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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 728 732 1181
Rank change year-on-year +4 +449 -267
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 182 254 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.036%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.57% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 144 207 49
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,125 £98,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% -

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 33,299 44,724 84,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.71% 43.25% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,064 28,554 44,071
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 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 6 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 6 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 +58 169 £67,500 -8.47% 42
UK excluding London -5 106 £60,000 -13.60% 23
Work from Home +3 74 £66,500 -16.88% 26
London +66 60 £91,250 +1.39% 18
South East +31 42 £70,000 - 7
Midlands +29 25 £60,000 -29.41% 5
West Midlands +34 18 £65,000 -23.53% 1
North of England +29 15 £65,000 +8.33% 6
South West -24 15 £60,000 -13.60% 3
North West +18 8 £65,250 -6.04% 3
Yorkshire +74 7 £60,000 +36.26% 3
East Midlands -7 7 £60,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +23 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 3 £70,000 - 1
Wales +14 1 £82,500 +10.00%
Scotland -69 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 4 (2.20%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.55%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 178 (97.80%) Azure
2 106 (58.24%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (34.07%) PaaS
4 52 (28.57%) AWS
5 51 (28.02%) IaaS
6 37 (20.33%) Azure Monitor
7 29 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (13.74%) Entra ID
9 23 (12.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 21 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (9.34%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (8.79%) SaaS
13 15 (8.24%) Azure Storage
13 15 (8.24%) Serverless
14 12 (6.59%) Azure AKS
14 12 (6.59%) GCP
15 11 (6.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (6.04%) Azure Stack
15 11 (6.04%) GitHub
16 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 41 (22.53%) 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 30 (16.48%) 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
6 4 (2.20%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.03%) Finance
3 22 (12.09%) 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 13 (7.14%) 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%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.65%) German Language
14 2 (1.10%) Banking
14 2 (1.10%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 39 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 37 (20.33%) Lead
2 37 (20.33%) Senior
3 29 (15.93%) Azure Engineer
4 25 (13.74%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (13.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 24 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (11.54%) Architect
7 20 (10.99%) Azure Consultant
7 20 (10.99%) Consultant
8 19 (10.44%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (9.89%) Developer
10 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.69%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.49%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (5.49%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (5.49%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (41.21%) ARM Templates
2 45 (24.73%) .NET
3 24 (13.19%) .NET Core
4 12 (6.59%) YAML
5 11 (6.04%) JSON
5 11 (6.04%) XML
6 10 (5.49%) AngularJS
6 10 (5.49%) CSS
6 10 (5.49%) HTML
6 10 (5.49%) React
7 9 (4.95%) .NET Framework
8 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET
8 7 (3.85%) Entity Framework
8 7 (3.85%) HTML5
8 7 (3.85%) OpenID
8 7 (3.85%) RESTful
9 5 (2.75%) LDAP
10 4 (2.20%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.20%) Vue
10 4 (2.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.44%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.69%) PKI
2 14 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.59%) 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
1 154 (84.62%) DevOps
2 119 (65.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 95 (52.20%) CI/CD
4 71 (39.01%) Agile
5 42 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (22.53%) Software Engineering
7 35 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (18.68%) Containerisation
8 34 (18.68%) Scrum
9 33 (18.13%) API Management
9 33 (18.13%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (15.93%) Network Virtualisation
11 25 (13.74%) TDD
12 24 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.64%) Cloud Security
13 23 (12.64%) Identity Management
13 23 (12.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (12.09%) Test Automation
15 21 (11.54%) Clean Code
15 21 (11.54%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.21%) PowerShell
2 60 (32.97%) C#
3 38 (20.88%) Bash
4 30 (16.48%) Python
5 19 (10.44%) 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%) 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 4 (2.20%) SLA
3 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 39 (21.43%) Docker
2 38 (20.88%) Active Directory
3 36 (19.78%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (8.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (50.55%) Terraform
2 63 (34.62%) 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%) MIIS
7 6 (3.30%) Istio
8 4 (2.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.65%) Puppet
10 1 (0.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 92 (50.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.30%) Google
2 6 (3.30%) Twitter
3 4 (2.20%) SAP
3 4 (2.20%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.55%) Cisco
4 1 (0.55%) Databricks
4 1 (0.55%) NetApp
4 1 (0.55%) VMware