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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 381 461
Rank change year-on-year +105 +80 +69
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 93 54 63
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.11% 0.77% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 68 40 61
10th Percentile £42,200 £51,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £61,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,875 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +7.41% -10.00%

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 4,402 6,970 12,541
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.17% 44.47% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,247 4,465 10,909
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,750
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 11 February 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (70.97%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (52.69%) GitHub
4 43 (46.24%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (37.63%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (21.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (21.51%) IaaS
7 19 (20.43%) PaaS
8 18 (19.35%) AWS
8 18 (19.35%) Azure AKS
9 17 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (16.13%) Azure Event Grid
10 15 (16.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (15.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (10.75%) Entra ID
14 9 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (8.60%) Azure App Service
15 8 (8.60%) SaaS
16 7 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.73%) Firewall
2 19 (20.43%) VPN
3 13 (13.98%) DNS
4 3 (3.23%) Network Security
5 2 (2.15%) DHCP
6 1 (1.08%) SAN
6 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.08%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Law
6 1 (1.08%) Electronics
6 1 (1.08%) German Language
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.08%) Marketing
6 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (29.03%) Azure Engineer
1 27 (29.03%) Senior
2 23 (24.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (15.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (10.75%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (8.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.53%) Lead
10 5 (5.38%) Architect
10 5 (5.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.30%) Analyst
11 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
12 3 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.13%) .NET
1 15 (16.13%) JSON
1 15 (16.13%) OAuth
2 14 (15.05%) OAuth2
2 14 (15.05%) RESTful
3 12 (12.90%) YAML
4 10 (10.75%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.15%) React
7 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.08%) Blazor
7 1 (1.08%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.08%) Node.js
7 1 (1.08%) OpenID
7 1 (1.08%) SAML
7 1 (1.08%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.08%) Svelte
7 1 (1.08%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 31 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.53%) Legacy Applications
3 7 (7.53%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.08%) Clustering
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.08%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.20%) Windows
2 13 (13.98%) Linux
3 9 (9.68%) VMS
4 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (91.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (80.65%) DevOps
3 70 (75.27%) CI/CD
4 38 (40.86%) RBAC
5 36 (38.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (34.41%) Analytics
7 31 (33.33%) Observability
8 28 (30.11%) Incident Response
9 27 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (29.03%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (25.81%) API Management
10 24 (25.81%) Log Analytics
11 21 (22.58%) Cloud Security
11 21 (22.58%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (20.43%) Coaching
13 18 (19.35%) Asset Management
13 18 (19.35%) Identity Management
13 18 (19.35%) Test Automation
14 16 (17.20%) Containerisation
14 16 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.16%) PowerShell
2 31 (33.33%) Python
3 19 (20.43%) Bash
4 12 (12.90%) SQL
5 6 (6.45%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) Go
6 1 (1.08%) Scala
6 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (26.88%) Azure Certification
2 19 (20.43%) SC Cleared
2 19 (20.43%) Security Cleared
3 18 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.68%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.38%) Degree
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.08%) CCNA
7 1 (1.08%) CISSP
7 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) MCSA
7 1 (1.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.35%) GDPR
2 7 (7.53%) NIST
3 4 (4.30%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.15%) GRC
5 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (26.88%) Docker
2 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.68%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.08%) vCloud
6 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (82.80%) Terraform
2 44 (47.31%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.75%) Grafana
4 9 (9.68%) Ansible
5 6 (6.45%) SCOM
6 4 (4.30%) logstash
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (37.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Ab Initio
3 10 (10.75%) VMware
4 8 (8.60%) New Relic
5 4 (4.30%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.30%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.15%) Databricks
8 1 (1.08%) Dell
8 1 (1.08%) HP
8 1 (1.08%) NetApp
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) SAP
8 1 (1.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.08%) Veeam