User Stories Contracts in Surrey

User Story
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 66 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing User Stories 6 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.29% 1.83% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.04% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile - £398 £503
25th Percentile £380 £408 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £425 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -23.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile £422 £438 £738
90th Percentile £461 £446 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £516
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.99% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £51.25 £43.50
% change year-on-year - +17.82% -39.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 687 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 86.70% 89.92% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 550 558
10th Percentile £203 £200 £237
25th Percentile £270 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +1.55%
75th Percentile £538 £615 £625
90th Percentile £600 £700 £703
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 31
10th Percentile £18.18 £24.44 £18.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £44.80 £42.50
Median hourly rate £63.63 £61.63 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% +36.96% +9.18%
75th Percentile £71.42 £76.53 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.02 -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

User Stories
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Stories in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for User Stories in Surrey

User Stories
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Dorking - 1 £475 -
Redhill - 1 - -
Reigate - 1 - -
User Stories
South East

User Stories
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Mocha
2 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Salesforce Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Talend