Epics Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Epics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Epics over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 378 424
Rank change year-on-year +101 +46 -40
Contract jobs citing Epics 60 89 205
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.35% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.39% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 58 132
10th Percentile £371 £450 £401
25th Percentile £444 £503 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £800 £575
90th Percentile £625 £850 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £547 £525
% change year-on-year +0.55% +4.19% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Epics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Epics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Epics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Epics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Epics.

Epics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Epics over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Epics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.67%) Miro
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle CX
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (45.00%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Eclipse
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) French Language
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 40 (66.67%) Analyst
2 31 (51.67%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Product Owner
5 6 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Asset Management Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Management Consultant
8 3 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Payments Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Product Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Product Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Product Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) Web Services
2 2 (3.33%) OAuth
3 1 (1.67%) ADO
3 1 (1.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.67%) HTML
3 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.67%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (88.33%) User Stories
2 45 (75.00%) Agile
3 28 (46.67%) Scrum
4 18 (30.00%) Business Analysis
5 14 (23.33%) Acceptance Criteria
5 14 (23.33%) DevOps
5 14 (23.33%) Roadmaps
5 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (21.67%) Product Backlog
7 11 (18.33%) Service Design
8 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (15.00%) Backlog Management
9 9 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (13.33%) Use Case
10 8 (13.33%) User Research
11 7 (11.67%) Requirements Workshops
11 7 (11.67%) User Experience
12 6 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
12 6 (10.00%) Value Proposition
12 6 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) Java
2 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) GxP
2 3 (5.00%) PMO
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.33%) PSD2
4 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (6.67%) Cadence
1 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.33%) Google
2 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle