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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 336 377
Rank change year-on-year +9 +41 +37
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 139 85 97
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 1.73% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 105 56 68
10th Percentile £49,377 £42,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,063 £56,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.73% +5.20%
75th Percentile £91,250 £67,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £78,125 £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 6,272 4,919 8,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.91% 29.95% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,255 5,522
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 16 October 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 16 (11.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.76%) IIS
3 5 (3.60%) nginx
4 3 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (50.36%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (35.97%) PaaS
4 46 (33.09%) Azure Monitor
5 44 (31.65%) Entra ID
5 44 (31.65%) IaaS
6 36 (25.90%) GitHub
7 33 (23.74%) Azure Functions
7 33 (23.74%) Serverless
8 31 (22.30%) Azure AKS
8 31 (22.30%) Azure Key Vault
9 27 (19.42%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (18.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 20 (14.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (14.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (12.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (12.23%) SaaS
13 16 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (11.51%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (11.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (24.46%) VPN
2 18 (12.95%) Firewall
3 16 (11.51%) DNS
4 12 (8.63%) DHCP
5 8 (5.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.16%) Network Security
6 3 (2.16%) Wireless
7 2 (1.44%) HTTP
7 2 (1.44%) LAN
7 2 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.44%) TETRA
7 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.72%) BGP
8 1 (0.72%) Internet
8 1 (0.72%) OSPF
8 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.72%) SSL
8 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (13.67%) Metadata
3 18 (12.95%) Delta Lake
4 16 (11.51%) Data Vault
5 12 (8.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.16%) Power BI
7 2 (1.44%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.44%) GIS
8 1 (0.72%) Big Data
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) Looker
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.72%) Redis
8 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.72%) SSDT
8 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (16.55%) Git
2 5 (3.60%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.16%) GitLab
3 3 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.72%) Flyway
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) MLflow
General
1 53 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.58%) Finance
3 20 (14.39%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (8.63%) Law
6 6 (4.32%) Police
7 4 (2.88%) Banking
8 3 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Local Government
9 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (29.50%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (25.18%) Architect
3 33 (23.74%) Senior
4 27 (19.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (12.95%) Data Architect
5 18 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (12.23%) Lead
7 15 (10.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) Analyst
8 12 (8.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (8.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Azure Architect
10 8 (5.76%) Consultant
11 7 (5.04%) Azure Consultant
11 7 (5.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.04%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (5.04%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
11 7 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (89.21%) Terraform
2 27 (19.42%) ARM Templates
3 17 (12.23%) PySpark
4 16 (11.51%) .NET
5 7 (5.04%) REST
6 5 (3.60%) Loki
7 4 (2.88%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.88%) OAuth
7 4 (2.88%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.88%) Swagger
7 4 (2.88%) YAML
8 3 (2.16%) ADO
8 3 (2.16%) JWT
8 3 (2.16%) Middleware
8 3 (2.16%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.16%) OpenID
8 3 (2.16%) RESTful
9 2 (1.44%) 802.1X
9 2 (1.44%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.06%) Cloud Native
2 19 (13.67%) Public Cloud
3 18 (12.95%) Security Posture
4 14 (10.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (8.63%) Podcast
6 9 (6.47%) Management Information System
7 7 (5.04%) Onboarding
7 7 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (4.32%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.16%) NHS
10 3 (2.16%) SystemC
11 2 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.74%) Windows
2 15 (10.79%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.63%) VMS
4 9 (6.47%) Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.72%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (89.21%) Infrastructure as Code
2 104 (74.82%) CI/CD
3 89 (64.03%) DevOps
4 56 (40.29%) Analytics
5 51 (36.69%) Cloud Security
6 46 (33.09%) Observability
7 43 (30.94%) AI
8 41 (29.50%) Roadmaps
9 37 (26.62%) Technical Leadership
10 36 (25.90%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (23.74%) FinOps
12 31 (22.30%) Cost Optimisation
12 31 (22.30%) Log Analytics
13 30 (21.58%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (20.86%) Mentoring
15 28 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
16 27 (19.42%) Architecture Roadmap
16 27 (19.42%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (17.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 74 (53.24%) PowerShell
2 50 (35.97%) Python
3 47 (33.81%) SQL
4 28 (20.14%) Bash
5 16 (11.51%) C#
5 16 (11.51%) Scala
6 12 (8.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (45.32%) Azure Certification
2 33 (23.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (12.95%) Security Cleared
4 16 (11.51%) SnowPro
5 15 (10.79%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.76%) Degree
7 6 (4.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.04%) NIST
2 7 (5.04%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.60%) QA
4 2 (1.44%) GDPR
4 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) IFRS
5 1 (0.72%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (28.78%) Active Directory
2 23 (16.55%) Docker
3 21 (15.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (12.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (10.79%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (8.63%) vSphere
7 8 (5.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (17.99%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.07%) Grafana
3 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.32%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.72%) Argo
5 1 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.72%) Istio
5 1 (0.72%) linkerd
5 1 (0.72%) logstash
5 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (78.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.39%) VMware
3 18 (12.95%) Databricks
4 12 (8.63%) ScienceLogic
5 8 (5.76%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.76%) Oracle
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco
6 2 (1.44%) Veeam
7 1 (0.72%) ABBYY
7 1 (0.72%) Adobe
7 1 (0.72%) Apple
7 1 (0.72%) Aruba
7 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.72%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.72%) Hyland
7 1 (0.72%) Juniper
7 1 (0.72%) Kofax
7 1 (0.72%) OpenText
7 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds