Bicep Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Bicep
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - 175
Rank change year-on-year - - +97
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 12 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% - 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% - 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £50,750 - £46,875
25th Percentile £54,875 - £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £55,938
90th Percentile £101,250 - £57,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -12.87%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 701 1,090 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.26% 26.32% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 568 552 1,025
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,344 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +3.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bicep relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Bicep job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Bicep
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the West Midlands

Bicep
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Staffordshire - 5 £60,000 -
Birmingham - 4 £58,750 - 1
Herefordshire - 3 £92,500 -
Bicep
England

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) GitHub
3 6 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (41.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (25.00%) Datadog
6 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (16.67%) Serverless
7 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Metadata
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) MSTest
2 2 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 5 (41.67%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (25.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (16.67%) YAML
5 1 (8.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (25.00%) RBAC
4 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Runbook
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) API Management
5 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Scala
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCNA
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) VMware