Bicep Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 265 374
Rank change year-on-year +26 +109 +213
Contract jobs citing Bicep 65 81 96
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.54% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.77% 1.60% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 56 70
10th Percentile £389 £438 £449
25th Percentile £440 £497 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.97% -15.47%
75th Percentile £838 £608 £619
90th Percentile - £675 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.60% -2.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £110.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -

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 3,682 5,063 9,446
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.68% 33.47% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,626 3,667 6,913
10th Percentile £360 £350 £388
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £803 £788 £774
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 143 204
10th Percentile £25.25 £26.75 £32.03
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.00 £85.00 £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.28
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.20% +20.55%

Bicep
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bicep trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bicep
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Bicep over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

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 1 (1.54%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (98.46%) Azure
2 31 (47.69%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (40.00%) AWS
4 23 (35.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (35.38%) IaaS
5 22 (33.85%) GCP
6 21 (32.31%) Azure AKS
6 21 (32.31%) PaaS
6 21 (32.31%) SaaS
7 18 (27.69%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (21.54%) Entra ID
9 11 (16.92%) Serverless
10 10 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (12.31%) Power Platform
12 7 (10.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (9.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (7.69%) GitHub
15 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
15 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (41.54%) Firewall
2 24 (36.92%) DNS
3 20 (30.77%) DHCP
3 20 (30.77%) HTTP
3 20 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 19 (29.23%) BGP
5 18 (27.69%) HTTPS
5 18 (27.69%) OSPF
6 2 (3.08%) FTP
6 2 (3.08%) SMTP
6 2 (3.08%) SSL
6 2 (3.08%) VPN
6 2 (3.08%) WAN
7 1 (1.54%) Network Security
7 1 (1.54%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (9.23%) Power BI
3 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.08%) Redis
7 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.54%) MySQL
7 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.54%) Power Query
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.15%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Electronics
5 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.08%) Marketing
5 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (44.62%) Architect
2 23 (35.38%) Cloud Architect
3 18 (27.69%) Cloud Native Architect
3 18 (27.69%) Technical Architect
4 16 (24.62%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (13.85%) AWS Architect
6 9 (13.85%) Network Security Architect
6 9 (13.85%) Security Architect
6 9 (13.85%) Security Technical Architect
7 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Senior
9 6 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (7.69%) Data Architect
10 5 (7.69%) Lead
11 4 (6.15%) Azure Architect
12 3 (4.62%) Azure Developer
12 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) YAML
2 9 (13.85%) ARM Templates
3 7 (10.77%) .NET
4 5 (7.69%) JSON
5 3 (4.62%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (4.62%) REST
6 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.08%) SOAP
6 2 (3.08%) XML
7 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.54%) ADO
7 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.54%) CSS
7 1 (1.54%) EDI
7 1 (1.54%) HTML
7 1 (1.54%) OAuth
7 1 (1.54%) WCF
7 1 (1.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (41.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.62%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) NHS
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.54%) Android
3 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (67.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (56.92%) DevOps
3 24 (36.92%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.31%) Test Automation
5 19 (29.23%) Sprint Planning
6 11 (16.92%) Analytics
7 8 (12.31%) Agile
7 8 (12.31%) RBAC
8 7 (10.77%) API Management
8 7 (10.77%) Containerisation
8 7 (10.77%) Cost Management
8 7 (10.77%) Microservices
8 7 (10.77%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (9.23%) GitOps
9 6 (9.23%) High Availability
9 6 (9.23%) Migration
9 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.69%) Log Analytics
10 5 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (15.38%) SQL
3 7 (10.77%) Python
4 6 (9.23%) C#
5 5 (7.69%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.62%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.54%) Java
8 1 (1.54%) VB
8 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.54%) CCNP
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.54%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) GDPR
1 3 (4.62%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.54%) HL7
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.31%) Docker
3 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.62%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (73.85%) Terraform
2 20 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) Grafana
3 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.08%) Ansible
4 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.54%) SCCM
5 1 (1.54%) SCOM
5 1 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) CheckPoint
1 19 (29.23%) Cisco
1 19 (29.23%) Fortinet
1 19 (29.23%) Palo Alto
2 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) Databricks
4 3 (4.62%) SAP
5 1 (1.54%) Darktrace
5 1 (1.54%) Google
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow