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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 245 281
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 +100
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 21 36 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.40% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.41% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 10
10th Percentile £45,875 £55,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,573 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +7.11% -5.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,250 £86,000 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -12.87%

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 1,803 2,561 2,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.73% 28.17% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,409 1,386 2,491
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,900
90th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 January 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 January 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 +6 11 £62,500 -10.71% 9
Yorkshire -18 5 £47,500 -28.30% 6
North East - 5 £73,750 - 2
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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) GitHub
3 9 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) SaaS
5 6 (28.57%) AWS
5 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (23.81%) Azure AKS
7 4 (19.05%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (19.05%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (14.29%) IaaS
8 3 (14.29%) PaaS
9 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
9 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
9 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
1 4 (19.05%) Network Security
1 4 (19.05%) SAN
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (9.52%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
3 4 (19.05%) Security Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
1 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 3 (14.29%) YAML
2 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (80.95%) DevOps
3 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
6 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
7 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Analytics
8 4 (19.05%) Architecture Roadmap
8 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) SIEM
8 4 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) PowerShell
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) GRC
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk