Bicep Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Azure Bicep
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 81 91
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Bicep 4 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.30% 0.20% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 0.69% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £390 - £449
25th Percentile £422 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £551 - £538
90th Percentile £595 - £580
North West median daily rate £451 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +0.11% -12.20% -8.89%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 467 290 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.88% 28.29% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 215 410
10th Percentile £334 £360 £325
25th Percentile £396 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £535 £525 £548
90th Percentile £588 £600 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £455 £475
% change year-on-year -1.10% -4.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 10
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £65.63
Median hourly rate £61.75 £65.00 £72.19
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.95% +51.97%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £80.44
90th Percentile £90.80 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £67.32 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +2.77% +41.84% +12.51%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in Manchester

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Manchester

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Apigee
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SBOM
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Istio
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Foundry
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI