Bicep Contract Job Trends in England

Azure Bicep
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 431 466
Rank change year-on-year +32 +35 +197
Contract jobs citing Bicep 147 84 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 0.90% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 53 83
10th Percentile £408 £380 £442
25th Percentile £442 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £645
90th Percentile £695 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -11.39% +7.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - £75.00
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.69 - £75.00

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 9,744 9,383 11,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.06% 32.58% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,099 8,292
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 226 381
10th Percentile £34.00 £25.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.23 £44.62 £46.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in England

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in England

Bicep
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bicep.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bicep

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 21 December 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 +23 87 £525 -4.55% 21
North of England -24 18 £513 -2.84% 14
South West - 17 £575 - 6
South East -15 10 £454 -24.90% 12
Yorkshire -38 9 £575 +17.35% 4
North West - 6 £450 - 7
West Midlands -30 4 £425 +6.25% 6
Midlands -39 4 £425 -2.86% 7
North East -3 3 £475 -15.93% 3
East of England - 3 £650 -
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Maximo
2 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 142 (96.60%) Azure
2 84 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (36.73%) Azure Monitor
4 48 (32.65%) GitHub
5 47 (31.97%) Entra ID
6 42 (28.57%) Azure AKS
6 42 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (23.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 30 (20.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 29 (19.73%) PaaS
10 27 (18.37%) Serverless
11 24 (16.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (14.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 21 (14.29%) Azure Functions
13 21 (14.29%) IaaS
14 20 (13.61%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (10.88%) AWS
15 16 (10.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (10.88%) GCP
16 14 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.56%) Firewall
2 15 (10.20%) Network Security
2 15 (10.20%) VPN
3 13 (8.84%) DNS
4 8 (5.44%) DHCP
5 3 (2.04%) WAN
6 2 (1.36%) LAN
6 2 (1.36%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.68%) MPLS
7 1 (0.68%) MQTT
7 1 (0.68%) NAS
7 1 (0.68%) SAN
7 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (6.80%) Data Lake
2 10 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (6.12%) Power BI
3 9 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.04%) Metadata
5 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.36%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.36%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.68%) KNIME
7 1 (0.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Parquet
7 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Git
2 7 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.08%) GitLab
4 3 (2.04%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.68%) Gatling
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) Poetry
5 1 (0.68%) Pylint
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.88%) Finance
3 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.80%) Banking
5 9 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.08%) Law
7 4 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.04%) Front Office
9 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.36%) Legal
9 2 (1.36%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (29.25%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (19.05%) Architect
3 23 (15.65%) Azure Architect
3 23 (15.65%) Developer
4 15 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.16%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (8.16%) Lead
6 12 (8.16%) Senior
7 11 (7.48%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Azure Developer
8 10 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (4.08%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (25.85%) ARM Templates
2 31 (21.09%) .NET
3 22 (14.97%) React
4 19 (12.93%) Node.js
5 17 (11.56%) .NET Core
6 16 (10.88%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.84%) REST
8 12 (8.16%) YAML
9 9 (6.12%) PySpark
10 8 (5.44%) Next.js
11 7 (4.76%) Express.js
11 7 (4.76%) PyTorch
11 7 (4.76%) TensorFlow
12 6 (4.08%) RESTful
13 5 (3.40%) SOAP
14 4 (2.72%) ADO
14 4 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
15 3 (2.04%) OpenAPI
15 3 (2.04%) Swagger
15 3 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.25%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (6.80%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.44%) AI Agents
6 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.72%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.36%) IoT
9 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Windows
2 9 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.08%) VMS
4 4 (2.72%) Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (76.19%) DevOps
2 99 (67.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (65.31%) CI/CD
4 44 (29.93%) Analytics
5 41 (27.89%) RBAC
6 40 (27.21%) Agile
7 35 (23.81%) Cloud Security
8 31 (21.09%) Migration
9 30 (20.41%) API Management
10 29 (19.73%) Containerisation
11 26 (17.69%) AI
12 25 (17.01%) Microservices
12 25 (17.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (16.33%) Log Analytics
14 22 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (14.29%) Test Automation
16 19 (12.93%) Data Engineering
16 19 (12.93%) Machine Learning
17 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 17 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.37%) Python
2 42 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 38 (25.85%) SQL
4 25 (17.01%) C#
5 19 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 17 (11.56%) Bash
6 17 (11.56%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.08%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.36%) Java
10 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 37 (25.17%) Azure Certification
2 26 (17.69%) Security Cleared
3 25 (17.01%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.44%) Degree
6 6 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.72%) CISM
7 4 (2.72%) CISSP
7 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) CCSP
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (9.52%) GDPR
3 13 (8.84%) NIST
4 7 (4.76%) NCSC
5 6 (4.08%) QA
5 6 (4.08%) SOC 2
6 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.04%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.68%) HL7
9 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
System Software
1 49 (33.33%) Docker
2 38 (25.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 118 (80.27%) Terraform
2 56 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.48%) Kibana
4 4 (2.72%) Ansible
4 4 (2.72%) Packer
4 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.04%) Istio
5 3 (2.04%) logstash
6 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.68%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 87 (59.18%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.41%) Databricks
3 17 (11.56%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.40%) Google
6 4 (2.72%) Splunk
6 4 (2.72%) VMware
7 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.04%) Foundry
7 3 (2.04%) IBM
7 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.68%) CloudEndure
8 1 (0.68%) LogRhythm
8 1 (0.68%) Okta
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle
8 1 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.68%) Workday
8 1 (0.68%) Zscaler