The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 23 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 323 319 376
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +57
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 116 122 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.527% 0.514% 0.241%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.723% 0.702% 0.340%
Number of salaries quoted 99 109 54
Average salary £46,250 £47,500 £40,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.63% +18.01%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,200 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16052 17377 16471
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 72.94% 73.24% 70.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13037 14884 14113
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 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Stories across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Berkshire +10 36 £55,000 +22.22%
Surrey +15 32 £48,750 -2.50%
Hampshire +14 12 £45,000 -
West Sussex -28 11 £42,500 -29.16%
Buckinghamshire +1 9 £35,000 +2.94%
Oxfordshire - 8 £24,000 -
Middlesex -10 5 £40,000 -
Kent - 3 £42,500 -
East Sussex 0 1 - -
User Stories
England

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 146 (60.58%) Scrum
2 109 (45.23%) Microsoft
3 104 (43.15%) C#
4 94 (39.00%) Agile Software Development
5 92 (38.17%) E-Commerce
5 92 (38.17%) Finance
6 89 (36.93%) TDD
7 87 (36.10%) Degree
8 84 (34.85%) .NET
9 73 (30.29%) CSS
9 73 (30.29%) Continuous Integration
10 72 (29.88%) ASP.NET
11 70 (29.05%) Windows
12 67 (27.80%) Refactoring
13 63 (26.14%) SQL Server
14 61 (25.31%) Ajax
15 60 (24.90%) JavaScript
16 57 (23.65%) SQL Server 2005
16 57 (23.65%) SQL Server 2008
17 54 (22.41%) XML
18 51 (21.16%) NUnit
19 48 (19.92%) jQuery
20 45 (18.67%) Use Case
20 45 (18.67%) XHTML
21 43 (17.84%) Unit Testing
21 43 (17.84%) CruiseControl
21 43 (17.84%) Rapid Prototyping
21 43 (17.84%) Build Automation
22 42 (17.43%) Oracle
23 41 (17.01%) Workflow

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 84 (34.85%) .NET
2 73 (30.29%) CSS
3 72 (29.88%) ASP.NET
4 61 (25.31%) Ajax
5 54 (22.41%) XML
6 48 (19.92%) jQuery
7 45 (18.67%) XHTML
8 34 (14.11%) Web Services
9 32 (13.28%) WF
9 32 (13.28%) .NET Framework
9 32 (13.28%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 32 (13.28%) Flash
10 29 (12.03%) HTML5
11 27 (11.20%) HTML
12 25 (10.37%) ASP.NET MVC
13 24 (9.959%) Castle Windsor
13 24 (9.959%) CSS3
13 24 (9.959%) NHibernate
14 21 (8.714%) Spring
15 20 (8.299%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 24 (9.959%) SharePoint
2 19 (7.884%) Apache
2 19 (7.884%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.245%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (0.830%) CMS
5 1 (0.415%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (7.884%) MS Excel
2 15 (6.224%) MS Office
3 12 (4.979%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (1.245%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.075%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.415%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.415%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.714%) Internet
2 8 (3.320%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.320%) DNS
3 6 (2.490%) SNMP
3 6 (2.490%) 3GPP
4 4 (1.660%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.660%) ADSL
4 4 (1.660%) Broadband
5 3 (1.245%) Wireless
5 3 (1.245%) BSS
6 1 (0.415%) WAN
6 1 (0.415%) HTTP
6 1 (0.415%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (26.14%) SQL Server
2 57 (23.65%) SQL Server 2005
2 57 (23.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (4.564%) Big Data
3 11 (4.564%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (2.905%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.660%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.660%) QlikView
5 4 (1.660%) Data Mart
5 4 (1.660%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.660%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.245%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.245%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.245%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (1.245%) GIS
6 3 (1.245%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (1.245%) Redis
6 3 (1.245%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.830%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.830%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 51 (21.16%) NUnit
2 43 (17.84%) CruiseControl
3 37 (15.35%) Selenium
4 30 (12.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (7.054%) Ant
6 13 (5.394%) JUnit
6 13 (5.394%) Maven
7 12 (4.979%) IntelliJ
8 9 (3.734%) Subversion
9 7 (2.905%) JIRA
10 6 (2.490%) Telelogic TAU
10 6 (2.490%) Rational Rose
11 5 (2.075%) Visual Studio
11 5 (2.075%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.245%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.245%) Moq
13 1 (0.415%) TestNG
13 1 (0.415%) EasyMock
13 1 (0.415%) Git (software)
13 1 (0.415%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 92 (38.17%) Finance
2 30 (12.45%) Telecoms
3 24 (9.959%) Financial Institution
4 13 (5.394%) Retail
5 11 (4.564%) Marketing
6 3 (1.245%) Legal
7 2 (0.830%) Games
8 1 (0.415%) Automotive
8 1 (0.415%) Back Office
8 1 (0.415%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 104 (43.15%) Developer
2 67 (27.80%) Analyst
3 63 (26.14%) .NET Developer
4 56 (23.24%) Business Analyst
5 37 (15.35%) C# Developer
5 37 (15.35%) C# .NET Developer
6 33 (13.69%) ASP.NET Developer
6 33 (13.69%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 32 (13.28%) Agile .NET Developer
7 32 (13.28%) Agile C# Developer
8 30 (12.45%) Agile Business Analyst
9 24 (9.959%) .NET Software Developer
9 24 (9.959%) Software Developer
10 21 (8.714%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.564%) Classic ASP Developer
11 11 (4.564%) VB6 Developer
11 11 (4.564%) VB Developer
11 11 (4.564%) ASP Developer
12 8 (3.320%) ScrumMaster
12 8 (3.320%) Web Producer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.01%) Inversion of Control
2 39 (16.18%) Computer Science
3 28 (11.62%) Mobile App
4 25 (10.37%) N-Tier
5 15 (6.224%) Visualisation
6 12 (4.979%) Statistics
6 12 (4.979%) SaaS
7 11 (4.564%) Mathematics
7 11 (4.564%) FMCG
8 9 (3.734%) Physics
9 8 (3.320%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.075%) Open Source
11 3 (1.245%) Social Media
12 2 (0.830%) Digital Media
12 2 (0.830%) iPad
12 2 (0.830%) iPhone
13 1 (0.415%) Blackberry
13 1 (0.415%) Firmware
13 1 (0.415%) Replication
13 1 (0.415%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 70 (29.05%) Windows
2 24 (9.959%) Windows 8
2 24 (9.959%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (4.979%) UNIX
4 3 (1.245%) Android
4 3 (1.245%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.415%) Linux
5 1 (0.415%) VMS
5 1 (0.415%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.415%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (60.58%) Scrum
2 94 (39.00%) Agile Software Development
3 92 (38.17%) E-Commerce
4 89 (36.93%) TDD
5 73 (30.29%) Continuous Integration
6 67 (27.80%) Refactoring
7 45 (18.67%) Use Case
8 43 (17.84%) Unit Testing
8 43 (17.84%) Rapid Prototyping
8 43 (17.84%) Build Automation
9 41 (17.01%) Workflow
9 41 (17.01%) Business Analysis
10 32 (13.28%) Software Architecture
11 29 (12.03%) CRM
12 27 (11.20%) MVC
13 25 (10.37%) Kanban
13 25 (10.37%) Automated Testing
13 25 (10.37%) SOA
13 25 (10.37%) Mobile Application Development
14 24 (9.959%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 104 (43.15%) C#
2 60 (24.90%) JavaScript
3 34 (14.11%) Java
4 32 (13.28%) ActionScript
4 32 (13.28%) ActionScript 3.0
5 24 (9.959%) SQL
6 13 (5.394%) T-SQL
7 11 (4.564%) VB
7 11 (4.564%) VB6
8 5 (2.075%) Python
8 5 (2.075%) C
9 4 (1.660%) Scala
9 4 (1.660%) Ruby
9 4 (1.660%) C++
9 4 (1.660%) PHP
10 3 (1.245%) XPath
11 2 (0.830%) Perl
12 1 (0.415%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (36.10%) Degree
2 18 (7.469%) ISEB
3 4 (1.660%) ISTQB
3 4 (1.660%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (1.660%) MCP
3 4 (1.660%) MCAD
3 4 (1.660%) MCSD
4 3 (1.245%) HND
4 3 (1.245%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.830%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.20%) QA
2 8 (3.320%) WCAG
2 8 (3.320%) WAI
3 1 (0.415%) SLA
3 1 (0.415%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (1.245%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (0.415%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 109 (45.23%) Microsoft
2 42 (17.43%) Oracle
3 15 (6.224%) Teradata
4 6 (2.490%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 6 (2.490%) Telelogic
4 6 (2.490%) Cognizant
5 5 (2.075%) BT
6 4 (1.660%) Tableau
6 4 (1.660%) Business Objects
6 4 (1.660%) Cognos
7 2 (0.830%) Twitter
7 2 (0.830%) HP
8 1 (0.415%) JBoss
8 1 (0.415%) SAP
8 1 (0.415%) Symbian
8 1 (0.415%) VMware
Slough, Berkshire
Strong understanding and knowledge of: * Agile - Scrum * Eliciting and Capturing Requirements * Test Driven Development (TDD) * Pair Programming * Continuous Integration (CI) Strong exposure to one or more of the...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
SCRUM reports to be complete as required... - Ensuring Test Driven Development and Automated Testing are carried out where appropriate... You will have to have an in-depth understanding...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + Benefits and bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reigate, Surrey
As appropriate, actively participate in the "Agile - SCRUM" delivery approach - Defining the user stories & supporting the associated story point estimating process. Challenging the associated business benefit of each...
TLP Consultancy Ltd.
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + 15% Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Thames Ditton, South East
Business Analyst - London - £35K - £45K (plus yearly bonus)An award winning Digital Agency are looking for a Business Analyst with a minimum of 2 years proven experience within...
OPUS
Salary: GBP35000 to GBP50000 per annum + Benefits: yearly bonus
Posted: 30 April 2013
Winchester, Hampshire
Combine your ability to listen, understand and connect to our customer’s needs with your knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and grasp of Software Development in this cutting-...
Arqiva
Salary: £50,000-£55,000 + comprehensive benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Essential technical skills: - Asp.Net, MVC .NET 4.0 - Javascript / jQuery / Ajax - XHTML / CSS - Visual Studio 2010 - C# - T-SQL You also need to be a collaborative team...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
Essential Technical skills will include: *ASP.NET MVC (3.0 or 4.0) *C# *SQL Server 2005/2008 *JavaScript Ideally you will have experience of some or all...
Remit Resources
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Full Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Berkshire
Product Manager required by out our really exciting, leading edge, massive data warehouse technology client... We’re looking for an accomplished Product Manager to drive product management, definition...
Talent Crew
Salary: £55000 - 65000 Per Annum Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013