The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead 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 - 18 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead - 3.297% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 4.545% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
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
Leatherhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15 66 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead 62.50% 72.53% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 52 7
Average daily rate £350 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £220 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £565 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% +52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Stories
Surrey

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead region.

Leatherhead User Stories Daily Rate Trend

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (100.00%) Physics
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 3 (75.00%) MVVM
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Network Management
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) Telelogic
2 3 (75.00%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 3 (75.00%) Rational Rose
2 3 (75.00%) 3GPP
2 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 3 (75.00%) CORBA

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) CORBA
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) 3GPP
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Rational Rose
1 3 (75.00%) Telelogic TAU
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Moq
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Silverlight Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (100.00%) Physics
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) MVVM
2 3 (75.00%) Network Management
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) AWK
2 1 (25.00%) XPath
2 1 (25.00%) sed
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Telelogic
2 3 (75.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (25.00%) WSO2
3 1 (25.00%) Teradata