User Stories Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 96 114 115
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 18 18 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.842% 0.609% 0.454%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.261% 0.946% 0.698%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
Average daily rate £400 £393 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.91% -0.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £350 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £330
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year
-53.84% -
Search 7 User Stories jobs in the East of England
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1427 1903 1718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.71% 64.40% 64.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 915 776
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 154 186
Average hourly rate £35.22 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.61% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.08 £12.28 £13.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
User Stories
England

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England User Stories Daily Rate Histogram

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Stories across the East of England region.

East of England User Stories Hourly Rate Trend

User Stories
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +10 14 £233 -45.29%
Essex -4 3 £425 +21.42%
Norfolk - 1 - -
User Stories
England

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 14 (40.00%) Retail
3 11 (31.43%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (31.43%) Use Case
4 10 (28.57%) Java
5 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
6 7 (20.00%) Spring
6 7 (20.00%) Web Services
7 6 (17.14%) Scrum
7 6 (17.14%) JPA
7 6 (17.14%) BDD
8 5 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
8 5 (14.29%) Axure RP
8 5 (14.29%) Banking
8 5 (14.29%) Retail Banking
8 5 (14.29%) C#
8 5 (14.29%) HTML
8 5 (14.29%) SOAP
8 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
9 4 (11.43%) J2EE
9 4 (11.43%) Oracle
9 4 (11.43%) Photoshop
9 4 (11.43%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (11.43%) JSF
9 4 (11.43%) Content Management
9 4 (11.43%) CMS
9 4 (11.43%) WSRP
9 4 (11.43%) JSR 286
9 4 (11.43%) Liferay
9 4 (11.43%) RESTful

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 7 (20.00%) Spring
1 7 (20.00%) Web Services
2 6 (17.14%) JPA
3 5 (14.29%) HTML
3 5 (14.29%) SOAP
4 4 (11.43%) J2EE
4 4 (11.43%) JSF
4 4 (11.43%) WSRP
4 4 (11.43%) JSR 286
4 4 (11.43%) RESTful
5 3 (8.571%) XML
5 3 (8.571%) .NET
6 2 (5.714%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.857%) EJB 3.0
7 1 (2.857%) jQuery
7 1 (2.857%) Ajax
7 1 (2.857%) JSON
7 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.857%) EJB
7 1 (2.857%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.43%) CMS
2 4 (11.43%) Liferay
3 3 (8.571%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (8.571%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (5.714%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Photoshop
1 4 (11.43%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (8.571%) Fireworks
3 2 (5.714%) MS Office
4 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.857%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.714%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.857%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.857%) WatiN
2 1 (2.857%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.857%) Selenium
2 1 (2.857%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.857%) JUnit
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 14 (40.00%) Retail
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.714%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Analyst
2 12 (34.29%) Business Analyst
3 10 (28.57%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 8 (22.86%) Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Designer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Designer
5 5 (14.29%) User Experience Designer
6 4 (11.43%) Portal Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 3 (8.571%) J2EE Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Financial Business Analyst
7 3 (8.571%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Tester
8 2 (5.714%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (5.714%) ScrumMaster
9 1 (2.857%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.857%) Test Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.857%) Agile Coach
9 1 (2.857%) Oracle SOA Developer
9 1 (2.857%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.571%) Psychology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.857%) Windows
1 1 (2.857%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (31.43%) Use Case
2 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
3 6 (17.14%) Scrum
3 6 (17.14%) BDD
4 5 (14.29%) Rapid Prototyping
5 4 (11.43%) Content Management
6 3 (8.571%) Integration Testing
6 3 (8.571%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.571%) BPEL
6 3 (8.571%) SOA
7 2 (5.714%) UML
7 2 (5.714%) OO
7 2 (5.714%) Project Management
7 2 (5.714%) TDD
7 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (5.714%) Performance Testing
7 2 (5.714%) Load Testing
7 2 (5.714%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (8.571%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.571%) SQL
4 1 (2.857%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.857%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) Degree
2 1 (2.857%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 3 (8.571%) Microsoft
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