Bicep Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Bicep
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 158 214
Rank change year-on-year -9 +56 +17
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 2 6 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.042% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.70% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 20
10th Percentile £51,875 £43,200 £58,850
25th Percentile £52,813 £45,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £59,125 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +0.21% -15.71%
75th Percentile £60,313 £64,563 £64,375
90th Percentile £61,625 - £75,500
South East median annual salary £78,500 £71,250 £59,000
% change year-on-year +10.18% +20.76% -15.71%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 675 855 1,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.17% 31.18% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 489 578 1,559
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -5.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,200
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -4.35%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Bicep
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Bicep

Bicep
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 March 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
Berkshire 0 2 £56,250 -4.86% 2
Bicep
South East

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam