Azure Bicep
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Bicep skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bicep over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 653 695 1188
Rank change year-on-year +42 +493 -175
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 190 193 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.050%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 0.60% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 150 151 73
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £54,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,638 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.04% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,150 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,250 £60,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +8.75% -15.79% -

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 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bicep.

Salary trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +40 174 £67,500 -3.57% 18
UK excluding London +20 133 £65,250 +8.75% 15
Work from Home +63 106 £70,000 -6.67% 13
London +41 47 £90,000 - 4
South East +10 42 £67,500 -3.57% 5
North of England +19 36 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Midlands +1 26 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire +68 25 £80,000 +81.68% 2
West Midlands +10 17 £65,000 +18.18% 1
South West +5 16 £60,000 +4.35% 5
North West -1 11 £65,250 +24.29%
East Midlands -19 9 £60,000 -
Scotland -45 5 £80,000 +23.08% 2
East of England - 4 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £60,000 -

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.63%) IIS
3 4 (2.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 186 (97.89%) Azure
2 116 (61.05%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (25.79%) PaaS
4 46 (24.21%) AWS
5 44 (23.16%) IaaS
6 42 (22.11%) Entra ID
7 37 (19.47%) Azure Monitor
8 35 (18.42%) Azure Storage
9 29 (15.26%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (11.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 21 (11.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 21 (11.05%) SaaS
11 20 (10.53%) Azure AKS
12 19 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (8.95%) Azure Event Grid
14 16 (8.42%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (6.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 13 (6.84%) Azure Pipelines
15 13 (6.84%) Azure Stack
16 11 (5.79%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.16%) Firewall
2 24 (12.63%) Network Security
3 19 (10.00%) DNS
4 17 (8.95%) DHCP
5 5 (2.63%) WAN
6 4 (2.11%) LAN
6 4 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.05%) MPLS
8 1 (0.53%) FTP
8 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 11 (5.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.68%) MySQL
5 6 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.11%) Power BI
7 3 (1.58%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.05%) Big Data
8 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.05%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (25.79%) Git
2 9 (4.74%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.68%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.68%) NUnit
3 7 (3.68%) Selenium
3 7 (3.68%) SonarQube
3 7 (3.68%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.68%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.89%) Finance
3 21 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.37%) Back Office
5 13 (6.84%) Local Government
6 12 (6.32%) Retail
7 10 (5.26%) Law
8 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.11%) Legal
8 4 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.58%) German Language
10 2 (1.05%) Automotive
10 2 (1.05%) Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Electronics
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (31.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 38 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 32 (16.84%) Lead
4 30 (15.79%) Senior
5 26 (13.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 26 (13.68%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (11.58%) Automation Engineer
6 22 (11.58%) Developer
6 22 (11.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (9.47%) .NET Developer
8 16 (8.42%) Active Directory Specialist
8 16 (8.42%) Active Directory Support
8 16 (8.42%) Azure Consultant
8 16 (8.42%) Azure Specialist
8 16 (8.42%) Consultant
8 16 (8.42%) Support Specialist
9 15 (7.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.37%) Cloud Automation Engineer
11 12 (6.32%) Architect
12 11 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (44.21%) ARM Templates
2 40 (21.05%) .NET
3 30 (15.79%) .NET Core
4 26 (13.68%) YAML
5 16 (8.42%) .NET Framework
6 8 (4.21%) CSS
6 8 (4.21%) HTML
7 7 (3.68%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.68%) Azure Blueprints
7 7 (3.68%) Entity Framework
7 7 (3.68%) HTML5
7 7 (3.68%) OpenID
7 7 (3.68%) RESTful
8 6 (3.16%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.16%) JSON
8 6 (3.16%) XML
9 4 (2.11%) Loki
9 4 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.58%) LDAP
10 3 (1.58%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.47%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (8.42%) PKI
3 12 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.58%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.58%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.58%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Clustering
8 1 (0.53%) CMDB
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.58%) Windows
2 21 (11.05%) Linux
3 17 (8.95%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (8.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (81.58%) DevOps
2 120 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (52.11%) CI/CD
4 62 (32.63%) Agile
5 35 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (17.89%) Containerisation
6 34 (17.89%) Continuous Integration
7 31 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (14.74%) Analytics
10 26 (13.68%) Identity Management
10 26 (13.68%) Network Virtualisation
10 26 (13.68%) Scrum
10 26 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (13.16%) Cloud Security
11 25 (13.16%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.63%) API Management
12 24 (12.63%) ITIL
13 20 (10.53%) RBAC
14 19 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.26%) PowerShell
2 61 (32.11%) C#
3 33 (17.37%) Bash
3 33 (17.37%) SQL
4 22 (11.58%) Python
5 18 (9.47%) Kusto Query Language
6 16 (8.42%) VB
6 16 (8.42%) VBScript
7 9 (4.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.74%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.16%) PHP
9 4 (2.11%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (15.79%) Azure Certification
1 30 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.74%) Degree
3 23 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.42%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) MCSM
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Architect
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.68%) SLA
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 54 (28.42%) Active Directory
2 50 (26.32%) Virtual Machines
3 35 (18.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 31 (16.32%) Docker
5 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (54.74%) Terraform
2 61 (32.11%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (8.95%) SCCM
3 17 (8.95%) SCOM
4 16 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (8.42%) WSUS
5 9 (4.74%) Ansible
5 9 (4.74%) Istio
6 7 (3.68%) MIIS
7 4 (2.11%) Grafana
7 4 (2.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (50.53%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.74%) BT
2 9 (4.74%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.16%) Twitter
4 4 (2.11%) Google
5 2 (1.05%) Databricks
5 2 (1.05%) SAP
5 2 (1.05%) VMware
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco
6 1 (0.53%) Commvault
6 1 (0.53%) Dell
6 1 (0.53%) HP
6 1 (0.53%) NetApp
6 1 (0.53%) Sophos
6 1 (0.53%) Veeam