Bicep Contracts in London

Azure Bicep
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 278 282 413
Rank change year-on-year +4 +131 +173
Contract jobs citing Bicep 75 109 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.61% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.70% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 65 57
10th Percentile £361 £430 £440
25th Percentile £404 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -4.02% -2.61%
75th Percentile £706 £645 £638
90th Percentile £751 £688 £775
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.38%

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in London

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in London

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in London

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the London 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
Central London +2 14 £540 +2.86% 14
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (8.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (97.33%) Azure
2 42 (56.00%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (36.00%) Azure AKS
4 24 (32.00%) Serverless
5 23 (30.67%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (25.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (21.33%) AWS
8 13 (17.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
9 12 (16.00%) GCP
9 12 (16.00%) IaaS
9 12 (16.00%) PaaS
9 12 (16.00%) SaaS
10 11 (14.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (14.67%) Power Platform
11 10 (13.33%) GitHub
12 8 (10.67%) Azure App Service
13 7 (9.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (9.33%) Azure Storage
13 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (40.00%) Firewall
2 10 (13.33%) VPN
3 5 (6.67%) DNS
4 3 (4.00%) FTP
4 3 (4.00%) HTTP
4 3 (4.00%) SMTP
4 3 (4.00%) SSL
4 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.67%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.67%) Network Security
5 2 (2.67%) WAN
6 1 (1.33%) BGP
6 1 (1.33%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) Power BI
2 9 (12.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.33%) DTS
7 1 (1.33%) Redis
7 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 31 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Finance
3 15 (20.00%) Banking
4 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.67%) Marketing
6 6 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.67%) Front Office
8 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Architect
1 21 (28.00%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Azure Architect
3 9 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Senior
6 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Technical Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
7 4 (5.33%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Site Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.67%) ARM Templates
2 18 (24.00%) .NET
3 10 (13.33%) YAML
4 9 (12.00%) JSON
5 8 (10.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (2.67%) Kafka
7 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.67%) REST
7 2 (2.67%) SOAP
7 2 (2.67%) XML
8 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.33%) CSS
8 1 (1.33%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.33%) React
8 1 (1.33%) Web Services
8 1 (1.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.67%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.33%) Clustering
6 1 (1.33%) Derivative
6 1 (1.33%) Life Science
6 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.33%) Android
3 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (65.33%) DevOps
3 22 (29.33%) RBAC
4 21 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 19 (25.33%) Analytics
6 18 (24.00%) Microservices
6 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (22.67%) Agile
8 16 (21.33%) API Management
9 15 (20.00%) Cost Management
9 15 (20.00%) Migration
10 14 (18.67%) Cloud Security
11 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (16.00%) Zero Trust
13 11 (14.67%) Containerisation
13 11 (14.67%) Cost Optimisation
14 10 (13.33%) GitOps
14 10 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (13.33%) Software Engineering
15 9 (12.00%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (17.33%) C#
2 13 (17.33%) SQL
3 11 (14.67%) Python
4 10 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.00%) Bash
8 2 (2.67%) Java
8 2 (2.67%) Scala
9 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) CCNP
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.33%) MCDBA
4 1 (1.33%) MCSE
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) GDPR
2 4 (5.33%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.67%) QA
4 1 (1.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.33%) GxP
4 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (14.67%) Docker
2 8 (10.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (60.00%) Terraform
2 34 (45.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.67%) Grafana
4 6 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.67%) Ansible
7 1 (1.33%) Argo
7 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (38.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Google
3 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.00%) Cisco
4 3 (4.00%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.00%) Sybase
5 2 (2.67%) Planview
6 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.33%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle
6 1 (1.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.33%) SAP