User Stories Contracts in Surrey
 
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 Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 74 91 94
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.522% 0.435% 0.321%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.724% 0.633% 0.446%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
Average daily rate £525 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 829 1105 1345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 72.09% 68.63% 71.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 625 697
Average daily rate £415 £350 £404
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -13.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 57 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Guildford - 4 £525 -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 12 (63.16%) Scrum
1 12 (63.16%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (52.63%) Use Case
3 9 (47.37%) UML
4 6 (31.58%) XML
4 6 (31.58%) Oracle
4 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
5 5 (26.32%) Web Development
5 5 (26.32%) C#
5 5 (26.32%) .NET
5 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) SOA
5 5 (26.32%) Silverlight
6 4 (21.05%) Product Management
6 4 (21.05%) BDD
6 4 (21.05%) SOAP
6 4 (21.05%) Degree
6 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
6 4 (21.05%) Physics
6 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
6 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
6 4 (21.05%) Finance
7 3 (15.79%) GIS
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.79%) Telelogic
7 3 (15.79%) Telelogic TAU
7 3 (15.79%) SQL
7 3 (15.79%) XSLT
7 3 (15.79%) CORBA
7 3 (15.79%) Rational Rose

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 6 (31.58%) XML
2 5 (26.32%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) Silverlight
3 4 (21.05%) SOAP
4 3 (15.79%) XSLT
4 3 (15.79%) CORBA
4 3 (15.79%) WCF
5 2 (10.53%) WPF
5 2 (10.53%) Cocoa Touch
5 2 (10.53%) WSDL
5 2 (10.53%) XML Schema
5 2 (10.53%) Cocoa
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.263%) Web Services
6 1 (5.263%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (5.263%) IIS
2 1 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) 3GPP
1 3 (15.79%) SNMP
2 1 (5.263%) BSS
2 1 (5.263%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) GIS
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Telelogic TAU
1 3 (15.79%) Rational Rose
1 3 (15.79%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) Moq
2 2 (10.53%) NUnit
3 1 (5.263%) Subversion
3 1 (5.263%) JIRA
3 1 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Games
3 1 (5.263%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Business Analyst
3 5 (26.32%) Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Agile Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Silverlight Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Design Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Tester
6 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
2 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
2 4 (21.05%) Physics
2 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) iPhone
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) iPad
3 2 (10.53%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Android
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Scrum
1 12 (63.16%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (52.63%) Use Case
3 9 (47.37%) UML
4 5 (26.32%) Web Development
4 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) SOA
5 4 (21.05%) Product Management
5 4 (21.05%) BDD
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) Network Management
6 3 (15.79%) MVVM
6 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Management
7 2 (10.53%) Release Management
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Game Development
7 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.53%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) C#
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
3 2 (10.53%) XPath
4 1 (5.263%) AWK
4 1 (5.263%) Python
4 1 (5.263%) Java
4 1 (5.263%) Perl
4 1 (5.263%) sed
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) ISEB
3 1 (5.263%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Telelogic
2 3 (15.79%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 2 (10.53%) Teradata
4 1 (5.263%) WSO2
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