Epics Contracts in the City of London

Epic User Stories
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 159
Rank change year-on-year 0 +39 +11
Contract jobs citing Epics 3 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.32% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.35% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £565 £366 £488
25th Percentile £624 £375 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £735 £425 £543
Median % change year-on-year +72.94% -21.73% +8.60%
75th Percentile £834 £475 £644
90th Percentile £886 £506 £690
Central London median daily rate £550 £400 £542
% change year-on-year +37.50% -26.23% +5.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix