User Stories Jobs in the South East

User Story
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 207 99
Rank change year-on-year -45 -108 +40
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 143 235 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 1.58% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.67% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 108 111 299
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,143 14,089 18,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.72% 94.51% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,926 8,168 12,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the South East

User Stories
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the South East.

Salary trend for User Stories in the South East

User Stories
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the South East

User Stories
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -14 53 £60,000 -8.40% 9
Thames Valley -44 43 £60,000 +9.09% 21
Surrey -5 24 £55,000 -21.43% 7
Berkshire -26 23 £60,000 -4.00% 10
Kent 0 17 £65,000 +45.09% 2
Oxfordshire +12 12 £57,500 +15.00% 4
Buckinghamshire -30 8 £70,000 +75.00% 7
West Sussex +29 3 £82,500 +65.00% 1
East Sussex +6 3 £36,085 -38.58% 4
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (7.69%) Confluence
2 8 (5.59%) IIS
3 7 (4.90%) CMS
4 5 (3.50%) Headless CMS
4 5 (3.50%) Kentico
5 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.40%) JBoss
6 2 (1.40%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.40%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (10.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.20%) InVision
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.20%) Sketch
4 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (3.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.40%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.08%) Azure
2 13 (9.09%) AWS
3 11 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.99%) SaaS
5 9 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.10%) GitHub
8 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.70%) Figma
9 1 (0.70%) Miro
9 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.20%) Intranet
2 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.80%) Redis
3 3 (2.10%) SAP BW
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.40%) Power BI
4 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (27.97%) JIRA
2 18 (12.59%) Git
3 10 (6.99%) Visual Studio
4 8 (5.59%) MSBuild
4 8 (5.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (5.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.50%) Selenium
6 3 (2.10%) Babel
6 3 (2.10%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.10%) GitLab
6 3 (2.10%) Postman
6 3 (2.10%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.10%) webpack
7 2 (1.40%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.40%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.40%) Jasmine
7 2 (1.40%) Mockito
7 2 (1.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.68%) Finance
3 24 (16.78%) Marketing
4 20 (13.99%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (8.39%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.10%) Automotive
9 3 (2.10%) Retail
10 2 (1.40%) Billing
10 2 (1.40%) Games
10 2 (1.40%) Law
10 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Analyst
2 40 (27.97%) Senior
3 36 (25.17%) Business Analyst
4 31 (21.68%) Developer
5 22 (15.38%) Product Manager
6 16 (11.19%) Senior Developer
7 15 (10.49%) .NET Developer
7 15 (10.49%) Product Owner
7 15 (10.49%) Technical Analyst
8 14 (9.79%) Technical Business Analyst
9 12 (8.39%) Lead
10 10 (6.99%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (5.59%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.20%) User Researcher
13 5 (3.50%) Business Systems Analyst
13 5 (3.50%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.50%) Java Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Senior Product Owner
13 5 (3.50%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.69%) .NET
2 19 (13.29%) ASP.NET
3 15 (10.49%) XML
4 14 (9.79%) CSS
4 14 (9.79%) HTML
5 12 (8.39%) JSON
6 11 (7.69%) REST
7 8 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 8 (5.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 6 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (3.50%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.50%) HTML5
10 4 (2.80%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (2.80%) Node.js
10 4 (2.80%) React
11 3 (2.10%) CSS3
11 3 (2.10%) Kafka
11 3 (2.10%) RESTful
11 3 (2.10%) RxJS
11 3 (2.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 70 (48.95%) Product Ownership
2 21 (14.69%) NHS
3 7 (4.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.40%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.40%) FMCG
6 2 (1.40%) IoT
6 2 (1.40%) Life Science
6 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.40%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.99%) Linux
2 3 (2.10%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.36%) Agile
2 37 (25.87%) Roadmaps
3 26 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
3 26 (18.18%) Product Requirements
4 25 (17.48%) DevOps
5 24 (16.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 23 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.08%) Scrum
7 22 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
8 21 (14.69%) Product Strategy
8 21 (14.69%) Scenario Testing
9 19 (13.29%) Customer Requirements
10 18 (12.59%) User Research
11 17 (11.89%) MVC
12 16 (11.19%) Customer Experience
13 15 (10.49%) Market Research
13 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (10.49%) User Experience
13 15 (10.49%) Wireframes
14 14 (9.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.88%) C#
2 25 (17.48%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.29%) Java
4 16 (11.19%) SQL
5 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.10%) Python
7 2 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.40%) R
7 2 (1.40%) Tcl
8 1 (0.70%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (23.08%) Degree
2 21 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.99%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.40%) CSPO
7 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.99%) QA
2 9 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.10%) Docker
Vendors
1 26 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.90%) Adobe
3 6 (4.20%) Hotjar
3 6 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) SAP
5 2 (1.40%) IBM
5 2 (1.40%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.40%) Temenos
6 1 (0.70%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.70%) Pardot
6 1 (0.70%) Sun