Epic User Stories
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 498 456
Rank change year-on-year +57 -42 +11
Contract jobs citing Epics 152 208 461
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.39% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 141 309
10th Percentile £375 £425 £410
25th Percentile £471 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +4.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £813 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the UK

Epics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Epics in the UK

Epics
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +39 103 £573 +4.09% 51
London +34 69 £550 - 26
UK excluding London +51 65 £575 +15.00% 27
Work from Home +99 62 £500 -16.67% 28
Scotland +61 35 £530 +24.71%
South East +8 11 £600 +14.29% 5
Midlands +26 9 £675 -3.57% 6
West Midlands +23 6 £675 +10.20% 4
South West +22 4 £600 -20.07% 3
Yorkshire +17 4 £452 -2.38% 2
North of England +17 4 £452 -1.04% 9
East of England +9 2 £700 +55.56% 2
East Midlands +18 1 £550 -21.43% 2

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 35 (23.03%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) CMS
2 3 (1.97%) Drupal
3 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.61%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.37%) Azure
2 24 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.61%) AWS
3 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.29%) npm
5 4 (2.63%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.97%) GCP
6 3 (1.97%) SaaS
7 2 (1.32%) PaaS
8 1 (0.66%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.66%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.66%) Miro
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.29%) DNS
2 3 (1.97%) SSL
3 2 (1.32%) DHCP
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.61%) Power BI
3 2 (1.32%) Data Mart
3 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (43.42%) JIRA
2 7 (4.61%) Postman
2 7 (4.61%) SoapUI
3 6 (3.95%) Eclipse
4 5 (3.29%) webpack
5 3 (1.97%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.97%) Git
5 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.97%) Selenium
5 3 (1.97%) Subversion
General
1 40 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 27 (17.76%) Finance
4 20 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.24%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.92%) Banking
7 7 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.95%) Front Office
8 6 (3.95%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.29%) Marketing
10 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.63%) Electronics
10 4 (2.63%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.97%) Billing
11 3 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.32%) Retail
13 1 (0.66%) Law
13 1 (0.66%) Legal
Job Titles
1 74 (48.68%) Analyst
2 62 (40.79%) Business Analyst
3 21 (13.82%) Product Manager
4 18 (11.84%) Technical Analyst
5 17 (11.18%) Product Owner
6 14 (9.21%) Technical Business Analyst
7 13 (8.55%) Senior
8 9 (5.92%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.92%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (4.61%) Manual Tester
9 7 (4.61%) Tester
10 6 (3.95%) Agile Business Analyst
10 6 (3.95%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.29%) Angular Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 5 (3.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 5 (3.29%) Scrum Master
11 5 (3.29%) UI Developer
12 4 (2.63%) Payments Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.61%) ADO
1 7 (4.61%) SOAP
2 5 (3.29%) AngularJS
2 5 (3.29%) React
2 5 (3.29%) REST
2 5 (3.29%) RxJS
2 5 (3.29%) WebSockets
3 3 (1.97%) Web Services
4 2 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.32%) LDAP
4 2 (1.32%) Node.js
4 2 (1.32%) OAuth
5 1 (0.66%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.66%) HTML
5 1 (0.66%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.66%) OpenID
5 1 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.58%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.29%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.29%) Wiki
4 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.97%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.97%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.32%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.32%) Clustering
5 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.32%) Derivative
5 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.32%) IoT
5 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.32%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (82.24%) Agile
2 119 (78.29%) User Stories
3 65 (42.76%) Scrum
4 52 (34.21%) DevOps
5 45 (29.61%) Roadmaps
6 39 (25.66%) Acceptance Criteria
7 30 (19.74%) Product Backlog
8 29 (19.08%) Business Analysis
9 27 (17.76%) User Research
10 24 (15.79%) Backlog Management
10 24 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (13.82%) Product Management
11 21 (13.82%) Project Management
11 21 (13.82%) Service Design
12 17 (11.18%) Requirements Gathering
12 17 (11.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 16 (10.53%) Business Strategy
14 15 (9.87%) Coaching
15 14 (9.21%) Decision-Making
15 14 (9.21%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.89%) SQL
2 7 (4.61%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.97%) Python
5 2 (1.32%) C
5 2 (1.32%) Go
5 2 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.66%) R
6 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.95%) Degree
4 1 (0.66%) CITP
4 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.66%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 7 (4.61%) PMO
3 5 (3.29%) IFRS
3 5 (3.29%) IFRS 17
4 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.97%) GDPR
5 3 (1.97%) GxP
5 3 (1.97%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.32%) GRC
6 2 (1.32%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.32%) PSD2
7 1 (0.66%) Basel II
7 1 (0.66%) Basel III
7 1 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (1.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.97%) Ansible
2 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (4.61%) ServiceNow
2 6 (3.95%) Cadence
2 6 (3.95%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.29%) SAP
4 4 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.97%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) Murex
6 2 (1.32%) Oracle
7 1 (0.66%) Citrix
7 1 (0.66%) Databricks
7 1 (0.66%) SYSPRO