Epics Contracts

Epic User Stories
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Epics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Epics over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 530 457
Rank change year-on-year +83 -73 +9
Contract jobs citing Epics 147 168 474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.30% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.34% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 119 322
10th Percentile £375 £404 £413
25th Percentile £458 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +12.50% +2.56% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Epics 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the UK

Epics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +44 98 £550 +2.80% 29
London +44 68 £550 +0.64% 17
UK excluding London +53 65 £563 +12.50% 12
Work from Home +94 61 £500 -9.09% 20
Scotland +68 38 £530 +17.78% 1
Midlands +16 10 £675 -10.00% 2
South East +6 7 £600 +18.23% 3
West Midlands +10 6 £675 -15.63% 1
North of England +22 5 £500 +3.90% 2
Yorkshire +8 5 £500 +3.90% 1
South West - 4 £600 - 3
East Midlands +9 2 £550 -21.43% 1
East of England -6 1 £700 +55.56%

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (22.45%) Confluence
2 3 (2.04%) CMS
2 3 (2.04%) Drupal
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.68%) Camunda
4 1 (0.68%) LiveLink
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) Maximo
1 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.09%) Azure
2 22 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.76%) AWS
4 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.72%) GCP
6 3 (2.04%) npm
6 3 (2.04%) SaaS
6 3 (2.04%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.36%) PaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.68%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.68%) Miro
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.40%) DNS
2 3 (2.04%) SSL
3 2 (1.36%) DHCP
3 2 (1.36%) Firewall
3 2 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) Power BI
2 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.36%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.68%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.68%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.68%) Redash
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (40.82%) JIRA
2 9 (6.12%) Postman
2 9 (6.12%) SoapUI
3 6 (4.08%) Eclipse
4 4 (2.72%) Git
4 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.04%) Selenium
5 3 (2.04%) Subversion
5 3 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.69%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.01%) Finance
4 20 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.16%) Manufacturing
6 9 (6.12%) Banking
7 8 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.08%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Electronics
9 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.72%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Billing
10 3 (2.04%) Front Office
10 3 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.36%) Law
11 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 77 (52.38%) Analyst
2 64 (43.54%) Business Analyst
3 20 (13.61%) Product Manager
3 20 (13.61%) Technical Analyst
4 18 (12.24%) Product Owner
5 15 (10.20%) Technical Business Analyst
6 11 (7.48%) Senior
7 8 (5.44%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (5.44%) Senior Business Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) Manual Tester
8 7 (4.76%) Tester
9 6 (4.08%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) Agile Business Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) Asset Management Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Banking Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Payments Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Payments Business Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Systems Analyst
12 3 (2.04%) Consultant
12 3 (2.04%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.12%) SOAP
2 7 (4.76%) ADO
3 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.72%) React
4 3 (2.04%) REST
4 3 (2.04%) RxJS
4 3 (2.04%) Web Services
4 3 (2.04%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.36%) HTML
5 2 (1.36%) LDAP
5 2 (1.36%) Node.js
5 2 (1.36%) OAuth
6 1 (0.68%) CSS
6 1 (0.68%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.68%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.68%) OpenID
6 1 (0.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.53%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.16%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.72%) IoT
3 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 3 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.04%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.04%) Wiki
5 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.36%) Clustering
5 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.36%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.68%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (83.67%) Agile
2 118 (80.27%) User Stories
3 64 (43.54%) Scrum
4 53 (36.05%) DevOps
5 42 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 41 (27.89%) Acceptance Criteria
7 27 (18.37%) Product Backlog
8 26 (17.69%) Business Analysis
9 25 (17.01%) User Research
10 23 (15.65%) Product Management
11 22 (14.97%) Project Management
12 21 (14.29%) Backlog Management
12 21 (14.29%) Service Design
13 18 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (11.56%) Requirements Gathering
15 16 (10.88%) Use Case
15 16 (10.88%) Workshop Facilitation
16 15 (10.20%) Microservices
16 15 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
17 14 (9.52%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.20%) SQL
2 5 (3.40%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.04%) Java
3 3 (2.04%) Python
3 3 (2.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.36%) C
4 2 (1.36%) Go
5 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.68%) R
5 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.40%) Degree
4 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.80%) QA
2 7 (4.76%) PMO
3 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.04%) GxP
3 3 (2.04%) IFRS
3 3 (2.04%) IFRS 17
3 3 (2.04%) Solvency II
4 2 (1.36%) GDPR
4 2 (1.36%) GRC
4 2 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.36%) PSD2
5 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) Basel II
5 1 (0.68%) Basel III
5 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (1.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.04%) Ansible
2 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (4.76%) Cadence
1 7 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 6 (4.08%) Guidewire
3 5 (3.40%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.72%) SAP
5 3 (2.04%) Google
5 3 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) Murex
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle