Epics Job Trends in Scotland

Epic User Stories
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Epics skills. It covers permanent 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 152 140 148
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +86
Permanent jobs citing Epics 3 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.11% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £43,300 - £56,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £51,250 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -25.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £50,500 £55,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £51,100 £56,750 £79,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,413 2,745 2,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.04% 84.23% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 1,310 1,866
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £53,725 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.46% - -

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Epics job vacancy trend in Scotland

Epics
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Epics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Epics

Epics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Scotland 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +13 1 - - 3
Glasgow -7 1 £51,000 -2.86%
Epics
UK

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CBAP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow