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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 350 395
Rank change year-on-year +31 +45 +50
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 131 74 109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.12% 1.45% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 96 48 84
10th Percentile £53,000 £42,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -10.71% +7.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,625 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +7.11%

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 6,193 5,120 9,065
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.44% 31.39% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,633 3,451 6,180
10th Percentile £38,814 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 18 September 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 12 (9.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.11%) IIS
3 5 (3.82%) nginx
4 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.53%) Apache
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (45.04%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (33.59%) PaaS
4 41 (31.30%) IaaS
5 37 (28.24%) Azure Monitor
6 35 (26.72%) Entra ID
7 30 (22.90%) Azure AKS
8 29 (22.14%) Azure Functions
8 29 (22.14%) Serverless
9 28 (21.37%) GitHub
10 27 (20.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 26 (19.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 24 (18.32%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (16.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (16.03%) Microsoft Purview
14 18 (13.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (12.21%) AWS
15 16 (12.21%) Azure Databricks
15 16 (12.21%) Snowflake
16 15 (11.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (24.43%) VPN
2 16 (12.21%) DNS
3 14 (10.69%) DHCP
3 14 (10.69%) Firewall
4 10 (7.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.29%) BGP
5 3 (2.29%) HTTP
5 3 (2.29%) LAN
5 3 (2.29%) OSPF
5 3 (2.29%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.53%) Wireless
7 1 (0.76%) NAS
7 1 (0.76%) SAN
7 1 (0.76%) SSL
7 1 (0.76%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (14.50%) Delta Lake
3 18 (13.74%) Metadata
4 16 (12.21%) Data Vault
5 11 (8.40%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.53%) Big Data
6 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) GIS
7 1 (0.76%) Looker
7 1 (0.76%) SSDT
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (18.32%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.29%) GitLab
3 3 (2.29%) NUnit
4 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.53%) MLflow
5 1 (0.76%) Flyway
5 1 (0.76%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.76%) JIRA
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.32%) Finance
3 18 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (11.45%) Law
5 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.05%) Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Legal
7 3 (2.29%) Legal Technology
7 3 (2.29%) Local Government
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (27.48%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (21.37%) Architect
3 27 (20.61%) Senior
4 23 (17.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Data Architect
5 18 (13.74%) Lead
6 15 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (9.16%) Analyst
8 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (8.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 11 (8.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.63%) Consultant
11 9 (6.87%) Azure Consultant
12 7 (5.34%) Azure Architect
12 7 (5.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.34%) Engineering Manager
12 7 (5.34%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (86.26%) Terraform
2 29 (22.14%) ARM Templates
3 17 (12.98%) PySpark
4 14 (10.69%) .NET
5 6 (4.58%) RESTful
6 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.82%) Loki
7 4 (3.05%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.05%) REST
7 4 (3.05%) YAML
8 3 (2.29%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.29%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.29%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.29%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.29%) Swagger
8 3 (2.29%) Vitest
9 2 (1.53%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.53%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.53%) Playwright
9 2 (1.53%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 41 (31.30%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.50%) Public Cloud
3 16 (12.21%) Security Posture
4 15 (11.45%) Podcast
5 14 (10.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (2.29%) NHS
10 3 (2.29%) SystemC
11 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.76%) Clustering
12 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.90%) Windows
2 13 (9.92%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.16%) VMS
4 8 (6.11%) Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Android
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (90.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 94 (71.76%) CI/CD
3 80 (61.07%) DevOps
4 48 (36.64%) Analytics
5 46 (35.11%) AI
6 40 (30.53%) Cloud Security
7 38 (29.01%) Observability
8 37 (28.24%) Roadmaps
9 35 (26.72%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (22.14%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (20.61%) Cost Optimisation
11 27 (20.61%) FinOps
11 27 (20.61%) Mentoring
12 26 (19.85%) Log Analytics
13 25 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (18.32%) Root Cause Analysis
15 23 (17.56%) Architecture Roadmap
16 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure Automation
16 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.38%) PowerShell
2 48 (36.64%) Python
3 46 (35.11%) SQL
4 28 (21.37%) Bash
5 16 (12.21%) Scala
6 13 (9.92%) C#
7 12 (9.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (41.22%) Azure Certification
2 32 (24.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (12.21%) SnowPro
4 10 (7.63%) Degree
5 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.58%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.58%) NIST
2 6 (4.58%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.58%) QA
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS
4 2 (1.53%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.53%) NCSC
4 2 (1.53%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (29.01%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.03%) Docker
3 20 (15.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (9.16%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (9.16%) vSphere
6 8 (6.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.58%) Grafana
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.05%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.76%) Istio
4 1 (0.76%) linkerd
4 1 (0.76%) MIIS
Vendors
1 94 (71.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.27%) VMware
3 19 (14.50%) Databricks
4 12 (9.16%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (5.34%) Oracle
6 3 (2.29%) Cisco
6 3 (2.29%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.53%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.53%) Veeam
8 1 (0.76%) Apple
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.76%) Commvault