User Stories Contracts in Hounslow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 17 14 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 1.667% 1.299% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.923% 1.695% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
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
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 52 59 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 86.67% 76.62% 61.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 23
Average daily rate £450 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £238 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
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 Hounslow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Video on Demand
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) STB
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) IPTV
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Cocoa Touch
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Cocoa
2 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 2 (66.67%) DRM
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 2 (66.67%) Cocoa Touch
1 2 (66.67%) Cocoa
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Video on Demand
1 2 (66.67%) STB
1 2 (66.67%) IPTV
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DRM
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
1 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
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