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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 379 398
Rank change year-on-year +95 +19 +186
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 94 71 78
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.27% 0.97% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 73 52 75
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,719 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £61,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.11% -15.68%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £80,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -15.68%

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 4,136 7,319 9,475
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.09% 42.63% 46.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,146 4,670 8,015
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,875 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,875 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.36% -2.31%

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 28 December 2025.

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
2 1 (1.06%) IIS
2 1 (1.06%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (74.47%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (56.38%) GitHub
4 47 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (37.23%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (23.40%) Azure AKS
6 22 (23.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (21.28%) AWS
8 18 (19.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (19.15%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (19.15%) IaaS
9 16 (17.02%) Azure Event Grid
9 16 (17.02%) PaaS
10 15 (15.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (10.64%) Entra ID
13 9 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (8.51%) SaaS
15 6 (6.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.53%) Firewall
2 17 (18.09%) 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 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.38%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.13%) Metadata
4 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.13%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (28.72%) Finance
2 15 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.13%) Electronics
4 2 (2.13%) Law
4 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.13%) Marketing
4 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (31.91%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (27.66%) Senior
3 24 (25.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure 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 DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Architect
10 5 (5.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Lead
11 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Data Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Architect
12 3 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (3.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) JSON
2 14 (14.89%) .NET
2 14 (14.89%) OAuth
2 14 (14.89%) OAuth2
2 14 (14.89%) RESTful
3 12 (12.77%) YAML
4 11 (11.70%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.13%) React
6 1 (1.06%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.06%) Blazor
6 1 (1.06%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.06%) Loki
6 1 (1.06%) Node.js
6 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.06%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (1.06%) Svelte
6 1 (1.06%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.45%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Windows
2 15 (15.96%) Linux
3 9 (9.57%) VMS
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (89.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (80.85%) DevOps
3 69 (73.40%) CI/CD
4 35 (37.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (35.11%) RBAC
6 31 (32.98%) Observability
7 30 (31.91%) Analytics
8 29 (30.85%) Incident Response
9 25 (26.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (26.60%) Root Cause Analysis
10 22 (23.40%) API Management
11 21 (22.34%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (22.34%) Log Analytics
12 20 (21.28%) Cloud Security
13 19 (20.21%) Coaching
13 19 (20.21%) Test Automation
14 18 (19.15%) Asset Management
14 18 (19.15%) Identity Management
15 17 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (17.02%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.68%) PowerShell
2 35 (37.23%) Python
3 22 (23.40%) Bash
4 16 (17.02%) SQL
5 5 (5.32%) C#
6 2 (2.13%) Go
6 2 (2.13%) Scala
6 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (25.53%) Azure Certification
2 22 (23.40%) Security Cleared
3 21 (22.34%) SC Cleared
4 17 (18.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.13%) Degree
9 1 (1.06%) CCNA
9 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.06%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) GDPR
2 4 (4.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) GRC
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (25.53%) Docker
2 11 (11.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.06%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 75 (79.79%) Terraform
2 44 (46.81%) Kubernetes
3 12 (12.77%) Grafana
4 11 (11.70%) Ansible
5 6 (6.38%) SCOM
6 4 (4.26%) logstash
7 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (30.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.89%) Ab Initio
3 12 (12.77%) VMware
4 8 (8.51%) New Relic
5 5 (5.32%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
6 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.19%) Databricks
8 2 (2.13%) SAP
9 1 (1.06%) Dell
9 1 (1.06%) HP
9 1 (1.06%) NetApp
9 1 (1.06%) Splunk
9 1 (1.06%) Veeam
125 hybrid/remote Bicep jobs