Epics Contracts in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 432 460
Rank change year-on-year +32 +28 -34
Contract jobs citing Epics 71 101 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 77 124
10th Percentile £375 £355 £427
25th Percentile £413 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £688 £809
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in England

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in England

Epics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Epics in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +19 36 £488 -11.36% 59
North of England +23 13 £456 -8.75% 11
North West - 10 £428 - 9
South East +42 9 £525 -12.50% 21
South West +45 7 £600 +0.08% 14
Midlands +9 4 £379 -43.85% 12
West Midlands 0 3 £400 -40.74% 8
Yorkshire +14 2 £498 -0.50% 1
East of England +26 1 £375 -46.43% 7
East Midlands +10 1 £358 -34.91% 3
North East - 1 - - 1
Epics
UK

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (21.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) CMS
2 2 (2.82%) Drupal
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Primavera
2 1 (1.41%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) Endur
2 1 (1.41%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.04%) Azure
1 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
2 2 (2.82%) AWS
2 2 (2.82%) GitHub
2 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (2.82%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.41%) Asana
3 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.41%) BigCommerce
3 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.41%) GCP
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.41%) Miro
3 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) DNS
1 2 (2.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) Power BI
2 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.82%) Star Schema
2 2 (2.82%) Tableau
3 1 (1.41%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.41%) Flink
3 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (29.58%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) Postman
3 3 (4.23%) Git
3 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.82%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (2.82%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.82%) Vite
4 2 (2.82%) webpack
5 1 (1.41%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.41%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (1.41%) GitLab
5 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.35%) Finance
3 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.90%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.82%) French Language
8 2 (2.82%) Legal
8 2 (2.82%) Marketing
8 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.41%) Back Office
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (50.70%) Analyst
2 30 (42.25%) Business Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Engineering Manager
3 7 (9.86%) Product Owner
4 6 (8.45%) Lead
4 6 (8.45%) Product Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Technical Business Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Finance Business Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Product Business Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Product Lead
7 3 (4.23%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.82%) Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) AngularJS
1 3 (4.23%) React
1 3 (4.23%) Vue
2 2 (2.82%) CSS
2 2 (2.82%) GatsbyJS
2 2 (2.82%) HTML
2 2 (2.82%) HTML5
2 2 (2.82%) Jest
2 2 (2.82%) Next.js
2 2 (2.82%) Parceljs
2 2 (2.82%) React Native
2 2 (2.82%) Sass
2 2 (2.82%) SOAP
3 1 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) Spring
3 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.41%) VML
3 1 (1.41%) Web Services
3 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.82%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (76.06%) Agile
2 46 (64.79%) User Stories
3 37 (52.11%) Scrum
4 19 (26.76%) Acceptance Criteria
5 17 (23.94%) Roadmaps
6 15 (21.13%) Business Analysis
6 15 (21.13%) Product Backlog
7 14 (19.72%) Coaching
8 13 (18.31%) DevOps
8 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (18.31%) Use Case
9 12 (16.90%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (15.49%) Backlog Management
10 11 (15.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 11 (15.49%) Microservices
10 11 (15.49%) Process Improvement
11 10 (14.08%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.08%) User Experience
12 9 (12.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) Java
2 5 (7.04%) SQL
3 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) CLAS
5 1 (1.41%) CSPO
5 1 (1.41%) IIBA
5 1 (1.41%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.63%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) WCAG
3 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.41%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) SCCM
2 1 (1.41%) Ansible
2 1 (1.41%) Grafana
2 1 (1.41%) Kibana
2 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
2 3 (4.23%) Google
2 3 (4.23%) Oracle
2 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.82%) Amplitude
3 2 (2.82%) Citrix
4 1 (1.41%) Adobe
4 1 (1.41%) Avaloq
4 1 (1.41%) FNZ
4 1 (1.41%) IBM
4 1 (1.41%) iManage
4 1 (1.41%) OpenLink
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) SAP
4 1 (1.41%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.41%) Trayport