User Stories Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 193 192 226
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +34
Contract jobs citing User Stories 31 47 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.398% 0.463% 0.260%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.586% 0.712% 0.404%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 18
Average daily rate £381 £375 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.66% +18.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £313 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £643 £508
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% -
Search 14 User Stories jobs in the South East
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5291 6603 6683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.89% 65.08% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3170 3050
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 £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 323 365
Average hourly rate £26.98 £26.25 £34.41
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.76% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East User Stories Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East 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
East Sussex +16 8 £381 +17.30%
Berkshire +15 8 £425 -34.61%
Surrey +14 6 £525 +40.00%
West Sussex -4 3 £350 +3.70%
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £488 -
Hampshire - 2 £290 -
Oxfordshire +6 1 £320 -1.53%
Kent - 1 £275 -
User Stories
England

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 34 (50.75%) Scrum
2 18 (26.87%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (25.37%) Use Case
4 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (19.40%) UML
6 12 (17.91%) .NET
6 12 (17.91%) Finance
7 11 (16.42%) C#
7 11 (16.42%) XML
7 11 (16.42%) Mobile App
8 10 (14.93%) SQL
8 10 (14.93%) Web Services
8 10 (14.93%) ISEB
8 10 (14.93%) Selenium
8 10 (14.93%) Business Analysis
9 9 (13.43%) SOAP
10 8 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
10 8 (11.94%) BDD
11 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
11 7 (10.45%) HTTP
11 7 (10.45%) XSLT
11 7 (10.45%) Oracle
11 7 (10.45%) E-Commerce
11 7 (10.45%) Content Management
11 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
12 6 (8.955%) NUnit
12 6 (8.955%) Automated Testing
12 6 (8.955%) Web Development
12 6 (8.955%) Computer Science

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 12 (17.91%) .NET
2 11 (16.42%) XML
3 10 (14.93%) Web Services
4 9 (13.43%) SOAP
5 7 (10.45%) XSLT
6 6 (8.955%) soapUI
7 5 (7.463%) Silverlight
8 4 (5.970%) WCF
9 3 (4.478%) CORBA
10 2 (2.985%) Cocoa
10 2 (2.985%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.985%) WPF
10 2 (2.985%) WSDL
10 2 (2.985%) XML Schema
10 2 (2.985%) Cocoa Touch
11 1 (1.493%) Gherkin
11 1 (1.493%) HTML
11 1 (1.493%) ASP.NET
11 1 (1.493%) CSS
11 1 (1.493%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.478%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (2.985%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (2.985%) IIS
2 2 (2.985%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.985%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.985%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.493%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (1.493%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.493%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (5.970%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.985%) MS Office
2 2 (2.985%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.493%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) HTTP
2 4 (5.970%) HTTPS
3 3 (4.478%) SNMP
3 3 (4.478%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.985%) Internet
5 1 (1.493%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.955%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.970%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.478%) GIS
3 3 (4.478%) Data Mart
3 3 (4.478%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.985%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.985%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.985%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.985%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (2.985%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.985%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.493%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Selenium
2 6 (8.955%) NUnit
3 5 (7.463%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (7.463%) JIRA
4 4 (5.970%) FitNesse
4 4 (5.970%) TeamCity
4 4 (5.970%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.478%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.478%) Rational Rose
5 3 (4.478%) Telelogic TAU
6 2 (2.985%) Subversion
6 2 (2.985%) Moq
7 1 (1.493%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.493%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.493%) StyleCop
7 1 (1.493%) MSTest
7 1 (1.493%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.493%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (1.493%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.493%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (17.91%) Finance
2 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.478%) Marketing
4 2 (2.985%) Games
4 2 (2.985%) Retail
5 1 (1.493%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.493%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.493%) Billing
5 1 (1.493%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (59.70%) Analyst
2 33 (49.25%) Business Analyst
3 13 (19.40%) Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Agile Business Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Systems Analyst
5 6 (8.955%) Tester
6 5 (7.463%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.970%) Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.970%) ScrumMaster
8 3 (4.478%) Silverlight Developer
8 3 (4.478%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (4.478%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.985%) Design Engineer
9 2 (2.985%) Product Manager
9 2 (2.985%) ETL Developer
9 2 (2.985%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.985%) Senior Tester
9 2 (2.985%) Business Manager
9 2 (2.985%) Lead Business Analyst
9 2 (2.985%) Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Mobile App
2 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.955%) Computer Science
4 4 (5.970%) Mathematics
4 4 (5.970%) Physics
5 3 (4.478%) Data Integration
6 2 (2.985%) Blackberry
6 2 (2.985%) iPhone
6 2 (2.985%) iPad
7 1 (1.493%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.493%) Kindle
7 1 (1.493%) Open Source
7 1 (1.493%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (1.493%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.478%) Windows
2 2 (2.985%) Android
2 2 (2.985%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.493%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.75%) Scrum
2 18 (26.87%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (25.37%) Use Case
4 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (19.40%) UML
6 10 (14.93%) Business Analysis
7 8 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.94%) BDD
8 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.45%) E-Commerce
8 7 (10.45%) Content Management
9 6 (8.955%) Automated Testing
9 6 (8.955%) Web Development
10 5 (7.463%) Performance Testing
10 5 (7.463%) Integration Testing
10 5 (7.463%) Data Modelling
10 5 (7.463%) SOA
10 5 (7.463%) TDD
11 4 (5.970%) DSDM
11 4 (5.970%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) C#
2 10 (14.93%) SQL
3 2 (2.985%) Objective-C
3 2 (2.985%) XPath
3 2 (2.985%) Java
4 1 (1.493%) sed
4 1 (1.493%) Python
4 1 (1.493%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.493%) Perl
4 1 (1.493%) AWK
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) ISEB
2 4 (5.970%) Degree
3 3 (4.478%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (1.493%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.970%) QA
2 1 (1.493%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (2.985%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Oracle
2 3 (4.478%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 3 (4.478%) Sitecore
2 3 (4.478%) Telelogic
2 3 (4.478%) Teradata
3 2 (2.985%) Cognos
4 1 (1.493%) WSO2
4 1 (1.493%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.493%) Microsoft
Business Analyst
Slough, Berkshire
Key Skills: - Ability to work in a highly skilled agile team - Generating Scrum backlogs - Define business requirements- working with the business to create epics and user stories - Reviewing...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £482.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Development Team Lead (C#, WCF, MVC)
Maidenhead
Rank Group currently requires a Development Team Lead (C#, WCF, MVC) in their HQ based in Maidenhead... We are looking for someone that is an expert with the...
The Rank Group
Rate: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
SSIS Developer
Brighton, East Sussex
Essentia -SSIS ETL developers with commercial experience -Data mart specific experience -Not afraid to get hands dirty - everyone is expected to pitch in wherever needed to get impediments...
Sanderson
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
ETL / SSIS Developer
Brighton, East Sussex
Willing to pick up user stories and develop - Willing to buy into the current design * Based in Brighton Great to have * SSRS and SSAS experience. * Strong Agile/Scrum...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: Excellent rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
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