Bicep Contracts in the Midlands

Azure Bicep
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Bicep skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bicep over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 159 204
Rank change year-on-year +29 +45 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 8 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.20% 0.060%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.29% 0.75% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £375 £520 £526
25th Percentile £477 £522 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -6.38% -
75th Percentile £611 £638 £613
90th Percentile - £675 £624
England median daily rate £550 £550 £581
% change year-on-year - -5.38% -

All Programming Languages
Midlands

Bicep is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 618 932 1,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.46% 27.07% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 697 993
10th Percentile £260 £313 £314
25th Percentile £350 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +13.92%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £613
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 18
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £16.97
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.06
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +31 8 £607 -13.29% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure App Service
3 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Angular Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (12.50%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
3 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 5 (62.50%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
5 1 (12.50%) B2C
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) LogicMonitor