Hybrid/Remote Bicep Job Trends

Azure Bicep
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Bicep skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 372 486
Rank change year-on-year +30 +114 +5
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 70 43 75
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.39% 0.75% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 43 22 64
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £57,618
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +9.02% -14.19%
75th Percentile £84,250 £86,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £91,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £70,500 £80,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year -11.88% +22.14% -6.43%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Bicep falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,024 5,752 13,479
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.53% 39.53% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,698 3,957 11,426
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bicep and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Bicep job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Bicep
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bicep.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bicep over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Bicep salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Bicep
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (4.29%) Apache
1 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (48.57%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (28.57%) GitHub
4 17 (24.29%) Azure AKS
4 17 (24.29%) IaaS
5 15 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (18.57%) Entra ID
7 13 (18.57%) PaaS
8 12 (17.14%) AWS
9 9 (12.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (12.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (11.43%) Azure Functions
10 8 (11.43%) Serverless
11 7 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
13 5 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) VPN
2 8 (11.43%) DNS
3 7 (10.00%) Firewall
4 6 (8.57%) DHCP
5 5 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.29%) BGP
6 3 (4.29%) HTTP
6 3 (4.29%) LAN
6 3 (4.29%) OSPF
6 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
6 3 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.43%) NAS
7 1 (1.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.29%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.29%) Metadata
4 2 (2.86%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.14%) NUnit
4 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.86%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.86%) MLflow
5 2 (2.86%) Selenium
5 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.43%) GitLab
6 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (10.00%) Law
4 6 (8.57%) Legal
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Advertising
6 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) German Language
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (25.71%) Senior
3 15 (21.43%) Lead
4 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Developer
6 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Architect
7 6 (8.57%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
7 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (8.57%) Product Manager
8 5 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (7.14%) Consultant
8 5 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.71%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) ARM Templates
2 12 (17.14%) .NET
3 10 (14.29%) RESTful
4 6 (8.57%) OAuth
5 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (7.14%) JSON
5 5 (7.14%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.71%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.71%) REST
7 3 (4.29%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.29%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.29%) OpenID
7 3 (4.29%) Vitest
8 2 (2.86%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.86%) RxJS
8 2 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (8.57%) Podcast
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) PKI
5 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Windows
3 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Android
4 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (72.86%) CI/CD
2 51 (72.86%) DevOps
3 25 (35.71%) Observability
4 20 (28.57%) RBAC
5 19 (27.14%) Analytics
5 19 (27.14%) Incident Response
6 18 (25.71%) AI
7 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (24.29%) Log Analytics
8 16 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (22.86%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
10 13 (18.57%) Containerisation
10 13 (18.57%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (17.14%) API Management
11 12 (17.14%) Cloud Security
11 12 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.57%) PowerShell
2 20 (28.57%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) Bash
3 10 (14.29%) C#
4 7 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.86%) Scala
7 1 (1.43%) Java
7 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) Azure Certification
2 12 (17.14%) Degree
3 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) GDPR
2 5 (7.14%) NIST
3 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) IFRS
4 2 (2.86%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.86%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Docker
2 6 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.86%) vSphere
5 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (82.86%) Terraform
2 18 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.29%) logstash
5 2 (2.86%) MIIS
5 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.43%) Ansible
6 1 (1.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (48.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.14%) Ab Initio
3 4 (5.71%) Databricks
3 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
3 4 (5.71%) VMware
4 3 (4.29%) Cisco
4 3 (4.29%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.86%) Apple
5 2 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle
6 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.43%) Commvault
6 1 (1.43%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.43%) Veeam