Bicep Contract Job Trends

Azure Bicep
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Bicep skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 438 490
Rank change year-on-year +27 +52 +199
Contract jobs citing Bicep 175 106 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 0.95% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 74 96
10th Percentile £410 £383 £413
25th Percentile £449 £500 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +7.73% -5.38%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £641
90th Percentile £695 £785 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - £75.00
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 - £75.00

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 11,503 11,108 13,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.24% 32.49% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,585 7,147 9,647
10th Percentile £350 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.74%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.45% -2.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 372 258 414
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £33.12
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% -1.93% -

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bicep relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Bicep job vacancy trend in the UK

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bicep.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bicep

Bicep
Top 14 Contract Job 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 19 December 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 +29 145 £525 -4.55% 50
London +16 86 £525 -4.55% 20
UK excluding London -2 59 £550 +4.76% 41
Work from Home -1 46 £475 -24.00% 27
North of England -35 18 £513 -2.84% 13
South West - 17 £575 - 6
South East -26 9 £459 -24.17% 13
Yorkshire -35 9 £575 +17.35% 4
Scotland - 8 £525 - 3
North West - 6 £450 - 6
West Midlands -34 4 £425 +6.25% 6
Midlands -45 4 £425 -2.86% 7
North East -4 3 £475 -15.93% 3
East of England - 3 £650 -

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 170 (97.14%) Azure
2 96 (54.86%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (34.29%) Azure Monitor
4 59 (33.71%) Entra ID
5 57 (32.57%) GitHub
6 50 (28.57%) Azure AKS
6 50 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (23.43%) Azure Key Vault
8 35 (20.00%) PaaS
8 35 (20.00%) Serverless
9 31 (17.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (17.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 29 (16.57%) Azure Service Bus
12 28 (16.00%) Azure Functions
13 27 (15.43%) IaaS
14 21 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (11.43%) AWS
15 20 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (9.71%) Azure Sentinel
17 16 (9.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.71%) VPN
2 22 (12.57%) Firewall
3 15 (8.57%) Network Security
4 14 (8.00%) DNS
5 9 (5.14%) DHCP
6 7 (4.00%) WAN
7 2 (1.14%) LAN
7 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.57%) MPLS
8 1 (0.57%) MQTT
8 1 (0.57%) NAS
8 1 (0.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (9.14%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.43%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.14%) Power BI
6 7 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.71%) Metadata
8 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.57%) Redis
10 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (6.29%) Git
2 7 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.43%) GitLab
4 3 (1.71%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.57%) Gatling
5 1 (0.57%) JIRA
5 1 (0.57%) JMeter
5 1 (0.57%) Poetry
5 1 (0.57%) Pylint
5 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.00%) Finance
3 20 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.29%) Banking
6 9 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Law
8 4 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.71%) Front Office
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (29.71%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (20.00%) Architect
3 28 (16.00%) Azure Architect
4 26 (14.86%) Developer
5 16 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (9.14%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (8.00%) Lead
7 14 (8.00%) Senior
8 13 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.86%) Software Engineer
10 11 (6.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Azure Developer
11 10 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) Technical Architect
12 9 (5.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.57%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.14%) ARM Templates
2 36 (20.57%) .NET
3 22 (12.57%) React
4 20 (11.43%) .NET Core
5 19 (10.86%) Node.js
6 17 (9.71%) AngularJS
6 17 (9.71%) REST
7 12 (6.86%) YAML
8 9 (5.14%) PySpark
9 8 (4.57%) Next.js
10 7 (4.00%) ADO
10 7 (4.00%) Express.js
10 7 (4.00%) PyTorch
10 7 (4.00%) TensorFlow
11 6 (3.43%) OAuth
11 6 (3.43%) RESTful
12 5 (2.86%) SOAP
13 4 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (1.71%) OAuth2
14 3 (1.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.43%) Cloud Native
2 22 (12.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (7.43%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (5.71%) Security Posture
5 8 (4.57%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.43%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.29%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.29%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.71%) IoT
8 3 (1.71%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.71%) Windows
2 11 (6.29%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.14%) VMS
4 7 (4.00%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (74.29%) DevOps
2 121 (69.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (65.71%) CI/CD
4 47 (26.86%) Analytics
5 45 (25.71%) RBAC
6 43 (24.57%) Agile
6 43 (24.57%) Cloud Security
6 43 (24.57%) Migration
7 40 (22.86%) Containerisation
8 34 (19.43%) API Management
9 29 (16.57%) Microservices
9 29 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 26 (14.86%) AI
12 24 (13.71%) Log Analytics
13 22 (12.57%) Test Automation
14 21 (12.00%) Cost Management
14 21 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
15 20 (11.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.86%) Python
2 52 (29.71%) PowerShell
2 52 (29.71%) SQL
3 30 (17.14%) C#
4 21 (12.00%) Bash
5 19 (10.86%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.14%) Java
10 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (26.86%) Azure Certification
2 29 (16.57%) Security Cleared
3 28 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 20 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (6.29%) Degree
6 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.29%) CISM
7 4 (2.29%) CISSP
7 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.57%) CCSP
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.57%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (9.14%) GDPR
3 14 (8.00%) NIST
4 8 (4.57%) NCSC
5 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
6 6 (3.43%) QA
6 6 (3.43%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.14%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.57%) HL7
9 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (33.14%) Docker
2 47 (26.86%) Active Directory
3 13 (7.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 141 (80.57%) Terraform
2 67 (38.29%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.29%) Kibana
4 4 (2.29%) Ansible
4 4 (2.29%) Packer
4 4 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.71%) Istio
5 3 (1.71%) logstash
5 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.57%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 100 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.00%) Databricks
3 17 (9.71%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.43%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.86%) Google
5 5 (2.86%) VMware
6 4 (2.29%) Splunk
7 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.71%) Foundry
7 3 (1.71%) IBM
7 3 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) SAP
9 1 (0.57%) Ariba
9 1 (0.57%) CloudEndure
9 1 (0.57%) Okta
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle
9 1 (0.57%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.57%) Workday
9 1 (0.57%) Zscaler