Bicep Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Azure Bicep
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 450 627
Rank change year-on-year -48 +177 -1
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 75 62 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 0.74% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 62 39 102
10th Percentile £52,353 £54,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +16.67% -12.37%
75th Percentile £78,500 £78,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,900 £81,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £71,000 £78,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -8.97% +17.29% -11.33%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,925 8,370 21,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.17% 29.05% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,778 5,749 16,372
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bicep relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Bicep job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Bicep
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK excluding London

Bicep
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England -58 26 £60,823 -13.11% 22
North West -14 18 £65,500 -6.43% 9
South East -17 17 £70,000 -6.67% 15
Midlands -22 17 £63,500 - 2
West Midlands -14 12 £61,000 - 1
Scotland +3 8 £35,000 - 5
South West -49 5 £84,000 +12.00% 4
East Midlands -25 4 £77,500 - 1
North East -40 4 £59,000 -21.85% 3
Yorkshire -55 4 £47,500 -24.00% 10
East of England -12 2 £84,875 - 3
Bicep
UK

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 2 (2.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (32.00%) GitHub
4 19 (25.33%) AWS
5 18 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (17.33%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (14.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (14.67%) IaaS
7 11 (14.67%) PaaS
8 10 (13.33%) Entra ID
9 9 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (10.67%) Azure AKS
10 8 (10.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (9.33%) Azure Event Grid
11 7 (9.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.67%) DNS
1 14 (18.67%) Firewall
2 9 (12.00%) DHCP
3 8 (10.67%) VPN
4 7 (9.33%) SAN
5 5 (6.67%) BGP
6 4 (5.33%) Network Security
7 2 (2.67%) LAN
7 2 (2.67%) NAS
7 2 (2.67%) OSPF
7 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
7 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.67%) WAN
7 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.33%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.33%) HTTP
8 1 (1.33%) VLAN
8 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.33%) Metadata
3 3 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) Big Data
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) NUnit
2 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.00%) Git
3 3 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.67%) GitLab
4 2 (2.67%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.67%) MLflow
4 2 (2.67%) Selenium
4 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Senior
2 17 (22.67%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Architect
5 9 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Developer
7 7 (9.33%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Security Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.00%) Lead
9 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) CloudOps Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) ARM Templates
2 14 (18.67%) .NET
3 13 (17.33%) RESTful
4 10 (13.33%) JSON
5 7 (9.33%) OAuth
5 7 (9.33%) OAuth2
6 6 (8.00%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (5.33%) Entity Framework
7 4 (5.33%) Vitest
7 4 (5.33%) YAML
8 3 (4.00%) REST
9 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (2.67%) Kafka
9 2 (2.67%) OpenID
9 2 (2.67%) Playwright
9 2 (2.67%) RxJS
9 2 (2.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (18.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) PKI
4 3 (4.00%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Lidar
6 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Windows
2 7 (9.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.67%) Android
3 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.67%) Linux
4 1 (1.33%) VMS
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (90.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (68.00%) DevOps
3 47 (62.67%) CI/CD
4 24 (32.00%) RBAC
5 22 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (26.67%) Analytics
6 20 (26.67%) Observability
7 17 (22.67%) Cloud Security
8 15 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (18.67%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (17.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (16.00%) Containerisation
11 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
12 11 (14.67%) AI
12 11 (14.67%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (14.67%) Incident Response
13 10 (13.33%) ETL
13 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 44 (58.67%) PowerShell
2 33 (44.00%) Python
3 14 (18.67%) Bash
4 9 (12.00%) SQL
5 8 (10.67%) C#
6 5 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.67%) Scala
8 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Azure Certification
2 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.67%) Degree
5 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.67%) CCNA
7 2 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.33%) CCIE
8 1 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) GDPR
2 5 (6.67%) NIST
3 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.00%) QA
5 2 (2.67%) IFRS
5 2 (2.67%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.67%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.33%) GRC
6 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
2 9 (12.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (78.67%) Terraform
2 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.67%) Ansible
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.67%) Grafana
5 2 (2.67%) MIIS
6 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (64.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) VMware
3 7 (9.33%) Ab Initio
3 7 (9.33%) Cisco
4 6 (8.00%) Databricks
4 6 (8.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.33%) DevExpress
5 4 (5.33%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.00%) Splunk
6 3 (4.00%) Veeam
7 2 (2.67%) Commvault
7 2 (2.67%) HP
8 1 (1.33%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) New Relic
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle
8 1 (1.33%) SAP