Bicep Contract Job Trends in Reading

Azure Bicep
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 59 76
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 +4
Contract jobs citing Bicep 6 4 18
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.58% 0.67% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.97% 2.35% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 18
10th Percentile £605 £339 -
25th Percentile £613 £378 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £513 £605
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% -15.29% +14.96%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £608
90th Percentile £700 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £635 £520 £605
% change year-on-year +22.12% -14.05% +17.48%

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 151 170 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.60% 28.48% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 112 198
10th Percentile £322 £400 £351
25th Percentile £412 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £666 £638
90th Percentile £699 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 10
10th Percentile £73.06 - £54.13
25th Percentile £80.75 - £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.50 £77.19 £59.22
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +30.34% -25.22%
75th Percentile £83.38 - £66.03
90th Percentile £83.98 - £67.63
Berkshire median hourly rate £81.50 £63.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +27.85% +3.48% -12.00%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in Reading

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Bicep

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (66.67%) IaaS
4 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (50.00%) PaaS
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
4 3 (50.00%) Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) RBAC
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Migration
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes