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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 379 500
Rank change year-on-year +53 +121 +5
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 74 32 74
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.22% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 0.54% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 47 27 63
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,850 £57,200
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,625 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +9.02% -16.88%
75th Percentile £83,125 £83,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -8.39% +16.54% -11.33%

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 4,849 5,877 13,352
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.41% 41.25% 41.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,555 4,447 11,439
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 £78,750
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 7 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 (4.05%) Apache
1 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (52.70%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (29.73%) GitHub
4 19 (25.68%) Azure Monitor
4 19 (25.68%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (21.62%) IaaS
6 14 (18.92%) AWS
7 13 (17.57%) Azure AKS
7 13 (17.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (17.57%) PaaS
8 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
9 9 (12.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (12.16%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (10.81%) Azure Event Grid
10 8 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (9.46%) Serverless
12 6 (8.11%) Azure Functions
12 6 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) Firewall
2 11 (14.86%) VPN
3 9 (12.16%) DNS
4 6 (8.11%) DHCP
5 5 (6.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.05%) BGP
6 3 (4.05%) HTTP
6 3 (4.05%) LAN
6 3 (4.05%) OSPF
6 3 (4.05%) SD-WAN
6 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.70%) Network Security
8 1 (1.35%) NAS
8 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.05%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.05%) Metadata
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) Power BI
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.76%) NUnit
4 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.70%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.70%) MLflow
5 2 (2.70%) Selenium
5 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
2 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Law
4 7 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.11%) Legal
6 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Advertising
8 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Electronics
9 1 (1.35%) German Language
9 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.35%) Marketing
9 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Senior
2 19 (25.68%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Lead
4 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Architect
8 6 (8.11%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Product Manager
9 5 (6.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
10 4 (5.41%) Consultant
10 4 (5.41%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.62%) .NET
2 13 (17.57%) ARM Templates
2 13 (17.57%) RESTful
3 9 (12.16%) OAuth
4 8 (10.81%) JSON
4 8 (10.81%) OAuth2
5 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET
5 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.05%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.05%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.05%) OpenID
7 3 (4.05%) REST
7 3 (4.05%) Vitest
8 2 (2.70%) React
8 2 (2.70%) RxJS
8 2 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.49%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.11%) Podcast
4 5 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.70%) PKI
8 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Linux
1 8 (10.81%) Windows
2 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.05%) VMS
4 1 (1.35%) Android
4 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (89.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (77.03%) DevOps
3 55 (74.32%) CI/CD
4 29 (39.19%) Observability
5 24 (32.43%) Analytics
5 24 (32.43%) RBAC
6 22 (29.73%) Incident Response
7 21 (28.38%) Log Analytics
8 20 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (24.32%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (22.97%) API Management
11 16 (21.62%) AI
11 16 (21.62%) Root Cause Analysis
12 15 (20.27%) Cloud Security
12 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (20.27%) Test Automation
13 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
13 13 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.78%) PowerShell
2 19 (25.68%) Python
3 10 (13.51%) Bash
3 10 (13.51%) C#
3 10 (13.51%) SQL
4 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (1.35%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Azure Certification
2 12 (16.22%) Degree
3 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
6 1 (1.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.27%) GDPR
2 7 (9.46%) NIST
3 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.70%) GRC
5 2 (2.70%) IFRS
5 2 (2.70%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.70%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.70%) vSphere
5 1 (1.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 64 (86.49%) Terraform
2 24 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.41%) logstash
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (2.70%) MIIS
5 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (44.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) Ab Initio
3 5 (6.76%) Databricks
3 5 (6.76%) VMware
4 4 (5.41%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.41%) New Relic
4 4 (5.41%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco
5 3 (4.05%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.70%) Apple
6 2 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.35%) Commvault
7 1 (1.35%) NetApp
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.35%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) Veeam