Bicep Contracts

Azure Bicep
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 535 780
Rank change year-on-year +136 +245 -
Contract jobs citing Bicep 179 148 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.26% 0.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 0.77% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 101 32
10th Percentile £425 £450 £513
25th Percentile £488 £513 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -5.25% -
75th Percentile £609 £625 £669
90th Percentile £653 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £594
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £90.00 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £110.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £130.00 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +137 169 £550 - 23
London +150 121 £525 -4.55% 4
Work from Home +114 90 £575 +2.68% 21
UK excluding London +41 44 £605 +10.00% 21
South East +24 23 £605 -6.92% 8
Midlands +25 8 £607 -2.88% 4
West Midlands +17 8 £607 -13.29%
South West +7 6 £525 -12.50% 1
North of England +13 5 £550 - 5
North West +16 4 £600 +9.09% 2
Yorkshire +13 1 £463 -13.95% 3
East of England +1 1 £475 -36.67%
Scotland - 1 - - 3

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.38%) CMS
3 4 (2.23%) Luigi
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) Azure
2 124 (69.27%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (36.31%) Entra ID
4 62 (34.64%) Azure Monitor
4 62 (34.64%) Azure Service Bus
5 61 (34.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (12.85%) Azure Storage
7 21 (11.73%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (8.94%) Azure AKS
9 14 (7.82%) Azure App Service
9 14 (7.82%) Azure Pipelines
10 13 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (6.15%) PaaS
12 8 (4.47%) AWS
13 7 (3.91%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.91%) Serverless
14 6 (3.35%) Azure API Management
14 6 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (3.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.20%) Firewall
2 24 (13.41%) DNS
3 20 (11.17%) DHCP
4 7 (3.91%) FTP
5 4 (2.23%) Network Security
5 4 (2.23%) VPN
6 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (55.87%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (8.94%) Redis
3 7 (3.91%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (21.79%) Git
2 7 (3.91%) GitLab
3 4 (2.23%) SpecFlow
4 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.12%) Snyk
5 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) Hudson
6 1 (0.56%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.20%) Back Office
3 27 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.70%) Finance
5 9 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.91%) Local Government
7 5 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.23%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Electronics
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (45.25%) Developer
2 60 (33.52%) Senior
3 52 (29.05%) Senior Developer
4 36 (20.11%) Azure Engineer
4 36 (20.11%) Backend Developer
5 27 (15.08%) Senior Backend Developer
6 20 (11.17%) Active Directory Support
7 17 (9.50%) Azure Developer
8 16 (8.94%) Lead
9 14 (7.82%) .NET Developer
9 14 (7.82%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (7.82%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (7.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 14 (7.82%) Support Specialist
10 13 (7.26%) Software Developer
11 12 (6.70%) Senior Software Developer
11 12 (6.70%) Technical Leader
12 11 (6.15%) Architect
12 11 (6.15%) C# Developer
12 11 (6.15%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (56.98%) .NET
2 82 (45.81%) .NET Core
3 47 (26.26%) XML
4 42 (23.46%) ARM Templates
5 38 (21.23%) React
6 33 (18.44%) CSS
7 31 (17.32%) HTML
8 28 (15.64%) ASP.NET
9 22 (12.29%) YAML
10 15 (8.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 15 (8.38%) jQuery
11 11 (6.15%) AngularJS
11 11 (6.15%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (3.35%) RESTful
12 6 (3.35%) SOAP
13 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.79%) REST
14 4 (2.23%) Pandas
15 2 (1.12%) Kafka
15 2 (1.12%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.79%) Product Ownership
2 21 (11.73%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (11.17%) PKI
4 10 (5.59%) Contactless
5 7 (3.91%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.23%) Derivative
8 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.23%) Mobile Payment
9 3 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Tandem
10 2 (1.12%) Wiki
11 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.08%) Linux
2 24 (13.41%) Windows
3 22 (12.29%) Windows Server
4 20 (11.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (11.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (90.50%) DevOps
2 128 (71.51%) Agile
3 97 (54.19%) CI/CD
4 74 (41.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (30.73%) TDD
6 52 (29.05%) Scrum
7 48 (26.82%) OO
8 44 (24.58%) OOD
9 42 (23.46%) API Management
9 42 (23.46%) Clean Code
10 37 (20.67%) B2C
11 34 (18.99%) Analytics
12 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (13.97%) Log Analytics
13 25 (13.97%) RBAC
14 23 (12.85%) Identity Management
15 22 (12.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 22 (12.29%) Release Management
15 22 (12.29%) Service Management
16 21 (11.73%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 130 (72.63%) C#
2 91 (50.84%) PowerShell
3 47 (26.26%) TypeScript
4 36 (20.11%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.08%) SQL
6 20 (11.17%) VB
6 20 (11.17%) VBScript
7 19 (10.61%) Python
8 5 (2.79%) Bash
9 4 (2.23%) Java
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (16.76%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.97%) Degree
4 24 (13.41%) DV Cleared
5 20 (11.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (6.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CEH
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) Accessibility
1 16 (8.94%) WCAG
2 10 (5.59%) QA
3 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 94 (52.51%) Active Directory
2 35 (19.55%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (11.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (7.82%) Docker
5 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (23.46%) Terraform
2 32 (17.88%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (11.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.17%) SCCM
3 20 (11.17%) SCOM
3 20 (11.17%) WSUS
4 7 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.23%) Puppet
6 3 (1.68%) Ansible
6 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.56%) Grafana
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (60.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) Databricks
3 3 (1.68%) VMware
4 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.56%) BMC
5 1 (0.56%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.56%) NetApp
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle
5 1 (0.56%) Remedy
5 1 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds