Bicep Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Azure Bicep
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.12% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -12.50%

All Programming Languages
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 61 23 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 16.14% 13.69% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 20 22
10th Percentile £373 £406 £376
25th Percentile £406 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £594
90th Percentile £765 £841 £600
South West median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +62.50% -28.89%
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in Somerset

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in Somerset over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Somerset

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Taunton - 7 £500 - 4
Bicep
South West

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (12.50%) IIS
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) Figma
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) SMTP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MSI
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Architect
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Technical Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Core
2 5 (62.50%) GeoJSON
3 4 (50.00%) ATL
3 4 (50.00%) COM
3 4 (50.00%) MFC
3 4 (50.00%) REST
3 4 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 3 (37.50%) CSS3
4 3 (37.50%) HTML
4 3 (37.50%) HTML5
4 3 (37.50%) WPF
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (12.50%) SignalR
5 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Wiki
5 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
5 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) DevSecOps
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Microservices
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) API Design
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (37.50%) Dependency Management
5 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
5 3 (37.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 3 (37.50%) High Availability
5 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) SOLID
5 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NCSC
2 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (37.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) VMware