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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 373 435
Rank change year-on-year +95 +62 +92
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 94 63 73
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.39% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.24% 0.89% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 70 46 71
10th Percentile £42,400 £51,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £61,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -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 4,197 7,099 11,090
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.21% 43.45% 46.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 4,439 9,531
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,184 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 21 January 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 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (73.40%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (55.32%) GitHub
4 46 (48.94%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (38.30%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (21.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (20.21%) AWS
7 19 (20.21%) Azure AKS
8 18 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (19.15%) IaaS
9 16 (17.02%) PaaS
10 15 (15.96%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (15.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (14.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (10.64%) Entra ID
14 9 (9.57%) SaaS
15 8 (8.51%) Azure App Service
15 8 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.47%) Firewall
2 18 (19.15%) VPN
3 11 (11.70%) DNS
4 3 (3.19%) Network Security
4 3 (3.19%) SAN
5 1 (1.06%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Metadata
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 32 (34.04%) Finance
2 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.13%) Electronics
5 2 (2.13%) Law
5 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.13%) Marketing
5 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (27.66%) Senior
3 24 (25.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Integration Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Architect
9 7 (7.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Lead
10 5 (5.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.19%) Azure Architect
12 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Architect
12 3 (3.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) .NET
1 15 (15.96%) JSON
1 15 (15.96%) OAuth
2 14 (14.89%) OAuth2
2 14 (14.89%) RESTful
3 12 (12.77%) YAML
4 9 (9.57%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.26%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.13%) React
7 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.06%) Blazor
7 1 (1.06%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.06%) Node.js
7 1 (1.06%) OpenID
7 1 (1.06%) SAML
7 1 (1.06%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.06%) Svelte
7 1 (1.06%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.45%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Windows
2 14 (14.89%) Linux
3 9 (9.57%) VMS
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (92.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (80.85%) DevOps
3 70 (74.47%) CI/CD
4 37 (39.36%) RBAC
5 35 (37.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (34.04%) Analytics
7 31 (32.98%) Observability
8 29 (30.85%) Incident Response
9 28 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (27.66%) Root Cause Analysis
11 24 (25.53%) API Management
11 24 (25.53%) Log Analytics
12 22 (23.40%) Cloud Security
13 21 (22.34%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (20.21%) Coaching
14 19 (20.21%) Test Automation
15 18 (19.15%) Asset Management
15 18 (19.15%) Identity Management
16 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
16 16 (17.02%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.68%) PowerShell
2 34 (36.17%) Python
3 21 (22.34%) Bash
4 13 (13.83%) SQL
5 6 (6.38%) C#
6 2 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (1.06%) Scala
7 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (27.66%) Azure Certification
2 22 (23.40%) Security Cleared
3 21 (22.34%) SC Cleared
4 18 (19.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.26%) Degree
8 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.06%) CCNA
10 1 (1.06%) CISSP
10 1 (1.06%) MCSA
10 1 (1.06%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) GDPR
2 5 (5.32%) NIST
3 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.13%) GRC
4 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (28.72%) Docker
2 11 (11.70%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.45%) Hyper-V
3 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.06%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 77 (81.91%) Terraform
2 47 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.70%) Ansible
3 11 (11.70%) Grafana
4 6 (6.38%) SCOM
5 4 (4.26%) logstash
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.89%) Ab Initio
3 11 (11.70%) VMware
4 8 (8.51%) New Relic
5 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.26%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.13%) Databricks
7 2 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (1.06%) Dell
8 1 (1.06%) HP
8 1 (1.06%) NetApp
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) Splunk
8 1 (1.06%) Veeam