Bicep Contract Job Trends in the North West

Azure Bicep
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 120 104
Rank change year-on-year -18 -16 +71
Contract jobs citing Bicep 2 1 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.082% 0.042% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.32% 0.20% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 35
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £425 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £475 - £636
90th Percentile - - £665
England median daily rate £525 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -11.39% +7.73% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 616 504 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.33% 21.25% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 311 563
10th Percentile £311 £325 £325
25th Percentile £358 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £575
90th Percentile £612 £606 £672
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 44
10th Percentile £38.36 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £61.30 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% +6.11% +22.17%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £50.56
90th Percentile £88.70 £93.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the North West

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Lancashire - 2 £450 - 5
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform