User Stories Contracts in Hampshire

User Story
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 89 89
Rank change year-on-year +30 0 -18
Contract jobs citing User Stories 13 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.74% 0.56% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.67% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £328 £519 £510
25th Percentile £343 £564 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £589 £585
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +0.68% +17.00%
75th Percentile £570 £609 £619
90th Percentile £591 £654 £623
South East median daily rate £521 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

User Stories falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 1,350 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.81% 83.64% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 718 790
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +11.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £623
90th Percentile £675 £739 £694
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 163 104
10th Percentile £20.12 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.68 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.25 £63.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton +7 4 £460 -21.90% 6
Portsmouth +19 3 £444 - 2
Basingstoke +28 1 - - 4
Farnborough - 1 £295 - 12
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (46.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) TestRail
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) QA Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Product Owner
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Angular 2
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) HTML5
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Agile Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Lean Software Development
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Review
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) User Research
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Wireframes
6 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Palantir
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks