Azure Bicep
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bicep skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bicep over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 726 745 1180
Rank change year-on-year +19 +435 -269
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 182 252 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.57% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 144 205 48
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £80,938 £93,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,181 £98,750 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,474 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.37% +5.34% -

All Programming Languages
UK

Bicep is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,037 43,949 85,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.55% 43.27% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24,871 28,012 43,733
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%

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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 16 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 7 May 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 +47 169 £68,750 -6.78% 41
UK excluding London -4 106 £60,000 -12.37% 23
Work from Home +2 74 £66,500 -16.88% 24
London +63 60 £92,500 +2.78% 17
South East +35 41 £70,000 - 9
Midlands +16 25 £60,000 -29.41% 5
West Midlands +25 18 £65,000 -23.53% 1
North of England +19 16 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -22 15 £60,000 -13.60% 2
Yorkshire +60 8 £60,000 +36.26% 3
North West +14 8 £65,250 -6.04% 2
East Midlands -9 7 £60,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +29 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 3 £70,000 - 1
Wales +12 1 £82,500 +10.00%
Scotland -68 1 £35,000 -49.60%

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 15 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.65%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 178 (97.80%) Azure
2 107 (58.79%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (34.07%) PaaS
4 53 (29.12%) AWS
5 51 (28.02%) IaaS
6 37 (20.33%) Azure Monitor
7 29 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (14.29%) Entra ID
9 21 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (11.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (9.34%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (8.79%) Azure Storage
12 15 (8.24%) SaaS
12 15 (8.24%) Serverless
13 13 (7.14%) Azure AKS
13 13 (7.14%) GCP
14 11 (6.04%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (6.04%) Azure Stack
14 11 (6.04%) GitHub
15 10 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.29%) Firewall
1 26 (14.29%) Network Security
2 19 (10.44%) DNS
3 14 (7.69%) DHCP
4 4 (2.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.10%) LAN
5 2 (1.10%) WAN
6 1 (0.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (3.85%) MySQL
4 6 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (17.03%) Git
2 12 (6.59%) TeamCity
3 8 (4.40%) Selenium
4 7 (3.85%) Jasmine
4 7 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.85%) NUnit
4 7 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.75%) GitLab
5 5 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.75%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.58%) Finance
3 21 (11.54%) Law
4 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.34%) Back Office
6 16 (8.79%) Local Government
7 14 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (6.59%) Legal
9 10 (5.49%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
10 9 (4.95%) Marketing
11 8 (4.40%) Retail
12 4 (2.20%) Electronics
12 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.65%) German Language
13 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.10%) Banking
14 2 (1.10%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 39 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 37 (20.33%) Lead
3 36 (19.78%) Senior
4 29 (15.93%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (13.74%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (13.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 24 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (11.54%) Architect
8 20 (10.99%) Azure Consultant
8 20 (10.99%) Consultant
9 19 (10.44%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (9.34%) Developer
11 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
11 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
11 14 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
11 14 (7.69%) Support Specialist
12 13 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.49%) Infrastructure Consultant
13 10 (5.49%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
13 10 (5.49%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (42.31%) ARM Templates
2 44 (24.18%) .NET
3 24 (13.19%) .NET Core
4 13 (7.14%) YAML
5 10 (5.49%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.49%) CSS
5 10 (5.49%) HTML
5 10 (5.49%) JSON
5 10 (5.49%) React
5 10 (5.49%) XML
6 9 (4.95%) .NET Framework
7 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.85%) Entity Framework
7 7 (3.85%) HTML5
7 7 (3.85%) OpenID
7 7 (3.85%) RESTful
8 5 (2.75%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (2.75%) LDAP
9 4 (2.20%) Vue
10 3 (1.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.69%) PKI
2 14 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.75%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.65%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.10%) BYOD
8 2 (1.10%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) NHS
8 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.10%) PropTech
9 1 (0.55%) Blog
9 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.29%) Windows
2 20 (10.99%) Linux
3 17 (9.34%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.95%) VMS
6 2 (1.10%) Android
6 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (85.16%) DevOps
2 117 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (52.75%) CI/CD
4 71 (39.01%) Agile
5 41 (22.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (22.53%) Software Engineering
6 35 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (18.68%) Containerisation
7 34 (18.68%) Scrum
8 33 (18.13%) API Management
8 33 (18.13%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (15.93%) Network Virtualisation
10 25 (13.74%) TDD
11 24 (13.19%) Cloud Security
11 24 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (12.64%) Identity Management
12 23 (12.64%) Test Automation
13 21 (11.54%) Clean Code
13 21 (11.54%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.21%) PowerShell
2 59 (32.42%) C#
3 38 (20.88%) Bash
4 30 (16.48%) Python
5 20 (10.99%) SQL
6 14 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.69%) VB
6 14 (7.69%) VBScript
7 8 (4.40%) Go
8 6 (3.30%) Java
8 6 (3.30%) PHP
9 4 (2.20%) Rust
9 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.93%) Degree
3 25 (13.74%) Azure Certification
3 25 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.75%) SLA
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 39 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 39 (21.43%) Docker
2 37 (20.33%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (9.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (51.10%) Terraform
2 64 (35.16%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (7.69%) SCCM
4 14 (7.69%) SCOM
4 14 (7.69%) WSUS
5 11 (6.04%) Ansible
6 7 (3.85%) Istio
6 7 (3.85%) MIIS
7 4 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.65%) Puppet
9 1 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 93 (51.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.30%) Google
2 6 (3.30%) Twitter
3 5 (2.75%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.20%) SAP
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco
5 1 (0.55%) Databricks
5 1 (0.55%) NetApp
5 1 (0.55%) VMware