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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 710 733
Rank change year-on-year +132 +23 +415
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 114 186 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.73% 0.56% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 90 148 210
10th Percentile £57,250 £51,250 £53,625
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £66,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -11.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £91,000 £80,938 £92,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £96,625 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +16.67% -13.60% +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 15,622 33,278 45,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 33.79% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,533 25,047 28,788
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +2.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +110 108 £77,750 +15.19% 108
London +105 57 £91,000 -0.27% 47
UK excluding London +151 50 £70,000 +16.67% 73
Work from Home +150 31 £72,500 +9.02% 78
North of England +101 31 £70,000 +7.69% 29
North West +47 23 £70,000 +7.28% 21
South East +79 11 £75,000 +15.38% 21
Yorkshire +76 7 £62,500 +4.17% 7
Scotland +135 4 £58,750 +67.86% 7
South West +95 4 £75,000 +25.00% 7
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 (6.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.75%) IIS
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 94 (82.46%) Azure
2 36 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (23.68%) AWS
4 24 (21.05%) GitHub
5 20 (17.54%) Pulumi
6 18 (15.79%) PaaS
7 16 (14.04%) GCP
8 14 (12.28%) Serverless
9 13 (11.40%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (11.40%) Entra ID
10 12 (10.53%) Azure Functions
11 11 (9.65%) Azure AKS
11 11 (9.65%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (8.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (7.89%) Azure App Service
13 9 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (6.14%) IaaS
15 6 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.28%) Firewall
2 8 (7.02%) DNS
3 7 (6.14%) VPN
4 5 (4.39%) Network Security
5 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.63%) Power BI
5 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata
6 1 (0.88%) MySQL
6 1 (0.88%) Power Query
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.65%) TeamCity
3 8 (7.02%) Git
4 6 (5.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) ERwin
5 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 32 (28.07%) Finance
2 14 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.51%) Automotive
5 3 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.75%) Banking
6 2 (1.75%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Back Office
7 1 (0.88%) Billing
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (38.60%) Platform Engineer
2 34 (29.82%) Senior
3 27 (23.68%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (21.05%) Lead
5 21 (18.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (14.04%) Architect
8 14 (12.28%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 12 (10.53%) Junior
9 12 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 10 (8.77%) Junior Linux Engineer
10 10 (8.77%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (7.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (7.02%) Developer
12 8 (7.02%) Senior Developer
13 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
14 6 (5.26%) DevOps Architect
14 6 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) .NET
2 12 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 10 (8.77%) React
4 9 (7.89%) ADO
4 9 (7.89%) YAML
5 7 (6.14%) .NET Framework
6 6 (5.26%) CSS
6 6 (5.26%) HTML
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Blueprints
7 5 (4.39%) RESTful
8 4 (3.51%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.51%) Node.js
9 3 (2.63%) React Native
10 2 (1.75%) Blazor
10 2 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
11 1 (0.88%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.88%) JSON
11 1 (0.88%) PySpark
11 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
11 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) Public Cloud
2 11 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (4.39%) Life Science
4 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.44%) Linux
2 6 (5.26%) Windows
3 4 (3.51%) VMS
4 2 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (81.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (75.44%) CI/CD
3 61 (53.51%) DevOps
4 51 (44.74%) Platform Engineering
5 27 (23.68%) Deployment Automation
6 24 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 21 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 20 (17.54%) Fintech
8 20 (17.54%) Low Latency
8 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 18 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 18 (15.79%) Roadmaps
10 17 (14.91%) Analytics
11 14 (12.28%) Agile
11 14 (12.28%) Cloud Security
11 14 (12.28%) Microservices
11 14 (12.28%) Software Engineering
12 13 (11.40%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (11.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (63.16%) Python
2 35 (30.70%) PowerShell
3 27 (23.68%) Bash
4 21 (18.42%) Ruby
5 16 (14.04%) SQL
6 15 (13.16%) C#
7 12 (10.53%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.77%) Go
9 5 (4.39%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.88%) Java
11 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.40%) Azure Certification
2 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CCSP
4 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CISSP
4 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) NIST
2 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (36.84%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.39%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 92 (80.70%) Terraform
2 45 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 40 (35.09%) Ansible
4 31 (27.19%) Progress Chef
4 31 (27.19%) Puppet
5 20 (17.54%) Podman
6 5 (4.39%) Grafana
7 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.75%) SCCM
10 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.40%) Databricks
3 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.51%) Hitachi
5 2 (1.75%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Citrix
6 1 (0.88%) Darktrace
6 1 (0.88%) Google
6 1 (0.88%) Meraki
6 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds