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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 202 125
Rank change year-on-year -91 -77 +55
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 676 934 2,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 1.68% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.76% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 467 527 1,070
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,492
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,162 £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 £62,188
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% - +9.09%

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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -61 183 £52,500 -4.55% 39
South East -35 151 £60,000 - 25
Midlands -78 113 £44,000 -16.19% 22
North West -18 112 £51,250 -6.82% 22
South West -14 99 £55,000 +7.32% 22
West Midlands -45 81 £55,000 +10.00% 21
Scotland -48 67 £50,000 -7.41% 13
Yorkshire -28 57 £50,000 -5.66% 10
East Midlands -50 29 £35,000 -36.36% 1
East of England -63 28 £57,500 - 4
Wales +1 27 £50,000 +22.69% 8
North East -34 14 £57,965 +5.39% 7
Northern Ireland +19 12 £75,400 +43.62% 5
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 77 (11.39%) Confluence
2 24 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.33%) CMS
3 9 (1.33%) WordPress
4 8 (1.18%) IIS
5 5 (0.74%) Headless CMS
5 5 (0.74%) Kentico
5 5 (0.74%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 25 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (3.25%) Sketch
3 17 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.48%) InVision
7 7 (1.04%) Trello
8 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.15%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 36 (5.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 125 (18.49%) Azure
2 79 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 50 (7.40%) AWS
5 49 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
6 34 (5.03%) SaaS
7 22 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (3.25%) Serverless
8 20 (2.96%) Figma
9 17 (2.51%) dbt
9 17 (2.51%) Power Automate
10 16 (2.37%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.07%) GitHub
12 11 (1.63%) Azure Functions
13 10 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.33%) Google Drive
15 6 (0.89%) Azure Machine Learning
15 6 (0.89%) Miro
16 5 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.78%) Broadband
2 11 (1.63%) Internet
3 10 (1.48%) WPA
4 6 (0.89%) Intranet
5 5 (0.74%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.30%) DSL
6 2 (0.30%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) BGP
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.15%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.15%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) IPsec
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) OSPF
7 1 (0.15%) Sourcefire
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (7.10%) Power BI
2 42 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.66%) Tableau
4 14 (2.07%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.04%) Big Data
7 7 (1.04%) Redis
8 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
8 6 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (0.89%) Star Schema
9 5 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.59%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.44%) GIS
11 3 (0.44%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 182 (26.92%) JIRA
2 42 (6.21%) Git
3 31 (4.59%) Visual Studio
4 24 (3.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 22 (3.25%) Selenium
6 12 (1.78%) TeamCity
7 11 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.48%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.33%) JMeter
10 8 (1.18%) MSBuild
10 8 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.74%) MSTest
12 5 (0.74%) Postman
13 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
13 4 (0.59%) WebDriver
14 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.44%) Moq
14 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 3 (0.44%) xUnit.net
General
1 173 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 152 (22.49%) Finance
3 90 (13.31%) Marketing
4 79 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (9.02%) Law
7 51 (7.54%) Retail
8 37 (5.47%) Public Sector
9 31 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (3.99%) Legal
11 19 (2.81%) Banking
12 9 (1.33%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.04%) Publishing
13 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.74%) Retail Finance
16 4 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 238 (35.21%) Analyst
2 213 (31.51%) Business Analyst
3 147 (21.75%) Senior
4 86 (12.72%) Developer
5 68 (10.06%) Product Manager
6 57 (8.43%) Product Owner
7 52 (7.69%) Lead
8 43 (6.36%) Designer
9 38 (5.62%) Technical Business Analyst
10 37 (5.47%) Senior Designer
10 37 (5.47%) Senior Developer
10 37 (5.47%) Technical Analyst
11 36 (5.33%) Content Designer
12 35 (5.18%) .NET Developer
13 34 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (5.03%) Senior Content Designer
14 33 (4.88%) Architect
15 26 (3.85%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.11%) Senior .NET Developer
16 21 (3.11%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (11.24%) .NET
2 44 (6.51%) HTML
3 43 (6.36%) ASP.NET
3 43 (6.36%) CSS
4 38 (5.62%) React
5 30 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 30 (4.44%) XML
6 29 (4.29%) REST
7 26 (3.85%) .NET Core
8 22 (3.25%) JSON
8 22 (3.25%) Node.js
9 21 (3.11%) .NET Framework
10 18 (2.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 17 (2.51%) Gherkin
12 16 (2.37%) Django
13 14 (2.07%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (1.92%) Vue
15 12 (1.78%) HTML5
16 11 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
17 10 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 210 (31.07%) Product Ownership
2 38 (5.62%) NHS
3 27 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 24 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.22%) FMCG
8 13 (1.92%) Low-Code
9 12 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.48%) Derivative
11 10 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.04%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.04%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 7 (1.04%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.25%) Linux
2 11 (1.63%) Windows
3 6 (0.89%) Android
3 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (69.08%) Agile
2 215 (31.80%) Roadmaps
3 167 (24.70%) Acceptance Criteria
4 162 (23.96%) Scrum
5 159 (23.52%) DevOps
6 156 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 123 (18.20%) Mentoring
8 118 (17.46%) Requirements Gathering
9 111 (16.42%) User Experience
10 109 (16.12%) Product Backlog
11 101 (14.94%) Business Analysis
11 101 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 83 (12.28%) Project Management
12 83 (12.28%) Workshop Facilitation
13 74 (10.95%) Analytics
14 72 (10.65%) CI/CD
15 71 (10.50%) Coaching
16 67 (9.91%) Epics
16 67 (9.91%) Product Roadmap
17 65 (9.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (13.76%) C#
2 76 (11.24%) JavaScript
3 73 (10.80%) SQL
4 49 (7.25%) Python
5 30 (4.44%) Java
6 27 (3.99%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.18%) R
8 8 (1.18%) VB.NET
9 7 (1.04%) C
9 7 (1.04%) C++
10 5 (0.74%) Bash
11 3 (0.44%) Perl
11 3 (0.44%) PHP
11 3 (0.44%) Rust
11 3 (0.44%) VB
12 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.30%) Ruby
12 2 (0.30%) Tcl
13 1 (0.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 119 (17.60%) Degree
2 93 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 73 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.18%) IIBA
8 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.74%) PhD
9 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.59%) CBAP
11 2 (0.30%) CSPO
11 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.30%) HND
11 2 (0.30%) NVQ Level 3
11 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (12.87%) QA
2 28 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.74%) GDPR
5 4 (0.59%) WCAG
6 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (2.96%) Docker
2 5 (0.74%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.89%) Grafana
3 5 (0.74%) Kibana
3 5 (0.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.15%) Packer
4 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.66%) ServiceNow
4 12 (1.78%) Oracle
5 11 (1.63%) Google
6 9 (1.33%) Adobe
6 9 (1.33%) Xero
7 8 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.04%) SAP
9 6 (0.89%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.59%) Confluent
11 3 (0.44%) Cadence
11 3 (0.44%) Coverity
11 3 (0.44%) Intel
12 2 (0.30%) BT
12 2 (0.30%) Intapp
12 2 (0.30%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.15%) Palo Alto
13 1 (0.15%) Zscaler