Bicep Contracts in Berkshire

Azure Bicep
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Bicep skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bicep over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 108 110
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Bicep 12 16 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.81% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 4.29% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 3
10th Percentile £365 - £511
25th Percentile £410 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +17.48% -1.90%
75th Percentile £635 £608 £536
90th Percentile £663 - £548
South East median daily rate £600 £605 £569
% change year-on-year -0.83% +6.37% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

Bicep falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in Berkshire

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in Berkshire

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Berkshire

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 5 £420 -
Reading +18 3 £625 +3.31% 4
Windsor - 3 £600 -
Bicep
South East

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (66.67%) Azure AKS
4 7 (58.33%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (33.33%) Azure Storage
6 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (25.00%) GitHub
6 3 (25.00%) IaaS
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (25.00%) PaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Azure App Service
7 2 (16.67%) Azure Table
7 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (8.33%) AWS
8 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Electronics
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 4 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (16.67%) ADO
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) YAML
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) Log Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Observability
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (66.67%) Python
3 6 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (41.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) Bash
6 1 (8.33%) VB
6 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (25.00%) Puppet
4 2 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
5 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (8.33%) SCCM
5 1 (8.33%) SCOM
5 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP