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 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 685 750
Rank change year-on-year +128 +65 +366
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 125 173 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 102 138 229
10th Percentile £53,688 £51,250 £53,500
25th Percentile £62,813 £59,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,250 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -12.90% +11.51%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £119,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.00% +6.84%

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 15,675 31,732 48,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 35.15% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,458 24,489 30,661
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,533 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,375 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +3.77%

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 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 11 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 March 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
England +121 120 £76,500 +11.27% 41
UK excluding London +156 65 £70,000 +12.00% 20
London +64 55 £85,000 -5.56% 27
Work from Home +114 40 £72,500 +10.69% 26
North of England +106 37 £70,000 +7.69% 6
North West +41 29 £70,000 +7.28% 4
South East +73 17 £75,000 +27.12% 8
South West +103 7 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Yorkshire +74 7 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Scotland +108 4 £58,750 +67.86% 2
North East - 1 £75,500 - 1

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 7 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.80%) IIS
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.80%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 105 (84.00%) Azure
2 43 (34.40%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (22.40%) GitHub
4 24 (19.20%) AWS
5 21 (16.80%) Pulumi
6 18 (14.40%) Azure AKS
6 18 (14.40%) Entra ID
7 17 (13.60%) Serverless
8 16 (12.80%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (12.80%) PaaS
9 15 (12.00%) Azure Functions
10 12 (9.60%) GCP
11 11 (8.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (8.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (8.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (7.20%) Azure App Service
13 8 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (6.40%) Azure Storage
14 7 (5.60%) IaaS
15 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.20%) Firewall
2 9 (7.20%) VPN
3 8 (6.40%) DNS
4 7 (5.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (6.40%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.60%) Power BI
5 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.80%) Big Data
6 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.80%) GIS
6 1 (0.80%) Metadata
6 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (16.80%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.00%) TeamCity
3 11 (8.80%) Git
4 7 (5.60%) GitLab
5 2 (1.60%) JIRA
5 2 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.80%) ERwin
6 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (24.00%) Finance
2 18 (14.40%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.60%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.20%) Automotive
5 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.60%) Retail
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
7 1 (0.80%) Billing
7 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (38.40%) Platform Engineer
2 29 (23.20%) Lead
2 29 (23.20%) Senior
3 27 (21.60%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (12.80%) Architect
7 14 (11.20%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (9.60%) Junior
9 11 (8.80%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 11 (8.80%) Developer
10 10 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Junior Linux Engineer
10 10 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (7.20%) Software Engineer
12 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
13 7 (5.60%) Azure Architect
13 7 (5.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.40%) .NET
2 21 (16.80%) ARM Templates
3 11 (8.80%) React
3 11 (8.80%) YAML
4 10 (8.00%) ADO
5 8 (6.40%) .NET Framework
6 7 (5.60%) CSS
6 7 (5.60%) HTML
6 7 (5.60%) RESTful
7 6 (4.80%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.20%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.20%) Blazor
9 4 (3.20%) Node.js
9 4 (3.20%) Vue
10 3 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (2.40%) HTML5
10 3 (2.40%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (2.40%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.20%) Public Cloud
2 13 (10.40%) Renewable Energy
3 10 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.00%) Life Science
5 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.80%) Linux
2 7 (5.60%) Windows
3 6 (4.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (79.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (72.80%) CI/CD
3 66 (52.80%) DevOps
4 54 (43.20%) Platform Engineering
5 27 (21.60%) Deployment Automation
5 27 (21.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 23 (18.40%) Mentoring
7 21 (16.80%) Containerisation
7 21 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (16.80%) Roadmaps
8 20 (16.00%) Fintech
8 20 (16.00%) Low Latency
9 17 (13.60%) Cloud Security
9 17 (13.60%) Microservices
9 17 (13.60%) Software Engineering
10 14 (11.20%) Analytics
11 13 (10.40%) Agile
11 13 (10.40%) Migration
11 13 (10.40%) Strategic Roadmap
12 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (60.00%) Python
2 40 (32.00%) PowerShell
3 26 (20.80%) Bash
4 25 (20.00%) Ruby
5 24 (19.20%) SQL
6 21 (16.80%) C#
7 15 (12.00%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.80%) Go
9 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.60%) Java
11 1 (0.80%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.20%) Azure Certification
2 7 (5.60%) Degree
3 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) CCSP
6 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.80%) CISSP
6 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.80%) NIST
2 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.80%) QA
2 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (36.80%) Docker
2 12 (9.60%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 96 (76.80%) Terraform
2 52 (41.60%) Kubernetes
3 42 (33.60%) Ansible
4 35 (28.00%) Puppet
5 34 (27.20%) Progress Chef
6 20 (16.00%) Podman
7 6 (4.80%) Grafana
8 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.80%) Istio
10 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.00%) Databricks
3 6 (4.80%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.20%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.80%) Citrix
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle
5 1 (0.80%) PagerDuty
5 1 (0.80%) SAP
5 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.80%) Veracode