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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 90 90
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing User Stories 17 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.72% 0.61% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.76% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 8
10th Percentile £323 £341 £471
25th Percentile £364 £348 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £375 £585
Median % change year-on-year +15.80% -35.90% +15.84%
75th Percentile £469 £481 £620
90th Percentile £578 £541 £623
South East median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 850 1,185 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.95% 80.12% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 718 653
10th Percentile £310 £363 £261
25th Percentile £450 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £600 £672 £613
90th Percentile £656 £738 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 122 109
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.79 £51.06 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58.70 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £78.56 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +86.12%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing User Stories.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing User Stories.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing User Stories

User Stories
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton +4 3 £450 +28.57% 2
Portsmouth - 3 £444 - 2
Havant -5 2 £438 -12.50%
Basingstoke +9 1 - - 1
Farnborough +3 1 £295 -13.36% 3
Fleet - 1 £335 -
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 5 (29.41%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA Agile
2 1 (5.88%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) TestRail
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Product Owner
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Tester
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) QA Tester
5 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Product Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Product Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ADO
2 1 (5.88%) MUnit
2 1 (5.88%) RAML
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (23.53%) Sprint Review
5 4 (23.53%) Test Management
5 4 (23.53%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) Agile Project Management
6 3 (17.65%) Backlog Management
6 3 (17.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (17.65%) Business Process Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) Lean Software Development
6 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
6 3 (17.65%) Project Management
6 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CSPO
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.88%) OCP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Palantir
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce