User Stories Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 20 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.

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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 309 370 419
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +49
Contract jobs citing User Stories 246 214 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.529% 0.367% 0.287%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.746% 0.541% 0.424%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 113 104
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £325 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £471
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £336
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.84% +36.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year
-53.84% -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 32994 39524 40808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.91% 67.75% 67.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19705 22725 23185
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 1273 1454
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.75 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

User Stories Daily Rate Histogram

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Stories within the UK.

User Stories Hourly Rate Trend

User Stories
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +72 235 £425 +13.33%
London +75 168 £430 +14.66%
City of London +58 61 £425 +1.19%
South East +10 27 £388 -3.12%
East of England +23 19 £400 +1.91%
Hertfordshire +13 14 £233 -45.29%
Scotland - 8 £339 -
Berkshire +19 7 £425 -34.61%
East Sussex +12 7 £375 +15.38%
Surrey +20 6 £525 +40.00%
North West +17 6 £300 -
Manchester +12 6 £300 -
West Midlands +7 4 £305 -6.87%
Essex +1 4 £425 +21.42%
South West -4 4 £350 -12.50%
Tyne and Wear - 4 £425 -
North East - 4 £425 -
Rickmansworth - 4 £228 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 £425 -
Guildford - 4 £525 -
Colchester - 4 £425 -
Brighton +10 3 £400 -
Reading +8 3 £450 -33.33%
Hove +4 3 £375 +15.38%
Livingston - 3 £325 -
Salford - 3 £300 -
Paddington - 3 - -
West Lothian - 3 £325 -
Milton Keynes +12 2 £488 -
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £488 -

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 223 (47.65%) Agile Software Development
2 192 (41.03%) Scrum
3 136 (29.06%) Use Case
4 113 (24.15%) Finance
5 97 (20.73%) Business Analysis
6 87 (18.59%) UML
7 65 (13.89%) E-Commerce
8 64 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (12.82%) Test Scripting
10 59 (12.61%) BDD
11 57 (12.18%) TDD
12 54 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 54 (11.54%) SQL
13 49 (10.47%) QA
14 42 (8.974%) JIRA
15 38 (8.120%) Selenium
15 38 (8.120%) Retail
15 38 (8.120%) C#
16 37 (7.906%) ISEB
16 37 (7.906%) Mobile App
17 35 (7.479%) Java
17 35 (7.479%) .NET
18 34 (7.265%) Banking
19 33 (7.051%) Oracle
19 33 (7.051%) Web Services
19 33 (7.051%) Project Management
20 31 (6.624%) Data Modelling
21 29 (6.197%) SOA
21 29 (6.197%) JavaScript
22 28 (5.983%) HTML

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 35 (7.479%) .NET
2 33 (7.051%) Web Services
3 28 (5.983%) HTML
4 26 (5.556%) CSS
4 26 (5.556%) XML
5 19 (4.060%) ASP.NET
5 19 (4.060%) RESTful
6 15 (3.205%) Spring
7 14 (2.991%) SOAP
8 13 (2.778%) HTML5
9 11 (2.350%) JSON
10 10 (2.137%) REST
11 9 (1.923%) jQuery
11 9 (1.923%) Cocoa
12 8 (1.709%) Ajax
12 8 (1.709%) XSLT
12 8 (1.709%) CSS3
12 8 (1.709%) Cocoa Touch
13 7 (1.496%) .NET Framework
13 7 (1.496%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 18 (3.846%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.350%) Apache
2 11 (2.350%) CMS
2 11 (2.350%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (1.496%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.282%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.068%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.855%) Liferay
7 3 (0.641%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.641%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.427%) Confluence
8 2 (0.427%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.427%) IIS
9 1 (0.214%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.214%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.214%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.214%) GlassFish
9 1 (0.214%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.214%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 13 (2.778%) MS Visio
2 11 (2.350%) MS Excel
3 10 (2.137%) Photoshop
4 7 (1.496%) MS Office
5 6 (1.282%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.641%) OmniGraffle
6 3 (0.641%) Fireworks
6 3 (0.641%) Office 365
7 1 (0.214%) Mingle
7 1 (0.214%) InDesign
7 1 (0.214%) FastStats
Business Applications
1 3 (0.641%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.641%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.427%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 2 (0.427%) Adaptiv
2 2 (0.427%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.214%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.214%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.214%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.214%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.214%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.214%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.701%) Internet
2 14 (2.991%) HTTP
3 10 (2.137%) Intranet
4 3 (0.641%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.641%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.641%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.641%) SNMP
4 3 (0.641%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.427%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.427%) DNS
5 2 (0.427%) ATM
5 2 (0.427%) SMS
5 2 (0.427%) MPLS
6 1 (0.214%) BSS
6 1 (0.214%) 3G
6 1 (0.214%) ADSL
6 1 (0.214%) Broadband
6 1 (0.214%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.060%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.419%) MySQL
3 11 (2.350%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.709%) RDBMS
5 7 (1.496%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (1.068%) Big Data
6 5 (1.068%) SQL Server 2012
7 4 (0.855%) SSDT
7 4 (0.855%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.855%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (0.855%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.855%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.641%) MS Access
8 3 (0.641%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.641%) GIS
9 2 (0.427%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (0.427%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.427%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (0.214%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.214%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 42 (8.974%) JIRA
2 38 (8.120%) Selenium
3 24 (5.128%) Cucumber
4 18 (3.846%) Axure RP
5 14 (2.991%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (2.778%) WebDriver
6 13 (2.778%) FitNesse
6 13 (2.778%) Subversion
7 11 (2.350%) ClearCase
8 10 (2.137%) Maven
9 8 (1.709%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.496%) JUnit
11 6 (1.282%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.282%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.282%) NUnit
11 6 (1.282%) Hudson
12 4 (0.855%) Jenkins
12 4 (0.855%) WATIR
12 4 (0.855%) Rational Rose
12 4 (0.855%) Eclipse
General
1 113 (24.15%) Finance
2 38 (8.120%) Retail
3 34 (7.265%) Banking
4 22 (4.701%) Publishing
5 17 (3.632%) Telecoms
6 16 (3.419%) Advertising
6 16 (3.419%) Marketing
7 14 (2.991%) Front Office
8 13 (2.778%) Legal
8 13 (2.778%) Games
9 9 (1.923%) Back Office
10 8 (1.709%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.496%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.282%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.855%) Music
13 4 (0.855%) Music Industry
14 3 (0.641%) Online Betting
15 1 (0.214%) German Language
15 1 (0.214%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.214%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 310 (66.24%) Analyst
2 269 (57.48%) Business Analyst
3 69 (14.74%) Agile Business Analyst
4 38 (8.120%) Developer
5 32 (6.838%) Technical Analyst
6 22 (4.701%) Tester
6 22 (4.701%) Technical Business Analyst
7 20 (4.274%) Test Analyst
7 20 (4.274%) Systems Analyst
8 19 (4.060%) ScrumMaster
9 15 (3.205%) Business Systems Analyst
10 14 (2.991%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (2.564%) Market Risk Analyst
11 12 (2.564%) Market Risk Business Analyst
11 12 (2.564%) Designer
12 11 (2.350%) Java Developer
12 11 (2.350%) Senior Business Analyst
13 10 (2.137%) Architect
13 10 (2.137%) Product Manager
13 10 (2.137%) Insurance Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.906%) Mobile App
2 23 (4.915%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.060%) Market Risk
3 19 (4.060%) Digital Media
4 13 (2.778%) Derivative
5 12 (2.564%) Open Source
6 9 (1.923%) Video on Demand
6 9 (1.923%) Blackberry
6 9 (1.923%) iPhone
6 9 (1.923%) Computer Science
7 8 (1.709%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.709%) iPad
8 7 (1.496%) New Media
8 7 (1.496%) IPTV
9 6 (1.282%) Social Network
9 6 (1.282%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.068%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.068%) Online Games
10 5 (1.068%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.855%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.060%) Windows
2 18 (3.846%) Apple iOS
3 17 (3.632%) Android
4 12 (2.564%) Linux
5 5 (1.068%) UNIX
6 4 (0.855%) Windows Phone
7 3 (0.641%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.214%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.214%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.214%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (47.65%) Agile Software Development
2 192 (41.03%) Scrum
3 136 (29.06%) Use Case
4 97 (20.73%) Business Analysis
5 87 (18.59%) UML
6 65 (13.89%) E-Commerce
7 64 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (12.82%) Test Scripting
9 59 (12.61%) BDD
10 57 (12.18%) TDD
11 54 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 33 (7.051%) Project Management
13 31 (6.624%) Data Modelling
14 29 (6.197%) SOA
15 27 (5.769%) Content Management
16 23 (4.915%) RUP
17 21 (4.487%) Continuous Improvement
18 17 (3.632%) Test Automation
18 17 (3.632%) Web Development
18 17 (3.632%) OO
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.54%) SQL
2 38 (8.120%) C#
3 35 (7.479%) Java
4 29 (6.197%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.419%) Ruby
6 13 (2.778%) Objective-C
7 10 (2.137%) Python
8 8 (1.709%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.496%) C
9 7 (1.496%) XPath
10 6 (1.282%) Scala
11 5 (1.068%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.068%) C++
12 4 (0.855%) Perl
13 3 (0.641%) PeopleCode
13 3 (0.641%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.214%) R
14 1 (0.214%) sed
14 1 (0.214%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.214%) AWK
Qualifications
1 37 (7.906%) ISEB
2 27 (5.769%) Degree
3 10 (2.137%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.282%) DV Cleared
4 6 (1.282%) ISTQB
5 3 (0.641%) PMP
5 3 (0.641%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.641%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.214%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.214%) HND
6 1 (0.214%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.47%) QA
2 2 (0.427%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.427%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.214%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (2.564%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 33 (7.051%) Oracle
2 20 (4.274%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.496%) HP
3 7 (1.496%) Google
4 5 (1.068%) Hyperion
4 5 (1.068%) Adobe
4 5 (1.068%) Business Objects
5 3 (0.641%) PeopleSoft
5 3 (0.641%) SAP
5 3 (0.641%) Telelogic
5 3 (0.641%) TOWER Software
5 3 (0.641%) Sitecore
5 3 (0.641%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 3 (0.641%) IBM
6 2 (0.427%) Perforce
6 2 (0.427%) Teradata
6 2 (0.427%) Endeca
6 2 (0.427%) Algorithmics
6 2 (0.427%) Sybase
6 2 (0.427%) Cognos
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