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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 343 352
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +164
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Bicep 44 37 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.20% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.04% 0.85% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 62
10th Percentile £393 £375 £463
25th Percentile £425 £470 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -15.06%
75th Percentile £602 £608 £645
90th Percentile £697 - £699
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.76% -2.50% -6.14%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,229 4,371 5,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.53% 24.07% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 2,851 3,964
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £398 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.64% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 291 325
10th Percentile £31.25 £35.00 £31.58
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.18 £48.32
Median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £78.71
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bicep

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the UK excluding London

Bicep
DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
South East +7 17 £435 -28.10% 12
North of England -19 11 £450 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -5 7 £550 +12.24% 2
Midlands -10 7 £609 +63.49% 4
West Midlands -7 6 £600 +61.07% 4
Scotland - 5 £500 - 4
North West -9 4 £450 -26.53% 4
South West +23 3 £680 +29.52% 6
East of England +1 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £700 -
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 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (29.55%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (29.55%) GitHub
4 12 (27.27%) Azure AKS
5 11 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 10 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (20.45%) IaaS
7 9 (20.45%) PaaS
8 8 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (18.18%) Power Platform
8 8 (18.18%) Serverless
9 6 (13.64%) Azure Functions
10 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (11.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (11.36%) Azure Storage
10 5 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
1 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) DHCP
3 1 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (2.27%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (15.91%) Power BI
3 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (9.09%) Delta Lake
4 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.82%) GIS
6 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.27%) Metadata
7 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.27%) MySQL
7 1 (2.27%) Power Query
7 1 (2.27%) Redis
7 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) git-flow
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Poetry
2 1 (2.27%) Pylint
2 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Law
4 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Architect
2 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) ARM Templates
2 8 (18.18%) .NET
3 6 (13.64%) .NET Core
4 5 (11.36%) ADO
4 5 (11.36%) YAML
5 4 (9.09%) Kafka
6 3 (6.82%) React
7 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.55%) Blazor
7 2 (4.55%) Express.js
7 2 (4.55%) FHIR
7 2 (4.55%) Next.js
7 2 (4.55%) Node.js
8 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.27%) JSON
8 1 (2.27%) LangChain
8 1 (2.27%) Playwright
8 1 (2.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.82%) IoT
3 3 (6.82%) SCADA
3 3 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Replication
5 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.27%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) DevOps
2 31 (70.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (52.27%) CI/CD
4 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.45%) Agile
5 9 (20.45%) Analytics
5 9 (20.45%) Migration
6 8 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (15.91%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (13.64%) Event-Driven
8 6 (13.64%) High Availability
8 6 (13.64%) Observability
8 6 (13.64%) RBAC
9 5 (11.36%) Cost Management
9 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (11.36%) Log Analytics
9 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 13 (29.55%) Python
4 7 (15.91%) Bash
4 7 (15.91%) C#
5 3 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) VB
6 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.27%) CCSP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CISM
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
5 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.27%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) HL7
2 2 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.27%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (75.00%) Terraform
2 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.36%) Grafana
3 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.55%) Ansible
6 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) SCCM
6 1 (2.27%) SCOM
6 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Informatica
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.27%) Qualys
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Zscaler