Bicep Contracts in the North West

Azure Bicep
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 137 150 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 4 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.33% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 1.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £483 £498 -
25th Percentile £494 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 -
90th Percentile £618 £645 -
England median daily rate £545 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -0.91% -5.38% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 901 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.60% 29.35% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 672 1,079
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 41
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.78 £21.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -11.47% +65.83%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the North West

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bicep in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the North West

Bicep
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the North West 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
Manchester +11 3 £525 -4.55% 2
Cheshire +4 1 - -
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware