Bicep Contract Job Trends in the North East

Azure Bicep
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 40 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.52% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.05% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £489 - -
25th Percentile £509 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% - -
75th Percentile £597 £573 -
90th Percentile £621 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 104 95 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 27.15% 31.56% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 49 25
10th Percentile £389 £323 £258
25th Percentile £400 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £454
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% - -17.45%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £523
90th Percentile £575 £614 £592
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £40.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - -19.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £64.63 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the North East

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the North East over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the North East

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Tyne and Wear -8 2 £550 -2.65% 2
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks