Bicep Contracts in Scotland

Azure Bicep
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 112 128 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.045% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in Scotland

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in Scotland

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +6 2 £525 - 1
Glasgow - 2 £525 - 3
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (50.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power Query
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft