Epics Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Epics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Epics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 194 203
Rank change year-on-year +47 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Epics 12 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.20% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.23% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £477 £548 £488
25th Percentile £494 £572 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £570 £699 £584
90th Percentile £600 £704 £656
England median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the South East

Epics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in the South East

Epics
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +45 9 £525 -12.50% 5
Berkshire +33 8 £525 -12.50% 2
Surrey - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire +16 1 - -
Kent - 1 £525 - 2
Epics
England

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Primavera
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Balsamiq
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Product Owner
3 3 (25.00%) Product Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) User Stories
3 8 (66.67%) Scrum
4 6 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (33.33%) B2B
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (33.33%) Wireframes
7 3 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (25.00%) Product Management
7 3 (25.00%) Product Requirements
8 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
8 2 (16.67%) Insurtech
8 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
8 2 (16.67%) Product Vision
8 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow