The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 80 - 77
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 3 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.295% - 0.579%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.424% - 0.873%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
Average salary £24,000 - £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.03%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
707 448 573
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 69.59% 65.69% 66.40%
Number of salaries quoted 599 404 510
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,150 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,800 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Stories
Oxfordshire

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Stories across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Oxford User Stories Salary Histogram

User Stories
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (80.00%) Web Development
1 8 (80.00%) WCAG
1 8 (80.00%) WAI
1 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) Internet
1 8 (80.00%) Project Management
1 8 (80.00%) Web Design
1 8 (80.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Ext JS
2 2 (20.00%) Product Management
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML5
2 2 (20.00%) Memcached
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (20.00%) CSS
1 2 (20.00%) Ext JS
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5
1 2 (20.00%) Memcached
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Web Producer
2 2 (20.00%) UI Developer
2 2 (20.00%) UI Programmer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Project Management
1 8 (80.00%) Web Design
1 8 (80.00%) Business Analysis
1 8 (80.00%) Web Development
2 2 (20.00%) Product Management
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Perl
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) WCAG
1 8 (80.00%) WAI
2 2 (20.00%) QA