The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 18 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 Hertford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 13 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertford 17.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.64% - -
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.03%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
55 29 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertford 73.33% 87.88% 86.67%
Number of salaries quoted 54 29 13
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £22,500 £29,850
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £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
Hertfordshire

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertford 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 Hertford region.

Hertford User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertford 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 15 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) MVC
1 15 (100.00%) WinForms
1 15 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 15 (100.00%) WPF
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 13 (86.67%) Automated Testing
2 13 (86.67%) Scrum
2 13 (86.67%) ATL
2 13 (86.67%) COM+
2 13 (86.67%) MFC
2 13 (86.67%) C++
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
3 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
3 2 (13.33%) OOD
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) WCAG
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) TDD

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertford 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 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) WinForms
1 15 (100.00%) WPF
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 13 (86.67%) MFC
2 13 (86.67%) ATL
2 13 (86.67%) COM+
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
1 15 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 15 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
2 13 (86.67%) C++/C# Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 13 (86.67%) C++ Software Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Senior C++ Developer
2 13 (86.67%) Senior Developer
2 13 (86.67%) C++ Developer
3 2 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 15 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) MVC
1 15 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (86.67%) Scrum
2 13 (86.67%) Automated Testing
3 2 (13.33%) OOD
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (86.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft