Bicep Job Trends in England

Azure Bicep
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 515 674
Rank change year-on-year -8 +159 +44
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 148 123 162
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.18% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 0.97% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 114 89 134
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,500 £56,625
25th Percentile £59,625 £63,750 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £78,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.45% -6.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,125 £140,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,500 £78,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year -9.62% +16.42% -10.67%

All Programming Languages
England

Bicep falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,302 12,701 27,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 32.60% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,060 9,133 22,450
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bicep relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Bicep job vacancy trend in England

Bicep
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in England

Bicep
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
London -5 72 £80,000 -12.09% 21
North of England -70 26 £60,823 -13.11% 23
North West -24 18 £65,500 -6.43% 10
South East -17 17 £70,000 -6.67% 17
Midlands -24 17 £63,500 - 2
West Midlands -23 12 £61,000 - 1
South West -47 6 £84,000 +12.00% 4
East Midlands -22 4 £77,500 - 1
North East -42 4 £59,000 -21.85% 3
Yorkshire -58 4 £47,500 -24.00% 10
East of England -6 2 £84,875 - 3
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.70%) Apache
1 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (47.97%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (20.27%) IaaS
3 30 (20.27%) PaaS
4 29 (19.59%) AWS
5 28 (18.92%) GitHub
6 27 (18.24%) Azure AKS
7 25 (16.89%) Entra ID
8 24 (16.22%) Azure Monitor
8 24 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (12.16%) Serverless
10 17 (11.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 17 (11.49%) Azure Functions
11 16 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (10.14%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (7.43%) Azure API Management
14 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (6.76%) Power Platform
15 9 (6.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.27%) Firewall
2 24 (16.22%) DNS
3 20 (13.51%) VPN
4 15 (10.14%) DHCP
5 9 (6.08%) BGP
6 7 (4.73%) SAN
7 6 (4.05%) Network Security
7 6 (4.05%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.70%) LAN
8 4 (2.70%) OSPF
8 4 (2.70%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.03%) HTTP
9 3 (2.03%) LTE
10 2 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.35%) NAS
10 2 (1.35%) WAN
11 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.68%) VLAN
11 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.46%) Data Lake
2 13 (8.78%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.38%) Power BI
4 4 (2.70%) Delta Lake
4 4 (2.70%) Metadata
5 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.35%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.68%) Flink
7 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) OLAP
7 1 (0.68%) OLTP
7 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.68%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (14.19%) Git
2 8 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.05%) GitLab
3 6 (4.05%) NUnit
3 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.35%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.35%) MLflow
5 2 (1.35%) Selenium
5 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.00%) Finance
3 11 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.03%) Law
6 2 (1.35%) Advertising
6 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Electronics
7 1 (0.68%) German Language
7 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (40.54%) Senior
2 42 (28.38%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (15.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (12.16%) Architect
5 18 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Developer
7 16 (10.81%) Lead
8 13 (8.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Consultant
11 9 (6.08%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
12 8 (5.41%) Azure Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (5.41%) Security Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (4.05%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.65%) .NET
2 30 (20.27%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.76%) REST
4 9 (6.08%) OAuth
5 8 (5.41%) OAuth2
5 8 (5.41%) React
6 7 (4.73%) .NET Framework
7 6 (4.05%) ASP.NET
7 6 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (4.05%) RESTful
7 6 (4.05%) YAML
8 5 (3.38%) CSS
8 5 (3.38%) HTML
8 5 (3.38%) OpenID
9 4 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (2.70%) Entity Framework
9 4 (2.70%) Kafka
9 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 22 (14.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (4.05%) PKI
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.03%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.35%) NHS
7 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.22%) Windows
2 15 (10.14%) Linux
3 14 (9.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.03%) VMS
5 2 (1.35%) Android
5 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (86.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 102 (68.92%) DevOps
3 90 (60.81%) CI/CD
4 38 (25.68%) Observability
5 36 (24.32%) Analytics
6 32 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.95%) Cloud Security
8 29 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (18.92%) Containerisation
10 27 (18.24%) RBAC
11 26 (17.57%) Agile
11 26 (17.57%) Mentoring
11 26 (17.57%) Test Automation
12 24 (16.22%) AI
13 21 (14.19%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (10.81%) Network Virtualisation
16 15 (10.14%) Incident Response
16 15 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (45.95%) PowerShell
2 55 (37.16%) Python
3 30 (20.27%) C#
4 26 (17.57%) SQL
5 22 (14.86%) Bash
6 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.43%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.70%) Scala
10 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (20.95%) Azure Certification
2 18 (12.16%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.41%) Degree
6 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.35%) CCNA
9 2 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.68%) CCIE
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) GDPR
2 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (5.41%) NIST
3 7 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.70%) QA
5 3 (2.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) IFRS
6 2 (1.35%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.35%) NCSC
6 2 (1.35%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (22.97%) Docker
2 21 (14.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.35%) vSphere
7 1 (0.68%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 116 (78.38%) Terraform
2 50 (33.78%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.78%) Ansible
4 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.41%) Grafana
5 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.70%) logstash
6 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.35%) MIIS
7 2 (1.35%) SCCM
7 2 (1.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (60.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.14%) VMware
3 13 (8.78%) Databricks
4 9 (6.08%) Cisco
5 6 (4.05%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.05%) SolarWinds
5 6 (4.05%) Splunk
6 5 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.70%) DevExpress
7 4 (2.70%) SAP
7 4 (2.70%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.03%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.03%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (2.03%) New Relic
8 3 (2.03%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.03%) Veeam
9 2 (1.35%) Okta
9 2 (1.35%) OneLogin