The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 17 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank - - 40
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands - - 0.339%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.565%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
152 184 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 76.00% 59.35% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 105 143 131
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £95,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Stories
England

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) JAXB
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) JAXB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle