Epic User Stories
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Epics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Epics over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 714 568
Rank change year-on-year +110 -146 -10
Permanent jobs citing Epics 105 200 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.23% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 33 103 230
10th Percentile £40,588 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -36.00% +36.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Epics.

Salary trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Epics over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Epics in the UK

Epics
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 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
England +112 100 £55,000 -29.03% 321
Work from Home +123 64 £63,750 -8.93% 176
UK excluding London +135 60 £48,000 -36.00% 329
London +92 45 £78,750 +1.61% 23
South East +94 18 £55,000 -31.25% 85
East of England - 15 - - 51
Midlands +84 11 £48,000 -49.47% 66
West Midlands +59 11 £48,000 -49.47% 37
North of England +34 7 £45,000 -40.00% 70
Scotland +93 5 - - 12
North West -3 5 £42,500 -55.26% 32
South West +82 4 £62,500 +8.70% 46
Yorkshire +54 2 £47,500 +50.79% 28

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (3.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.95%) Lorenzo
3 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.95%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) SaaS
2 12 (11.43%) AWS
3 9 (8.57%) Miro
4 8 (7.62%) Azure
5 4 (3.81%) Nutanix
6 3 (2.86%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.90%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.90%) GitHub
7 2 (1.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) Firewall
2 4 (3.81%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (3.81%) DNS
2 4 (3.81%) HTTP
2 4 (3.81%) SSH
2 4 (3.81%) VPN
3 2 (1.90%) Internet
3 2 (1.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (48.57%) Big Data
2 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.90%) MySQL
3 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.95%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.95%) Power BI
4 1 (0.95%) Redis
4 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (25.71%) JIRA
2 6 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.90%) Selenium
3 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.95%) JUnit
4 1 (0.95%) Mockito
General
1 66 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 62 (59.05%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (51.43%) Marketing
4 49 (46.67%) Advertising
5 26 (24.76%) Finance
6 8 (7.62%) Banking
7 6 (5.71%) Law
8 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.81%) Legal
8 4 (3.81%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.95%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.95%) Games
11 1 (0.95%) Publishing
11 1 (0.95%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (61.90%) Senior
2 51 (48.57%) Senior Manager
3 49 (46.67%) Account Manager
3 49 (46.67%) Senior Account Manager
4 19 (18.10%) Product Owner
5 14 (13.33%) Analyst
5 14 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.62%) Agile Product Owner
6 8 (7.62%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.62%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Product Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Consultant
8 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Architect
9 4 (3.81%) IT Support
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Architect
10 3 (2.86%) Java Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) LDAP
2 3 (2.86%) Kafka
2 3 (2.86%) React
2 3 (2.86%) Spring
2 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.90%) .NET
3 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.90%) CSS
3 2 (1.90%) HTML
3 2 (1.90%) HTML5
3 2 (1.90%) REST
4 1 (0.95%) FHIR
4 1 (0.95%) gRPC
4 1 (0.95%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 49 (46.67%) Digital Media
1 49 (46.67%) Marketing Technology
2 27 (25.71%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.81%) Anti-Spyware
3 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.95%) NHS
6 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.95%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Windows
2 4 (3.81%) Android
3 2 (1.90%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.05%) Process Improvement
2 55 (52.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 54 (51.43%) Project Management
4 52 (49.52%) Collaborative Working
5 51 (48.57%) Analytical Thinking
5 51 (48.57%) Time Management
6 50 (47.62%) Strategic Thinking
7 49 (46.67%) Customer Retention
7 49 (46.67%) Digital Marketing
7 49 (46.67%) Marketing Strategy
8 37 (35.24%) Agile
9 30 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (28.57%) User Stories
10 24 (22.86%) Roadmaps
11 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (18.10%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
12 19 (18.10%) Scrum
13 17 (16.19%) Coaching
14 13 (12.38%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.76%) Java
2 4 (3.81%) SQL
2 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
3 3 (2.86%) Python
4 2 (1.90%) C#
4 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) C
5 1 (0.95%) C++
5 1 (0.95%) Go
5 1 (0.95%) R
5 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (6.67%) Degree
2 5 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.90%) CEH
4 2 (1.90%) CISM
4 2 (1.90%) CISSP
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) GDPR
1 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.86%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (1.90%) NIST
3 1 (0.95%) DICOM
3 1 (0.95%) HL7
3 1 (0.95%) PMO
3 1 (0.95%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.81%) Docker
1 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.81%) Ansible
2 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.81%) Cisco
3 4 (3.81%) Google
3 4 (3.81%) Okta
3 4 (3.81%) Perforce
3 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.81%) VMware
4 2 (1.90%) Databricks
4 2 (1.90%) Oracle
5 1 (0.95%) Cerner
5 1 (0.95%) Foundry
5 1 (0.95%) InterSystems
5 1 (0.95%) MEDITECH
5 1 (0.95%) Palantir