User Stories Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 141 189 232
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +43
Contract jobs citing User Stories 61 24 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.969% 0.308% 0.142%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.320% 0.432% 0.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 12 10
Average daily rate £425 £410 £359
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.65% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £314 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £425 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £336
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.52%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Stories
London

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London User Stories Daily Rate Trend

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Stories across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London User Stories Daily Rate Histogram

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 47 (46.53%) Finance
2 46 (45.54%) Agile Software Development
3 43 (42.57%) Use Case
4 38 (37.62%) Scrum
5 32 (31.68%) Business Analysis
6 26 (25.74%) UML
7 19 (18.81%) Test Scripting
8 16 (15.84%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (15.84%) RUP
9 15 (14.85%) Banking
10 14 (13.86%) Advertising
10 14 (13.86%) Market Risk
11 12 (11.88%) JIRA
11 12 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (11.88%) .NET
12 11 (10.89%) SQL
12 11 (10.89%) Front Office
13 10 (9.901%) TDD
13 10 (9.901%) E-Commerce
14 9 (8.911%) ASP.NET
14 9 (8.911%) Derivative
14 9 (8.911%) QA
15 8 (7.921%) BDD
15 8 (7.921%) Waterfall
15 8 (7.921%) JavaScript
15 8 (7.921%) Microsoft
16 7 (6.931%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (6.931%) Project Management
16 7 (6.931%) Oracle
16 7 (6.931%) CSS

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (11.88%) .NET
2 9 (8.911%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.931%) RESTful
3 7 (6.931%) CSS
4 6 (5.941%) Web Services
4 6 (5.941%) HTML
5 4 (3.960%) jQuery
6 3 (2.970%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (2.970%) HTML5
6 3 (2.970%) REST
7 2 (1.980%) CSS3
7 2 (1.980%) WebSockets
7 2 (1.980%) XML
7 2 (1.980%) Oracle ADF
7 2 (1.980%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 1 (0.990%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.990%) Spring
8 1 (0.990%) Ajax
8 1 (0.990%) NHibernate
8 1 (0.990%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.980%) CMS
2 1 (0.990%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.990%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.990%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (3.960%) MS Excel
1 4 (3.960%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.980%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.980%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.990%) InDesign
3 1 (0.990%) FastStats
3 1 (0.990%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.970%) HTTP
2 2 (1.980%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.980%) DNS
2 2 (1.980%) Internet
3 1 (0.990%) ADSL
3 1 (0.990%) Broadband
3 1 (0.990%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.960%) SQL Server
1 4 (3.960%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (2.970%) Big Data
2 3 (2.970%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.990%) SSDT
4 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) JIRA
2 6 (5.941%) ClearCase
3 5 (4.950%) Subversion
4 4 (3.960%) Selenium
5 3 (2.970%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.980%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.990%) Hudson
7 1 (0.990%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.990%) Maven
7 1 (0.990%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.990%) RSpec
7 1 (0.990%) JBehave
7 1 (0.990%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.990%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.990%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (0.990%) JMeter
General
1 47 (46.53%) Finance
2 15 (14.85%) Banking
3 14 (13.86%) Advertising
4 11 (10.89%) Front Office
5 6 (5.941%) Back Office
5 6 (5.941%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.941%) Marketing
6 5 (4.950%) Retail
6 5 (4.950%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.950%) Legal
7 4 (3.960%) Games
8 3 (2.970%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (75.25%) Analyst
2 70 (69.31%) Business Analyst
3 17 (16.83%) Agile Business Analyst
4 9 (8.911%) Technical Business Analyst
4 9 (8.911%) Technical Analyst
5 7 (6.931%) Market Risk Analyst
5 7 (6.931%) Market Risk Business Analyst
6 6 (5.941%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (5.941%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (4.950%) Business Systems Analyst
7 5 (4.950%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (3.960%) Developer
8 4 (3.960%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (3.960%) Market Analyst
8 4 (3.960%) Banking Business Analyst
9 3 (2.970%) Business Manager
9 3 (2.970%) Lead Test Analyst
9 3 (2.970%) Senior Data Warehouse Analyst
9 3 (2.970%) Business Project Manager
9 3 (2.970%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.86%) Market Risk
2 9 (8.911%) Derivative
3 7 (6.931%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.950%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.960%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.960%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.970%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.970%) Online Games
7 2 (1.980%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.980%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.980%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.980%) IVR
8 1 (0.990%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.990%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.990%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.990%) Equities
8 1 (0.990%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.990%) Open Source
8 1 (0.990%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.941%) Windows
2 2 (1.980%) Linux
2 2 (1.980%) UNIX
3 1 (0.990%) Android
3 1 (0.990%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (45.54%) Agile Software Development
2 43 (42.57%) Use Case
3 38 (37.62%) Scrum
4 32 (31.68%) Business Analysis
5 26 (25.74%) UML
6 19 (18.81%) Test Scripting
7 16 (15.84%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (15.84%) RUP
8 12 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (9.901%) TDD
9 10 (9.901%) E-Commerce
10 8 (7.921%) Waterfall
10 8 (7.921%) BDD
11 7 (6.931%) Project Management
11 7 (6.931%) Migration
12 6 (5.941%) Data Migration
13 5 (4.950%) Software Testing
13 5 (4.950%) Web Development
13 5 (4.950%) Kanban
13 5 (4.950%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.89%) SQL
2 8 (7.921%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.941%) C#
4 4 (3.960%) Java
5 3 (2.970%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.980%) Objective-C
6 2 (1.980%) Ruby
6 2 (1.980%) Scala
6 2 (1.980%) C++
7 1 (0.990%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (4.950%) Degree
2 4 (3.960%) ISEB
3 1 (0.990%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.911%) QA
2 2 (1.980%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 6 (5.941%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (7.921%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.931%) Oracle
3 5 (4.950%) HP
4 3 (2.970%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.980%) TOWER Software
5 2 (1.980%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.990%) Adobe
6 1 (0.990%) Symantec
Digital Junior Business Analyst/Project Manager
City, London
The ideal candidate will have the following: - 3 years of relevant Analysis and Project Management experience - Candidates should have demonstrable experience of delivering E-Commerce products or features -...
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Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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