The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hampshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 95 - 102
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.375% - 0.106%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.545% - 0.161%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year
-52.30% +36.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1100 991 1239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 68.66% 63.73% 65.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 479 579
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £263 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 93 112
Average hourly rate £34.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.69 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.25 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire User Stories Daily 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Basingstoke - 3 £300 - 1
Portsmouth - 1 £325 -
Southampton - - - -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) OO
2 4 (40.00%) OOD
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Java EE
3 3 (30.00%) QA
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) C#
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) MS Office
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) Cognos
4 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 2 (20.00%) ISEB
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Kindle
5 1 (10.00%) Mingle
5 1 (10.00%) Kanban
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 3 (30.00%) Java EE
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) WinForms
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) MFC
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
2 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (10.00%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (20.00%) ScrumMaster
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Tester
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Agile Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) OO
1 4 (40.00%) OOD
1 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cognos
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Significant experience with object-oriented OOD software development methodologies and practices. Qualifications / experience * Demonstrable strong systems analysis background including proficiency with a mixture of C#, MSSQL,.NET, JavaEE...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Rate: competitive
Posted: 14 June 2013