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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 520 732
Rank change year-on-year +146 +212 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 168 117 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.25% 0.044%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 0.71% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 81 19
10th Percentile £425 £475 £505
25th Percentile £475 £513 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -
75th Percentile £611 £625 £650
90th Percentile £660 £775 £678
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -0.91% -5.25% -
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 11,093 16,404 25,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.16% 34.52% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,031 11,991 19,033
10th Percentile £350 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +2.66% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 464 401 436
10th Percentile £36.19 £26.25 £20.25
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.95% +17.14%

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 29 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 29 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 +142 121 £525 -4.55% 8
South East +18 22 £605 -6.92% 7
Midlands +22 8 £607 -2.88% 6
West Midlands +18 8 £607 -13.29% 1
South West +10 6 £525 -12.50% 1
North of England +18 5 £550 - 5
North West +16 4 £600 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +9 1 £463 -13.95% 4
East of England +4 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 20 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (8.33%) CMS
3 4 (2.38%) Luigi
4 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) Azure
2 122 (72.62%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 62 (36.90%) Entra ID
5 61 (36.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 61 (36.31%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (13.10%) Azure Storage
7 21 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (8.33%) Azure Pipelines
9 13 (7.74%) Azure App Service
10 12 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (6.55%) Azure AKS
11 11 (6.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (5.95%) PaaS
13 8 (4.76%) AWS
14 6 (3.57%) Azure API Management
14 6 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (3.57%) GitHub
14 6 (3.57%) NuGet
14 6 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.67%) Firewall
2 24 (14.29%) DNS
3 20 (11.90%) DHCP
4 7 (4.17%) FTP
5 4 (2.38%) Network Security
6 3 (1.79%) VPN
7 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (57.74%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.52%) Redis
3 13 (7.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.60%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (23.81%) Git
2 7 (4.17%) GitLab
3 4 (2.38%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.19%) Snyk
5 2 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) Hudson
6 1 (0.60%) JIRA
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.26%) Back Office
3 26 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.55%) Finance
5 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.17%) Local Government
6 5 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.38%) Front Office
8 1 (0.60%) Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Billing
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Electronics
8 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (45.83%) Developer
2 60 (35.71%) Senior
3 52 (30.95%) Senior Developer
4 36 (21.43%) Backend Developer
5 33 (19.64%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (16.07%) Senior Backend Developer
7 20 (11.90%) Active Directory Support
8 17 (10.12%) Azure Developer
8 17 (10.12%) Lead
9 14 (8.33%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (8.33%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (8.33%) Support Specialist
10 13 (7.74%) Software Developer
11 12 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (7.14%) Technical Leader
12 11 (6.55%) C# Developer
12 11 (6.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (6.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 10 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (58.33%) .NET
2 83 (49.40%) .NET Core
3 47 (27.98%) XML
4 40 (23.81%) ARM Templates
5 34 (20.24%) React
6 32 (19.05%) CSS
7 30 (17.86%) HTML
8 28 (16.67%) ASP.NET
9 19 (11.31%) YAML
10 15 (8.93%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (8.93%) jQuery
11 11 (6.55%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.55%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (3.57%) RESTful
12 6 (3.57%) SOAP
13 5 (2.98%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.98%) REST
14 4 (2.38%) Pandas
15 2 (1.19%) Kafka
15 2 (1.19%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.90%) PKI
2 20 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.95%) Contactless
4 7 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.38%) Derivative
7 4 (2.38%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.19%) Tandem
9 2 (1.19%) Wiki
10 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.48%) Linux
2 24 (14.29%) Windows
3 22 (13.10%) Windows Server
4 20 (11.90%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (11.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (92.26%) DevOps
2 123 (73.21%) Agile
3 89 (52.98%) CI/CD
4 64 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (33.33%) TDD
6 52 (30.95%) Scrum
7 49 (29.17%) OO
8 45 (26.79%) OOD
9 43 (25.60%) API Management
9 43 (25.60%) Clean Code
10 36 (21.43%) B2C
11 31 (18.45%) Analytics
12 24 (14.29%) Log Analytics
12 24 (14.29%) RBAC
13 22 (13.10%) Identity Management
13 22 (13.10%) Service Management
14 21 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 21 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (12.50%) Release Management
15 20 (11.90%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (75.00%) C#
2 87 (51.79%) PowerShell
3 43 (25.60%) TypeScript
4 35 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.88%) SQL
6 20 (11.90%) VB
6 20 (11.90%) VBScript
7 18 (10.71%) Python
8 4 (2.38%) Bash
8 4 (2.38%) Java
9 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.88%) Degree
4 24 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 20 (11.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (5.36%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) CEH
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.52%) Accessibility
1 16 (9.52%) WCAG
2 6 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (54.76%) Active Directory
2 32 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (11.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (7.74%) Docker
5 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (22.02%) Terraform
2 30 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.90%) SCCM
3 20 (11.90%) SCOM
3 20 (11.90%) WSUS
4 7 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.38%) Puppet
6 3 (1.79%) Ansible
6 3 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.19%) Argo
8 1 (0.60%) Grafana
8 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 106 (63.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.98%) Databricks
3 3 (1.79%) VMware
4 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.60%) BMC
5 1 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.60%) NetApp
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) Remedy
5 1 (0.60%) SAP
5 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow