Bicep Contracts

Azure Bicep
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 448 558
Rank change year-on-year +59 +110 +252
Contract jobs citing Bicep 130 153 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 1.19% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 103 109
10th Percentile £374 £432 £449
25th Percentile £413 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £751 £611 £638
90th Percentile £838 £675 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £605 £544
% change year-on-year -9.09% +11.26% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bicep.

Hourly rate trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +14 98 £523 -5.00% 85
London +3 75 £520 -3.93% 36
Work from Home +38 59 £600 +6.67% 59
UK excluding London +40 23 £550 -9.09% 50
South East +38 12 £600 -0.83% 7
North of England +28 4 £508 +1.50% 25
Midlands +19 3 £475 -21.75% 5
North West +11 3 £450 -12.20% 18
Scotland +11 3 £538 - 5
East Midlands - 3 £475 -
South West +41 2 £450 -14.29% 3
East of England +33 1 £751 +58.11% 4
North East - 1 £565 - 1

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (5.38%) Confluence
2 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.77%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 128 (98.46%) Azure
2 67 (51.54%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (33.08%) Azure AKS
4 40 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
5 37 (28.46%) AWS
6 34 (26.15%) IaaS
6 34 (26.15%) PaaS
7 32 (24.62%) Serverless
8 31 (23.85%) GCP
8 31 (23.85%) SaaS
9 30 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (17.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 18 (13.85%) Entra ID
12 17 (13.08%) Power Platform
13 16 (12.31%) GitHub
14 15 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 15 (11.54%) Azure Storage
15 13 (10.00%) Azure App Service
15 13 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (43.08%) Firewall
2 24 (18.46%) DNS
3 21 (16.15%) HTTP
3 21 (16.15%) TCP/IP
4 20 (15.38%) DHCP
5 19 (14.62%) BGP
6 18 (13.85%) HTTPS
6 18 (13.85%) OSPF
7 11 (8.46%) VPN
8 4 (3.08%) Network Security
9 3 (2.31%) FTP
9 3 (2.31%) SMTP
9 3 (2.31%) SSL
9 3 (2.31%) WAN
10 2 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (10.77%) Power BI
3 12 (9.23%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.54%) MySQL
7 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.54%) Power Query
7 2 (1.54%) Redis
7 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.77%) DTS
8 1 (0.77%) Parquet
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Jenkins
1 8 (6.15%) JIRA
2 5 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (1.54%) GitLab
3 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.00%) Finance
3 18 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.31%) Banking
5 11 (8.46%) Marketing
6 7 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.85%) Front Office
9 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.31%) Electronics
10 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.77%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (33.85%) Architect
2 38 (29.23%) Azure Engineer
3 28 (21.54%) Cloud Architect
4 18 (13.85%) Azure Architect
4 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native Architect
4 18 (13.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.85%) Technical Architect
5 15 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) AWS Architect
7 9 (6.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Network Security Architect
7 9 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Security Architect
7 9 (6.92%) Security Technical Architect
8 8 (6.15%) Developer
8 8 (6.15%) Senior
9 7 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.15%) ARM Templates
2 22 (16.92%) .NET
3 16 (12.31%) YAML
4 12 (9.23%) JSON
5 8 (6.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.85%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.08%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (3.08%) REST
8 3 (2.31%) ADO
9 2 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (1.54%) Kafka
9 2 (1.54%) OAuth
9 2 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.54%) RESTful
9 2 (1.54%) SOAP
9 2 (1.54%) Web Services
10 1 (0.77%) Entity Framework
10 1 (0.77%) OpenID
10 1 (0.77%) pytest
10 1 (0.77%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (31.54%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.31%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.54%) Replication
6 1 (0.77%) Clustering
6 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.77%) Derivative
6 1 (0.77%) Life Science
6 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.77%) NHS
6 1 (0.77%) PKI
6 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.77%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Windows
2 7 (5.38%) Linux
3 6 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.77%) VMS
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (71.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (58.46%) DevOps
3 35 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 29 (22.31%) RBAC
5 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (20.77%) Analytics
7 23 (17.69%) Test Automation
8 22 (16.92%) API Management
8 22 (16.92%) Microservices
9 21 (16.15%) Agile
9 21 (16.15%) Cost Management
10 20 (15.38%) Migration
11 19 (14.62%) Sprint Planning
12 17 (13.08%) Containerisation
13 16 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (11.54%) Cloud Security
15 14 (10.77%) Log Analytics
15 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 13 (10.00%) High Availability
16 13 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 54 (41.54%) PowerShell
2 25 (19.23%) Python
3 24 (18.46%) SQL
4 17 (13.08%) C#
5 10 (7.69%) Bash
5 10 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.08%) Java
8 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.77%) VB
10 1 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.77%) Azure Certification
3 11 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) Degree
5 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.77%) CCNP
6 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.77%) JNCIP
6 1 (0.77%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.77%) MCSE
6 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) GDPR
2 5 (3.85%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.77%) GxP
4 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (15.38%) Docker
2 13 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 90 (69.23%) Terraform
2 50 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.00%) Grafana
4 11 (8.46%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.38%) Ansible
6 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.08%) Puppet
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.77%) Argo
9 1 (0.77%) SCCM
9 1 (0.77%) SCOM
9 1 (0.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (33.85%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.15%) Cisco
3 19 (14.62%) CheckPoint
3 19 (14.62%) Fortinet
3 19 (14.62%) Palo Alto
4 6 (4.62%) Google
5 5 (3.85%) SAP
6 4 (3.08%) Databricks
6 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.31%) Sybase
8 2 (1.54%) Planview
9 1 (0.77%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle