User Stories Contract Job Trends in Southampton

User Story
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring User Stories skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing User Stories 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.27% 0.88% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 1.09% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £405 - £394
25th Percentile £413 - £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £589
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.63%
75th Percentile £450 - £609
90th Percentile - - £609
Hampshire median daily rate £423 £434 £438
% change year-on-year -2.71% -0.74% -22.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 92 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 81.70% 80.70% 63.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 56 79
10th Percentile £170 £200 £250
25th Percentile £340 £417 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £578 £616 £638
90th Percentile £698 £700 £687
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 10
10th Percentile £12.21 - £13.13
25th Percentile £12.29 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +223.23%
75th Percentile £62.23 - -
90th Percentile £66.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.00 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -26.00% -12.82% +4.27%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

User Stories job vacancy trend in Southampton

User Stories
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (60.00%) Eloqua
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (60.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (60.00%) OLAP
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Information Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Product Backlog
2 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 4 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
3 3 (60.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Adobe
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud