User Stories Contracts in Hampshire

User Story
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 87 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 12 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.56% 0.85% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.96% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 43
10th Percentile £519 £509 £410
25th Percentile £564 £541 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +17.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £609 £606 £625
90th Percentile £654 £623 £725
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,348 1,247 1,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.73% 88.75% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 797 1,143
10th Percentile £388 £240 £310
25th Percentile £456 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £696 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 104 151
10th Percentile £13.05 £18.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £25.52 £22.85 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £24.79
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +113.80% -23.72%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.63 £63.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton -1 3 £589 +0.68% 4
Portsmouth -5 2 - - 3
Basingstoke -15 1 £575 -4.17%
Eastleigh - 1 £475 -
Havant - 1 £700 -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Sage Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Epics
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CSPO
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Sage
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce