Bicep Contracts in England

Azure Bicep
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 387 393 529
Rank change year-on-year +6 +136 +229
Contract jobs citing Bicep 98 149 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.40% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.36% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 100 87
10th Percentile £365 £430 £475
25th Percentile £406 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.38%
75th Percentile £663 £614 £638
90th Percentile £743 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -8.33%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in England

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in England

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in England

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the England 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
London +4 75 £520 -3.26% 50
South East +41 12 £600 -0.83% 23
North of England +19 4 £508 +1.50% 35
North West +17 3 £450 -12.20% 24
Midlands +17 3 £475 -21.75% 12
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
South West +42 2 £450 -14.29% 9
East of England +30 1 £751 +58.11% 7
North East - 1 £565 - 1
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (7.14%) Confluence
2 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (97.96%) Azure
2 58 (59.18%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (37.76%) Azure AKS
4 31 (31.63%) Azure Monitor
5 26 (26.53%) Serverless
6 20 (20.41%) Azure Sentinel
7 19 (19.39%) AWS
8 16 (16.33%) Entra ID
8 16 (16.33%) IaaS
8 16 (16.33%) PaaS
9 15 (15.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 14 (14.29%) GitHub
11 13 (13.27%) Azure Storage
11 13 (13.27%) GCP
11 13 (13.27%) Power Platform
11 13 (13.27%) SaaS
12 12 (12.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (12.24%) Azure App Service
13 11 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (9.18%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 34 (34.69%) Firewall
2 10 (10.20%) VPN
3 6 (6.12%) DNS
4 3 (3.06%) FTP
4 3 (3.06%) HTTP
4 3 (3.06%) Network Security
4 3 (3.06%) SMTP
4 3 (3.06%) SSL
4 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.04%) DHCP
5 2 (2.04%) WAN
6 1 (1.02%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (12.24%) Power BI
3 9 (9.18%) Data Lake
3 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.02%) DTS
6 1 (1.02%) Parquet
6 1 (1.02%) Redis
6 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.14%) JIRA
3 3 (3.06%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) GitLab
4 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.02%) Selenium
5 1 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.02%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Finance
3 16 (16.33%) Banking
4 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
5 11 (11.22%) Marketing
6 6 (6.12%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.10%) Front Office
8 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Electronics
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.02%) Legal
10 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (34.69%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (24.49%) Architect
3 17 (17.35%) Azure Architect
4 13 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Cloud Architect
6 10 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior
8 8 (8.16%) Developer
9 7 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Site Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Consultant
11 5 (5.10%) Lead
11 5 (5.10%) Project Manager
11 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.10%) Technical Manager
11 5 (5.10%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.59%) ARM Templates
2 22 (22.45%) .NET
3 12 (12.24%) YAML
4 10 (10.20%) JSON
5 8 (8.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (5.10%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (4.08%) REST
8 2 (2.04%) ADO
8 2 (2.04%) Kafka
8 2 (2.04%) OAuth
8 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.04%) React
8 2 (2.04%) SOAP
8 2 (2.04%) Web Services
8 2 (2.04%) XML
9 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.02%) CSS
9 1 (1.02%) HTML
9 1 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.04%) Replication
7 1 (1.02%) Clustering
7 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.02%) Derivative
7 1 (1.02%) Life Science
7 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) NHS
7 1 (1.02%) PKI
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.16%) Windows
2 6 (6.12%) Linux
3 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.02%) VMS
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (68.37%) DevOps
2 64 (65.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (29.59%) CI/CD
4 26 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (26.53%) RBAC
5 23 (23.47%) Analytics
6 20 (20.41%) Agile
7 19 (19.39%) Migration
8 18 (18.37%) API Management
8 18 (18.37%) Cost Management
8 18 (18.37%) Microservices
9 16 (16.33%) Containerisation
9 16 (16.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 15 (15.31%) Cloud Security
11 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (13.27%) Zero Trust
13 12 (12.24%) Cost Optimisation
13 12 (12.24%) High Availability
13 12 (12.24%) Observability
13 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.96%) PowerShell
2 21 (21.43%) Python
3 20 (20.41%) SQL
4 18 (18.37%) C#
5 10 (10.20%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.14%) Bash
8 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.04%) Java
9 2 (2.04%) Scala
10 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.02%) VB
10 1 (1.02%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) Azure Certification
3 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) Degree
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CCNP
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.02%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.02%) MCDBA
6 1 (1.02%) MCSE
6 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) GDPR
2 5 (5.10%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.02%) GxP
4 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) Docker
2 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (61.22%) Terraform
2 46 (46.94%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.22%) Grafana
4 9 (9.18%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.10%) Ansible
7 4 (4.08%) Puppet
8 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.02%) Argo
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.02%) SCCM
8 1 (1.02%) SCOM
8 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (38.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) Google
3 5 (5.10%) SAP
4 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco
5 3 (3.06%) Databricks
5 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.06%) Sybase
6 2 (2.04%) Planview
7 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.02%) Darktrace
7 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle
7 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto