Bicep Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Bicep
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Bicep skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Bicep over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 398 507
Rank change year-on-year +46 +109 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 41 41 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.18% 0.039%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 0.63% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 10
10th Percentile £457 £498 £468
25th Percentile £513 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.37% -
75th Percentile £608 £675 £659
90th Percentile £611 £775 £669
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -2.00% -5.25% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Bicep is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,875 6,499 8,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 28.23% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 4,546 6,174
10th Percentile £319 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.01%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £677 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 327 325
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.11 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +23.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +16.90%

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 27 May 2024.

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 27 May 2024. 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 +26 20 £605 -6.92% 15
Midlands +30 8 £607 -2.88% 6
West Midlands +23 8 £607 -13.29% 1
South West +11 6 £525 -12.50% 1
North of England +24 5 £550 - 5
North West +26 4 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +12 1 £463 -13.95% 4
East of England +9 1 £475 -36.67% 1
Scotland - 1 - - 4
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 18 (43.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (60.98%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (51.22%) Entra ID
4 18 (43.90%) Azure Storage
4 18 (43.90%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (41.46%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (24.39%) Azure AKS
7 7 (17.07%) Azure App Service
8 5 (12.20%) PaaS
9 4 (9.76%) AWS
9 4 (9.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (9.76%) GitHub
10 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (7.32%) Serverless
11 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.88%) GCP
11 2 (4.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (48.78%) DNS
1 20 (48.78%) Firewall
2 18 (43.90%) DHCP
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Redis
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
1 2 (4.88%) GitLab
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.88%) Snyk
1 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.44%) Hudson
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (63.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.44%) Back Office
3 1 (2.44%) Electronics
3 1 (2.44%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.44%) Marketing
3 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Active Directory Support
2 16 (39.02%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (34.15%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (34.15%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (34.15%) Support Specialist
4 7 (17.07%) Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Angular Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Active Directory Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Senior
8 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (60.98%) ARM Templates
2 8 (19.51%) .NET
3 6 (14.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (12.20%) RESTful
5 2 (4.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (2.44%) CSS
6 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) JSON
6 1 (2.44%) Sass
6 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (43.90%) PKI
1 18 (43.90%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Linux
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 18 (43.90%) Windows Server
2 18 (43.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 18 (43.90%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (95.12%) DevOps
2 35 (85.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (65.85%) Agile
3 27 (65.85%) CI/CD
4 22 (53.66%) Analytics
4 22 (53.66%) Log Analytics
5 20 (48.78%) Identity Management
6 19 (46.34%) RBAC
6 19 (46.34%) Release Management
6 19 (46.34%) Service Management
7 18 (43.90%) ITIL
7 18 (43.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 18 (43.90%) Privileged Identity Management
8 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (14.63%) User Experience
9 6 (14.63%) UX Design
10 5 (12.20%) Critical Thinking
10 5 (12.20%) Microservices
11 4 (9.76%) API Management
11 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) C#
2 26 (63.41%) PowerShell
3 18 (43.90%) VB
3 18 (43.90%) VBScript
4 10 (24.39%) SQL
5 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 4 (9.76%) Python
7 2 (4.88%) Bash
8 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 24 (58.54%) SC Cleared
3 21 (51.22%) DV Cleared
4 18 (43.90%) Degree
4 18 (43.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (48.78%) Active Directory
3 18 (43.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.88%) Docker
4 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Kubernetes
2 18 (43.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 18 (43.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (43.90%) SCCM
2 18 (43.90%) SCOM
2 18 (43.90%) WSUS
3 14 (34.15%) Terraform
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Argo
5 1 (2.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) BMC
3 1 (2.44%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (2.44%) Remedy
3 1 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow