Azure Bicep
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 542 795
Rank change year-on-year +128 +253 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 171 154 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.26% 0.052%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 0.76% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 109 23
10th Percentile £427 £450 £483
25th Percentile £488 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £684
90th Percentile £659 £775 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £594
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £90.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £110.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £130.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,664 20,218 31,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.62% 34.76% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,004 14,576 23,300
10th Percentile £350 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 464 514
10th Percentile £33.63 £26.16 £19.64
25th Percentile £46.48 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.96 £78.00 £73.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%

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 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 13 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
England +138 160 £545 -0.91% 32
London +133 118 £525 -6.25% 11
Work from Home +106 82 £538 -3.93% 18
UK excluding London +67 38 £605 +10.00% 20
South East +23 18 £605 +0.83% 8
Midlands +33 7 £607 +10.36% 5
West Midlands +25 7 £607 -13.29% 1
South West +20 6 £525 -12.50% 2
North of England +12 5 £513 -4.65% 4
North West +18 4 £525 -4.55% 2
Yorkshire +16 1 £463 -11.90% 2
East of England +5 1 £475 -36.67% 1
Scotland - 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 16 (9.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.19%) CMS
3 4 (2.34%) Luigi
4 2 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 171 (100.00%) Azure
2 122 (71.35%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (37.43%) Azure Service Bus
4 62 (36.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 56 (32.75%) Azure Monitor
5 56 (32.75%) Entra ID
6 19 (11.11%) Azure Storage
7 17 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.19%) Azure AKS
8 14 (8.19%) Azure App Service
8 14 (8.19%) Azure Pipelines
9 13 (7.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (5.85%) PaaS
12 9 (5.26%) AWS
13 8 (4.68%) Serverless
14 7 (4.09%) Azure API Management
14 7 (4.09%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (3.51%) Azure Functions
15 6 (3.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.45%) Firewall
2 20 (11.70%) DNS
3 16 (9.36%) DHCP
4 7 (4.09%) FTP
5 3 (1.75%) VPN
6 2 (1.17%) Network Security
7 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (59.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (9.36%) Redis
3 7 (4.09%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.58%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (23.39%) Git
2 7 (4.09%) GitLab
3 4 (2.34%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.17%) Snyk
5 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.58%) Hudson
6 1 (0.58%) JIRA
6 1 (0.58%) JMeter
6 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.96%) Back Office
3 27 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.26%) Finance
5 8 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.09%) Local Government
7 6 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.34%) Front Office
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Electronics
9 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (47.37%) Developer
2 60 (35.09%) Senior
3 51 (29.82%) Senior Developer
4 36 (21.05%) Backend Developer
5 29 (16.96%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (15.79%) Senior Backend Developer
7 18 (10.53%) Lead
8 17 (9.94%) Azure Developer
9 16 (9.36%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (8.19%) .NET Developer
10 14 (8.19%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (8.19%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (8.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (8.19%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.60%) Software Developer
12 12 (7.02%) Senior Software Developer
12 12 (7.02%) Technical Leader
13 11 (6.43%) C# Developer
13 11 (6.43%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 10 (5.85%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (60.23%) .NET
2 83 (48.54%) .NET Core
3 46 (26.90%) XML
4 37 (21.64%) React
5 35 (20.47%) ARM Templates
6 32 (18.71%) CSS
7 30 (17.54%) HTML
8 28 (16.37%) ASP.NET
9 24 (14.04%) YAML
10 15 (8.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (8.77%) jQuery
11 11 (6.43%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.43%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (3.51%) RESTful
12 6 (3.51%) SOAP
13 5 (2.92%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.92%) REST
14 4 (2.34%) Pandas
15 2 (1.17%) JSON
15 2 (1.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.94%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (9.36%) PKI
4 10 (5.85%) Contactless
5 7 (4.09%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.34%) Derivative
8 4 (2.34%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.17%) Tandem
10 2 (1.17%) Wiki
11 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.45%) Linux
2 21 (12.28%) Windows
3 19 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (9.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (91.23%) DevOps
2 123 (71.93%) Agile
3 89 (52.05%) CI/CD
4 64 (37.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (32.75%) TDD
6 52 (30.41%) Scrum
7 49 (28.65%) OO
8 45 (26.32%) OOD
9 44 (25.73%) API Management
10 43 (25.15%) Clean Code
11 36 (21.05%) B2C
12 29 (16.96%) Analytics
13 26 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (11.70%) Log Analytics
15 19 (11.11%) RBAC
15 19 (11.11%) Software Engineering
16 18 (10.53%) Identity Management
17 17 (9.94%) Multi-Factor Authentication
17 17 (9.94%) Release Management
17 17 (9.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (74.85%) C#
2 84 (49.12%) PowerShell
3 46 (26.90%) TypeScript
4 35 (20.47%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.62%) SQL
6 16 (9.36%) Python
6 16 (9.36%) VB
6 16 (9.36%) VBScript
7 4 (2.34%) Bash
7 4 (2.34%) Java
8 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.28%) Degree
4 20 (11.70%) DV Cleared
5 16 (9.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.58%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.36%) Accessibility
2 15 (8.77%) WCAG
3 10 (5.85%) QA
4 4 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 88 (51.46%) Active Directory
2 29 (16.96%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (9.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (8.19%) Docker
5 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (21.05%) Terraform
2 27 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (9.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (9.36%) SCCM
3 16 (9.36%) SCOM
3 16 (9.36%) WSUS
4 7 (4.09%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.34%) Puppet
6 3 (1.75%) Ansible
6 3 (1.75%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.58%) Grafana
8 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (58.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.09%) Databricks
3 3 (1.75%) VMware
4 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.58%) BMC
5 1 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.58%) NetApp
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle
5 1 (0.58%) Remedy
5 1 (0.58%) SAP
5 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow