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

The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 20 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 South West 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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 103 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 7 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.344% 0.065% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.512% 0.096% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £228 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.12% -
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1366 2093 1940
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 67.06% 67.89% 63.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1292 998
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 110 143
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -20.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.66 £11.34 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Bristol - - - - 1
Gloucestershire - - - -
Somerset - - - -
User Stories
England

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (36.36%) HTML5
3 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (18.18%) ISEB
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) VBScript
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
4 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
5 1 (9.091%) SaaS
5 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
5 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
5 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Ruby
5 1 (9.091%) Ajax
5 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (36.36%) ASP.NET
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
1 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (36.36%) HTML5
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) Ajax
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
3 1 (9.091%) Spring
3 1 (9.091%) JTA
3 1 (9.091%) XML
3 1 (9.091%) JMS
3 1 (9.091%) J2EE
3 1 (9.091%) EJB
3 1 (9.091%) JSP
3 1 (9.091%) Servlets
3 1 (9.091%) Struts
3 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) GlassFish
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
1 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.091%) WATIR
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
1 1 (9.091%) FitNesse
1 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.091%) Financial Services Business Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) SaaS
1 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) MVC
1 4 (36.36%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Use Case
4 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) UML
4 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (9.091%) OO
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VBScript
3 1 (9.091%) Ruby
3 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
3 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) JBoss
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle
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