User Stories Job Trends in Hampshire

User Story
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring User Stories skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 77 97
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -11
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 37 88 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 1.48% 3.21% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 3.95% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 17
10th Percentile £34,000 £46,744 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,965 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £65,875 £50,815 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,125 £51,304 £73,750
South East median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% +25.00% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

User Stories falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 2,230 1,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.75% 81.39% 90.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 1,336 1,048
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,961 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +7.62% -5.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Stories relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

User Stories job vacancy trend in Hampshire

User Stories
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing User Stories.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing User Stories

User Stories
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for User Stories in Hampshire

User Stories
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke +15 9 £71,500 +43.00%
Andover +7 8 £55,000 -
Fleet - 6 - - 1
Southampton +12 5 £55,000 - 4
Winchester +7 5 £55,000 -
Portsmouth -5 3 - -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (16.22%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (16.22%) Appian
2 5 (13.51%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
1 9 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) MinIO
2 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Robot Framework
1 8 (21.62%) Selenium
2 6 (16.22%) Snyk
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
3 3 (8.11%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (5.41%) GitLab
4 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.41%) TestRail
5 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 30 (81.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Marketing
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Quality Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Applications Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Product Owner
3 3 (8.11%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Manual Tester
4 2 (5.41%) Tester
5 1 (2.70%) Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Tester
5 1 (2.70%) Perl Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior
5 1 (2.70%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (16.22%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (16.22%) Low-Code
3 3 (8.11%) e-Learning
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) Agile
2 27 (72.97%) Acceptance Criteria
2 27 (72.97%) Test Automation
3 26 (70.27%) CI/CD
4 9 (24.32%) DevOps
5 8 (21.62%) Backlog Refinement
5 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (21.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 8 (21.62%) Security Testing
6 7 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (18.92%) Test Management
7 6 (16.22%) API Management
7 6 (16.22%) Application Security
7 6 (16.22%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (16.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (16.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 6 (16.22%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
7 6 (16.22%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 1 (2.70%) C++
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) Perl
3 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (48.65%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Nessus
3 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) BiZZdesign
1 6 (16.22%) Black Duck
1 6 (16.22%) UiPath
1 6 (16.22%) VMware
2 5 (13.51%) Blue Prism
2 5 (13.51%) Coverity