Bicep Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Bicep
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 373 588
Rank change year-on-year +122 +215 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 91 84 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.35% 0.080%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 0.97% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 62 19
10th Percentile £422 £428 £513
25th Percentile £500 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £586
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -4.44% -
75th Percentile £608 £600 £691
90th Percentile £675 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £539 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -3.75% -2.61% -

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Bicep falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

Bicep
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bicep trend for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Bicep.

Bicep daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Bicep over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Bicep daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.79%) CMS
3 4 (4.40%) Luigi
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (59.34%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (40.66%) Azure Monitor
3 37 (40.66%) Entra ID
4 23 (25.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (24.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 22 (24.18%) Azure Storage
6 21 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (10.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (8.79%) AWS
8 8 (8.79%) Azure AKS
8 8 (8.79%) Azure Pipelines
9 7 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.59%) GCP
11 5 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.49%) PaaS
12 4 (4.40%) Azure API Management
12 4 (4.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (4.40%) GitHub
12 4 (4.40%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.77%) Firewall
2 23 (25.27%) DNS
3 21 (23.08%) DHCP
4 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 2 (2.20%) VPN
6 1 (1.10%) FTP
6 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (43.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.40%) Redis
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) Snyk
3 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.10%) JMeter
4 1 (1.10%) Selenium
4 1 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (47.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.99%) Back Office
4 5 (5.49%) Finance
4 5 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Electronics
6 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
6 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (40.66%) Developer
2 28 (30.77%) Senior
3 27 (29.67%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (25.27%) Senior Developer
5 21 (23.08%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (15.38%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (15.38%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (15.38%) Backend Developer
6 14 (15.38%) Support Specialist
7 11 (12.09%) Senior Backend Developer
8 10 (10.99%) Azure Developer
9 8 (8.79%) .NET Developer
9 8 (8.79%) C# Developer
9 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Software Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 7 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.46%) .NET
2 32 (35.16%) ARM Templates
3 30 (32.97%) .NET Core
4 18 (19.78%) XML
5 17 (18.68%) React
6 12 (13.19%) CSS
7 11 (12.09%) ASP.NET
8 10 (10.99%) HTML
9 9 (9.89%) YAML
10 8 (8.79%) jQuery
11 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (4.40%) Pandas
12 4 (4.40%) SOAP
13 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
13 3 (3.30%) REST
14 2 (2.20%) Kafka
15 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
15 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web Forms
15 1 (1.10%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) PKI
1 21 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (13.19%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.69%) Contactless
4 5 (5.49%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.20%) Tandem
7 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.57%) Linux
2 23 (25.27%) Windows
2 23 (25.27%) Windows Server
3 21 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (91.21%) DevOps
2 63 (69.23%) Agile
3 57 (62.64%) CI/CD
4 52 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (30.77%) Analytics
6 25 (27.47%) RBAC
7 23 (25.27%) Identity Management
7 23 (25.27%) Log Analytics
7 23 (25.27%) Service Management
8 22 (24.18%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 22 (24.18%) Release Management
8 22 (24.18%) Scrum
9 21 (23.08%) ITIL
9 21 (23.08%) Privileged Identity Management
10 19 (20.88%) TDD
11 18 (19.78%) OO
12 16 (17.58%) API Management
13 15 (16.48%) Clean Code
13 15 (16.48%) OOD
14 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 63 (69.23%) C#
2 53 (58.24%) PowerShell
3 21 (23.08%) VB
3 21 (23.08%) VBScript
4 17 (18.68%) TypeScript
5 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.09%) Python
7 10 (10.99%) SQL
8 3 (3.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.20%) Java
10 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
1 25 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.37%) Degree
3 21 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 21 (23.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CEH
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
1 8 (8.79%) WCAG
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 48 (52.75%) Active Directory
2 27 (29.67%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (23.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (9.89%) Docker
5 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 27 (29.67%) Terraform
3 21 (23.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (23.08%) SCCM
3 21 (23.08%) SCOM
3 21 (23.08%) WSUS
4 3 (3.30%) Puppet
5 2 (2.20%) Ansible
5 2 (2.20%) Argo
5 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.10%) Grafana
6 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (60.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Databricks
3 3 (3.30%) VMware
4 1 (1.10%) BMC
4 1 (1.10%) NetApp
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle
4 1 (1.10%) Remedy
4 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.10%) SAP
4 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow