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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 381 478
Rank change year-on-year +50 +97 +28
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 92 46 100
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 0.79% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 58 24 78
10th Percentile £55,875 £57,150 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £71,250 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +3.64% -11.29%
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 5,399 5,843 14,077
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.62% 37.58% 40.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,021 4,055 11,653
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,184 £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 22 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 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.26%) Apache
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.17%) IIS
3 2 (2.17%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (46.74%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (32.61%) IaaS
4 26 (28.26%) PaaS
5 24 (26.09%) Azure AKS
6 23 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (22.83%) Azure Functions
7 21 (22.83%) Serverless
8 20 (21.74%) GitHub
9 19 (20.65%) Entra ID
10 17 (18.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 15 (16.30%) AWS
12 14 (15.22%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (11.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (9.78%) SaaS
15 8 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (7.61%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (20.65%) VPN
2 8 (8.70%) DNS
3 6 (6.52%) DHCP
3 6 (6.52%) Firewall
4 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.26%) BGP
5 3 (3.26%) HTTP
5 3 (3.26%) LAN
5 3 (3.26%) OSPF
5 3 (3.26%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.09%) NAS
6 1 (1.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (9.78%) Delta Lake
3 7 (7.61%) Metadata
3 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.43%) Data Vault
5 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.17%) Big Data
6 2 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.17%) Power BI
7 1 (1.09%) Looker
7 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (22.83%) Git
2 6 (6.52%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.43%) NUnit
4 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.17%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.17%) MLflow
5 2 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.17%) Selenium
5 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 39 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.00%) Finance
3 17 (18.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (16.30%) Law
5 6 (6.52%) Legal
5 6 (6.52%) Legal Technology
6 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.17%) Advertising
7 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) German Language
8 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Senior
2 21 (22.83%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (20.65%) Lead
4 17 (18.48%) Architect
5 9 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Engineering Manager
6 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Data Architect
7 7 (7.61%) Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Azure Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
8 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Product Manager
9 5 (5.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) ARM Templates
2 15 (16.30%) .NET
3 7 (7.61%) PySpark
3 7 (7.61%) RESTful
4 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET
4 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.35%) OpenAPI
5 4 (4.35%) REST
5 4 (4.35%) Swagger
5 4 (4.35%) YAML
6 3 (3.26%) 802.1X
6 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.26%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (3.26%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.26%) OpenID
6 3 (3.26%) Vitest
7 2 (2.17%) GeoJSON
7 2 (2.17%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (38.04%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.22%) Podcast
3 13 (14.13%) Public Cloud
4 10 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (9.78%) Product Ownership
5 9 (9.78%) Security Posture
6 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.17%) PKI
10 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Windows
2 8 (8.70%) VMS
3 7 (7.61%) Linux
4 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) Android
5 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (92.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 68 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 63 (68.48%) DevOps
4 36 (39.13%) AI
5 33 (35.87%) Observability
6 27 (29.35%) Analytics
7 23 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 23 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 21 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (22.83%) Log Analytics
8 21 (22.83%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (20.65%) Identity Access Management
10 19 (20.65%) Infrastructure Automation
10 19 (20.65%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (19.57%) Mentoring
11 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (17.39%) FinOps
12 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (17.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.22%) PowerShell
2 29 (31.52%) Python
3 24 (26.09%) SQL
4 19 (20.65%) Bash
5 14 (15.22%) C#
6 8 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (6.52%) Scala
8 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.09%) Java
9 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (36.96%) Azure Certification
2 19 (20.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (13.04%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.43%) SnowPro
6 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.26%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.09%) CISSP
8 1 (1.09%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.43%) NIST
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.26%) QA
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.17%) NCSC
5 2 (2.17%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (20.65%) Active Directory
1 19 (20.65%) Docker
2 10 (10.87%) vSphere
3 9 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (85.87%) Terraform
2 21 (22.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.35%) Grafana
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) MIIS
5 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.09%) Ansible
6 1 (1.09%) Argo
6 1 (1.09%) Istio
6 1 (1.09%) linkerd
Vendors
1 56 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) VMware
3 9 (9.78%) Databricks
4 8 (8.70%) ScienceLogic
5 5 (5.43%) Oracle
6 3 (3.26%) Cisco
6 3 (3.26%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.17%) Apple
8 1 (1.09%) Commvault
8 1 (1.09%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.09%) Veeam