Bicep Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Azure Bicep
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 133 144
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 10 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.30% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.41% 1.24% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £553 £345 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £605 £425 £525
90th Percentile £613 £463 -
England median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -2.22%

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 707 644 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.36% 24.04% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 406 494
10th Percentile £312 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £626 £688
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 18
10th Percentile £33.45 £26.32 £17.50
25th Percentile £35.48 £33.93 £17.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -31.71% +160.62%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £54.00
90th Percentile - £69.00 £60.20
England median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% -

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 October 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 18 October 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
West Midlands -13 10 £600 +61.07% 6
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (30.00%) Collibra
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (20.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (10.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (30.00%) GIS
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes Specialist
3 3 (30.00%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) IoT
1 3 (30.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (40.00%) AI
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Batch Processing
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) RBAC
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
6 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Bash
4 3 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Kibana
3 3 (30.00%) logstash
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Informatica
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint
4 1 (10.00%) Qualys