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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 376 473
Rank change year-on-year +54 +97 +14
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 103 48 103
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 0.30% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 0.82% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65 26 81
10th Percentile £56,750 £56,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,125 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% +3.70% -11.48%
75th Percentile £91,250 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,250 £66,500
% change year-on-year -0.33% +13.16% -5.00%

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 5,538 5,839 13,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.73% 36.75% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,185 4,064 11,198
10th Percentile £39,891 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £104,000
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 1 July 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 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.91%) Apache
2 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.91%) IIS
2 3 (2.91%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (46.60%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (36.89%) IaaS
4 34 (33.01%) PaaS
5 27 (26.21%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (25.24%) Azure AKS
6 26 (25.24%) Azure Functions
6 26 (25.24%) Serverless
7 24 (23.30%) GitHub
8 21 (20.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 20 (19.42%) Entra ID
10 18 (17.48%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (16.50%) AWS
12 15 (14.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (9.71%) SaaS
14 9 (8.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (7.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (6.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.27%) VPN
2 8 (7.77%) DNS
3 7 (6.80%) Firewall
4 6 (5.83%) DHCP
5 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.91%) BGP
6 3 (2.91%) HTTP
6 3 (2.91%) LAN
6 3 (2.91%) OSPF
6 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.97%) NAS
7 1 (0.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (9.71%) Delta Lake
3 8 (7.77%) Metadata
3 8 (7.77%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.83%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.94%) Big Data
6 2 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.94%) Power BI
7 1 (0.97%) Looker
7 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (26.21%) Git
2 5 (4.85%) NUnit
2 5 (4.85%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.91%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.94%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) MLflow
4 2 (1.94%) Selenium
4 2 (1.94%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.97%) GitLab
General
1 46 (44.66%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.21%) Finance
3 21 (20.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (18.45%) Law
5 6 (5.83%) Legal
5 6 (5.83%) Legal Technology
6 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.94%) Advertising
7 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) German Language
8 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.97%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) Senior
2 23 (22.33%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (19.42%) Lead
4 19 (18.45%) Architect
5 12 (11.65%) Analyst
5 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 10 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Engineering Manager
8 8 (7.77%) Data Architect
8 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
10 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
10 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Product Manager
10 6 (5.83%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.24%) ARM Templates
2 15 (14.56%) .NET
3 8 (7.77%) PySpark
4 7 (6.80%) RESTful
5 5 (4.85%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.85%) REST
6 4 (3.88%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (3.88%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.88%) Swagger
6 4 (3.88%) YAML
7 3 (2.91%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.91%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.91%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.91%) Loki
7 3 (2.91%) OpenID
7 3 (2.91%) Vitest
8 2 (1.94%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (37.86%) Cloud Native
2 19 (18.45%) Public Cloud
3 18 (17.48%) Podcast
4 13 (12.62%) Security Posture
5 11 (10.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
7 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.94%) PKI
10 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.45%) Windows
2 12 (11.65%) VMS
3 8 (7.77%) Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.97%) Android
5 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (92.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 77 (74.76%) CI/CD
3 71 (68.93%) DevOps
4 41 (39.81%) AI
5 38 (36.89%) Observability
6 33 (32.04%) Analytics
7 30 (29.13%) Cloud Security
8 27 (26.21%) Roadmaps
9 25 (24.27%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (23.30%) Log Analytics
11 23 (22.33%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (22.33%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (21.36%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (21.36%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (20.39%) Mentoring
14 20 (19.42%) Computer Science
14 20 (19.42%) FinOps
14 20 (19.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.69%) PowerShell
2 34 (33.01%) Python
3 30 (29.13%) SQL
4 23 (22.33%) Bash
5 14 (13.59%) C#
6 12 (11.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (6.80%) Scala
8 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.97%) Java
9 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (36.89%) Azure Certification
2 23 (22.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (13.59%) Degree
4 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.83%) SnowPro
6 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.91%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.97%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.80%) NIST
3 6 (5.83%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.88%) GDPR
4 4 (3.88%) QA
5 2 (1.94%) IFRS
5 2 (1.94%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.94%) NCSC
5 2 (1.94%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (23.30%) Active Directory
2 21 (20.39%) Docker
3 14 (13.59%) vSphere
4 13 (12.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (11.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (86.41%) Terraform
2 23 (22.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.85%) Grafana
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.94%) MIIS
5 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.94%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.97%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) Argo
6 1 (0.97%) Istio
6 1 (0.97%) linkerd
Vendors
1 64 (62.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.56%) VMware
3 12 (11.65%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (9.71%) Databricks
5 7 (6.80%) Oracle
6 3 (2.91%) Cisco
6 3 (2.91%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.91%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.94%) Apple
8 1 (0.97%) Commvault
8 1 (0.97%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.97%) Veeam