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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 4.17% 1.33% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 1.96% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £453 - £538
25th Percentile £458 - £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £350 £606
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% -42.24% -
75th Percentile £473 - £635
90th Percentile £477 - £664
Hampshire median daily rate £405 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -16.92% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 122 102 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.72% 68.00% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 70 126
10th Percentile £170 £200 £263
25th Percentile £346 £350 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.71% +4.48%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £614
90th Percentile £663 £650 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £530
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.55% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £22.50 - £19.25
25th Percentile £39.63 - £24.13
Median hourly rate £71.00 £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +196.30% +69.70%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £34.13
90th Percentile £90.40 - £36.20
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Development Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Product Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) Wealth Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamic Pricing
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce