Bicep Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Azure Bicep
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 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 79 66 70
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 8 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.87% 0.43% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 1.35% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £463 - £451
25th Percentile £519 £465 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £515 £575
90th Percentile - - £609
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -2.00% -33.33%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 296 223 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.14% 31.72% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 157 189
10th Percentile £369 £359 £330
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £567 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.30% -9.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £99.32 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Bicep.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Bicep

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in West Yorkshire

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region 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
Leeds -13 7 £575 +17.35% 2
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Bicep
Yorkshire

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Apigee
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Spinnaker
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (25.00%) Blazor
3 2 (25.00%) React
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) FHIR
4 1 (12.50%) Flask
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Istio
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI