Epics Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Epic User Stories
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Epics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 94 119
Rank change year-on-year -9 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing Epics 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.68% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.66% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £423 £545 £505
25th Percentile £438 £568 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +10.48% +23.53%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £588
90th Percentile £568 £700 £595
South East median daily rate £423 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -27.16% +5.45% +3.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,301 1,372 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.44% 90.32% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 760 964
10th Percentile £305 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 39 68
10th Percentile £14.75 £24.68 £24.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%
75th Percentile £80.00 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.25 £68.57 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Epics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Epics job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Epics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Epics

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in Berkshire

Epics
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Windsor - 5 £500 -
Bracknell - 2 - -
Reading +6 1 - -
Wokingham -25 1 £475 -20.83%
Epics
South East

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (20.00%) Slack
5 1 (10.00%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Billing
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) General Ledger
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (10.00%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) User Stories
3 5 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) CRM
5 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (30.00%) ERP
5 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Product Backlog
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
6 2 (20.00%) Inventory Management
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Order to Cash
6 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) MuleSoft
1 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Dell