Bicep Contracts in Central London

Azure Bicep
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 115 117 158
Rank change year-on-year +2 +41 +40
Contract jobs citing Bicep 14 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.65% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.81% 1.92% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 12
10th Percentile £406 £463 £414
25th Percentile £455 £481 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £650 £622 £588
90th Percentile £751 £675 £636
London median daily rate £520 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -3.26% -4.02% -2.61%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in Central London

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in Central London

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Central London

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Central London 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
City of London +10 14 £540 +2.86% 5
Bicep
London

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (57.14%) Azure AKS
4 6 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (35.71%) AWS
5 5 (35.71%) Serverless
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (14.29%) GCP
7 2 (14.29%) GitHub
7 2 (14.29%) IaaS
7 2 (14.29%) PaaS
7 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (14.29%) SaaS
8 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) JSON
3 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.14%) EDI
4 1 (7.14%) Middleware
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) WCF
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) XML
4 1 (7.14%) XSLT
4 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) API Management
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Cost Management
4 4 (28.57%) GitOps
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
6 2 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) SAP