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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 372 402
Rank change year-on-year +87 +30 +229
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 94 91 85
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.27% 1.12% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 76 67 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £54,344 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.29% -15.68%
75th Percentile £72,813 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £93,125 £87,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.29% -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 4,146 8,104 9,593
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.05% 42.48% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,189 5,233 8,122
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,486 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.56%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 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 4 (4.26%) IIS
1 4 (4.26%) nginx
2 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 70 (74.47%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (48.94%) GitHub
4 41 (43.62%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (41.49%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (25.53%) Azure AKS
7 19 (20.21%) AWS
7 19 (20.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 18 (19.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (19.15%) IaaS
9 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (17.02%) PaaS
10 14 (14.89%) Azure Event Grid
11 13 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (12.77%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (11.70%) Entra ID
14 10 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (9.57%) SaaS
16 8 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
16 8 (8.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.53%) Firewall
2 16 (17.02%) 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 15 (15.96%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.06%) Metadata
5 1 (1.06%) Power BI
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.38%) Git
3 4 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.13%) JIRA
5 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (23.40%) Finance
2 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
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 33 (35.11%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (26.60%) Senior
3 23 (24.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (14.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Architect
10 7 (7.45%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) Analyst
12 4 (4.26%) Azure Architect
12 4 (4.26%) Support Engineer
13 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
13 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 3 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
13 3 (3.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) .NET
2 14 (14.89%) ARM Templates
3 12 (12.77%) JSON
3 12 (12.77%) YAML
4 11 (11.70%) OAuth
4 11 (11.70%) OAuth2
4 11 (11.70%) RESTful
5 4 (4.26%) Loki
5 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.13%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.13%) Blazor
6 2 (2.13%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.13%) React
7 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.06%) Node.js
7 1 (1.06%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.06%) Svelte
7 1 (1.06%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.45%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
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%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.06%) IoT
7 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.34%) Windows
2 16 (17.02%) Linux
3 9 (9.57%) VMS
4 4 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (86.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 76 (80.85%) DevOps
3 64 (68.09%) CI/CD
4 35 (37.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (28.72%) RBAC
6 26 (27.66%) Incident Response
6 26 (27.66%) Observability
7 24 (25.53%) Analytics
8 23 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (21.28%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (18.09%) Cloud Security
10 17 (18.09%) Log Analytics
11 16 (17.02%) API Management
11 16 (17.02%) Coaching
11 16 (17.02%) Containerisation
11 16 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 15 (15.96%) Asset Management
12 15 (15.96%) Deployment Automation
13 14 (14.89%) Mentoring
14 13 (13.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) PowerShell
2 34 (36.17%) Python
3 23 (24.47%) Bash
4 19 (20.21%) SQL
5 7 (7.45%) C#
6 2 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (1.06%) Scala
7 1 (1.06%) 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 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.57%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.06%) CCNA
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.06%) Degree
8 1 (1.06%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.89%) GDPR
2 3 (3.19%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.13%) GRC
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (29.79%) Docker
2 11 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.70%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.06%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 73 (77.66%) Terraform
2 44 (46.81%) Kubernetes
3 15 (15.96%) Grafana
4 12 (12.77%) Ansible
5 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.38%) SCOM
6 2 (2.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 28 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.70%) Ab Initio
2 11 (11.70%) VMware
3 8 (8.51%) New Relic
4 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.26%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (3.19%) Databricks
5 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.06%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) HP
7 1 (1.06%) NetApp
7 1 (1.06%) Splunk
7 1 (1.06%) Veeam