Bicep Contracts in the West Midlands

Azure Bicep
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 134 173
Rank change year-on-year +33 +39 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 8 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.42% 0.21% 0.084%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 0.79% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £375 - £526
25th Percentile £477 - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% +19.15% -
75th Percentile £611 - £613
90th Percentile - - £624
England median daily rate £550 £550 £581
% change year-on-year - -5.38% -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 424 630 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.03% 26.47% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 440 677
10th Percentile £260 £362 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £459
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +14.38% +14.75%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £636
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 27 April 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
Warwickshire - 5 £607 -
Coventry +14 1 £375 -46.43%
Birmingham +7 1 £400 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £523 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure App Service
3 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Angular Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) AngularJS
2 5 (62.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (12.50%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
3 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (12.50%) Sass
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Critical Thinking
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 5 (62.50%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
5 1 (12.50%) B2C
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
5 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) TypeScript
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) LogicMonitor