The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 355 380 478
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +98
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 699 658 454
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.677% 0.591% 0.372%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.886% 0.788% 0.506%
Number of salaries quoted 612 531 393
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,100 £30,300
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+3.03% -2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
78869 83508 89685
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.42% 75.00% 73.51%
Number of salaries quoted 65476 71567 75811
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Stories across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England User Stories Salary Histogram

User Stories
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -26 325 £52,500 +10.52% 46
South East +8 114 £47,500 +5.55% 3
Yorkshire +62 84 £40,000 +25.00% 5
East of England +18 72 £42,500 +6.25% 8
North West +42 53 £37,500 -16.66% 4
East Midlands +4 27 £43,750 +16.66%
South West -4 15 £37,500 +4.89% 1
North East +6 5 £37,500 - 1
West Midlands -22 3 £44,000 -9.74%
User Stories
UK

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 723 (50.88%) Agile Software Development
2 665 (46.80%) Scrum
3 385 (27.09%) E-Commerce
4 371 (26.11%) Business Analysis
5 305 (21.46%) Finance
6 292 (20.55%) QA
7 269 (18.93%) TDD
8 253 (17.80%) SQL
9 236 (16.61%) Degree
10 234 (16.47%) Microsoft
11 225 (15.83%) Java
12 197 (13.86%) Selenium
13 191 (13.44%) Use Case
14 185 (13.02%) C#
14 185 (13.02%) .NET
15 178 (12.53%) UML
16 167 (11.75%) Project Management
16 167 (11.75%) Continuous Integration
17 160 (11.26%) BDD
18 156 (10.98%) Web Services
19 148 (10.42%) Retail
20 143 (10.06%) Oracle
21 139 (9.782%) Marketing
22 135 (9.500%) Mobile App
23 129 (9.078%) SQL Server
24 128 (9.008%) MS Excel
25 126 (8.867%) Test Automation
26 125 (8.797%) Kanban
27 123 (8.656%) JavaScript
28 110 (7.741%) ISEB

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 185 (13.02%) .NET
2 156 (10.98%) Web Services
3 105 (7.389%) XML
4 103 (7.248%) CSS
5 101 (7.108%) HTML
6 89 (6.263%) ASP.NET
7 70 (4.926%) Spring
8 58 (4.082%) jQuery
9 57 (4.011%) Hibernate
10 54 (3.800%) WebSphere
11 52 (3.659%) .NET Framework
12 47 (3.308%) SOAP
12 47 (3.308%) HTML5
13 46 (3.237%) Ajax
14 45 (3.167%) REST
15 42 (2.956%) ASP.NET MVC
16 40 (2.815%) soapUI
17 39 (2.745%) Gherkin
18 37 (2.604%) JSP
19 36 (2.533%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 87 (6.122%) Apache
2 31 (2.182%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.041%) Tomcat
4 26 (1.830%) Windows Azure
5 20 (1.407%) CMS
6 16 (1.126%) GlassFish
7 14 (0.985%) CICS
8 13 (0.915%) Magento
9 9 (0.633%) Confluence
10 8 (0.563%) nginx
11 6 (0.422%) SAS
11 6 (0.422%) Amazon AWS
12 5 (0.352%) WordPress
13 4 (0.281%) IIS
13 4 (0.281%) ESB
13 4 (0.281%) Shopify
14 3 (0.211%) Oracle Coherence
15 2 (0.141%) TeamSite
15 2 (0.141%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.141%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 128 (9.008%) MS Excel
2 32 (2.252%) MS Office
3 26 (1.830%) MS PowerPoint
4 20 (1.407%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.704%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.352%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.141%) MS Project
7 2 (0.141%) Fireworks
8 1 (0.070%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 13 (0.915%) Dynamics AX
2 9 (0.633%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.493%) SiteCatalyst
4 6 (0.422%) Agresso
4 6 (0.422%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.422%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.422%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.211%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.141%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.070%) SAP MDM
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.700%) Internet
2 31 (2.182%) HTTP
3 13 (0.915%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.844%) DNS
5 11 (0.774%) Broadband
6 8 (0.563%) SMS
7 4 (0.281%) SNMP
7 4 (0.281%) ATM
7 4 (0.281%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.281%) BSS
8 3 (0.211%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.211%) Wireless
8 3 (0.211%) SMTP
8 3 (0.211%) ADSL
8 3 (0.211%) LDAP
9 2 (0.141%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.141%) Intranet
10 1 (0.070%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.070%) Extranet
10 1 (0.070%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (9.078%) SQL Server
2 56 (3.941%) MySQL
3 44 (3.096%) RDBMS
4 39 (2.745%) SQL Server 2005
5 38 (2.674%) SQL Server 2008
6 36 (2.533%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (2.393%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.689%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.126%) Big Data
10 8 (0.563%) QlikView
10 8 (0.563%) Hadoop
11 7 (0.493%) Oracle 11g
11 7 (0.493%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.493%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.422%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.422%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.352%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.352%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.281%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.281%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 197 (13.86%) Selenium
2 110 (7.741%) Cucumber
3 77 (5.419%) Team Foundation Server
4 63 (4.433%) JIRA
5 62 (4.363%) FitNesse
6 57 (4.011%) WebDriver
7 52 (3.659%) Git (software)
8 45 (3.167%) Subversion
9 44 (3.096%) SpecFlow
10 38 (2.674%) JUnit
11 37 (2.604%) NUnit
12 35 (2.463%) Visual Studio
13 33 (2.322%) Maven
13 33 (2.322%) QuickTest Pro
14 31 (2.182%) Jenkins
15 29 (2.041%) JMeter
16 28 (1.970%) RSpec
17 23 (1.619%) Ant
18 18 (1.267%) Hudson
19 17 (1.196%) Behat
General
1 305 (21.46%) Finance
2 148 (10.42%) Retail
3 139 (9.782%) Marketing
4 65 (4.574%) Telecoms
5 55 (3.871%) Games
6 37 (2.604%) Back Office
7 32 (2.252%) Financial Institution
7 32 (2.252%) Banking
8 30 (2.111%) Publishing
9 24 (1.689%) Law
10 17 (1.196%) Advertising
11 15 (1.056%) Legal
12 10 (0.704%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.563%) Front Office
13 8 (0.563%) Billing
13 8 (0.563%) French Language
13 8 (0.563%) German Language
14 7 (0.493%) Online Betting
15 5 (0.352%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.211%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 727 (51.16%) Analyst
2 605 (42.58%) Business Analyst
3 244 (17.17%) Agile Business Analyst
4 204 (14.36%) Developer
5 112 (7.882%) Senior Analyst
6 105 (7.389%) Senior Business Analyst
7 103 (7.248%) Test Analyst
8 66 (4.645%) QA Engineer
9 65 (4.574%) Tester
10 57 (4.011%) Java Developer
11 56 (3.941%) Senior Developer
12 48 (3.378%) .NET Developer
13 47 (3.308%) Project Manager
14 45 (3.167%) Software Developer
14 45 (3.167%) ScrumMaster
15 44 (3.096%) Architect
16 43 (3.026%) Product Manager
17 38 (2.674%) Software Engineer
18 36 (2.533%) C# Developer
19 33 (2.322%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.500%) Mobile App
2 81 (5.700%) N-Tier
3 74 (5.208%) Digital Media
4 60 (4.222%) Computer Science
5 49 (3.448%) Open Source
6 39 (2.745%) SaaS
6 39 (2.745%) Inversion of Control
7 35 (2.463%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.900%) iPad
9 26 (1.830%) Equities
10 24 (1.689%) Client/Server
11 21 (1.478%) iPhone
11 21 (1.478%) Visualisation
12 18 (1.267%) Mainframe
12 18 (1.267%) W3C
13 17 (1.196%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.126%) Mathematics
15 15 (1.056%) Derivative
15 15 (1.056%) Blackberry
16 14 (0.985%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.897%) Windows
2 83 (5.841%) Linux
3 56 (3.941%) Apple iOS
4 48 (3.378%) Android
5 45 (3.167%) UNIX
6 24 (1.689%) Windows 8
6 24 (1.689%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.633%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (0.493%) Windows 7
8 7 (0.493%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.281%) Windows Mobile
10 2 (0.141%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.141%) Windows Phone
11 1 (0.070%) CentOS
11 1 (0.070%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.070%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (50.88%) Agile Software Development
2 665 (46.80%) Scrum
3 385 (27.09%) E-Commerce
4 371 (26.11%) Business Analysis
5 269 (18.93%) TDD
6 191 (13.44%) Use Case
7 178 (12.53%) UML
8 167 (11.75%) Project Management
8 167 (11.75%) Continuous Integration
9 160 (11.26%) BDD
10 126 (8.867%) Test Automation
11 125 (8.797%) Kanban
12 103 (7.248%) Automated Testing
13 102 (7.178%) Continuous Improvement
14 100 (7.037%) DSDM
15 96 (6.756%) User Acceptance Testing
16 94 (6.615%) OO
17 88 (6.193%) Waterfall
18 80 (5.630%) Performance Testing
19 79 (5.559%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (17.80%) SQL
2 225 (15.83%) Java
3 185 (13.02%) C#
4 123 (8.656%) JavaScript
5 109 (7.671%) Ruby
6 78 (5.489%) PHP
7 64 (4.504%) Python
8 56 (3.941%) C++
9 49 (3.448%) C
10 21 (1.478%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.267%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.267%) Scala
12 17 (1.196%) Groovy
13 14 (0.985%) COBOL
14 13 (0.915%) ActionScript 3.0
14 13 (0.915%) Perl
14 13 (0.915%) ActionScript
15 11 (0.774%) Objective-C
16 10 (0.704%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.422%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 236 (16.61%) Degree
2 110 (7.741%) ISEB
3 51 (3.589%) ISTQB
4 14 (0.985%) CBAP
5 4 (0.281%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.281%) A+ Certification
5 4 (0.281%) MCP
5 4 (0.281%) MCAD
5 4 (0.281%) MCSD
6 3 (0.211%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.211%) HND
6 3 (0.211%) Sun Certification
6 3 (0.211%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.141%) PMP
7 2 (0.141%) MBA
8 1 (0.070%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (20.55%) QA
2 13 (0.915%) WAI
3 9 (0.633%) WCAG
4 7 (0.493%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.281%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.141%) SLA
7 1 (0.070%) HL7
7 1 (0.070%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (0.422%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.211%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.070%) Varnish
3 1 (0.070%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (1.900%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (0.422%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 5 (0.352%) YUM
Vendors
1 234 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 143 (10.06%) Oracle
3 31 (2.182%) Informatica
4 29 (2.041%) HP
5 26 (1.830%) Rackspace
6 15 (1.056%) Teradata
6 15 (1.056%) ATG
6 15 (1.056%) Cognos
7 14 (0.985%) Salesforce.com
8 12 (0.844%) JBoss
8 12 (0.844%) hybris
9 11 (0.774%) Business Objects
10 8 (0.563%) VMware
10 8 (0.563%) Zend
10 8 (0.563%) Tableau
11 7 (0.493%) Demandware
11 7 (0.493%) Omniture
11 7 (0.493%) Symbian
11 7 (0.493%) Cognizant
11 7 (0.493%) Adobe
London
We require a strong Agile SCRUM Business Analyst with good knowledge and experience of end to end software development projects. This person will need to be able to...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, North West
You will be responsible for working on the functional needs for high profile eCommerce solutions, working with senior members of the business and development teams, hence the need...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Leading international financial software house in Central London are looking to recruit a highly motivated and smart Agile Business Analyst who wants to take a senior position within...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £40000 - £48000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Leading international financial software house in Central London are looking to recruit a highly motivated and smart Agile Business Analyst who wants to take a senior position within...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £48000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
We're driving innovation and transforming our marketing and technology to become the world's leading e-commerce business... You will be working in an environment that is...
Tesco.com
Salary: Very Competitive
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
Central London / West End
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts, South East
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 6 May 2013
South East London
Capablue Ltd
Salary: Unspecified dependent on experience
Posted: 13 June 2013
Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside
Trader Media Group Ltd
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 6 May 2013
London
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
City of London
News International
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Twickenham, Middlesex
Per4orm Consulting
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Salt
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 18 June 2013
Central London / West End
Flex Associates
Salary: From £70,000 to £85,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Flex Associates
Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London, Angel, EC1 4EX
Expedia
Salary: Market competitive which includes a Base, Bonus and an extensive benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £70000 - £75000 per annum + benefits & bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
Doncaster, South Yorkshire
Vertical IT
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
Colston Consulting
Salary: £55k - 60k per year + Benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013