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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 604 732 731
Rank change year-on-year +128 -1 +451
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 105 182 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.63% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 71 142 184
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £96,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.00% -0.79%

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 16,594 33,687 41,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.95% 32.62% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,785 25,114 26,852
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 15 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 30 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 +94 103 £80,000 +18.52% 503
UK excluding London +131 52 £70,000 +12.00% 511
London +108 46 £91,000 -1.62% 57
Work from Home +79 42 £72,500 +8.21% 277
North of England +58 27 £70,000 +6.87% 121
North West +18 18 £70,000 +6.87% 60
South East +61 15 £75,000 +25.00% 133
Yorkshire +56 8 £62,500 -5.30% 46
Midlands +66 5 £60,000 - 100
West Midlands +43 3 £60,000 -7.69% 56
South West +91 2 £72,500 +20.83% 55
East of England +46 2 - - 77
East Midlands +41 2 - - 37
Scotland +115 1 - - 28
North East - 1 £75,500 - 15

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 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (86.67%) Azure
2 44 (41.90%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (34.29%) AWS
4 33 (31.43%) PaaS
5 27 (25.71%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (24.76%) Entra ID
7 25 (23.81%) Azure Key Vault
7 25 (23.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (20.95%) IaaS
8 22 (20.95%) SaaS
9 21 (20.00%) GitHub
10 19 (18.10%) Power Platform
11 18 (17.14%) Power Automate
12 17 (16.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 16 (15.24%) Azure AI
14 14 (13.33%) Pulumi
15 13 (12.38%) GCP
16 11 (10.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (10.48%) Serverless
17 10 (9.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.86%) Firewall
2 23 (21.90%) DNS
3 22 (20.95%) VPN
4 16 (15.24%) SD-WAN
4 16 (15.24%) WAN
5 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.90%) Network Security
7 1 (0.95%) Internet
7 1 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) Data Lake
1 18 (17.14%) Power BI
2 16 (15.24%) MySQL
3 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Power Query
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Git
2 12 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.57%) TeamCity
4 6 (5.71%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) ERwin
5 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 26 (24.76%) Finance
2 11 (10.48%) Social Skills
3 3 (2.86%) Banking
3 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
3 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.90%) Front Office
4 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.95%) Automotive
5 1 (0.95%) Back Office
5 1 (0.95%) Billing
5 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Architect
1 31 (29.52%) Platform Engineer
2 28 (26.67%) Senior
3 21 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (19.05%) Cloud Architect
5 18 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (17.14%) Lead
6 13 (12.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 10 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Developer
8 8 (7.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Junior
9 7 (6.67%) Junior Linux Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) DevOps Architect
10 6 (5.71%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Azure Architect
12 4 (3.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) .NET
2 10 (9.52%) ARM Templates
2 10 (9.52%) YAML
3 8 (7.62%) .NET Framework
3 8 (7.62%) ADO
4 7 (6.67%) React
5 6 (5.71%) CSS
5 6 (5.71%) HTML
6 5 (4.76%) RESTful
7 4 (3.81%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.95%) Blazor
8 1 (0.95%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.95%) JSON
8 1 (0.95%) Node.js
8 1 (0.95%) PySpark
8 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.95%) REST
8 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Data Centre
1 16 (15.24%) NHS
2 14 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Life Science
5 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.95%) CMDB
6 1 (0.95%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.95%) IoT
6 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.95%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.86%) Unix
4 2 (1.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (82.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (78.10%) CI/CD
3 69 (65.71%) DevOps
4 38 (36.19%) Platform Engineering
5 33 (31.43%) Analytics
6 30 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 28 (26.67%) Agile
7 28 (26.67%) Roadmaps
8 25 (23.81%) Log Analytics
8 25 (23.81%) Migration
9 22 (20.95%) ITIL
10 19 (18.10%) API Management
11 18 (17.14%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (17.14%) RBAC
11 18 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (17.14%) TOGAF
12 17 (16.19%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (16.19%) Network Virtualisation
12 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (16.19%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.24%) Python
2 43 (40.95%) PowerShell
3 29 (27.62%) SQL
4 26 (24.76%) Bash
5 16 (15.24%) Ruby
6 14 (13.33%) C#
7 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.67%) Go
9 3 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.95%) Java
11 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (24.76%) Azure Certification
2 16 (15.24%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CCSP
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CISSP
6 1 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.90%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) NIST
3 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (27.62%) Docker
2 22 (20.95%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (64.76%) Terraform
2 33 (31.43%) Ansible
3 32 (30.48%) Kubernetes
4 23 (21.90%) Progress Chef
4 23 (21.90%) Puppet
5 16 (15.24%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (13.33%) Podman
7 5 (4.76%) Grafana
8 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.86%) SCCM
10 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (26.67%) Databricks
3 16 (15.24%) Meraki
4 6 (5.71%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.86%) VMware
6 2 (1.90%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.95%) Citrix
7 1 (0.95%) DataCore
7 1 (0.95%) Google
7 1 (0.95%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.95%) SolarWinds