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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 9 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 5.06% 3.85% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.04% 5.00% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £408 £356 -
25th Percentile £416 £390 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £589
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -21.94% -
75th Percentile £450 £530 £614
90th Percentile £462 £565 £656
Hampshire median daily rate £424 £510 £582
% change year-on-year -16.91% -12.30% +10.76%

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 149 80 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 83.71% 76.92% 64.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 40 84
10th Percentile £228 £323 £259
25th Percentile £340 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -17.43% +5.83%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £653
90th Percentile £663 £608 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £22.25
25th Percentile £12.29 - £31.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +127.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £76.88
90th Percentile £85.33 - £78.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £56.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year -63.26% +18.68% +5.56%

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 (44.44%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (33.33%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 3 (33.33%) OLAP
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Data Analyst
3 4 (44.44%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Development Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Development Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Product Backlog
4 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
4 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (44.44%) Data Migration
4 4 (44.44%) Information Governance
4 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 4 (44.44%) Prototyping
4 4 (44.44%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (44.44%) Use Case
4 4 (44.44%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (33.33%) Data Management
5 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (33.33%) Requirements Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Adobe
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud