Epics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Epics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 96 106
Rank change year-on-year -54 +10 +34
Contract jobs citing Epics 9 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.25% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £569 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £400 £675
Median % change year-on-year +51.25% -40.74% +10.20%
75th Percentile £749 - £766
90th Percentile £760 - £906
England median daily rate £505 £513 £560
% change year-on-year -1.46% -8.48% +1.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,523 1,214 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.21% 88.55% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,651 805 1,069
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% - -2.34%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £733
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £24.22 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.98 £35.15 £57.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%

Epics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Epics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Epics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Epics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Epics

Epics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Epics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Epics in the West Midlands

Epics
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 23 April 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
Shropshire - 5 £743 -
Warwickshire -12 2 £575 +43.75%
Worcestershire - 1 £605 -
Birmingham - 1 £600 - 2
Epics
England

Epics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Pega Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Hackathon
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) AI
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) User Stories
3 4 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (33.33%) API Design
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Conversational UI
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) Server-Driven UI
4 3 (33.33%) Service Design
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Backlog
4 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) NEC
2 1 (11.11%) Pega
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat