The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Brighton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 23 34 21
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -13
Contract jobs citing User Stories 5 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 3.378% 0.391% 1.460%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.386% 0.552% 2.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £394 - £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £361 - £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 - £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £330
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year
-53.84% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
114 181 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 77.03% 70.70% 67.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 90 52
Average daily rate £364 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.06% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £525 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
User Stories
East Sussex

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Stories across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Brighton User Stories Jobs Demand Trend

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Stories across the Brighton region.

Brighton User Stories Daily Rate Trend

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing User Stories also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Stories.

1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (37.50%) Sitecore
3 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
3 3 (37.50%) ISEB
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) ISEB Practitioner
3 3 (37.50%) Content Management
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Data Mart
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) B2B
4 2 (25.00%) B2C
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (12.50%) StyleCop
5 1 (12.50%) MSTest
5 1 (12.50%) BDD

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing User Stories also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited User Stories. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) soapUI
2 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Sitecore CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Data Mart
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
3 1 (12.50%) StyleCop
3 1 (12.50%) MSTest
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Fiddler
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) NUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) ETL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 3 (37.50%) Content Management
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) B2B
4 2 (25.00%) B2C
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) ATDD
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Use Case
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB Practitioner
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Sitecore
Brighton, East Sussex
Essentia -SSIS ETL developers with commercial experience -Data mart specific experience -Not afraid to get hands dirty - everyone is expected to pitch in wherever needed to get impediments...
Sanderson
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Willing to pick up user stories and develop - Willing to buy into the current design * Based in Brighton Great to have * SSRS and SSAS experience. * Strong Agile/Scrum...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: Excellent rates
Posted: 21 May 2013