Epics Contracts in the South West

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England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 146 158
Rank change year-on-year +41 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Epics 7 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.13% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.15% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £599 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% -20.07% +39.53%
75th Percentile £629 £600 £775
90th Percentile £682 - -
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.45% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,531 2,626 3,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.81% 82.97% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 1,680 2,274
10th Percentile £220 £225 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £724
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 343 317
10th Percentile £18.20 £13.88 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +23.76%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.31
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Epics in the South West

Epics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Epics in the South West

Epics
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 21 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
Gloucestershire - 4 £600 - 6
Wiltshire - 2 - -
Bristol +17 1 - -
Epics
England

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Product Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
1 5 (71.43%) User Stories
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
3 3 (42.86%) Coaching
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
3 3 (42.86%) Product Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Product Vision
4 2 (28.57%) Minimum Viable Product
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
5 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian