Bicep Contracts in Reading

Azure Bicep
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 75 85
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Bicep 3 16 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 1.34% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% 5.54% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 2
10th Percentile £368 - £515
25th Percentile £450 £603 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £605 £526
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +14.96% +0.24%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £546
90th Percentile - - £552
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £605 £515
% change year-on-year -0.83% +17.48% -1.90%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in Reading

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in Reading

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Reading

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP