Epics Contracts in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Epics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Epics over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 155 165
Rank change year-on-year +38 +10 -20
Contract jobs citing Epics 7 16 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.44% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.48% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £366 £488 £437
25th Percentile £375 £517 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.73% +8.60% +5.82%
75th Percentile £475 £644 £685
90th Percentile £506 £690 £700
Central London median daily rate £400 £542 £500
% change year-on-year -26.23% +8.45% +5.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Epics 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,968 3,305 3,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 91.53% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 2,228 2,947
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Epics in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Epics in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Market Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
4 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) Data Mapping
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
5 2 (28.57%) Product Management
5 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 2 (28.57%) User Stories
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Murex