Bicep Contracts in England

Azure Bicep
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Bicep skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bicep over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 540 756
Rank change year-on-year +151 +216 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 146 123 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.24% 0.032%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 0.69% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 87 16
10th Percentile £429 £475 £494
25th Percentile £491 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -5.38% -
75th Percentile £611 £638 £669
90th Percentile £675 £775 £684
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Programming Languages
England

Bicep is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in England

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in England.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in England

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in England

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +128 106 £538 -4.02% 21
South East +33 17 £605 +6.37% 8
West Midlands +33 8 £607 -13.29% 1
Midlands +24 8 £607 +10.36% 4
South West +27 6 £525 -12.50% 3
North of England +25 4 £500 -4.76% 5
North West +11 3 £513 -2.38% 3
Yorkshire +17 1 £463 -11.90% 2
East of England +14 1 £475 -36.67%
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.59%) CMS
3 4 (2.74%) Luigi
4 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) Azure
2 109 (74.66%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (36.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 51 (34.93%) Azure Monitor
4 51 (34.93%) Azure Service Bus
5 43 (29.45%) Entra ID
6 17 (11.64%) Azure Storage
7 16 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (9.59%) Azure Pipelines
9 12 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (6.85%) AWS
10 10 (6.85%) Azure App Service
10 10 (6.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (6.85%) PaaS
11 8 (5.48%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.79%) Azure API Management
12 7 (4.79%) GCP
12 7 (4.79%) NuGet
13 6 (4.11%) Serverless
14 5 (3.42%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.38%) Firewall
2 19 (13.01%) DNS
3 15 (10.27%) DHCP
4 7 (4.79%) FTP
5 2 (1.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (58.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.48%) Redis
4 5 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (28.77%) Git
2 7 (4.79%) GitLab
3 3 (2.05%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.37%) Snyk
4 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Hudson
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) NUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 45 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.18%) Back Office
3 26 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.11%) Finance
5 6 (4.11%) Local Government
6 2 (1.37%) Front Office
7 1 (0.68%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Billing
7 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Electronics
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (45.21%) Developer
2 51 (34.93%) Senior
3 44 (30.14%) Senior Developer
4 29 (19.86%) Backend Developer
5 24 (16.44%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (14.38%) Senior Backend Developer
7 16 (10.96%) Lead
8 15 (10.27%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (10.27%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (9.59%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (9.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (9.59%) Support Specialist
10 13 (8.90%) Software Developer
11 12 (8.22%) Azure Developer
11 12 (8.22%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (8.22%) Technical Leader
12 11 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (7.53%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 10 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (6.16%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (58.90%) .NET
2 73 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 37 (25.34%) XML
4 33 (22.60%) ARM Templates
5 23 (15.75%) React
6 22 (15.07%) CSS
7 20 (13.70%) ASP.NET
7 20 (13.70%) HTML
8 18 (12.33%) YAML
9 16 (10.96%) jQuery
10 11 (7.53%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (6.16%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.79%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.79%) SOAP
13 6 (4.11%) GraphQL
13 6 (4.11%) REST
13 6 (4.11%) RESTful
14 4 (2.74%) Pandas
15 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
15 2 (1.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.18%) Product Ownership
2 15 (10.27%) PKI
2 15 (10.27%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.85%) Contactless
4 7 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.11%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.05%) Wiki
8 2 (1.37%) Derivative
8 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Tandem
9 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.68%) Mobile Payment
9 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.38%) Linux
1 21 (14.38%) Windows
2 19 (13.01%) Windows Server
3 15 (10.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (10.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (92.47%) DevOps
2 107 (73.29%) Agile
3 73 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 53 (36.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (34.93%) TDD
6 48 (32.88%) OO
7 46 (31.51%) Scrum
8 43 (29.45%) OOD
9 42 (28.77%) API Management
10 40 (27.40%) Clean Code
11 26 (17.81%) B2C
12 25 (17.12%) Analytics
13 19 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (12.33%) Log Analytics
15 16 (10.96%) Front End Development
15 16 (10.96%) Identity Management
15 16 (10.96%) MVC
15 16 (10.96%) Release Management
15 16 (10.96%) Service Management
15 16 (10.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (73.97%) C#
2 76 (52.05%) PowerShell
3 30 (20.55%) TypeScript
4 25 (17.12%) JavaScript
5 20 (13.70%) SQL
6 17 (11.64%) Python
7 15 (10.27%) VB
7 15 (10.27%) VBScript
8 4 (2.74%) Bash
8 4 (2.74%) Java
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.01%) Degree
3 19 (13.01%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.96%) Accessibility
2 14 (9.59%) WCAG
3 5 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.42%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (51.37%) Active Directory
2 26 (17.81%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (10.27%) Docker
3 15 (10.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 32 (21.92%) Terraform
2 25 (17.12%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (10.27%) SCCM
3 15 (10.27%) SCOM
3 15 (10.27%) WSUS
4 5 (3.42%) Puppet
4 5 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.74%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.05%) Ansible
7 2 (1.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.68%) Grafana
8 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (61.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.42%) Databricks
3 3 (2.05%) VMware
4 2 (1.37%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.68%) BMC
5 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.68%) NetApp
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle
5 1 (0.68%) Remedy
5 1 (0.68%) SAP