Bicep Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Bicep
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 312 362 428
Rank change year-on-year +50 +66 +72
Contract jobs citing Bicep 24 37 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 0.76% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 22
10th Percentile £414 £449 £479
25th Percentile £453 £512 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £544
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +11.26% -8.42%
75th Percentile £621 £608 £619
90th Percentile £674 £611 £768
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -8.33%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the UK excluding London

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the UK excluding London

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the UK excluding London

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK excluding London 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
South East +41 12 £600 -0.83% 23
North of England +19 4 £508 +1.50% 35
Scotland +16 4 £525 - 7
Midlands +17 3 £475 -21.75% 12
North West +17 3 £450 -12.20% 24
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
South West +42 2 £450 -14.29% 9
East of England +30 1 £751 +58.11% 7
North East - 1 £565 - 1
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Azure AKS
4 9 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Storage
5 6 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (16.67%) Azure App Service
7 4 (16.67%) GitHub
7 4 (16.67%) IaaS
7 4 (16.67%) PaaS
7 4 (16.67%) Power Automate
7 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 3 (12.50%) AWS
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (8.33%) Azure Table
9 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Power Query
2 2 (8.33%) Redis
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Electronics
4 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
4 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Support
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) ARM Templates
2 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (16.67%) YAML
3 3 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) ADO
4 2 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) OpenID
5 1 (4.17%) pytest
5 1 (4.17%) React
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) SAML
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) DevOps
2 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) High Availability
6 5 (20.83%) Log Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) Identity Management
7 4 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) RBAC
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.50%) Cost Management
8 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (12.50%) Observability
8 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 12 (50.00%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 6 (25.00%) Bash
5 5 (20.83%) C#
6 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (8.33%) Java
7 1 (4.17%) VB
7 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
1 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Terraform
2 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (20.83%) Grafana
5 4 (16.67%) Ansible
6 3 (12.50%) Puppet
7 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (4.17%) SCCM
8 1 (4.17%) SCOM
8 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) SAP