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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 7 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 3.59% 3.88% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.82% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £406 £356 -
25th Percentile £414 £390 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £589
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -21.94% -
75th Percentile £447 £530 £614
90th Percentile £450 £565 £656
Hampshire median daily rate £425 £510 £582
% change year-on-year -16.67% -12.30% +16.30%

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 159 83 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 81.54% 80.58% 64.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 44 85
10th Percentile £197 £190 £288
25th Percentile £339 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -20.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £650
90th Percentile £660 £619 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 5
10th Percentile £12.21 - £20.45
25th Percentile £12.29 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +202.38%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £86.67 - £79.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £21.36 £57.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.02% +10.00% +9.95%

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 (57.14%) Adobe Campaign
2 3 (42.86%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 3 (42.86%) Data Mining
2 3 (42.86%) OLAP
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Data Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Product Backlog
3 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) Data Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Information Governance
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Prototyping
3 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (57.14%) Use Case
3 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (42.86%) Data Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Requirements Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Adobe
1 4 (57.14%) Salesforce
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud