Epics Contracts in the North West

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England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 151
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Epics 11 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.57% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 9
10th Percentile £402 - £384
25th Percentile £413 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.54%
75th Percentile £575 - £625
90th Percentile £638 - £783
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.45% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,750 2,283 2,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.07% 85.83% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,449 1,995
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £389 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £660 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 249 139
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.80
25th Percentile £22.81 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £23.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% -34.72% +52.90%
75th Percentile £62.25 £45.88 £49.46
90th Percentile £84.39 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Epics in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Epics in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cheshire - 7 £425 - 1
Manchester - 3 £550 - 6
Merseyside - 1 £500 -
Epics
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (72.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Engineering Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Coaching
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
1 8 (72.73%) Process Improvement
1 8 (72.73%) Scrum
2 7 (63.64%) Agile Project Management
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (63.64%) Decision-Making
2 7 (63.64%) Project Management
2 7 (63.64%) Workflow
3 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft