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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 394 471
Rank change year-on-year +61 +77 +31
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 98 46 99
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.48% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 0.79% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 60 24 77
10th Percentile £56,125 £57,150 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,063 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% +1.79% -9.68%
75th Percentile £91,250 £87,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,550 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £66,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +18.42% -5.00%

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 5,438 5,839 13,962
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.64% 37.51% 40.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,060 4,051 11,553
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 24 June 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 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.06%) Apache
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.04%) IIS
3 2 (2.04%) nginx
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (48.98%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (35.71%) IaaS
4 31 (31.63%) PaaS
5 27 (27.55%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (26.53%) Azure Functions
6 26 (26.53%) Serverless
7 25 (25.51%) Azure AKS
8 24 (24.49%) GitHub
9 21 (21.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 20 (20.41%) Entra ID
11 18 (18.37%) Azure Key Vault
12 15 (15.31%) AWS
13 11 (11.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (10.20%) SaaS
15 9 (9.18%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.47%) VPN
2 8 (8.16%) DNS
3 6 (6.12%) DHCP
3 6 (6.12%) Firewall
4 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.06%) BGP
5 3 (3.06%) HTTP
5 3 (3.06%) LAN
5 3 (3.06%) OSPF
5 3 (3.06%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.02%) NAS
6 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (10.20%) Delta Lake
3 8 (8.16%) Metadata
4 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.12%) Data Vault
6 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.04%) Big Data
7 2 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (2.04%) Power BI
8 1 (1.02%) Looker
8 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (25.51%) Git
2 6 (6.12%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.10%) NUnit
4 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.04%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.04%) MLflow
5 2 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.04%) Selenium
5 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 44 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.49%) Finance
3 21 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (19.39%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Legal
5 6 (6.12%) Legal Technology
6 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.04%) Advertising
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.02%) German Language
8 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Senior
2 21 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (19.39%) Architect
3 19 (19.39%) Lead
4 12 (12.24%) Analyst
4 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Data Architect
6 8 (8.16%) Engineering Manager
6 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Azure Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Developer
7 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
8 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Product Manager
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.47%) ARM Templates
2 15 (15.31%) .NET
3 8 (8.16%) PySpark
4 7 (7.14%) RESTful
5 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.08%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.08%) OpenAPI
6 4 (4.08%) REST
6 4 (4.08%) Swagger
6 4 (4.08%) YAML
7 3 (3.06%) 802.1X
7 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (3.06%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.06%) OpenID
7 3 (3.06%) Vitest
8 2 (2.04%) GeoJSON
8 2 (2.04%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (37.76%) Cloud Native
2 18 (18.37%) Podcast
3 17 (17.35%) Public Cloud
4 13 (13.27%) Security Posture
5 11 (11.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
7 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
9 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
9 3 (3.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.04%) PKI
11 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 1 (1.02%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.37%) Windows
2 12 (12.24%) VMS
3 7 (7.14%) Linux
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Android
5 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 74 (75.51%) CI/CD
3 68 (69.39%) DevOps
4 41 (41.84%) AI
5 37 (37.76%) Observability
6 32 (32.65%) Analytics
7 28 (28.57%) Cloud Security
8 27 (27.55%) Roadmaps
9 25 (25.51%) Log Analytics
10 23 (23.47%) Root Cause Analysis
11 22 (22.45%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (20.41%) Identity Access Management
13 20 (20.41%) Mentoring
13 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (20.41%) Scrum
14 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (18.37%) DevSecOps
15 18 (18.37%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (41.84%) PowerShell
2 30 (30.61%) Python
3 29 (29.59%) SQL
4 23 (23.47%) Bash
5 14 (14.29%) C#
6 12 (12.24%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (7.14%) Scala
8 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) Java
9 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (39.80%) Azure Certification
2 24 (24.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (12.24%) Degree
4 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (6.12%) SnowPro
5 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.10%) NIST
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 4 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.06%) QA
5 2 (2.04%) IFRS
5 2 (2.04%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.04%) NCSC
5 2 (2.04%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (24.49%) Active Directory
2 19 (19.39%) Docker
3 14 (14.29%) vSphere
4 13 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (12.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
8 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (86.73%) Terraform
2 21 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.08%) Grafana
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.04%) MIIS
5 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.04%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.02%) Ansible
6 1 (1.02%) Argo
6 1 (1.02%) Istio
6 1 (1.02%) linkerd
Vendors
1 62 (63.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) VMware
3 12 (12.24%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (10.20%) Databricks
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle
6 3 (3.06%) Cisco
6 3 (3.06%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.06%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.04%) Apple
8 1 (1.02%) Commvault
8 1 (1.02%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.02%) Veeam