User Stories Contracts in Surrey

User Story
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 47 47
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.55% 3.24% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 3.79% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 19
10th Percentile - £263 £356
25th Percentile £300 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +5.88% -2.86%
75th Percentile £425 £540 £594
90th Percentile £475 £635 £630
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £473
% change year-on-year - +0.53% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 477 581 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.24% 85.69% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 565
10th Percentile £210 £198 £208
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% +6.38%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 33 20
10th Percentile £11.71 £32.10 £16.96
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £45.00 £22.97
Median % change year-on-year -59.22% +95.95% -46.59%
75th Percentile £46.25 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £63.51 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leatherhead -8 3 £425 -34.62%
Chertsey -4 2 £300 -31.82% 2
Redhill - 1 - -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Confluence
2 3 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Analyst
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
5 1 (11.11%) SAP BusinessObjects Analyst (SAP BO Analyst)
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) JSON
1 3 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
3 4 (44.44%) SDLC
3 4 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Swim Lanes
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Backlog Management
5 2 (22.22%) Content Management
5 2 (22.22%) ERP
5 2 (22.22%) Order Management
5 2 (22.22%) Product Information Management
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Ticket Management
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
1 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) Adobe
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft