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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 389 438
Rank change year-on-year +41 +49 +339
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 73 108 84
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 1.19% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47 83 75
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £52,125 £60,000 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.11% -13.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,375
90th Percentile £86,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.11% -12.87%

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 5,114 9,060 11,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.38% 38.65% 47.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,449 6,205 10,006
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Bicep
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Bicep trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Bicep
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Bicep

Bicep
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Bicep over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Bicep salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.59%) IIS
2 4 (5.48%) nginx
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 73 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (67.12%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (56.16%) Azure Monitor
4 33 (45.21%) IaaS
5 31 (42.47%) PaaS
6 27 (36.99%) Azure Service Bus
7 26 (35.62%) AWS
7 26 (35.62%) Entra ID
8 25 (34.25%) SaaS
9 19 (26.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (26.03%) GitHub
9 19 (26.03%) Power Platform
10 16 (21.92%) Azure AI
10 16 (21.92%) Azure AKS
10 16 (21.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (21.92%) Power Automate
11 15 (20.55%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (10.96%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 30 (41.10%) VPN
2 29 (39.73%) Firewall
3 26 (35.62%) DNS
4 16 (21.92%) SD-WAN
4 16 (21.92%) WAN
5 3 (4.11%) SAN
5 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.37%) DHCP
6 1 (1.37%) Internet
6 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.40%) Data Lake
2 16 (21.92%) MySQL
2 16 (21.92%) Power BI
3 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (28.77%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.48%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.74%) GitLab
4 2 (2.74%) JIRA
General
1 12 (16.44%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Banking
5 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Electronics
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (31.51%) Architect
3 18 (24.66%) Cloud Architect
4 16 (21.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (19.18%) Senior
6 13 (17.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 12 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Architect
9 5 (6.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Developer
11 3 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) ARM Templates
2 9 (12.33%) .NET
3 5 (6.85%) YAML
4 4 (5.48%) Loki
4 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.74%) Blazor
5 2 (2.74%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.74%) JSON
5 2 (2.74%) OAuth
5 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.37%) React
6 1 (1.37%) Svelte
6 1 (1.37%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.66%) Data Centre
2 16 (21.92%) NHS
3 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.59%) Onboarding
4 6 (8.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.74%) IoT
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Clustering
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.37%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.92%) Windows
2 13 (17.81%) Linux
3 4 (5.48%) VMS
3 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 54 (73.97%) DevOps
3 50 (68.49%) CI/CD
4 30 (41.10%) Analytics
5 28 (38.36%) Migration
6 27 (36.99%) RBAC
7 23 (31.51%) Log Analytics
8 21 (28.77%) Agile
8 21 (28.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 21 (28.77%) ITIL
9 20 (27.40%) API Management
10 18 (24.66%) Data Integration
10 18 (24.66%) Project Management
11 17 (23.29%) Roadmaps
11 17 (23.29%) Service Management
11 17 (23.29%) TOGAF
11 17 (23.29%) Zachman Framework
12 16 (21.92%) B2B
12 16 (21.92%) Network Virtualisation
12 16 (21.92%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 55 (75.34%) PowerShell
2 33 (45.21%) SQL
3 27 (36.99%) Python
4 17 (23.29%) Bash
5 8 (10.96%) C#
6 2 (2.74%) Go
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
7 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (52.05%) Azure Certification
2 16 (21.92%) DBS Check
2 16 (21.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (19.18%) Security Cleared
4 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) CCNA
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.37%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (35.62%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (27.40%) Docker
3 12 (16.44%) Active Directory
4 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (57.53%) Terraform
2 22 (30.14%) Kubernetes
3 16 (21.92%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (15.07%) Grafana
5 10 (13.70%) Ansible
6 6 (8.22%) SCOM
7 5 (6.85%) Prometheus
8 3 (4.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (26.03%) Databricks
3 16 (21.92%) Meraki
4 13 (17.81%) VMware
5 3 (4.11%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.74%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.74%) Darktrace
6 2 (2.74%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.37%) DataCore
7 1 (1.37%) Dell
7 1 (1.37%) HP
7 1 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) Veeam