Bicep Job Trends in the South West

Azure Bicep
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 157 203
Rank change year-on-year -49 +46 +10
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 39 13 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.37% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.46% 1.80% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24 9 14
10th Percentile £45,943 - £48,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £42,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £55,000 £56,875
Median % change year-on-year +52.73% -3.30% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,000 £87,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,250 £71,100
England median annual salary £77,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +24.00% -7.41% +3.29%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,588 723 1,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.09% 20.20% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 495 1,050
10th Percentile £36,083 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the South West

Bicep
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the South West over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the South West

Bicep
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Bristol -29 17 £84,000 -9.19% 5
Somerset -24 11 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Gloucestershire - 10 £110,000 - 5
Wiltshire - 1 £43,565 - 2
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 12 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (17.95%) Confluence
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 39 (100.00%) Azure
2 25 (64.10%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (53.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 18 (46.15%) GitHub
5 16 (41.03%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (38.46%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (30.77%) Azure Functions
7 12 (30.77%) IaaS
7 12 (30.77%) PaaS
7 12 (30.77%) Serverless
8 10 (25.64%) Entra ID
9 9 (23.08%) Azure AKS
10 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (2.56%) Cloudflare
12 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) VPN
2 9 (23.08%) Network Security
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (23.08%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (5.13%) Big Data
3 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) MSI
3 2 (5.13%) MLflow
General
1 21 (53.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 12 (30.77%) Law
4 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Architect
1 13 (33.33%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Analyst
2 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (23.08%) Azure Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Technical Architect
4 7 (17.95%) Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Lead
8 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Technical Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (92.31%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) RESTful
3 9 (23.08%) .NET
3 9 (23.08%) GeoJSON
4 7 (17.95%) .NET Core
4 7 (17.95%) .NET Framework
4 7 (17.95%) ATL
4 7 (17.95%) COM
4 7 (17.95%) CSS
4 7 (17.95%) CSS3
4 7 (17.95%) HTML
4 7 (17.95%) HTML5
4 7 (17.95%) MFC
4 7 (17.95%) REST
4 7 (17.95%) WPF
5 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.13%) Swagger
5 2 (5.13%) YAML
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Podcast
1 12 (30.77%) Public Cloud
1 12 (30.77%) Security Posture
2 11 (28.21%) Cloud Native
3 9 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (17.95%) Onboarding
4 7 (17.95%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
7 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (48.72%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (94.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 36 (92.31%) CI/CD
3 30 (76.92%) DevSecOps
4 26 (66.67%) DevOps
5 22 (56.41%) Agile
5 22 (56.41%) Cloud Security
6 18 (46.15%) Containerisation
7 16 (41.03%) AI
7 16 (41.03%) Analytics
7 16 (41.03%) Observability
8 15 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (30.77%) API Management
10 12 (30.77%) Computer Science
10 12 (30.77%) Generative AI
10 12 (30.77%) Log Analytics
10 12 (30.77%) Scrum
10 12 (30.77%) Task Automation
11 11 (28.21%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (28.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) SQL
2 13 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (30.77%) Bash
3 12 (30.77%) Kusto Query Language
4 8 (20.51%) C#
5 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
5 7 (17.95%) Python
5 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) SC Cleared
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) Azure Certification
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (23.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) NCSC
2 7 (17.95%) Accessibility
2 7 (17.95%) WCAG
3 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) IFRS
3 2 (5.13%) IFRS 17
3 2 (5.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Active Directory
1 21 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (30.77%) vSphere
3 9 (23.08%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (94.87%) Microsoft
2 21 (53.85%) VMware
3 12 (30.77%) ScienceLogic
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks