Epics Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Epic User Stories
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Epics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 60 56
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 -
Contract jobs citing Epics 5 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 0.99% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.04% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £479 £434 -
25th Percentile £488 £466 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £378
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £538 - £439
90th Percentile £576 - £476
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £525 £439
% change year-on-year +14.29% +19.59% -12.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 982 579 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 85.99% 95.07% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 385 229
10th Percentile £360 £287 £349
25th Percentile £425 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -8.28% -15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £13.35 £17.33 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -34.21%
75th Percentile £23.25 £18.87 £21.13
90th Percentile £24.29 - £21.85
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.31%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Epics job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Epics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Epics

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in South Yorkshire

Epics
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Sheffield -35 5 £504 -4.10% 1
Epics
Yorkshire

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 5 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (60.00%) API Development
3 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Ceph
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) VMware