%) Pega