Epics Contract Job Trends in the North East

Epic User Stories
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Epics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Epics 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.55% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £560
% change year-on-year -2.44% -8.48% +1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 254 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.06% 82.74% 79.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 179 136
10th Percentile £285 £263 £190
25th Percentile £380 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £489
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -4.81% -11.18%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £590
90th Percentile £591 £638 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 47
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.50
25th Percentile £47.25 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +293.94% -5.71% -57.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.18 £47.47
90th Percentile £72.50 £51.35 £50.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Epics job vacancy trend in the North East

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Epics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Epics

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in the North East over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the North East

Epics
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £500 - 2
Epics
England

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Case
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) BPMN
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility