Epics Job Trends in the Midlands

Epic User Stories
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Epics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 238 219
Rank change year-on-year +14 -19 +30
Permanent jobs citing Epics 3 10 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.038% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.17% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £38,150 - -
25th Percentile £41,000 £39,036 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £40,988 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -19.63% +2.00%
75th Percentile £47,625 £42,939 £51,500
90th Percentile £47,850 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -18.75% +27.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Epics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,381 5,787 4,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.23% 90.49% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,553 2,530 4,052
10th Percentile £28,178 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Epics job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Epics
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Epics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Epics

Epics
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +12 2 £42,750 +4.30% 1
East Midlands - 1 £46,500 - 1
Epics
England

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Games
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Product Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce