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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 103 124
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +64
Contract jobs citing Bicep 6 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.35% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 1.52% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £345 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £373 £500
Median % change year-on-year +61.07% -25.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £609 £425 £525
90th Percentile £614 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.38%

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 429 396 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.04% 21.14% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 271 365
10th Percentile £283 £313 £309
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £613 £650 £725
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 11
10th Percentile £28.18 £33.57 £17.75
25th Percentile £33.91 £36.25 £18.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +98.96% -58.62%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £44.41
90th Percentile - £60.38 £97.50
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £60.11
% change year-on-year -12.69% +8.14% +9.28%

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 18 August 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 -
Birmingham +4 1 £618 +54.50% 2
Warwickshire -8 1 £600 -
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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GitHub
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (50.00%) Collibra
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (50.00%) Serverless
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (33.33%) PaaS
6 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) GIS
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) IoT
1 3 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 3 (50.00%) Batch Processing
4 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (50.00%) RBAC
4 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
5 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
5 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) High Availability
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
5 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Informatica
2 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Qualys