User Stories Contracts in the South West

User Story
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring User Stories skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Stories over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 92 92
Rank change year-on-year -39 0 -3
Contract jobs citing User Stories 26 68 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.79% 2.01% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.26% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 60
10th Percentile £409 £501 £406
25th Percentile £449 £549 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +20.55% -3.95%
75th Percentile £609 £607 £600
90th Percentile £697 £675 £639
England median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.48% -
England median hourly rate £33.04 £64.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -48.38% +52.38% +6.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Stories in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Stories in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol -4 10 £570 +3.64% 6
Wiltshire -35 5 £450 -18.18% 6
Devon -6 4 £748 +3.16% 4
Somerset -3 2 £600 -7.69%
User Stories
England

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.85%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Magento
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (15.38%) Power Automate
1 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
1 4 (15.38%) PowerApps
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Local Government
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Product Manager
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Management Consultant
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Business IT Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Business Process Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Process Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) CSS
1 3 (11.54%) Flask
1 3 (11.54%) HTML
1 3 (11.54%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Hackathon
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
3 5 (19.23%) Business Case
3 5 (19.23%) Product Management
3 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (19.23%) Use Case
4 4 (15.38%) Epics
4 4 (15.38%) Minimum Viable Product
4 4 (15.38%) Product Backlog
4 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Project Management
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
5 3 (11.54%) Problem Management
5 3 (11.54%) Prototyping
5 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
5 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (11.54%) User Research
5 3 (11.54%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.54%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) PMO
2 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Adobe
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) JDA
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) SAP