Epics Contracts in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 128 163
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 -37
Contract jobs citing Epics 6 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.38% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile - - £431
25th Percentile £663 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £766 £813 £538
90th Percentile £906 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,088 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.06% 88.62% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 1,429 2,350
10th Percentile £275 £263 £271
25th Percentile £368 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 49 68
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.40 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +9.39% +0.55%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.13 £19.59
90th Percentile £58.00 £48.75 £20.96
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in the West Midlands

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Warwickshire +3 3 £675 -15.63%
Coventry - 3 £1,000 -
Epics
England

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) CMS
1 3 (50.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
1 3 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) PMO Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Software Assurance
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow