Bicep Contracts in the West Midlands

Azure Bicep
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 105 129
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 +31
Contract jobs citing Bicep 4 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.37% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.65% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £607 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -13.29% +19.15%
England median daily rate £475 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -12.84% -0.91% -6.38%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 355 425 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.93% 22.18% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 307 403
10th Percentile £246 £260 £361
25th Percentile £400 £336 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £681 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.54% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 8
10th Percentile £16.83 £40.10 £21.73
25th Percentile £17.44 £55.00 £23.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%
75th Percentile £32.62 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £69.75 £98.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.13%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the West Midlands

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the West Midlands

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Coventry - 4 £600 - 2
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (75.00%) Collibra
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) IoT
1 3 (75.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (75.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Informatica
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle