User Stories Contracts in Hampshire

User Story
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 90 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 -3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 13 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.56% 0.91% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.03% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 46
10th Percentile £565 £478 £410
25th Percentile £570 £513 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +17.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £638
90th Percentile £664 £623 £709
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £474
% change year-on-year - +0.26% +5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +120.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,339 1,263 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.84% 88.57% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 800 1,155
10th Percentile £387 £240 £310
25th Percentile £460 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +5.00% +7.56%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £694 £688
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 107 152
10th Percentile £13.05 £18.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £25.68 £22.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +110.00% -18.57%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £48.62
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.25 £63.14
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Southampton +1 3 £589 +0.68% 4
Portsmouth -3 3 - - 3
Basingstoke -14 1 £575 +12.20%
Havant - 1 £700 -
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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Sage Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) IT Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (22.22%) Epics
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Sage
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce