User Stories Jobs in the South East

User Story
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 249 218
Rank change year-on-year -3 -31 -122
Permanent jobs citing User Stories 63 145 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.82% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.99% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 40 108 103
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,125 £41,050
25th Percentile £49,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -3.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,915 14,700 13,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.05% 83.43% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 10,114 7,701
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,625
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,906 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing User Stories as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the South East

User Stories
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the South East.

Salary trend for User Stories in the South East

User Stories
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Stories in the South East

User Stories
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Stories within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Hampshire +54 35 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Thames Valley +44 23 £62,500 +4.17% 23
Buckinghamshire +39 10 £61,250 -14.04% 4
Berkshire +19 10 £63,750 +6.25% 14
Oxfordshire +30 3 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Surrey +30 3 £61,500 +11.82% 2
East Sussex +24 2 £31,000 -33.75% 1
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.52%) CMS
2 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.35%) Confluence
4 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (4.76%) Appian
5 1 (1.59%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.11%) AWS
2 6 (9.52%) Google Analytics
3 4 (6.35%) Azure
3 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.76%) MinIO
4 3 (4.76%) SaaS
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (1.59%) Airbyte
2 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.59%) Power BI
2 1 (1.59%) Redis
2 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) JIRA
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) Robot Framework
3 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 3 (4.76%) Snyk
4 2 (3.17%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (33.33%) Marketing
2 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Publishing
4 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.17%) Back Office
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Developer
2 24 (38.10%) Software Developer
3 13 (20.63%) Product Owner
4 8 (12.70%) Administrator
4 8 (12.70%) Salesforce Administrator
5 5 (7.94%) Senior
6 4 (6.35%) Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Applications Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Junior
8 2 (3.17%) Lead
8 2 (3.17%) Lead Business Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Software Test Engineer
9 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Engineer
9 1 (1.59%) Junior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) CSS
1 6 (9.52%) HTML
2 3 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (4.76%) FHIR
2 3 (4.76%) Kafka
2 3 (4.76%) Spring
2 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.17%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.17%) Playwright
3 2 (3.17%) Swagger
4 1 (1.59%) Node.js
4 1 (1.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (63.49%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.52%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.17%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (3.17%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (95.24%) Agile
2 40 (63.49%) Acceptance Criteria
3 24 (38.10%) Sprint Planning
3 24 (38.10%) Sprint Retrospective
3 24 (38.10%) TDD
4 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.40%) Roadmaps
6 13 (20.63%) Analytics
6 13 (20.63%) Business Analysis
7 11 (17.46%) Validation
8 10 (15.87%) Scrum
8 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
8 10 (15.87%) User Experience
9 9 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (12.70%) CRM
10 8 (12.70%) Customer Service
11 7 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 6 (9.52%) Backlog Management
12 6 (9.52%) Product Roadmap
12 6 (9.52%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.35%) Java
1 4 (6.35%) Python
2 3 (4.76%) C#
3 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Degree
2 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.87%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (4.76%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (3.17%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Ansible
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.52%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (4.76%) Black Duck
3 3 (4.76%) UiPath
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.59%) Coverity
4 1 (1.59%) Databricks