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 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 550 847 1073
Rank change year-on-year +297 +226 -
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 184 244 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.19% 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 0.42% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 159 209 19
10th Percentile £52,250 £38,999 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,525 £61,180 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,351 £76,162 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +8.80% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £81,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £98,000 £82,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% -

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 21,953 57,743 67,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.57% 45.89% 52.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,206 36,754 45,306
10th Percentile £39,750 £38,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 29 November 2023.

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 29 November 2023. 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 +256 157 £65,351 -13.54% 35
UK excluding London +217 91 £60,000 -14.29% 27
Work from Home +223 85 £65,351 -15.68% 23
London +239 70 £85,000 -5.56% 15
South East +168 42 £57,500 -17.86% 9
North of England +117 14 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Midlands +119 13 £62,500 -16.67% 1
South West +64 13 £57,500 +21.25% 6
East Midlands +49 11 £62,500 -10.71%
Scotland +64 7 £65,175 -10.10% 2
North West +112 6 £50,000 -47.37% 2
Yorkshire +85 5 £65,351 +54.34% 1
North East +33 3 £60,000 -20.00%
West Midlands +108 2 £53,750 -28.33% 1
East of England +115 1 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Wales - 1 £82,500 - 6

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 8 (4.35%) NServiceBus
2 5 (2.72%) MS Exchange
3 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 179 (97.28%) Azure
2 95 (51.63%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (25.54%) GitHub
4 39 (21.20%) Serverless
5 34 (18.48%) AWS
6 33 (17.93%) PaaS
7 32 (17.39%) Azure AKS
8 27 (14.67%) Azure Monitor
8 27 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (14.13%) Entra ID
10 20 (10.87%) Azure Storage
10 20 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (10.87%) GCP
11 19 (10.33%) IaaS
12 17 (9.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 16 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 15 (8.15%) SaaS
15 14 (7.61%) Azure API Management
15 14 (7.61%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (6.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.33%) DNS
2 18 (9.78%) Firewall
3 11 (5.98%) DHCP
3 11 (5.98%) Network Security
4 3 (1.63%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) LAN
5 2 (1.09%) WAN
6 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (3.80%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.80%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.17%) MySQL
6 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (9.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (4.35%) GitLab
4 7 (3.80%) Artifactory
4 7 (3.80%) Git
5 5 (2.72%) JIRA
5 5 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.72%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.17%) Selenium
7 3 (1.63%) Gatling
7 3 (1.63%) JUnit
7 3 (1.63%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.63%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.02%) Finance
3 27 (14.67%) Law
4 17 (9.24%) Banking
4 17 (9.24%) Legal
5 13 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.52%) Retail
7 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (33.70%) Azure Engineer
2 49 (26.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (25.54%) Senior
4 27 (14.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 27 (14.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (12.50%) Developer
6 19 (10.33%) Senior DevOps
7 16 (8.70%) Architect
7 16 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.15%) Senior Developer
8 15 (8.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (7.07%) Active Directory Support
9 13 (7.07%) Lead
10 12 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.43%) Active Directory Specialist
11 10 (5.43%) Support Specialist
12 8 (4.35%) C# Developer
12 8 (4.35%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (31.52%) ARM Templates
2 47 (25.54%) .NET
3 19 (10.33%) YAML
4 17 (9.24%) Blazor
4 17 (9.24%) JSON
5 15 (8.15%) .NET Framework
6 14 (7.61%) CSS
6 14 (7.61%) HTML
7 13 (7.07%) Azure Blueprints
8 9 (4.89%) Swagger
8 9 (4.89%) Web Services
9 8 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (4.35%) XML
10 7 (3.80%) React
11 5 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.17%) ADO
12 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.17%) OAuth
12 4 (2.17%) OpenID
13 3 (1.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.33%) Cloud Native
1 19 (10.33%) Public Cloud
2 14 (7.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (7.61%) PKI
3 9 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.89%) Private Cloud
4 7 (3.80%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.80%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.80%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.63%) Clustering
7 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.85%) Windows
2 19 (10.33%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.61%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (7.61%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (3.80%) Linux
5 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.09%) VMS
7 1 (0.54%) CentOS
7 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (74.46%) DevOps
2 136 (73.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (59.24%) CI/CD
4 74 (40.22%) Agile
5 54 (29.35%) Containerisation
6 38 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 29 (15.76%) Microservices
9 28 (15.22%) Cloud Security
9 28 (15.22%) Scrum
10 26 (14.13%) Analytics
11 25 (13.59%) API Management
11 25 (13.59%) ITIL
12 23 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (11.41%) Computer Science
13 21 (11.41%) Configuration Management
14 20 (10.87%) Service Management
15 19 (10.33%) Collaborative Working
15 19 (10.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (54.35%) PowerShell
2 57 (30.98%) C#
3 41 (22.28%) Bash
4 39 (21.20%) SQL
5 30 (16.30%) Python
6 20 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.07%) Java
7 13 (7.07%) VB
7 13 (7.07%) VBScript
8 10 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.63%) Go
9 3 (1.63%) Groovy
9 3 (1.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (26.63%) Degree
2 48 (26.09%) Azure Certification
3 30 (16.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (9.78%) Security Cleared
5 16 (8.70%) SC Cleared
6 13 (7.07%) DV Cleared
6 13 (7.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.35%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 7 (3.80%) Master's Degree
10 6 (3.26%) MCSA
11 4 (2.17%) MCITP
12 1 (0.54%) CCSK
12 1 (0.54%) CCSP
12 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.54%) CISSP
12 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.80%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (29.35%) Docker
2 32 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (16.85%) Active Directory
4 15 (8.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 107 (58.15%) Terraform
2 77 (41.85%) Kubernetes
3 28 (15.22%) Ansible
4 15 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (7.07%) SCCM
5 13 (7.07%) SCOM
5 13 (7.07%) WSUS
6 11 (5.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (3.80%) Argo
7 7 (3.80%) Packer
8 6 (3.26%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.72%) Grafana
9 5 (2.72%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.72%) Puppet
10 3 (1.63%) Istio
11 2 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.43%) VMware
3 7 (3.80%) Splunk
4 4 (2.17%) Databricks
4 4 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 4 (2.17%) Oracle
5 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco
7 1 (0.54%) NetApp