Bicep Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Bicep
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 262 380 591
Rank change year-on-year +118 +211 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 85 88 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.36% 0.071%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 0.96% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 66 13
10th Percentile £424 £447 £533
25th Percentile £494 £513 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £663
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -15.47% -
75th Percentile £608 £619 £713
90th Percentile £675 £775 £723
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

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 16 May 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 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.41%) CMS
3 4 (4.71%) Luigi
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (63.53%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (38.82%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (37.65%) Entra ID
5 23 (27.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 23 (27.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 18 (21.18%) Azure Storage
7 17 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (9.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (9.41%) Azure Pipelines
10 7 (8.24%) AWS
10 7 (8.24%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.88%) Azure API Management
11 5 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (5.88%) GCP
12 4 (4.71%) GitHub
12 4 (4.71%) NuGet
12 4 (4.71%) PaaS
12 4 (4.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.88%) Firewall
2 19 (22.35%) DNS
3 17 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (2.35%) Network Security
5 1 (1.18%) FTP
5 1 (1.18%) VPN
5 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.88%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.71%) Redis
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Git
2 7 (8.24%) GitLab
3 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) Snyk
3 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.18%) JMeter
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.76%) Back Office
4 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Finance
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Electronics
6 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (44.71%) Developer
2 28 (32.94%) Senior
3 23 (27.06%) Senior Developer
4 22 (25.88%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (16.47%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (16.47%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (16.47%) Backend Developer
6 14 (16.47%) Support Specialist
7 11 (12.94%) Azure Developer
7 11 (12.94%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (9.41%) .NET Developer
8 8 (9.41%) C# Developer
8 8 (9.41%) Data Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Software Developer
9 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (8.24%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (42.35%) .NET
2 30 (35.29%) .NET Core
3 27 (31.76%) ARM Templates
4 18 (21.18%) XML
5 17 (20.00%) React
6 13 (15.29%) CSS
7 11 (12.94%) ASP.NET
7 11 (12.94%) HTML
8 10 (11.76%) YAML
9 8 (9.41%) jQuery
10 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (4.71%) Pandas
11 4 (4.71%) SOAP
12 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
12 3 (3.53%) REST
13 2 (2.35%) Kafka
14 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
14 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web Forms
14 1 (1.18%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) PKI
1 17 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (14.12%) Product Ownership
3 7 (8.24%) Contactless
4 5 (5.88%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.35%) Tandem
7 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.18%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.88%) Linux
2 18 (21.18%) Windows
2 18 (21.18%) Windows Server
3 17 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (92.94%) DevOps
2 58 (68.24%) Agile
3 52 (61.18%) CI/CD
4 44 (51.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (28.24%) Analytics
6 21 (24.71%) Scrum
7 19 (22.35%) Identity Management
7 19 (22.35%) Log Analytics
7 19 (22.35%) RBAC
7 19 (22.35%) Service Management
7 19 (22.35%) TDD
8 18 (21.18%) OO
8 18 (21.18%) Release Management
9 17 (20.00%) API Management
9 17 (20.00%) ITIL
9 17 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (17.65%) Clean Code
10 15 (17.65%) OOD
11 13 (15.29%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 61 (71.76%) C#
2 47 (55.29%) PowerShell
3 17 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 17 (20.00%) VB
3 17 (20.00%) VBScript
4 14 (16.47%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.76%) SQL
6 9 (10.59%) Python
7 3 (3.53%) Bash
8 2 (2.35%) Java
9 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) SC Cleared
1 21 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.53%) Degree
3 17 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.41%) WCAG
2 4 (4.71%) QA
3 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (50.59%) Active Directory
2 23 (27.06%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (9.41%) Docker
5 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (27.06%) Kubernetes
1 23 (27.06%) Terraform
2 17 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (20.00%) SCCM
2 17 (20.00%) SCOM
2 17 (20.00%) WSUS
3 2 (2.35%) Ansible
3 2 (2.35%) Argo
3 2 (2.35%) Puppet
3 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.18%) Grafana
4 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (57.65%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Databricks
3 3 (3.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.18%) BMC
4 1 (1.18%) NetApp
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle
4 1 (1.18%) Remedy
4 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.18%) SAP
4 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow