Bicep Contracts in the Thames Valley

Azure Bicep
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 144 170
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 17 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.63% 0.24% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.18% 1.00% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 1
10th Percentile £567 £489 -
25th Percentile £603 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.48% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £608 £556 £538
90th Percentile - £628 -
South East median daily rate £605 £569 £525
% change year-on-year +6.37% +8.33% -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 703 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.94% 23.94% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 522 581
10th Percentile £358 £326 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £611 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 6
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £36.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £63.06
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -21.82% +81.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £81.98
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £85.00
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.16%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the Thames Valley

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the Thames Valley

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the Thames Valley

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +6 16 £605 +17.48% 1
Buckinghamshire +27 1 £350 -39.13%
Bicep
South East

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (88.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
1 17 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (94.12%) Entra ID
3 15 (88.24%) Azure Storage
3 15 (88.24%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) DNS
1 16 (94.12%) Firewall
2 15 (88.24%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 15 (88.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (82.35%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (82.35%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (82.35%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (88.24%) PKI
1 15 (88.24%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Linux
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
1 15 (88.24%) Windows Server
1 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2016
1 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 16 (94.12%) Analytics
2 16 (94.12%) Identity Management
2 16 (94.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (94.12%) Log Analytics
2 16 (94.12%) Release Management
2 16 (94.12%) Service Management
3 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
3 15 (88.24%) ITIL
3 15 (88.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 15 (88.24%) Privileged Identity Management
3 15 (88.24%) RBAC
4 2 (11.76%) API Management
5 1 (5.88%) Change Advisory Board
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.88%) Release Automation
5 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
1 16 (94.12%) PowerShell
2 15 (88.24%) VB
2 15 (88.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Degree
1 15 (88.24%) DV Cleared
1 15 (88.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 15 (88.24%) SC Cleared
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 15 (88.24%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (88.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Kubernetes
2 15 (88.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (88.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (88.24%) SCCM
2 15 (88.24%) SCOM
2 15 (88.24%) WSUS
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) BMC
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Remedy
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow