Bicep Contracts in the South East

Azure Bicep
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 159 205
Rank change year-on-year +9 +46 +65
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Bicep 15 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.44% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.75% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 4
10th Percentile £351 £525 £651
25th Percentile £392 £603 £689
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £605 £773
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% -21.68% +14.44%
75th Percentile £497 £608 £838
90th Percentile £658 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.38%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 910 1,201 1,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.79% 24.93% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 809 957
10th Percentile £307 £325 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £606
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 63 72
10th Percentile £44.86 £27.00 £26.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £46.09
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% +3.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.93 £64.53
90th Percentile £62.75 £77.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.08% +4.00% +13.64%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the South East

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the South East

Bicep
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +8 10 £440 -27.27% 3
Thames Valley +5 10 £440 -27.27% 5
Kent - 3 £430 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (60.00%) Azure AKS
3 9 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
5 5 (33.33%) Azure Storage
5 5 (33.33%) IaaS
6 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (20.00%) Azure Table
7 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (13.33%) Azure App Service
8 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (13.33%) GitHub
8 2 (13.33%) PaaS
9 1 (6.67%) AWS
9 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (6.67%) GCP
9 1 (6.67%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) SMS
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (26.67%) ADO
3 2 (13.33%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (6.67%) Express.js
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) FHIR
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (46.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 5 (33.33%) Observability
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Cost Management
7 3 (20.00%) Log Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (13.33%) Information Security
8 2 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) Bash
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.67%) VB
6 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (6.67%) HL7
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 11 (73.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 4 (26.67%) Grafana
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (13.33%) Ansible
6 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (6.67%) Puppet
6 1 (6.67%) SCCM
6 1 (6.67%) SCOM
6 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Zscaler