Epics Contract Job Trends in Somerset

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South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Epics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Epics 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £473 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £506 - -
South West median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% +0.08% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

Epics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 157 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 74.07% 93.45% 73.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 98 93
10th Percentile £357 £225 £200
25th Percentile £413 £377 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £622
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 20 32
10th Percentile £24.20 £14.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.46%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £60.38 £59.93
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +78.29% -41.36% -4.35%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Epics job vacancy trend in Somerset

Epics
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Bath - 2 £490 - 2
Epics
South West

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian