Bicep Contracts in the Midlands

Azure Bicep
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 108 125 160
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 +47
Contract jobs citing Bicep 3 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 1.29% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile - £375 £520
25th Percentile £463 £477 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £607 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% +10.36% -6.38%
75th Percentile £594 £611 £638
90th Percentile £658 - £675
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.38%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the Midlands

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the Midlands

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the Midlands

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Midlands 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
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Batch
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft