Bicep Contracts in the North of England

Azure Bicep
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 186 189
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 6 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.10% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.40% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 18
10th Percentile £390 £453 £460
25th Percentile - £467 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile - £609 £575
90th Percentile £555 £626 £640
England median daily rate £520 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -4.59% -0.91% -2.65%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 990 1,245 1,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.32% 25.61% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 733 847 1,109
10th Percentile £331 £317 £359
25th Percentile £388 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £611
90th Percentile £606 £628 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 57 24
10th Percentile £31.70 £37.55 £27.97
25th Percentile £52.00 £45.88 £37.78
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% +2.48% +23.92%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.75 £56.68
90th Percentile £95.71 £76.37 £65.15
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the North of England

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the North of England

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the North of England

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
North West +8 4 £450 -25.00% 35
Yorkshire +4 2 £400 -13.51% 29
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure App Service
3 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) git-flow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft