Epics Contracts in Cheshire

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North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Epics 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.10% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £407 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £450
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £651 - -
North West median daily rate £423 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 429 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.50% 84.95% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 283 212
10th Percentile £310 £323 £308
25th Percentile £358 £392 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £478 £522
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% -8.34% +15.89%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £588
90th Percentile £646 £650 £644
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 32
10th Percentile - £11.18 £17.15
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £36.75 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £35.75
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.26% +1.03% +60.70%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in Cheshire

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Epics

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in Cheshire

Epics
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 7 £425 -
Epics
North West

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Coaching
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
1 7 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Project Management
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (85.71%) Decision-Making
2 6 (85.71%) Project Management
2 6 (85.71%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft