Bicep Contracts in England

Azure Bicep
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 531 751
Rank change year-on-year +153 +220 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 163 120 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.25% 0.036%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 0.71% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 85 14
10th Percentile £424 £475 £486
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -5.38% -
75th Percentile £611 £638 £659
90th Percentile £665 £775 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -3.97% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 - £80.00

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in England

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in England.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in England

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in England

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +152 119 £525 -6.25% 9
South East +22 19 £605 -6.92% 7
West Midlands +29 8 £607 -13.29% 1
Midlands +28 8 £607 +10.36% 5
South West +13 6 £525 -12.50% 2
North of England +16 5 £513 -4.65% 5
North West +13 4 £525 -4.55% 2
Yorkshire +10 1 £463 -11.90% 3
East of England +7 1 £475 -36.67% 1
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.59%) CMS
3 4 (2.45%) Luigi
4 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) Azure
2 122 (74.85%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (38.65%) Azure Service Bus
4 61 (37.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 58 (35.58%) Azure Monitor
6 55 (33.74%) Entra ID
7 19 (11.66%) Azure Storage
8 18 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (8.59%) Azure Pipelines
10 13 (7.98%) Azure App Service
11 12 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (6.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (6.13%) Azure AKS
14 9 (5.52%) AWS
14 9 (5.52%) PaaS
15 6 (3.68%) Azure API Management
15 6 (3.68%) GCP
15 6 (3.68%) GitHub
15 6 (3.68%) NuGet
15 6 (3.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.11%) Firewall
2 21 (12.88%) DNS
3 17 (10.43%) DHCP
4 7 (4.29%) FTP
5 2 (1.23%) Network Security
5 2 (1.23%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (59.51%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.82%) Redis
3 13 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.61%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (24.54%) Git
2 7 (4.29%) GitLab
3 4 (2.45%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.23%) Snyk
5 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.61%) Hudson
6 1 (0.61%) JIRA
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.79%) Back Office
3 26 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.52%) Finance
5 7 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.29%) Local Government
6 6 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.45%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Billing
8 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Electronics
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (46.63%) Developer
2 60 (36.81%) Senior
3 51 (31.29%) Senior Developer
4 36 (22.09%) Backend Developer
5 29 (17.79%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (16.56%) Senior Backend Developer
7 18 (11.04%) Lead
8 17 (10.43%) Active Directory Support
9 16 (9.82%) Azure Developer
10 14 (8.59%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (8.59%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (8.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (8.59%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.98%) Software Developer
12 12 (7.36%) Senior Software Developer
12 12 (7.36%) Technical Leader
13 11 (6.75%) C# Developer
13 11 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (6.75%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (60.12%) .NET
2 83 (50.92%) .NET Core
3 46 (28.22%) XML
4 36 (22.09%) ARM Templates
5 33 (20.25%) React
6 31 (19.02%) CSS
7 29 (17.79%) HTML
8 28 (17.18%) ASP.NET
9 19 (11.66%) YAML
10 15 (9.20%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (9.20%) jQuery
11 11 (6.75%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.75%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (3.68%) RESTful
12 6 (3.68%) SOAP
13 5 (3.07%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.07%) REST
14 4 (2.45%) Pandas
15 2 (1.23%) JSON
15 2 (1.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.86%) Product Ownership
2 17 (10.43%) PKI
2 17 (10.43%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.13%) Contactless
4 7 (4.29%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.45%) Derivative
7 4 (2.45%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Tandem
9 2 (1.23%) Wiki
10 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.61%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.11%) Linux
2 22 (13.50%) Windows
3 20 (12.27%) Windows Server
4 17 (10.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (10.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (93.25%) DevOps
2 120 (73.62%) Agile
3 85 (52.15%) CI/CD
4 59 (36.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (34.36%) TDD
6 52 (31.90%) Scrum
7 49 (30.06%) OO
8 45 (27.61%) OOD
9 43 (26.38%) API Management
9 43 (26.38%) Clean Code
10 35 (21.47%) B2C
11 28 (17.18%) Analytics
12 21 (12.88%) Log Analytics
12 21 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.66%) Identity Management
13 19 (11.66%) RBAC
13 19 (11.66%) Service Management
13 19 (11.66%) Software Engineering
14 18 (11.04%) Release Management
15 17 (10.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 123 (75.46%) C#
2 84 (51.53%) PowerShell
3 42 (25.77%) TypeScript
4 34 (20.86%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.72%) SQL
6 17 (10.43%) VB
6 17 (10.43%) VBScript
7 16 (9.82%) Python
8 5 (3.07%) Bash
9 4 (2.45%) Java
10 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.50%) Degree
4 21 (12.88%) DV Cleared
5 17 (10.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.61%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.82%) Accessibility
2 15 (9.20%) WCAG
3 6 (3.68%) QA
4 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (53.37%) Active Directory
2 29 (17.79%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (10.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (7.98%) Docker
5 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (20.86%) Terraform
2 26 (15.95%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (10.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (10.43%) SCCM
3 17 (10.43%) SCOM
3 17 (10.43%) WSUS
4 7 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.45%) Puppet
6 3 (1.84%) Ansible
6 3 (1.84%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.23%) Argo
8 1 (0.61%) Grafana
8 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (61.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.07%) Databricks
3 3 (1.84%) VMware
4 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.61%) BMC
5 1 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.61%) NetApp
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) Remedy
5 1 (0.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow