User Stories Contracts in the Thames Valley

User Story
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 81 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing User Stories 50 71 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.89% 2.48% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.73% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 67
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £427 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £516
90th Percentile £626 £534 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
South East median hourly rate - - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +120.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -2 40 £538 +7.50% 7
Buckinghamshire +5 9 £425 -3.41% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (6.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) InVision
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.00%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (2.00%) Sketch
1 1 (2.00%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.00%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (10.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Functions
4 4 (8.00%) Serverless
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (6.00%) Network Security
3 2 (4.00%) BGP
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (4.00%) DMVPN
3 2 (4.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) IPsec
3 2 (4.00%) MPLS
3 2 (4.00%) OSPF
3 2 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (4.00%) Sourcefire
3 2 (4.00%) VPN
3 2 (4.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.00%) Balsamiq
General
1 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Billing
5 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Retail
7 2 (4.00%) Local Government
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Analyst
2 15 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 9 (18.00%) Consultant
3 9 (18.00%) Senior
3 9 (18.00%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Business Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Associate Business Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Associate Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Product Owner
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Business Requirements Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Requirements Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) XML
2 2 (4.00%) CSS
2 2 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) CSS3
3 1 (2.00%) Framer.js
3 1 (2.00%) HTML5
3 1 (2.00%) jQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Smart Meter
3 1 (2.00%) EPoS
3 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Unix
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 15 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 13 (26.00%) Scrum
4 11 (22.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 11 (22.00%) Project Management
4 11 (22.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (18.00%) Impact Assessments
5 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 8 (16.00%) Product Backlog
7 7 (14.00%) Backlog Management
7 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (14.00%) Commercial Awareness
7 7 (14.00%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 7 (14.00%) Portfolio Management
7 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
8 6 (12.00%) Customer-Centricity
8 6 (12.00%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (8.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) Java
4 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) CCNA
2 2 (4.00%) CCNP
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) GDPR
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Ab Initio
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) SAP
3 2 (4.00%) Aruba
3 2 (4.00%) Blue Coat
3 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) F5
3 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.00%) Juniper
3 2 (4.00%) McAfee
3 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.00%) Ariba
4 1 (2.00%) Concur
4 1 (2.00%) HP
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud