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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 375 391
Rank change year-on-year +47 +16 +64
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 127 58 114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.35% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.09% 1.09% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 90 36 84
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,750
25th Percentile £62,188 £58,438 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £74,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -1.79%

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 6,085 5,345 9,497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.58% 32.41% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,574 3,682 7,299
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,438 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 August 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 (9.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.30%) IIS
3 5 (3.94%) nginx
4 3 (2.36%) Apache
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (43.31%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (32.28%) PaaS
4 39 (30.71%) IaaS
5 34 (26.77%) Azure Monitor
5 34 (26.77%) Entra ID
6 27 (21.26%) Azure AKS
6 27 (21.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 26 (20.47%) Azure Functions
7 26 (20.47%) GitHub
7 26 (20.47%) Serverless
8 23 (18.11%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (17.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 18 (14.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (13.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (12.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (11.81%) AWS
13 15 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (11.02%) Snowflake
15 11 (8.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (25.98%) VPN
2 17 (13.39%) DNS
3 15 (11.81%) DHCP
4 13 (10.24%) Firewall
5 11 (8.66%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.36%) BGP
6 3 (2.36%) HTTP
6 3 (2.36%) LAN
6 3 (2.36%) OSPF
6 3 (2.36%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.57%) Wireless
8 1 (0.79%) NAS
8 1 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (14.17%) Delta Lake
3 16 (12.60%) Metadata
4 14 (11.02%) Data Vault
5 9 (7.09%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.57%) Big Data
7 2 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.57%) Power BI
8 1 (0.79%) Looker
8 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (20.47%) Git
2 5 (3.94%) NUnit
2 5 (3.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.36%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.57%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.57%) MLflow
4 2 (1.57%) Selenium
4 2 (1.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 49 (38.58%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.90%) Finance
3 21 (16.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (14.96%) Law
5 6 (4.72%) Legal
5 6 (4.72%) Legal Technology
6 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.36%) Banking
7 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Local Government
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (26.77%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (21.26%) Architect
3 26 (20.47%) Senior
4 19 (14.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (14.17%) Lead
6 16 (12.60%) Data Architect
7 14 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (9.45%) Analyst
8 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (8.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (7.87%) Consultant
10 10 (7.87%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (7.09%) Azure Consultant
12 8 (6.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (6.30%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.51%) Azure Architect
13 7 (5.51%) Developer
13 7 (5.51%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.05%) ARM Templates
2 16 (12.60%) PySpark
3 14 (11.02%) .NET
4 7 (5.51%) RESTful
5 5 (3.94%) ASP.NET
5 5 (3.94%) Loki
5 5 (3.94%) REST
6 4 (3.15%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.15%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.15%) Swagger
6 4 (3.15%) YAML
7 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.36%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.36%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.36%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.36%) Vitest
8 2 (1.57%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.57%) OpenID
8 2 (1.57%) RxJS
9 1 (0.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 45 (35.43%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.96%) Public Cloud
3 18 (14.17%) Podcast
4 15 (11.81%) Security Posture
5 14 (11.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.09%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.36%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.36%) SystemC
10 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.57%) NHS
10 2 (1.57%) PKI
11 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.62%) Windows
2 13 (10.24%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.45%) VMS
4 9 (7.09%) Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (90.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (71.65%) CI/CD
3 78 (61.42%) DevOps
4 49 (38.58%) AI
5 43 (33.86%) Analytics
6 40 (31.50%) Observability
7 39 (30.71%) Cloud Security
8 38 (29.92%) Roadmaps
9 33 (25.98%) Technical Leadership
10 28 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (21.26%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (20.47%) Log Analytics
13 25 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (19.69%) Identity Access Management
13 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (19.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 25 (19.69%) Mentoring
14 24 (18.90%) FinOps
14 24 (18.90%) Root Cause Analysis
15 22 (17.32%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.24%) PowerShell
2 44 (34.65%) Python
3 43 (33.86%) SQL
4 24 (18.90%) Bash
5 15 (11.81%) Scala
6 12 (9.45%) C#
6 12 (9.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) Java
8 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (41.73%) Azure Certification
2 28 (22.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (11.02%) Degree
3 14 (11.02%) SnowPro
4 8 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.72%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) NIST
2 6 (4.72%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 3 (2.36%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) IFRS
4 2 (1.57%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.57%) NCSC
4 2 (1.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (29.92%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.96%) Docker
2 19 (14.96%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (14.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.24%) vSphere
4 11 (8.66%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (6.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 111 (87.40%) Terraform
2 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.72%) Grafana
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.72%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.15%) Ansible
5 2 (1.57%) MIIS
6 1 (0.79%) Argo
6 1 (0.79%) Istio
6 1 (0.79%) linkerd
6 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (67.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.54%) VMware
3 18 (14.17%) Databricks
4 12 (9.45%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (5.51%) Oracle
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.36%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.36%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.57%) Veeam
8 1 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.79%) Commvault