User Stories Jobs in the South West

User Story
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 158 132
Rank change year-on-year -32 -26 +43
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 96 125 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.06% 1.74% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.84% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 60 90 158
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,483 £38,287
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,813 £58,750 £60,625
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,965 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.39% +3.45% +5.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,620 6,776 7,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.44% 94.56% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,536 3,777 5,000
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the South West

User Stories
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for User Stories in the South West

User Stories
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the South West

User Stories
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Bristol +4 50 £47,500 -5.00% 13
Dorset +4 21 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Gloucestershire -9 14 £62,500 -10.71% 4
Devon -18 8 £55,000 +33.47% 4
Somerset -1 1 £55,000 +4.76% 2
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (15.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) CMS
2 2 (2.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.25%) Trello
3 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) Azure
2 16 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.29%) AWS
5 6 (6.25%) GitHub
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (5.21%) Miro
6 5 (5.21%) SaaS
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.13%) Serverless
8 1 (1.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) AMQP
1 1 (1.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.25%) Big Data
3 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.25%) Power BI
3 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (6.25%) Star Schema
3 6 (6.25%) Tableau
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Accumulo
4 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.04%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 36 (37.50%) JIRA
2 12 (12.50%) Selenium
3 10 (10.42%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 6 (6.25%) Git
5 6 (6.25%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.13%) Moq
6 3 (3.13%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.13%) xUnit.net
7 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
General
1 37 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.33%) Finance
3 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (13.54%) Law
4 13 (13.54%) Retail
5 10 (10.42%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Legal
6 9 (9.38%) Marketing
7 6 (6.25%) Publishing
8 4 (4.17%) Banking
9 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Billing
11 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Senior
2 22 (22.92%) Analyst
3 21 (21.88%) Business Analyst
4 18 (18.75%) Product Manager
5 17 (17.71%) Developer
6 16 (16.67%) Product Owner
7 13 (13.54%) Senior Developer
8 12 (12.50%) .NET Developer
9 11 (11.46%) Senior .NET Developer
10 10 (10.42%) Software Developer
11 7 (7.29%) .NET Software Developer
11 7 (7.29%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (7.29%) Technical Business Analyst
12 6 (6.25%) Junior
12 6 (6.25%) Senior .NET Software Developer
12 6 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
13 5 (5.21%) Azure Developer
13 5 (5.21%) E-Commerce Product Owner
13 5 (5.21%) Lead
13 5 (5.21%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.71%) .NET
2 15 (15.63%) AngularJS
3 11 (11.46%) React
4 10 (10.42%) Gherkin
5 8 (8.33%) CSS
5 8 (8.33%) HTML
6 7 (7.29%) .NET Framework
6 7 (7.29%) Vue
7 6 (6.25%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 6 (6.25%) WPF
7 6 (6.25%) XML
7 6 (6.25%) XSD
7 6 (6.25%) XSLT
8 5 (5.21%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.21%) Svelte
9 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 3 (3.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.29%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Android
3 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (86.46%) Agile
2 45 (46.88%) Roadmaps
3 39 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (35.42%) Acceptance Criteria
5 30 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
6 28 (29.17%) Scrum
7 26 (27.08%) DevOps
7 26 (27.08%) Product Backlog
8 22 (22.92%) Analytics
9 21 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 21 (21.88%) Mentoring
9 21 (21.88%) Project Management
10 20 (20.83%) Test Automation
11 19 (19.79%) Project Delivery
11 19 (19.79%) Use Case
11 19 (19.79%) User Experience
12 18 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
13 17 (17.71%) Business Analysis
14 16 (16.67%) Product Vision
15 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 12 (12.50%) C#
2 12 (12.50%) SQL
3 8 (8.33%) Python
4 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.25%) R
5 6 (6.25%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.13%) Java
6 3 (3.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (32.29%) Degree
2 16 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.29%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.25%) IIBA
6 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.08%) HND
7 2 (2.08%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (1.04%) CBAP
8 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.04%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.04%) BT
3 1 (1.04%) Pega