Azure Bicep
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bicep skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bicep over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 717 1173
Rank change year-on-year +9 +456 -273
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 188 258 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 0.57% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 150 212 51
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £92,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £97,597 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,474 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.37% +5.34% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bicep.

Salary trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 175 £67,500 -10.00% 43
UK excluding London +21 109 £60,000 -12.37% 20
Work from Home +19 77 £66,500 -16.88% 20
London +75 63 £92,500 +2.78% 21
South East +43 42 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Midlands +24 27 £62,500 -26.47% 4
West Midlands +34 18 £65,000 -23.53% 1
South West +8 16 £60,000 -13.60% 3
North of England +25 15 £65,000 +8.33% 5
East Midlands -6 9 £60,000 - 3
North West +12 8 £65,250 -6.04% 3
Yorkshire +71 7 £60,000 +36.26% 2
Northern Ireland +30 4 £60,000 -
East of England - 3 £70,000 -
Wales +13 1 £82,500 +10.00%
Scotland -69 1 £35,000 -49.60%

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 16 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.13%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 184 (97.87%) Azure
2 110 (58.51%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (33.51%) PaaS
4 52 (27.66%) AWS
5 51 (27.13%) IaaS
6 38 (20.21%) Azure Monitor
7 30 (15.96%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (13.83%) Entra ID
9 24 (12.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (11.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 19 (10.11%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (8.51%) Serverless
13 15 (7.98%) Azure Storage
13 15 (7.98%) SaaS
14 13 (6.91%) Azure AKS
14 13 (6.91%) GCP
14 13 (6.91%) GitHub
15 12 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (5.85%) Azure Stack
17 10 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.83%) Firewall
1 26 (13.83%) Network Security
2 20 (10.64%) DNS
3 14 (7.45%) DHCP
4 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.06%) LAN
5 2 (1.06%) WAN
6 1 (0.53%) FTP
6 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.81%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (3.72%) MySQL
4 5 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (16.49%) Git
2 12 (6.38%) TeamCity
3 8 (4.26%) Selenium
4 7 (3.72%) Jasmine
4 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.72%) NUnit
4 7 (3.72%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.72%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.72%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.66%) GitLab
5 5 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Gatling
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.02%) Finance
3 24 (12.77%) Law
4 20 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.04%) Back Office
6 16 (8.51%) Local Government
7 15 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (7.98%) Legal
8 10 (5.32%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.79%) Manufacturing
9 9 (4.79%) Marketing
10 8 (4.26%) Retail
11 4 (2.13%) Electronics
11 4 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.60%) Banking
12 3 (1.60%) German Language
13 2 (1.06%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 42 (22.34%) Cloud Engineer
2 39 (20.74%) Senior
3 37 (19.68%) Lead
4 32 (17.02%) Azure Engineer
5 26 (13.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (13.30%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (12.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 22 (11.70%) Architect
9 20 (10.64%) Azure Consultant
9 20 (10.64%) Consultant
9 20 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (10.11%) Developer
11 14 (7.45%) Active Directory Specialist
11 14 (7.45%) Active Directory Support
11 14 (7.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 14 (7.45%) Azure Specialist
11 14 (7.45%) Support Specialist
12 11 (5.85%) .NET Developer
13 10 (5.32%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 10 (5.32%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (41.49%) ARM Templates
2 47 (25.00%) .NET
3 24 (12.77%) .NET Core
4 12 (6.38%) YAML
5 10 (5.32%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.32%) CSS
5 10 (5.32%) HTML
5 10 (5.32%) JSON
5 10 (5.32%) React
5 10 (5.32%) XML
6 9 (4.79%) .NET Framework
7 7 (3.72%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.72%) Entity Framework
7 7 (3.72%) HTML5
7 7 (3.72%) OpenID
7 7 (3.72%) RESTful
8 5 (2.66%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (2.66%) LDAP
9 4 (2.13%) Vue
9 4 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.98%) PKI
3 14 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.60%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.60%) IoT
8 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) BYOD
9 2 (1.06%) NHS
9 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.06%) PropTech
10 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.36%) Windows
2 20 (10.64%) Linux
3 18 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (5.32%) VMS
6 2 (1.06%) Android
6 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (84.04%) DevOps
2 124 (65.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (51.06%) CI/CD
4 73 (38.83%) Agile
5 43 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (21.81%) Software Engineering
7 35 (18.62%) Containerisation
7 35 (18.62%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (18.09%) API Management
8 34 (18.09%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (18.09%) Scrum
9 29 (15.43%) Network Virtualisation
10 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.30%) Cloud Security
11 25 (13.30%) TDD
12 23 (12.23%) Identity Management
12 23 (12.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (12.23%) Test Automation
13 21 (11.17%) Clean Code
13 21 (11.17%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.02%) PowerShell
2 61 (32.45%) C#
3 39 (20.74%) Bash
4 31 (16.49%) Python
5 20 (10.64%) SQL
6 15 (7.98%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.45%) VB
7 14 (7.45%) VBScript
8 9 (4.79%) Go
9 7 (3.72%) Java
10 6 (3.19%) PHP
11 4 (2.13%) Rust
11 4 (2.13%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.53%) Groovy
12 1 (0.53%) Ruby
12 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.49%) Degree
3 27 (14.36%) Azure Certification
4 25 (13.30%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.45%) DV Cleared
5 14 (7.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.66%) SLA
3 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 41 (21.81%) Docker
2 39 (20.74%) Active Directory
3 37 (19.68%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (8.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (50.53%) Terraform
2 65 (34.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (7.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (7.45%) SCCM
4 14 (7.45%) SCOM
4 14 (7.45%) WSUS
5 11 (5.85%) Ansible
6 7 (3.72%) Istio
6 7 (3.72%) MIIS
7 4 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.60%) Puppet
9 1 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 94 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.19%) Google
2 6 (3.19%) Twitter
3 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks
5 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.53%) NetApp
5 1 (0.53%) VMware