Epic User Stories
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Epics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Epics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 540 583
Rank change year-on-year -146 +43 +36
Permanent jobs citing Epics 211 503 841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.48% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.50% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 114 255 486
10th Percentile £45,900 £46,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £49,188 £50,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Epics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Epics.

Salary trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Epics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Epics in the UK

Epics
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -127 160 £77,500 +29.17% 47
UK excluding London -118 117 £70,000 +21.74% 24
London +13 81 £85,000 +21.43% 25
Work from Home -40 58 £75,000 +30.43% 29
Scotland -57 28 - -
South West +8 25 £70,000 -15.15% 3
North of England -27 24 £65,000 +13.04% 8
North West -10 16 £95,000 +65.22% 4
Midlands -41 16 £75,000 +50.00% 4
West Midlands -17 13 £80,000 +60.00% 4
South East +12 12 £73,750 +15.69% 4
Yorkshire +45 8 £31,500 -38.99% 2
Northern Ireland +36 7 - -
Wales +16 5 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -20 3 £70,000 +16.67%

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 45 (21.33%) Confluence
2 18 (8.53%) SharePoint
3 14 (6.64%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (12.32%) MS Visio
2 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.84%) Trello
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (8.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (24.64%) Azure
2 36 (17.06%) Power Platform
3 30 (14.22%) Miro
4 26 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (4.74%) SaaS
8 9 (4.27%) AWS
9 3 (1.42%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.95%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.47%) Asana
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.47%) Collibra
11 1 (0.47%) dbt
11 1 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.00%) Power BI
2 14 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (6.64%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.21%) Tableau
4 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.79%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.79%) HDInsight
5 8 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.32%) Big Data
7 6 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (2.84%) Star Schema
8 4 (1.90%) Looker
8 4 (1.90%) QlikView
9 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.47%) LogicBlox
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 71 (33.65%) JIRA
2 21 (9.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 19 (9.00%) Cypress.io
4 18 (8.53%) Visual Studio
5 14 (6.64%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.37%) Postman
6 5 (2.37%) Selenium
7 2 (0.95%) DBeaver
7 2 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 53 (25.12%) Finance
2 44 (20.85%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (20.38%) Social Skills
4 36 (17.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (11.37%) Law
6 23 (10.90%) Banking
7 16 (7.58%) Investment Banking
8 13 (6.16%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.79%) Marketing
10 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.42%) Retail
11 2 (0.95%) Games
12 1 (0.47%) Aviation
12 1 (0.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (44.55%) Analyst
2 91 (43.13%) Business Analyst
3 57 (27.01%) Senior
4 43 (20.38%) Product Owner
5 31 (14.69%) Senior Analyst
5 31 (14.69%) Senior Business Analyst
6 21 (9.95%) Software Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) Architect
7 17 (8.06%) Lead
8 15 (7.11%) Product Manager
9 14 (6.64%) Full Stack Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Java Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Lead Java Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Data Manager
10 9 (4.27%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.64%) CSS
1 14 (6.64%) HTML
1 14 (6.64%) JDBC
1 14 (6.64%) Kafka
1 14 (6.64%) React
1 14 (6.64%) Spring
1 14 (6.64%) Spring Boot
2 10 (4.74%) Web Services
3 5 (2.37%) FFmpeg
3 5 (2.37%) GStreamer
3 5 (2.37%) Nightwatchjs
3 5 (2.37%) OpenCV
3 5 (2.37%) REST
3 5 (2.37%) XML
4 4 (1.90%) YAML
5 3 (1.42%) .NET
6 1 (0.47%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.47%) ADO
6 1 (0.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 88 (41.71%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.58%) FMCG
3 14 (6.64%) Private Cloud
4 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.32%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.37%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.37%) Replication
6 5 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.37%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.90%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.47%) PMI
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.37%) Android
1 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
1 5 (2.37%) Embedded Linux
1 5 (2.37%) Linux
1 5 (2.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (81.04%) Agile
2 139 (65.88%) User Stories
3 98 (46.45%) Scrum
4 90 (42.65%) Acceptance Criteria
5 60 (28.44%) Backlog Refinement
6 53 (25.12%) Roadmaps
7 52 (24.64%) Business Analysis
7 52 (24.64%) Software Engineering
8 50 (23.70%) DevOps
8 50 (23.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (22.27%) Product Backlog
10 45 (21.33%) Requirements Gathering
11 41 (19.43%) Backlog Management
12 39 (18.48%) CI/CD
13 38 (18.01%) Product Vision
14 33 (15.64%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (15.64%) Project Delivery
15 31 (14.69%) Product Roadmap
15 31 (14.69%) Wireframes
16 30 (14.22%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 56 (26.54%) SQL
2 20 (9.48%) C#
3 19 (9.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.58%) Python
5 14 (6.64%) Java
6 7 (3.32%) R
7 6 (2.84%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.37%) Bash
8 5 (2.37%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.42%) C++
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 52 (24.64%) Degree
2 46 (21.80%) Security Cleared
3 39 (18.48%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.64%) Master's Degree
5 13 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.84%) IIBA
7 5 (2.37%) PhD
8 3 (1.42%) CSPO
8 3 (1.42%) MBA
9 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.47%) ISEB
10 1 (0.47%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.06%) Accessibility
2 16 (7.58%) QA
3 5 (2.37%) GDPR
4 4 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.95%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (3.32%) Firmware
2 5 (2.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) Grafana
2 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.27%) Databricks
3 4 (1.90%) Google
4 2 (0.95%) IBM
5 1 (0.47%) Cadence
5 1 (0.47%) Pega
5 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.47%) Sitecore