Epics Contracts in London

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England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 319 359
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 +16
Contract jobs citing Epics 36 72 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.40% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.46% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 55 101
10th Percentile £373 £364 £463
25th Percentile £407 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -1.43% +3.81%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £700
90th Percentile £700 £690 £850
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in London

Epics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in London

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in London

Epics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +1 5 £550 +37.50% 2
East London +14 2 £567 +66.76%
West London +12 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
Epics
England

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) CMS
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
1 2 (5.56%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
1 1 (2.78%) Endur
1 1 (2.78%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Asana
3 1 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) BigCommerce
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.78%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.78%) Vite
3 1 (2.78%) webpack
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Banking
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Back Office
6 1 (2.78%) French Language
6 1 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Analyst
2 19 (52.78%) Business Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Data Business Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Product Owner
4 5 (13.89%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Technical Business Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Product Owner
6 3 (8.33%) Customer Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) CMS Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Lead Business Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Product Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) JIRA Expert
8 1 (2.78%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.78%) CSS
1 1 (2.78%) GatsbyJS
1 1 (2.78%) HTML
1 1 (2.78%) HTML5
1 1 (2.78%) Jest
1 1 (2.78%) JSON
1 1 (2.78%) Kafka
1 1 (2.78%) Next.js
1 1 (2.78%) Parceljs
1 1 (2.78%) React
1 1 (2.78%) React Native
1 1 (2.78%) RESTful
1 1 (2.78%) Sass
1 1 (2.78%) SOAP
1 1 (2.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (2.78%) VML
1 1 (2.78%) Vue
1 1 (2.78%) Web Services
1 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) User Stories
2 26 (72.22%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) Acceptance Criteria
4 11 (30.56%) Scrum
5 9 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (19.44%) Business Analysis
6 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
6 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (19.44%) Product Backlog
6 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
6 7 (19.44%) Use Case
7 6 (16.67%) Analytics
7 6 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
7 6 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (16.67%) User Experience
8 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.89%) Coaching
8 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (13.89%) Migration
9 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) CLAS
2 1 (2.78%) CSPO
2 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) IIBA
2 1 (2.78%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GRC
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.78%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (2.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Citrix
2 1 (2.78%) Adobe
2 1 (2.78%) Amplitude
2 1 (2.78%) Avaloq
2 1 (2.78%) FNZ
2 1 (2.78%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) iManage
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) OpenLink
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.78%) SAP
2 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.78%) Sitecore
2 1 (2.78%) Trayport