Bicep Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Azure Bicep
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.93% - 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.65% - 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £645
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - £648
North West median daily rate £450 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -2.22%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43 37 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 20.09% 20.33% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 23
10th Percentile £276 - £375
25th Percentile £398 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £409 £623
Median % change year-on-year +34.47% -34.30% +24.50%
75th Percentile - £500 £645
90th Percentile £575 £563 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 29
10th Percentile £57.97 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £63.43 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - +87.88%
75th Percentile - £51.00 -
90th Percentile £74.98 £51.18 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.55% +6.11% +22.17%

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Blackpool - 2 £450 -
Bicep
North West

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform