Bicep Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Azure Bicep
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.34% - 0.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.33% - 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 - -
75th Percentile £628 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
North West median daily rate £476 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +5.78% -25.00% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 158 192 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 21.12% 34.59% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 161 111
10th Percentile £339 £313 £313
25th Percentile £395 £358 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £402 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -15.37% -13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £560
90th Percentile £630 £584 £610
North West median daily rate £477 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +6.30% -5.53% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £30.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £86.00 £32.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +168.75% -24.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile - £34.00 £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.00 £74.50 £50.13
% change year-on-year -3.36% +48.63% +3.35%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bicep relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Bicep job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Cheshire

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. 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
Knutsford - 8 £543 - 1
Warrington - 1 - - 2
Bicep
North West

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (20.00%) IaaS
5 2 (20.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) IPv6
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LangChain
1 1 (10.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 3 (30.00%) GitOps
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Secrets Management
3 3 (30.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (20.00%) API Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) RBAC
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Argo
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (20.00%) Istio
4 2 (20.00%) linkerd
5 1 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (10.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Splunk