Epics Contracts in England

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UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 468 424
Rank change year-on-year +32 -44 -4
Contract jobs citing Epics 101 182 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.42% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 126 276
10th Percentile £355 £428 £408
25th Percentile £450 £481 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £606
90th Percentile £688 £806 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in England

Epics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Epics in England.

Daily rate trend for Epics in England

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Epics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Epics in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
London +27 67 £550 - 15
Midlands +30 10 £675 -3.57% 5
South East +8 10 £600 +15.38% 7
West Midlands +24 7 £675 +10.20% 3
North of England +16 5 £500 +3.90% 9
Yorkshire +13 5 £500 +8.11% 3
South West +5 4 £600 -20.07% 5
East Midlands +12 1 £550 -21.43% 2
East of England +2 1 £700 +55.56%
Epics
UK

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (10.89%) Confluence
2 3 (2.97%) CMS
2 3 (2.97%) Drupal
3 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.75%) Azure
2 19 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.96%) GCP
4 4 (3.96%) npm
4 4 (3.96%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.97%) AWS
5 3 (2.97%) SaaS
6 2 (1.98%) PaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.99%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) DNS
2 3 (2.97%) SSL
3 2 (1.98%) DHCP
3 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 2 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.99%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.95%) Power BI
3 2 (1.98%) Data Mart
3 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.99%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (35.64%) JIRA
2 7 (6.93%) Postman
2 7 (6.93%) SoapUI
3 4 (3.96%) Eclipse
3 4 (3.96%) Git
3 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.96%) webpack
4 3 (2.97%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.97%) Selenium
4 3 (2.97%) Subversion
General
1 28 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Finance
3 19 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Banking
4 6 (5.94%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Front Office
6 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Billing
8 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Law
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Aviation
9 1 (0.99%) Legal
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (49.50%) Analyst
2 41 (40.59%) Business Analyst
3 15 (14.85%) Product Owner
4 13 (12.87%) Technical Analyst
5 11 (10.89%) Technical Business Analyst
6 10 (9.90%) Senior
7 7 (6.93%) Manual Tester
7 7 (6.93%) Tester
8 6 (5.94%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.94%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.94%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) Asset Management Analyst
10 4 (3.96%) Angular Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (3.96%) Scrum Master
10 4 (3.96%) UI Developer
11 3 (2.97%) Consultant
11 3 (2.97%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) ADO
1 7 (6.93%) SOAP
2 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
2 5 (4.95%) React
3 4 (3.96%) REST
3 4 (3.96%) RxJS
3 4 (3.96%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.98%) LDAP
4 2 (1.98%) Node.js
5 1 (0.99%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.99%) HTML
5 1 (0.99%) OAuth
5 1 (0.99%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.99%) Swagger
5 1 (0.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (30.69%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.90%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.96%) Fixed Income
3 4 (3.96%) Wiki
4 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.98%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.98%) Clustering
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.98%) Derivative
5 2 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.98%) IoT
5 2 (1.98%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.99%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.99%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (78.22%) Agile
2 75 (74.26%) User Stories
3 46 (45.54%) Scrum
4 39 (38.61%) DevOps
5 35 (34.65%) Acceptance Criteria
6 28 (27.72%) Roadmaps
7 21 (20.79%) Product Backlog
8 15 (14.85%) Backlog Management
8 15 (14.85%) Business Analysis
9 13 (12.87%) Business Strategy
9 13 (12.87%) Decision-Making
9 13 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (11.88%) Microservices
10 12 (11.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 12 (11.88%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (10.89%) Kanban
11 11 (10.89%) Product Management
11 11 (10.89%) Use Case
11 11 (10.89%) Waterfall
12 10 (9.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.88%) SQL
2 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.97%) Python
5 2 (1.98%) C
5 2 (1.98%) Go
5 2 (1.98%) Java
6 1 (0.99%) R
6 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (6.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.96%) Degree
2 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.99%) CITP
3 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) PMO
3 4 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.97%) IFRS
4 3 (2.97%) IFRS 17
4 3 (2.97%) Solvency II
5 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.99%) Basel II
6 1 (0.99%) Basel III
6 1 (0.99%) GDPR
6 1 (0.99%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Ansible
2 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (6.93%) ServiceNow
2 5 (4.95%) Guidewire
3 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.98%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.98%) Murex
5 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.99%) Databricks
5 1 (0.99%) SAP
5 1 (0.99%) SYSPRO