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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 169 152
Rank change year-on-year -14 -17 +100
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 4 26 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.60% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.67% 1.98% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 31
10th Percentile - £45,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £55,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.72% -19.25%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,563 £72,500
90th Percentile - £71,913 £75,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +17.39% -17.86%

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 597 1,315 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.12% 30.27% 42.76%
Number of salaries quoted 387 734 987
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 29 October 2025. 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
Oxfordshire +22 2 - -
Berkshire -12 2 £60,000 +4.33% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) B2B
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki