User Story
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 193 120
Rank change year-on-year -80 -73 +65
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 1,073 1,983 4,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 1.96% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.05% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 759 1,172 2,287
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £39,900
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £85,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories.

Salary trend for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the UK

User Stories
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England -76 909 £57,965 -3.39% 261
UK excluding London -81 668 £55,000 - 159
Work from Home -60 473 £57,965 +0.81% 112
London -64 323 £72,000 +6.67% 114
North of England -29 185 £52,500 -4.55% 33
South East -54 144 £60,000 - 37
Midlands -71 117 £46,000 -8.00% 34
North West +5 114 £50,000 -13.04% 17
South West -34 96 £55,000 +10.00% 31
West Midlands -40 82 £55,000 +10.00% 27
Scotland -66 61 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Yorkshire +2 56 £50,000 -5.66% 14
East of England -42 32 £55,000 -4.35% 7
East Midlands -45 32 £37,500 -31.82% 7
Wales -16 24 £50,000 +29.05% 7
North East -29 15 £57,965 +5.39% 2
Northern Ireland +28 13 £75,400 +43.62% 2

User Stories
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
1 105 (9.79%) Confluence
2 39 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.03%) CMS
4 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.84%) WordPress
6 8 (0.75%) IIS
7 7 (0.65%) Kentico
8 6 (0.56%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.47%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.19%) JBoss
12 1 (0.093%) nginx
Applications
1 38 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.14%) Sketch
3 22 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.03%) InVision
6 6 (0.56%) Trello
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.093%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.093%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 45 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) Magento
4 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 217 (20.22%) Azure
2 120 (11.18%) Azure DevOps
3 117 (10.90%) Power Platform
4 91 (8.48%) AWS
5 82 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
6 62 (5.78%) SaaS
7 45 (4.19%) Serverless
8 43 (4.01%) PowerApps
9 40 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (2.98%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.14%) GitHub
12 21 (1.96%) Azure Functions
13 20 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (1.86%) Figma
14 18 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (1.12%) dbt
18 10 (0.93%) Miro
18 10 (0.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.49%) Broadband
2 13 (1.21%) Internet
3 10 (0.93%) WPA
4 6 (0.56%) Intranet
4 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.47%) WebEx
6 4 (0.37%) SSL
6 4 (0.37%) VPN
7 3 (0.28%) HTTP
7 3 (0.28%) NaaS
7 3 (0.28%) Wireless
8 2 (0.19%) DSL
9 1 (0.093%) AMQP
9 1 (0.093%) Firewall
9 1 (0.093%) LAN
9 1 (0.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.92%) Power BI
2 57 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.42%) Tableau
4 22 (2.05%) Relational Database
5 17 (1.58%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.21%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.84%) Big Data
8 9 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.65%) Redis
11 6 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.56%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (0.56%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.47%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.47%) Metadata
13 4 (0.37%) GIS
13 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 232 (21.62%) JIRA
2 60 (5.59%) Git
3 36 (3.36%) Visual Studio
4 34 (3.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 23 (2.14%) Selenium
6 16 (1.49%) Jenkins
7 14 (1.30%) GitLab
8 12 (1.12%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.03%) Postman
10 10 (0.93%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.93%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.75%) JMeter
11 8 (0.75%) MSBuild
11 8 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (0.75%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.56%) git-flow
12 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (0.47%) MSTest
13 5 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 317 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 264 (24.60%) Finance
3 177 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (10.25%) Marketing
5 89 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (6.80%) Public Sector
7 64 (5.96%) Law
8 54 (5.03%) Retail
9 52 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (3.73%) Legal
12 38 (3.54%) Banking
13 14 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.84%) Advertising
17 7 (0.65%) Billing
17 7 (0.65%) Publishing
18 5 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 377 (35.14%) Analyst
2 323 (30.10%) Business Analyst
3 218 (20.32%) Senior
4 139 (12.95%) Developer
5 122 (11.37%) Product Owner
6 92 (8.57%) Product Manager
7 87 (8.11%) Lead
8 58 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
8 58 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
9 55 (5.13%) Technical Business Analyst
10 48 (4.47%) Senior Developer
11 47 (4.38%) Architect
11 47 (4.38%) Designer
12 43 (4.01%) Consultant
13 39 (3.63%) Senior Business Analyst
14 38 (3.54%) .NET Developer
15 37 (3.45%) Content Designer
15 37 (3.45%) Senior Designer
16 34 (3.17%) Senior Content Designer
17 26 (2.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.60%) .NET
2 59 (5.50%) HTML
3 58 (5.41%) CSS
4 51 (4.75%) ASP.NET
5 48 (4.47%) React
6 45 (4.19%) REST
7 36 (3.36%) XML
8 34 (3.17%) AngularJS
9 33 (3.08%) .NET Core
10 29 (2.70%) .NET Framework
11 27 (2.52%) JSON
12 24 (2.24%) Node.js
13 21 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
14 19 (1.77%) Web Services
15 18 (1.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 16 (1.49%) Gherkin
16 16 (1.49%) Vue
17 15 (1.40%) Kafka
18 14 (1.30%) Entity Framework
18 14 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 334 (31.13%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 40 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.98%) NHS
5 27 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.14%) Low-Code
6 23 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 22 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.68%) FMCG
9 16 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
14 10 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 10 (0.93%) Derivative
15 9 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 9 (0.84%) Reference Data
16 8 (0.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.47%) Linux
2 18 (1.68%) Windows
3 15 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.03%) Android
5 5 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.28%) Unix
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
7 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (68.41%) Agile
2 320 (29.82%) Roadmaps
3 313 (29.17%) Scrum
4 256 (23.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 241 (22.46%) DevOps
6 225 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
7 203 (18.92%) Product Backlog
8 181 (16.87%) Business Analysis
9 178 (16.59%) Requirements Gathering
10 153 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 153 (14.26%) User Experience
11 145 (13.51%) Mentoring
12 138 (12.86%) Epics
13 133 (12.40%) Project Management
14 126 (11.74%) Analytics
15 123 (11.46%) Product Roadmap
16 121 (11.28%) Workshop Facilitation
17 111 (10.34%) Backlog Management
17 111 (10.34%) CI/CD
18 102 (9.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 133 (12.40%) SQL
2 125 (11.65%) C#
3 108 (10.07%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.96%) Java
5 62 (5.78%) Python
6 46 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.12%) C++
7 12 (1.12%) R
7 12 (1.12%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.93%) PHP
9 8 (0.75%) C
9 8 (0.75%) VB.NET
10 6 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.47%) Bash
12 4 (0.37%) Objective-C
12 4 (0.37%) Rust
12 4 (0.37%) Swift
13 3 (0.28%) Go
13 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 186 (17.33%) Degree
2 135 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 98 (9.13%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.98%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.30%) CSPO
10 13 (1.21%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.65%) IIBA
12 6 (0.56%) CISM
12 6 (0.56%) CISSP
12 6 (0.56%) GIAC
12 6 (0.56%) PMP
12 6 (0.56%) SANS
13 5 (0.47%) PhD
14 4 (0.37%) ISEB
14 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.46%) QA
2 33 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (0.65%) NIST
5 6 (0.56%) COBIT
5 6 (0.56%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.47%) GDPR
6 5 (0.47%) GRC
6 5 (0.47%) WCAG
7 4 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.093%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.093%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (2.98%) Docker
2 8 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.49%) Terraform
3 12 (1.12%) Ansible
4 9 (0.84%) Grafana
5 6 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 6 (0.56%) Kibana
6 3 (0.28%) Packer
6 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.093%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.093%) Perfmon
7 1 (0.093%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.093%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 46 (4.29%) Salesforce
3 28 (2.61%) ServiceNow
4 21 (1.96%) Google
5 13 (1.21%) Oracle
6 12 (1.12%) Adobe
7 9 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 9 (0.84%) Xero
8 8 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.65%) SAP
10 6 (0.56%) Confluent
10 6 (0.56%) Hotjar
10 6 (0.56%) McAfee
11 5 (0.47%) Databricks
11 5 (0.47%) Intel
12 4 (0.37%) Mercator
13 3 (0.28%) BT
13 3 (0.28%) Cadence
13 3 (0.28%) Remedy
13 3 (0.28%) Sitecore