Epics Contracts in England

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UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 450 457
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -41
Contract jobs citing Epics 106 200 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.44% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 135 258
10th Percentile £375 £443 £412
25th Percentile £469 £500 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £600
90th Percentile £700 £813 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Epics in England.

Daily rate trend for Epics in England

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in England

Epics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Epics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Epics in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +43 71 £550 -1.43% 28
South East +10 11 £600 +14.29% 4
Midlands +25 9 £675 -3.57% 4
West Midlands +26 6 £675 +10.20% 4
Yorkshire +18 4 £452 +11.14% 3
South West +15 4 £600 -20.07% 3
North of England +15 4 £452 -1.04% 8
East of England +5 2 £700 +55.56% 2
East Midlands +19 1 £550 -21.43%
Epics
UK

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (11.32%) Confluence
2 3 (2.83%) CMS
2 3 (2.83%) Drupal
3 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.64%) Azure
2 19 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.72%) npm
3 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.77%) AWS
4 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.83%) GCP
5 3 (2.83%) SaaS
6 2 (1.89%) PaaS
7 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.94%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) DNS
2 3 (2.83%) SSL
3 2 (1.89%) DHCP
3 2 (1.89%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.72%) Power BI
3 2 (1.89%) Data Mart
3 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (33.96%) JIRA
2 8 (7.55%) Postman
2 8 (7.55%) SoapUI
3 5 (4.72%) webpack
4 4 (3.77%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.83%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.83%) Git
5 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.83%) Selenium
5 3 (2.83%) Subversion
General
1 27 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.87%) Finance
3 19 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Banking
5 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.66%) Front Office
6 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.83%) Billing
9 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.94%) Aviation
10 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.94%) Law
10 1 (0.94%) Local Government
10 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.94%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 49 (46.23%) Analyst
2 41 (38.68%) Business Analyst
3 16 (15.09%) Product Owner
4 14 (13.21%) Technical Analyst
5 13 (12.26%) Technical Business Analyst
6 10 (9.43%) Senior
7 7 (6.60%) Manual Tester
7 7 (6.60%) Tester
8 6 (5.66%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Angular Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.72%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.72%) Scrum Master
9 5 (4.72%) UI Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Asset Management Analyst
10 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) SOAP
2 7 (6.60%) ADO
3 5 (4.72%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.72%) React
3 5 (4.72%) REST
3 5 (4.72%) RxJS
3 5 (4.72%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.89%) LDAP
4 2 (1.89%) Node.js
5 1 (0.94%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.94%) HTML
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.94%) Swagger
5 1 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.30%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.38%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.72%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.72%) Wiki
4 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.83%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.83%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.89%) Clustering
5 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.89%) Derivative
5 2 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.89%) IoT
5 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.94%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (77.36%) Agile
2 76 (71.70%) User Stories
3 48 (45.28%) Scrum
4 39 (36.79%) DevOps
5 35 (33.02%) Acceptance Criteria
6 31 (29.25%) Roadmaps
7 21 (19.81%) Product Backlog
8 16 (15.09%) Business Analysis
9 15 (14.15%) Business Strategy
10 14 (13.21%) Backlog Management
10 14 (13.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 13 (12.26%) Decision-Making
11 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.32%) Microservices
12 12 (11.32%) Product Management
13 11 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.38%) Kanban
13 11 (10.38%) Product Roadmap
13 11 (10.38%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (10.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.38%) SQL
2 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.72%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.83%) Python
5 2 (1.89%) C
5 2 (1.89%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) R
6 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) Degree
4 1 (0.94%) CITP
4 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 5 (4.72%) IFRS
2 5 (4.72%) IFRS 17
2 5 (4.72%) PMO
3 4 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.83%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.89%) GRC
5 2 (1.89%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.94%) Basel II
6 1 (0.94%) Basel III
6 1 (0.94%) GDPR
6 1 (0.94%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) Ansible
2 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
2 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.83%) Guidewire
3 3 (2.83%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.89%) Murex
5 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.94%) Citrix
5 1 (0.94%) Databricks
5 1 (0.94%) Google
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) SAP
5 1 (0.94%) SYSPRO