Bicep Contracts in the City of London

Azure Bicep
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 162
Rank change year-on-year +4 +49 +33
Contract jobs citing Bicep 14 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.64% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 1.87% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 12
10th Percentile £406 £363 £414
25th Percentile £455 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £650 £569 £588
90th Percentile £751 £698 £636
Central London median daily rate £540 £500 £543
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.83% -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 711 749 1,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.49% 34.17% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 532 1,029
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £464 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £695 £688 £738
90th Percentile £794 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £620
% change year-on-year +2.22% -9.27% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% +0.88%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% +0.88%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the City of London

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the City of London

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the City of London

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 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 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%) ITSM
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