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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 389 510
Rank change year-on-year +48 +121 -9
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 66 46 72
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 0.75% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38 26 61
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 -
25th Percentile £60,438 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £72,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +9.02% -14.19%
75th Percentile £83,438 £85,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,875 £91,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,250 £77,750 £66,000
% change year-on-year -7.07% +17.80% -8.97%

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 4,980 6,105 13,396
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.58% 40.45% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,670 4,277 11,389
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,250 £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 £79,250
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 19 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 3 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (51.52%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (31.82%) GitHub
4 16 (24.24%) Azure AKS
4 16 (24.24%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (22.73%) IaaS
6 12 (18.18%) Entra ID
7 11 (16.67%) PaaS
8 10 (15.15%) AWS
8 10 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (13.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (10.61%) Azure Functions
11 7 (10.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (10.61%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (10.61%) Serverless
12 6 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
12 6 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.15%) VPN
2 8 (12.12%) DNS
2 8 (12.12%) Firewall
3 6 (9.09%) DHCP
4 5 (7.58%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.55%) BGP
5 3 (4.55%) HTTP
5 3 (4.55%) LAN
5 3 (4.55%) OSPF
5 3 (4.55%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.52%) NAS
6 1 (1.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Metadata
4 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.03%) Big Data
4 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Git
1 6 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.58%) NUnit
3 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.03%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.03%) MLflow
4 2 (3.03%) Selenium
4 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.52%) GitLab
5 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Finance
3 7 (10.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (10.61%) Law
4 6 (9.09%) Legal
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Advertising
6 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) German Language
7 1 (1.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Azure Engineer
1 19 (28.79%) Senior
2 13 (19.70%) Lead
3 9 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Developer
6 6 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
6 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Product Manager
7 5 (7.58%) Architect
7 5 (7.58%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Consultant
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) .NET
1 13 (19.70%) ARM Templates
2 11 (16.67%) RESTful
3 7 (10.61%) OAuth
4 6 (9.09%) JSON
4 6 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.55%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.55%) OpenID
7 3 (4.55%) REST
7 3 (4.55%) Vitest
8 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
8 2 (3.03%) RxJS
8 2 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (34.85%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.61%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.09%) Podcast
4 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.03%) PKI
7 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Windows
3 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.03%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (89.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (74.24%) CI/CD
2 49 (74.24%) DevOps
3 26 (39.39%) Observability
4 21 (31.82%) RBAC
5 20 (30.30%) Analytics
5 20 (30.30%) Incident Response
6 18 (27.27%) Log Analytics
7 17 (25.76%) AI
7 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure Automation
9 15 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (21.21%) API Management
11 13 (19.70%) Containerisation
11 13 (19.70%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (19.70%) Test Automation
12 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
12 12 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) PowerShell
2 18 (27.27%) Python
3 10 (15.15%) Bash
3 10 (15.15%) C#
4 7 (10.61%) SQL
5 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.03%) Scala
7 1 (1.52%) Java
7 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (31.82%) Azure Certification
2 12 (18.18%) Degree
3 6 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CISSP
6 1 (1.52%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) NIST
3 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.03%) IFRS
4 2 (3.03%) IFRS 17
4 2 (3.03%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.03%) vSphere
5 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (83.33%) Terraform
2 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.06%) logstash
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.03%) MIIS
5 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.52%) Ansible
6 1 (1.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (46.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) Ab Initio
3 4 (6.06%) Databricks
3 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
3 4 (6.06%) VMware
4 3 (4.55%) Cisco
4 3 (4.55%) DevExpress
5 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.03%) Apple
5 2 (3.03%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (3.03%) New Relic
6 1 (1.52%) Commvault
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) Veeam