Bicep Job Trends in the North West

Azure Bicep
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 175 181 197
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +96
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 11 24 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.17% 0.47% 0.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.68% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile £52,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £52,750 £62,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +40.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,625 £63,428
90th Percentile £74,000 £83,750 £67,070
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -12.87%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 879 1,431 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.80% 28.31% 36.42%
Number of salaries quoted 738 822 1,335
10th Percentile £32,125 £33,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,813 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £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 West

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the North West

Bicep
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the North West

Bicep
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the North West 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
Manchester +25 10 £62,469 -7.45% 5
Cumbria 0 1 £70,000 -3.45%
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) GitHub
3 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (27.27%) PaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
6 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
6 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
6 2 (18.18%) Serverless
7 1 (9.09%) AWS
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) IaaS
7 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Architecture Roadmap
3 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Log Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (27.27%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk