Bicep Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Bicep
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 374 590
Rank change year-on-year +108 +216 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 81 93 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.37% 0.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 0.99% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 70 13
10th Percentile £438 £449 £533
25th Percentile £497 £513 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -15.47% -
75th Percentile £608 £619 £713
90th Percentile £675 £775 £723
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% -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 £110.00 - £80.00

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Bicep
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bicep trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bicep.

Bicep daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Bicep over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Bicep daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.88%) CMS
3 4 (4.94%) Luigi
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (62.96%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (37.04%) Azure Monitor
3 30 (37.04%) Entra ID
4 23 (28.40%) Azure Service Bus
5 22 (27.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 17 (20.99%) Azure Storage
7 16 (19.75%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (9.88%) Azure Pipelines
10 7 (8.64%) AWS
10 7 (8.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (7.41%) Azure AKS
12 5 (6.17%) Azure API Management
12 5 (6.17%) GCP
13 4 (4.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (4.94%) NuGet
13 4 (4.94%) PaaS
13 4 (4.94%) Serverless
14 3 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.93%) Firewall
2 18 (22.22%) DNS
3 16 (19.75%) DHCP
4 1 (1.23%) FTP
4 1 (1.23%) Network Security
4 1 (1.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (48.15%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.94%) Redis
4 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (22.22%) Git
2 7 (8.64%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Snyk
3 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.23%) JMeter
4 1 (1.23%) Selenium
4 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.35%) Back Office
4 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Finance
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Electronics
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (46.91%) Developer
2 28 (34.57%) Senior
3 23 (28.40%) Senior Developer
4 18 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (19.75%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (17.28%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (17.28%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (17.28%) Backend Developer
6 14 (17.28%) Support Specialist
7 11 (13.58%) Azure Developer
7 11 (13.58%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (9.88%) .NET Developer
8 8 (9.88%) C# Developer
8 8 (9.88%) Data Engineer
8 8 (9.88%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (8.64%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (44.44%) .NET
2 30 (37.04%) .NET Core
3 24 (29.63%) ARM Templates
4 18 (22.22%) XML
5 17 (20.99%) React
6 13 (16.05%) CSS
7 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
7 11 (13.58%) HTML
8 10 (12.35%) YAML
9 8 (9.88%) jQuery
10 5 (6.17%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (4.94%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (4.94%) Pandas
11 4 (4.94%) SOAP
12 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.70%) REST
13 2 (2.47%) Kafka
14 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
14 1 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 1 (1.23%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) PKI
1 16 (19.75%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.64%) Contactless
4 5 (6.17%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.47%) Tandem
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.93%) Linux
2 17 (20.99%) Windows
2 17 (20.99%) Windows Server
3 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (92.59%) DevOps
2 57 (70.37%) Agile
3 49 (60.49%) CI/CD
4 40 (49.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (27.16%) Analytics
6 21 (25.93%) Scrum
7 19 (23.46%) TDD
8 18 (22.22%) OO
9 17 (20.99%) API Management
9 17 (20.99%) Identity Management
9 17 (20.99%) Log Analytics
9 17 (20.99%) RBAC
9 17 (20.99%) Release Management
9 17 (20.99%) Service Management
10 16 (19.75%) ITIL
10 16 (19.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (19.75%) Privileged Identity Management
11 15 (18.52%) Clean Code
11 15 (18.52%) OOD
12 13 (16.05%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 60 (74.07%) C#
2 45 (55.56%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.99%) TypeScript
4 16 (19.75%) VB
4 16 (19.75%) VBScript
5 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.11%) Python
7 8 (9.88%) SQL
8 2 (2.47%) Bash
8 2 (2.47%) Java
9 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) SC Cleared
1 20 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.46%) Degree
3 16 (19.75%) DV Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.88%) WCAG
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (50.62%) Active Directory
2 21 (25.93%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (19.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (9.88%) Docker
5 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (27.16%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.93%) Terraform
3 16 (19.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (19.75%) SCCM
3 16 (19.75%) SCOM
3 16 (19.75%) WSUS
4 2 (2.47%) Ansible
4 2 (2.47%) Argo
4 2 (2.47%) Puppet
4 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.94%) Databricks
3 3 (3.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.23%) BMC
4 1 (1.23%) NetApp
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Remedy
4 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.23%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow