The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 21 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 45 33 42
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +9
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 7 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.977% 2.500% 1.702%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.349% 3.448% 2.367%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 4
Average salary £34,250 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.41% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £42,500 £41,250
10% offered a salary of more than £42,750 £44,500 £51,750
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
298 116 169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.18% 72.50% 71.91%
Number of salaries quoted 162 96 164
Average salary £37,750 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Stories
Cheshire

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester User Stories Jobs Demand Trend

User Stories
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing User Stories across the Chester region.

Chester User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Stories across the Chester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Chester User Stories Salary Histogram

User Stories
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited User Stories.

1 14 (93.33%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 8 (53.33%) Requirements Management
4 6 (40.00%) Time Management
5 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Use Case
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) UML
5 5 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
6 3 (20.00%) Web Development
6 3 (20.00%) QA
6 3 (20.00%) HTTP
6 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 3 (20.00%) Internet
7 2 (13.33%) Quality Management
7 2 (13.33%) Games
7 2 (13.33%) Velocity
7 2 (13.33%) Selenium
7 2 (13.33%) Degree
7 2 (13.33%) Data Management
7 2 (13.33%) Planning Poker
7 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
8 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
8 1 (6.667%) Scrum
8 1 (6.667%) ISEB
8 1 (6.667%) SQL
8 1 (6.667%) SQL Server

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited User Stories. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) Velocity
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
1 3 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Business Analyst
1 12 (80.00%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Database Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 8 (53.33%) Requirements Management
4 6 (40.00%) Time Management
5 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Use Case
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) UML
5 5 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 3 (20.00%) Web Development
7 2 (13.33%) Quality Management
7 2 (13.33%) Data Management
7 2 (13.33%) Planning Poker
7 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
8 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
8 1 (6.667%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA