Bicep Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Azure Bicep
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 37 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.60% 0.46% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 1.52% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £489 - -
25th Percentile £509 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% - -
75th Percentile £597 £573 -
90th Percentile £621 - -
North East median daily rate £550 £565 -
% change year-on-year -2.65% - -

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 91 66 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 27.41% 30.56% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 41 22
10th Percentile £380 £325 £233
25th Percentile £400 £345 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -5.02% -15.77%
75th Percentile £565 £550 £517
90th Percentile £575 £630 £549
North East median daily rate £475 £457 £454
% change year-on-year +3.94% +0.66% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £39.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.39% - -19.69%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in Tyne and Wear

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -9 2 £550 -2.65% 1
Bicep
North East

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks