The first table below looks at the demand for User Stories skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Stories over the 3 months to 19 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Story
Rank 357 391 495
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +104
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 709 672 447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.651% 0.558% 0.348%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.854% 0.744% 0.473%
Number of salaries quoted 619 542 384
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £34,950 £33,200 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
83034 90312 94559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.23% 74.93% 73.66%
Number of salaries quoted 68153 76820 79397
Average salary £45,000 £47,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.25% -1.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

User Stories
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

User Stories Salary Trend

User Stories
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Stories over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

User Stories Salary Histogram

User Stories
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +27 692 £45,000 - 68
London -8 319 £52,500 +10.52% 47
South East +9 114 £47,500 +5.55% 2
Yorkshire +66 85 £40,000 +25.00% 4
West Yorkshire +54 81 £40,000 +25.00% 2
Leeds +50 81 £40,000 +25.00% 1
East of England +2 71 £42,500 +6.25% 8
North West +43 52 £37,500 -16.66% 4
Berkshire +36 45 £58,750 +17.50%
City of London +4 40 £54,625 +12.05% 9
Hertfordshire +29 36 £45,000 -14.28% 4
Slough +32 33 £57,500 +2.22%
East Midlands +10 27 £43,750 +16.66%
Surrey +9 25 £46,250 -7.50% 1
Manchester +2 24 £39,750 -11.66% 2
Northamptonshire -12 18 £47,500 +26.66%
Welwyn Garden City +3 17 £50,000 - 3
Northampton -7 17 £47,500 +26.66%
Cambridgeshire -7 16 £37,500 -6.25% 4
Hampshire +17 15 £45,000 - 1
South West -1 15 £37,500 - 2
Merseyside - 14 £30,000 -
Liverpool - 14 £30,000 -
Hertford - 13 £45,000 -
Cheshire +23 12 £37,500 -11.76% 1
Bristol +5 12 £36,250 -3.33% 2
Cambridge +2 12 £37,500 -2.59% 3
Bedfordshire -7 11 £40,000 +6.66%
Crawley -18 11 £42,500 -29.16%
West Sussex -24 11 £42,500 -29.16%

User Stories
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 742 (50.93%) Agile Software Development
2 692 (47.49%) Scrum
3 393 (26.97%) E-Commerce
4 377 (25.88%) Business Analysis
5 312 (21.41%) Finance
6 308 (21.14%) QA
7 279 (19.15%) TDD
8 262 (17.98%) SQL
9 247 (16.95%) Degree
10 244 (16.75%) Microsoft
11 228 (15.65%) Java
12 213 (14.62%) Selenium
13 191 (13.11%) .NET
13 191 (13.11%) Use Case
14 188 (12.90%) C#
15 184 (12.63%) UML
16 177 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
17 167 (11.46%) Project Management
18 160 (10.98%) BDD
19 155 (10.64%) Web Services
20 150 (10.30%) Retail
21 145 (9.952%) Oracle
22 140 (9.609%) Marketing
23 135 (9.266%) Mobile App
24 134 (9.197%) Test Automation
25 132 (9.060%) SQL Server
26 131 (8.991%) MS Excel
27 126 (8.648%) JavaScript
27 126 (8.648%) Kanban
28 118 (8.099%) Cucumber

User Stories
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 191 (13.11%) .NET
2 155 (10.64%) Web Services
3 115 (7.893%) XML
4 104 (7.138%) CSS
5 102 (7.001%) HTML
6 88 (6.040%) ASP.NET
7 71 (4.873%) Spring
8 58 (3.981%) jQuery
8 58 (3.981%) Hibernate
9 55 (3.775%) WebSphere
10 54 (3.706%) SOAP
11 50 (3.432%) .NET Framework
12 47 (3.226%) soapUI
12 47 (3.226%) Ajax
13 46 (3.157%) HTML5
13 46 (3.157%) Gherkin
14 45 (3.089%) REST
15 41 (2.814%) ASP.NET MVC
16 38 (2.608%) JSP
17 37 (2.539%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 87 (5.971%) Apache
2 32 (2.196%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.059%) Tomcat
4 26 (1.784%) Windows Azure
5 20 (1.373%) CMS
6 16 (1.098%) GlassFish
7 14 (0.961%) CICS
8 13 (0.892%) Magento
9 9 (0.618%) Confluence
10 7 (0.480%) nginx
11 6 (0.412%) SAS
11 6 (0.412%) Amazon AWS
12 5 (0.343%) WordPress
13 4 (0.275%) IIS
13 4 (0.275%) ESB
13 4 (0.275%) Shopify
14 3 (0.206%) Oracle Coherence
15 2 (0.137%) TeamSite
15 2 (0.137%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.137%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 131 (8.991%) MS Excel
2 33 (2.265%) MS Office
3 27 (1.853%) MS PowerPoint
4 21 (1.441%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.686%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.343%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.137%) Fireworks
7 2 (0.137%) MS Project
8 1 (0.069%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.069%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 13 (0.892%) Dynamics AX
2 9 (0.618%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.480%) SiteCatalyst
4 6 (0.412%) Agresso
4 6 (0.412%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.412%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (0.412%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.206%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.206%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.069%) SAP MDM
Communications & Networking
1 85 (5.834%) Internet
2 31 (2.128%) HTTP
3 13 (0.892%) TCP/IP
4 12 (0.824%) DNS
5 11 (0.755%) Broadband
6 8 (0.549%) SMS
7 4 (0.275%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.275%) SNMP
7 4 (0.275%) ATM
7 4 (0.275%) BSS
8 3 (0.206%) LDAP
8 3 (0.206%) SMTP
8 3 (0.206%) ADSL
8 3 (0.206%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.206%) Wireless
9 2 (0.137%) Intranet
9 2 (0.137%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.069%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.069%) WAN
10 1 (0.069%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (9.060%) SQL Server
2 55 (3.775%) MySQL
3 42 (2.883%) RDBMS
4 39 (2.677%) SQL Server 2005
5 37 (2.539%) SQL Server 2008
6 36 (2.471%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (2.334%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.716%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (1.167%) Big Data
10 8 (0.549%) QlikView
10 8 (0.549%) Hadoop
11 7 (0.480%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.480%) Oracle 11g
11 7 (0.480%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (0.480%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.412%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.343%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.343%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.275%) Data Mart
14 4 (0.275%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 213 (14.62%) Selenium
2 118 (8.099%) Cucumber
3 83 (5.697%) Team Foundation Server
4 71 (4.873%) FitNesse
5 63 (4.324%) JIRA
6 57 (3.912%) WebDriver
7 51 (3.500%) SpecFlow
7 51 (3.500%) Git (software)
8 49 (3.363%) QuickTest Pro
9 44 (3.020%) Subversion
10 43 (2.951%) Visual Studio
11 39 (2.677%) JUnit
12 37 (2.539%) NUnit
13 35 (2.402%) Jenkins
14 34 (2.334%) Maven
15 29 (1.990%) JMeter
16 28 (1.922%) Ant
16 28 (1.922%) RSpec
17 22 (1.510%) Hudson
18 17 (1.167%) Behat
General
1 312 (21.41%) Finance
2 150 (10.30%) Retail
3 140 (9.609%) Marketing
4 66 (4.530%) Telecoms
5 55 (3.775%) Games
6 36 (2.471%) Back Office
7 32 (2.196%) Banking
8 31 (2.128%) Financial Institution
9 30 (2.059%) Publishing
10 24 (1.647%) Law
11 17 (1.167%) Advertising
12 15 (1.030%) Legal
13 10 (0.686%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.549%) Front Office
14 8 (0.549%) Billing
14 8 (0.549%) French Language
14 8 (0.549%) German Language
15 7 (0.480%) Online Betting
16 5 (0.343%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.275%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 745 (51.13%) Analyst
2 620 (42.55%) Business Analyst
3 252 (17.30%) Agile Business Analyst
4 205 (14.07%) Developer
5 115 (7.893%) Senior Analyst
6 108 (7.412%) Senior Business Analyst
7 105 (7.207%) Test Analyst
8 80 (5.491%) QA Engineer
9 74 (5.079%) Tester
10 58 (3.981%) Java Developer
11 55 (3.775%) Senior Developer
12 47 (3.226%) Project Manager
12 47 (3.226%) .NET Developer
13 45 (3.089%) ScrumMaster
14 44 (3.020%) Software Developer
14 44 (3.020%) Architect
15 42 (2.883%) Product Manager
16 39 (2.677%) Software Engineer
17 36 (2.471%) C# Developer
18 33 (2.265%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.266%) Mobile App
2 80 (5.491%) N-Tier
3 76 (5.216%) Digital Media
4 61 (4.187%) Computer Science
5 48 (3.294%) Open Source
6 40 (2.745%) SaaS
7 39 (2.677%) Inversion of Control
8 36 (2.471%) Management Information System
9 27 (1.853%) iPad
10 26 (1.784%) Client/Server
11 25 (1.716%) Equities
12 21 (1.441%) iPhone
12 21 (1.441%) Visualisation
13 18 (1.235%) Mainframe
13 18 (1.235%) W3C
14 17 (1.167%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.030%) Social Media
15 15 (1.030%) Derivative
15 15 (1.030%) Blackberry
16 14 (0.961%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.520%) Windows
2 83 (5.697%) Linux
3 55 (3.775%) Apple iOS
4 47 (3.226%) Android
5 45 (3.089%) UNIX
6 23 (1.579%) Windows 8
6 23 (1.579%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.618%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (0.480%) Windows 7
8 7 (0.480%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.275%) Windows Mobile
10 2 (0.137%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.137%) Windows Phone
11 1 (0.069%) CentOS
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.069%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (50.93%) Agile Software Development
2 692 (47.49%) Scrum
3 393 (26.97%) E-Commerce
4 377 (25.88%) Business Analysis
5 279 (19.15%) TDD
6 191 (13.11%) Use Case
7 184 (12.63%) UML
8 177 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
9 167 (11.46%) Project Management
10 160 (10.98%) BDD
11 134 (9.197%) Test Automation
12 126 (8.648%) Kanban
13 112 (7.687%) Automated Testing
14 111 (7.618%) Continuous Improvement
15 105 (7.207%) DSDM
16 97 (6.658%) OO
16 97 (6.658%) User Acceptance Testing
17 88 (6.040%) Performance Testing
17 88 (6.040%) Waterfall
18 80 (5.491%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 262 (17.98%) SQL
2 228 (15.65%) Java
3 188 (12.90%) C#
4 126 (8.648%) JavaScript
5 108 (7.412%) Ruby
6 77 (5.285%) PHP
7 63 (4.324%) Python
8 54 (3.706%) C++
9 49 (3.363%) C
10 28 (1.922%) T-SQL
11 18 (1.235%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.235%) Scala
12 17 (1.167%) Groovy
13 14 (0.961%) COBOL
14 13 (0.892%) ActionScript 3.0
14 13 (0.892%) ActionScript
15 11 (0.755%) Perl
16 10 (0.686%) Objective-C
16 10 (0.686%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.412%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 247 (16.95%) Degree
2 113 (7.756%) ISEB
3 52 (3.569%) ISTQB
4 14 (0.961%) CBAP
5 4 (0.275%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.275%) A+ Certification
5 4 (0.275%) MCP
5 4 (0.275%) MCAD
5 4 (0.275%) MCSD
6 3 (0.206%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.206%) HND
6 3 (0.206%) Sun Certification
6 3 (0.206%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.137%) PMP
8 1 (0.069%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.069%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (21.14%) QA
2 13 (0.892%) WAI
3 9 (0.618%) WCAG
4 7 (0.480%) ISO 9001
5 4 (0.275%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.137%) SLA
7 1 (0.069%) COBIT
7 1 (0.069%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (0.412%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.206%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.069%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (1.922%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (0.412%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 5 (0.343%) YUM
Vendors
1 244 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 145 (9.952%) Oracle
3 31 (2.128%) Informatica
4 30 (2.059%) HP
5 26 (1.784%) Rackspace
6 15 (1.030%) Teradata
6 15 (1.030%) Cognos
6 15 (1.030%) ATG
7 14 (0.961%) Salesforce.com
8 12 (0.824%) JBoss
8 12 (0.824%) hybris
9 11 (0.755%) Business Objects
10 8 (0.549%) VMware
10 8 (0.549%) Tableau
11 7 (0.480%) Demandware
11 7 (0.480%) Omniture
11 7 (0.480%) Zend
11 7 (0.480%) Symbian
11 7 (0.480%) Adobe
11 7 (0.480%) Cognizant
London
We require a strong Agile SCRUM Business Analyst with good knowledge and experience of end to end software development projects. This person will need to be able to...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, North West
You will be responsible for working on the functional needs for high profile eCommerce solutions, working with senior members of the business and development teams, hence the need...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Leading international financial software house in Central London are looking to recruit a highly motivated and smart Agile Business Analyst who wants to take a senior position within...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £40000 - £48000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Leading international financial software house in Central London are looking to recruit a highly motivated and smart Agile Business Analyst who wants to take a senior position within...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £48000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
We're driving innovation and transforming our marketing and technology to become the world's leading e-commerce business... You will be working in an environment that is...
Tesco.com
Salary: Very Competitive
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
Central London / West End
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Sanderson
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts, South East
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 6 May 2013
UK
Cognizant
Posted: 18 June 2013
South East London
Capablue Ltd
Salary: Unspecified dependent on experience
Posted: 13 June 2013
Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside
Trader Media Group Ltd
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 6 May 2013
South West London
Hofmann Recruitment
Salary: £50,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Pension + Life Insurance
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
City of London
News International
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Twickenham, Middlesex
Per4orm Consulting
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Salt
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 18 June 2013
Central London / West End
Flex Associates
Salary: From £70,000 to £85,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Flex Associates
Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
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