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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 168 204
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +59
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 21 14 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.41% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.74% 1.01% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18 12 11
10th Percentile - £49,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £58,438 £77,500 £67,285
90th Percentile £90,125 £81,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £62,573 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.69% +10.94% -12.87%

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 766 1,392 1,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.02% 33.51% 39.51%
Number of salaries quoted 559 755 1,509
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,218
25th Percentile £39,281 £43,650 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.29%
75th Percentile £67,950 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 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 15 January 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 15 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
Somerset -11 11 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Bristol +7 4 £80,000 +6.67% 2
Cornwall - 3 - -
Devon - 2 £56,250 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (76.19%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (66.67%) GitHub
3 14 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (23.81%) AWS
5 4 (19.05%) PaaS
5 4 (19.05%) SaaS
6 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (14.29%) IaaS
6 3 (14.29%) Serverless
7 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
8 1 (4.76%) GCP
8 1 (4.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Electronics
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) YAML
2 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) Svelte
3 1 (4.76%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (76.19%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (95.24%) DevOps
3 17 (80.95%) Containerisation
4 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (19.05%) AI
6 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
7 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
8 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (4.76%) Clean Code
9 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security
9 1 (4.76%) Data Science
9 1 (4.76%) Event-Driven
9 1 (4.76%) Generative AI
9 1 (4.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Docker
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (47.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) SAP