Bicep Job Trends

Azure Bicep
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 559 589
Rank change year-on-year +69 +30 +141
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 169 150 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 0.84% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 127 111 148
10th Percentile £42,100 £51,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £61,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -12.87%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £113,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +14.41% -15.04%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,920 17,841 25,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.06% 33.59% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 8,630 10,404 20,481
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Bicep job vacancy trend in the UK

Bicep
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +57 135 £62,647 -13.59% 230
Work from Home +104 96 £60,000 -14.29% 60
UK excluding London +33 93 £60,000 -11.11% 229
London +48 55 £80,000 - 27
South West +14 21 £55,000 -8.33% 33
North of England -4 21 £62,573 -10.61% 49
Scotland +7 20 £35,000 -52.54% 8
South East +16 16 £70,000 +3.70% 65
Midlands - 13 £63,500 - 31
North West +5 11 £62,500 -10.71% 23
West Midlands - 10 £60,000 - 8
Yorkshire -26 5 £47,500 -25.49% 21
North East - 5 £73,750 - 5
East of England +25 2 £55,000 -31.25% 31
East Midlands - 2 £72,500 - 21

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.78%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 168 (99.41%) Azure
2 101 (59.76%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (39.05%) GitHub
4 56 (33.14%) GitHub Actions
5 46 (27.22%) Azure Monitor
6 36 (21.30%) AWS
7 31 (18.34%) PaaS
8 29 (17.16%) Azure AKS
9 26 (15.38%) IaaS
9 26 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (14.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (14.20%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (11.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (11.24%) Entra ID
12 18 (10.65%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (10.06%) SaaS
14 15 (8.88%) Azure Event Grid
14 15 (8.88%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.93%) Firewall
2 23 (13.61%) DNS
3 19 (11.24%) VPN
4 9 (5.33%) DHCP
5 7 (4.14%) SAN
6 5 (2.96%) Network Security
7 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.78%) WAN
8 1 (0.59%) LTE
8 1 (0.59%) VLAN
8 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.96%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.37%) Power BI
5 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.18%) Metadata
5 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (9.47%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.14%) Git
2 7 (4.14%) GitLab
3 5 (2.96%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.37%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.59%) MSTest
5 1 (0.59%) NUnit
General
1 52 (30.77%) Finance
2 43 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 12 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.78%) Games
6 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.18%) Electronics
6 2 (1.18%) Law
6 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.18%) Marketing
6 2 (1.18%) Retail
6 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.59%) Billing
7 1 (0.59%) German Language
7 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (31.36%) Senior
2 38 (22.49%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (21.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (9.47%) Lead
6 16 (9.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 14 (8.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) Architect
9 12 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Support Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) Security Engineer
13 8 (4.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (4.14%) Analyst
14 7 (4.14%) Developer
14 7 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
15 6 (3.55%) Data Engineer
16 5 (2.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.57%) ARM Templates
2 26 (15.38%) .NET
3 19 (11.24%) YAML
4 18 (10.65%) JSON
5 16 (9.47%) RESTful
6 15 (8.88%) OAuth
7 14 (8.28%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.55%) .NET Framework
9 5 (2.96%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.96%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (2.96%) React
10 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (2.37%) REST
10 4 (2.37%) Semantic Kernel
11 3 (1.78%) CrewAI
11 3 (1.78%) LangChain
11 3 (1.78%) Matplotlib
11 3 (1.78%) NumPy
11 3 (1.78%) pydantic
11 3 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (6.51%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.14%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.55%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.37%) ARM Cortex
7 4 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.37%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.37%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.59%) Clustering
10 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.98%) Windows
2 20 (11.83%) Linux
3 11 (6.51%) VMS
4 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (88.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 135 (79.88%) DevOps
3 120 (71.01%) CI/CD
4 51 (30.18%) Analytics
5 45 (26.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (25.44%) RBAC
7 42 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (24.85%) Observability
8 39 (23.08%) Incident Response
9 35 (20.71%) Cloud Security
9 35 (20.71%) Mentoring
9 35 (20.71%) Root Cause Analysis
10 34 (20.12%) Containerisation
11 32 (18.93%) Deployment Automation
11 32 (18.93%) Log Analytics
11 32 (18.93%) Test Automation
12 28 (16.57%) Coaching
12 28 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (14.79%) API Management
13 25 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (47.34%) PowerShell
2 66 (39.05%) Python
3 30 (17.75%) Bash
4 24 (14.20%) SQL
5 17 (10.06%) C#
6 4 (2.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.18%) Go
8 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.18%) Scala
8 2 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 26 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 24 (14.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.92%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.55%) Degree
6 5 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.78%) CCNA
8 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.78%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) CCIE
9 1 (0.59%) CISSP
9 1 (0.59%) MCSA
9 1 (0.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.83%) GDPR
2 6 (3.55%) NIST
3 4 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.18%) GRC
5 2 (1.18%) QA
5 2 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (27.22%) Docker
2 23 (13.61%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.10%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.92%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.59%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 128 (75.74%) Terraform
2 71 (42.01%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.06%) Grafana
4 16 (9.47%) Ansible
5 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.55%) SCCM
6 6 (3.55%) SCOM
7 4 (2.37%) logstash
8 3 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.78%) MaaS360
9 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (45.56%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.65%) VMware
3 14 (8.28%) Ab Initio
4 8 (4.73%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (4.73%) New Relic
4 8 (4.73%) Splunk
5 6 (3.55%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.96%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (2.96%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.37%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.78%) Databricks
8 3 (1.78%) McAfee
8 3 (1.78%) Okta
8 3 (1.78%) OneLogin
8 3 (1.78%) Sophos
8 3 (1.78%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.18%) HP
9 2 (1.18%) SAP