Epics Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Epic User Stories
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Epics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Epics 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.92% 0.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £359 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -34.91% -4.35% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 301 224 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 96.17% 89.24% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 171 129
10th Percentile £304 £340 £213
25th Percentile £350 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -13.09% +1.88%
75th Percentile £450 £509 £565
90th Percentile £540 £596 £627
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £489
% change year-on-year -6.74% -9.00% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -43.74% +28.25%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.69 £23.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -15.33% +4.38% +31.53%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Epics job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Epics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Epics

Epics
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Northampton - 6 £358 - 1
Epics
East Midlands

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) ETL Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Business Analysis
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) API Design
3 3 (50.00%) Due Diligence
3 3 (50.00%) KYC
4 2 (33.33%) API Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce