User Stories Contracts in West Sussex

User Story
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for User Stories skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Stories over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 36 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 +12
Contract jobs citing User Stories 3 10 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 1.15% 3.50% 9.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 4.00% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 33
10th Percentile £420 £388 £420
25th Percentile £450 £445 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +7.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £545
90th Percentile £580 £586 £558
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £474
% change year-on-year - +0.26% +2.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

User Stories is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 250 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 91.15% 87.41% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 198 298
10th Percentile £247 £181 £175
25th Percentile £400 £270 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +6.50%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £575
90th Percentile £588 £682 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £13.63 £18.74 £15.43
25th Percentile £18.20 - £30.56
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -59.15% +55.00%
75th Percentile £22.25 £22.40 £59.06
90th Percentile £28.05 £24.19 £65.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in West Sussex

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in West Sussex

User Stories
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in West Sussex over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in West Sussex

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worthing -6 1 £600 +2.92%
Burgess Hill - 1 - -
Haywards Heath - 1 £400 -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Accounts Receivable
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO