Azure Bicep
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 447 565 805
Rank change year-on-year +118 +240 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 151 154 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.26% 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 0.73% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 109 24
10th Percentile £431 £449 £486
25th Percentile £500 £513 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £611 £638 £677
90th Percentile £675 £775 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £544 £594
% change year-on-year +11.26% -8.42% -
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK 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
England +151 146 £550 - 42
London +128 106 £538 -4.02% 20
Work from Home +103 70 £550 -1.79% 20
UK excluding London +68 37 £605 +11.26% 20
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%
Scotland - 1 - -

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.27%) CMS
3 4 (2.65%) Luigi
4 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) Azure
2 111 (73.51%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (36.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 52 (34.44%) Azure Service Bus
5 51 (33.77%) Azure Monitor
6 45 (29.80%) Entra ID
7 18 (11.92%) Azure Storage
8 16 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (9.27%) Azure Pipelines
10 13 (8.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (7.28%) Azure App Service
11 11 (7.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (6.62%) AWS
12 10 (6.62%) PaaS
13 8 (5.30%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.30%) Azure API Management
13 8 (5.30%) Serverless
14 7 (4.64%) GCP
14 7 (4.64%) NuGet
15 6 (3.97%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.57%) Firewall
2 19 (12.58%) DNS
3 15 (9.93%) DHCP
4 7 (4.64%) FTP
5 3 (1.99%) VPN
6 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (56.95%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.30%) Redis
4 7 (4.64%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.66%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (27.81%) Git
2 7 (4.64%) GitLab
3 3 (1.99%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) Snyk
4 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.66%) Hudson
5 1 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.66%) NUnit
5 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 45 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.54%) Back Office
3 26 (17.22%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.97%) Finance
5 6 (3.97%) Local Government
6 2 (1.32%) Front Office
7 1 (0.66%) Banking
7 1 (0.66%) Billing
7 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Electronics
7 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.66%) Marketing
7 1 (0.66%) Retail
7 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (44.37%) Developer
2 51 (33.77%) Senior
3 44 (29.14%) Senior Developer
4 29 (19.21%) Backend Developer
5 25 (16.56%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (13.91%) Senior Backend Developer
7 16 (10.60%) Lead
8 15 (9.93%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (9.93%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (9.27%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (9.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (9.27%) Support Specialist
10 13 (8.61%) Azure Developer
10 13 (8.61%) Software Developer
11 12 (7.95%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (7.95%) Technical Leader
12 11 (7.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (7.28%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 10 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (5.96%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (57.62%) .NET
2 73 (48.34%) .NET Core
3 37 (24.50%) XML
4 33 (21.85%) ARM Templates
5 23 (15.23%) CSS
5 23 (15.23%) React
6 21 (13.91%) HTML
7 20 (13.25%) ASP.NET
8 19 (12.58%) YAML
9 16 (10.60%) jQuery
10 11 (7.28%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (5.96%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.64%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.64%) SOAP
13 6 (3.97%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.97%) REST
13 6 (3.97%) RESTful
14 4 (2.65%) Pandas
15 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web Forms
15 2 (1.32%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.54%) Product Ownership
2 16 (10.60%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (9.93%) PKI
4 10 (6.62%) Contactless
5 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.97%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.99%) Wiki
9 2 (1.32%) Derivative
9 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Tandem
10 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.66%) Mobile Payment
10 1 (0.66%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.91%) Linux
1 21 (13.91%) Windows
2 19 (12.58%) Windows Server
3 15 (9.93%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (9.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (90.73%) DevOps
2 107 (70.86%) Agile
3 75 (49.67%) CI/CD
4 55 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (33.77%) TDD
6 48 (31.79%) OO
7 46 (30.46%) Scrum
8 43 (28.48%) API Management
8 43 (28.48%) OOD
9 40 (26.49%) Clean Code
10 27 (17.88%) Analytics
10 27 (17.88%) B2C
11 20 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (11.92%) Log Analytics
13 16 (10.60%) Front End Development
13 16 (10.60%) Identity Management
13 16 (10.60%) MVC
13 16 (10.60%) Release Management
13 16 (10.60%) Service Management
13 16 (10.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (72.85%) C#
2 77 (50.99%) PowerShell
3 30 (19.87%) TypeScript
4 26 (17.22%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.91%) SQL
6 17 (11.26%) Python
7 15 (9.93%) VB
7 15 (9.93%) VBScript
8 4 (2.65%) Bash
8 4 (2.65%) Java
9 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.58%) Degree
3 19 (12.58%) DV Cleared
4 15 (9.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.60%) Accessibility
2 14 (9.27%) WCAG
3 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.31%) QA
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (50.33%) Active Directory
2 27 (17.88%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (10.60%) Docker
4 15 (9.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (21.85%) Terraform
2 26 (17.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 15 (9.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (9.93%) SCCM
3 15 (9.93%) SCOM
3 15 (9.93%) WSUS
4 5 (3.31%) Puppet
4 5 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.65%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.99%) Ansible
7 2 (1.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.66%) Grafana
8 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 91 (60.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.64%) Databricks
3 3 (1.99%) VMware
4 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.66%) BMC
5 1 (0.66%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.66%) NetApp
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle
5 1 (0.66%) Remedy
5 1 (0.66%) SAP