Bicep Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Azure Bicep
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.51% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 52 59 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 26.40% 39.86% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 45 19
10th Percentile £368 £273 £313
25th Percentile £394 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £480 £500 £500
90th Percentile £647 £615 £513
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £27.03 £19.02
25th Percentile - £33.86 £23.37
Median hourly rate - £47.85 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year - +53.13% +131.48%
75th Percentile - £64.47 £31.88
90th Percentile - £72.87 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.54%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 1
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco