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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -
Contract jobs citing User Stories 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.37% 3.64% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 4.94% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £431 £356 £533
25th Percentile £439 £390 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £460 £594
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -22.59% -
75th Percentile £466 £530 £631
90th Percentile £475 £565 £663
Hampshire median daily rate £423 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -17.16% -7.27% -

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 144 81 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.21% 73.64% 67.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 49 95
10th Percentile £170 £331 £363
25th Percentile £256 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -15.45% +8.91%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £650
90th Percentile £660 £628 £695
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 3
10th Percentile £12.21 - £31.70
25th Percentile £12.29 - £32.38
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £34.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +85.36%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £54.75
90th Percentile £73.00 - £66.90
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +33.90%

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Development Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Development Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Product Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Market Research
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce