Epics Contracts in London

Epic User Stories
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 320 363 377
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 -33
Contract jobs citing Epics 71 136 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.55% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 101 165
10th Percentile £364 £463 £413
25th Percentile £450 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +3.81% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £638
90th Percentile £690 £850 £700
England median daily rate £560 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in London

Epics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in London

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Epics in London

Epics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the London 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
Central London +26 8 £400 -26.23% 3
East London - 3 £340 -
West London +12 1 - - 1
Epics
England

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (12.68%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.04%) npm
4 4 (5.63%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.63%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.23%) AWS
6 2 (2.82%) PaaS
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) DHCP
1 2 (2.82%) DNS
1 2 (2.82%) Firewall
1 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.63%) Power BI
3 2 (2.82%) Data Mart
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (32.39%) JIRA
2 8 (11.27%) Postman
2 8 (11.27%) SoapUI
3 5 (7.04%) webpack
4 4 (5.63%) Eclipse
General
1 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Finance
4 8 (11.27%) Banking
5 6 (8.45%) Front Office
5 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Legal
7 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.41%) Aviation
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Local Government
8 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.41%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 38 (53.52%) Analyst
2 30 (42.25%) Business Analyst
3 12 (16.90%) Technical Analyst
4 11 (15.49%) Technical Business Analyst
5 9 (12.68%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Manual Tester
6 7 (9.86%) Product Owner
6 7 (9.86%) Tester
7 6 (8.45%) Data Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Angular Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (7.04%) UI Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Agile Business Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) Asset Management Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
10 3 (4.23%) Finance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) SOAP
2 7 (9.86%) ADO
3 5 (7.04%) AngularJS
3 5 (7.04%) React
3 5 (7.04%) REST
3 5 (7.04%) RxJS
3 5 (7.04%) WebSockets
4 2 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.82%) LDAP
4 2 (2.82%) Node.js
5 1 (1.41%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.41%) HTML
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.41%) Swagger
5 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.31%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.27%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.04%) Fixed Income
3 5 (7.04%) Wiki
4 3 (4.23%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.82%) Clustering
5 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.82%) Derivative
5 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.41%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.41%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (77.46%) User Stories
2 53 (74.65%) Agile
3 34 (47.89%) Acceptance Criteria
4 32 (45.07%) DevOps
5 30 (42.25%) Scrum
6 16 (22.54%) Roadmaps
7 14 (19.72%) Business Analysis
8 12 (16.90%) Microservices
9 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.68%) BDD
10 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
10 9 (12.68%) E-Commerce
10 9 (12.68%) Product Backlog
11 8 (11.27%) Analytics
11 8 (11.27%) API Testing
11 8 (11.27%) Data Mapping
11 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
11 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.27%) Scenario Testing
11 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.49%) SQL
2 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.23%) Python
5 2 (2.82%) C
5 2 (2.82%) Go
6 1 (1.41%) Java
6 1 (1.41%) R
6 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) IFRS
1 5 (7.04%) IFRS 17
2 3 (4.23%) Solvency II
3 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.82%) IFRS 9
3 2 (2.82%) QA
4 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.41%) Basel II
4 1 (1.41%) Basel III
4 1 (1.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.41%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.23%) Guidewire
1 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.82%) Murex