Bicep Job Trends in the North of England

Azure Bicep
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 269 363
Rank change year-on-year -30 +94 +13
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 37 25 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 0.95% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 30 19 26
10th Percentile £48,375 £54,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £56,438 £58,750 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,573 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +6.87% +13.91%
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £74,800 £81,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -3.57%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,290 2,629 5,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.60% 32.38% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,480 1,378 4,401
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,343 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the North of England

Bicep
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the North of England

Bicep
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
North West -4 24 £65,500 -6.43% 8
North East -36 8 £59,000 -21.85% 5
Yorkshire -47 5 £63,750 +2.00% 3
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (48.65%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (35.14%) GitHub
4 8 (21.62%) Entra ID
4 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (18.92%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (13.51%) AWS
7 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
7 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (10.81%) Figma
9 3 (8.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (8.11%) IaaS
9 3 (8.11%) PaaS
10 2 (5.41%) SaaS
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.70%) GCP
11 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) Firewall
2 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 7 (18.92%) SAN
3 6 (16.22%) DHCP
4 3 (8.11%) VPN
5 2 (5.41%) BGP
5 2 (5.41%) LAN
5 2 (5.41%) OSPF
5 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.70%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.70%) HTTP
6 1 (2.70%) Network Security
6 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
1 4 (10.81%) NUnit
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Senior
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) ARM Templates
2 12 (32.43%) .NET
3 8 (21.62%) YAML
4 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
4 4 (10.81%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET
4 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (10.81%) Entity Framework
4 4 (10.81%) RESTful
4 4 (10.81%) Vitest
5 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.41%) Playwright
5 2 (5.41%) RxJS
5 2 (5.41%) Swagger
6 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
6 1 (2.70%) Google Maps API
6 1 (2.70%) iOS SDK
6 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Lidar
3 1 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Android
3 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.41%) Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (70.27%) DevOps
3 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
4 13 (35.14%) AI
5 11 (29.73%) Observability
5 11 (29.73%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (27.03%) Agile
7 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (21.62%) Kanban
8 8 (21.62%) RBAC
8 8 (21.62%) Scrum
9 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (16.22%) Customer Experience
10 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.51%) Cost Optimisation
11 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (10.81%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) PowerShell
2 22 (59.46%) Python
3 10 (27.03%) Bash
4 8 (21.62%) C#
5 7 (18.92%) SQL
6 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.11%) Docker
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (67.57%) Terraform
2 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Argo
3 1 (2.70%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Istio
3 1 (2.70%) linkerd
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (29.73%) VMware
3 4 (10.81%) Cisco
3 4 (10.81%) DevExpress
4 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.70%) F5
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds