Epics Contracts in Wales

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UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Epics 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.57% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £304 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 - -
75th Percentile £311 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 307 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.14% 76.37% 86.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 163 313
10th Percentile £190 £143 £182
25th Percentile £266 £211 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £588
90th Percentile £633 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 51 23
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.20 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.95 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.36 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +6.04% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.13 £40.63
90th Percentile - £53.75 £51.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Epics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Epics in Wales

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Epics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Epics

Epics
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Epics within the Wales region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales - 1 £308 - 1
Epics
UK

Epics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) PMO Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx