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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 366 493
Rank change year-on-year +34 +127 +30
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 76 31 79
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 0.55% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 49 27 68
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,850 £55,475
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +9.02% -16.88%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,000 £96,075
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +16.54% -11.33%

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 4,771 5,652 13,342
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.59% 42.36% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 4,501 11,462
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £78,750
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 24 April 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 (2.63%) Apache
1 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (31.58%) GitHub
4 23 (30.26%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (26.32%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (18.42%) AWS
6 14 (18.42%) IaaS
7 13 (17.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (15.79%) PaaS
9 11 (14.47%) Azure AKS
10 10 (13.16%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
11 9 (11.84%) Azure Event Grid
11 9 (11.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (9.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (7.89%) SaaS
14 6 (7.89%) Serverless
15 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (19.74%) Firewall
2 11 (14.47%) VPN
3 9 (11.84%) DNS
4 6 (7.89%) DHCP
5 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.95%) BGP
6 3 (3.95%) HTTP
6 3 (3.95%) LAN
6 3 (3.95%) OSPF
6 3 (3.95%) SD-WAN
6 3 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.63%) Network Security
8 1 (1.32%) NAS
8 1 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.63%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.63%) Metadata
4 2 (2.63%) Power BI
4 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.58%) NUnit
4 3 (3.95%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.63%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.63%) Selenium
5 2 (2.63%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.32%) GitLab
6 1 (1.32%) MLflow
6 1 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (28.95%) Finance
2 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Law
4 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.89%) Legal
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Advertising
7 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Electronics
8 1 (1.32%) German Language
8 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Senior
2 19 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.47%) Lead
5 10 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Integration Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
8 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (7.89%) Product Manager
9 5 (6.58%) Architect
10 4 (5.26%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.95%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) .NET
2 14 (18.42%) RESTful
3 13 (17.11%) ARM Templates
4 10 (13.16%) OAuth
5 9 (11.84%) JSON
5 9 (11.84%) OAuth2
6 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET
6 5 (6.58%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (5.26%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.26%) YAML
8 3 (3.95%) 802.1X
8 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.95%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.95%) OpenID
8 3 (3.95%) REST
8 3 (3.95%) Vitest
9 2 (2.63%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.89%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (7.89%) Podcast
4 5 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.63%) PKI
7 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.95%) VMS
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (89.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 60 (78.95%) DevOps
3 57 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 31 (40.79%) Observability
5 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (32.89%) RBAC
7 24 (31.58%) Analytics
8 22 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (28.95%) Incident Response
8 22 (28.95%) Log Analytics
9 18 (23.68%) API Management
9 18 (23.68%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (22.37%) Containerisation
11 16 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (21.05%) Test Automation
12 15 (19.74%) Cloud Security
13 13 (17.11%) AI
13 13 (17.11%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (17.11%) Identity Management
13 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.26%) PowerShell
2 17 (22.37%) Python
3 10 (13.16%) C#
3 10 (13.16%) SQL
4 9 (11.84%) Bash
5 4 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.63%) Scala
7 1 (1.32%) Java
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Azure Certification
2 12 (15.79%) Degree
3 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.32%) CISSP
6 1 (1.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) GDPR
2 7 (9.21%) NIST
3 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.63%) GRC
5 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.32%) IFRS
6 1 (1.32%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.32%) QA
6 1 (1.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (22.37%) Docker
2 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.63%) vSphere
5 1 (1.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 64 (84.21%) Terraform
2 28 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.26%) logstash
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
4 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.63%) MIIS
4 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) Ab Initio
3 6 (7.89%) New Relic
4 5 (6.58%) VMware
5 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.26%) Databricks
5 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.95%) Cisco
6 3 (3.95%) DevExpress
7 2 (2.63%) Apple
7 2 (2.63%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.32%) Commvault
8 1 (1.32%) NetApp
8 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.32%) SAP
8 1 (1.32%) Veeam