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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 378 397
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 +54
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 126 59 112
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 1.10% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 89 37 82
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,650 £50,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,600 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

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 6,091 5,350 9,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.57% 32.30% 38.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,586 3,695 7,247
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 £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
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 20 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 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.35%) IIS
3 5 (3.97%) nginx
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
4 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 126 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (32.54%) PaaS
4 39 (30.95%) IaaS
5 34 (26.98%) Azure Monitor
5 34 (26.98%) Entra ID
6 27 (21.43%) Azure AKS
6 27 (21.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 26 (20.63%) Azure Functions
7 26 (20.63%) Serverless
8 25 (19.84%) GitHub
9 23 (18.25%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (17.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 18 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (13.49%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (12.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (11.11%) AWS
15 14 (11.11%) Snowflake
16 11 (8.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (26.19%) VPN
2 17 (13.49%) DNS
3 15 (11.90%) DHCP
4 13 (10.32%) Firewall
5 11 (8.73%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.38%) BGP
6 3 (2.38%) HTTP
6 3 (2.38%) LAN
6 3 (2.38%) OSPF
6 3 (2.38%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.59%) Wireless
8 1 (0.79%) NAS
8 1 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 18 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 16 (12.70%) Metadata
4 14 (11.11%) Data Vault
5 9 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.59%) Big Data
7 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.59%) Power BI
8 1 (0.79%) Looker
8 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (20.63%) Git
2 5 (3.97%) NUnit
2 5 (3.97%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.59%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.59%) MLflow
4 2 (1.59%) Selenium
4 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 49 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.05%) Finance
3 21 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (15.08%) Law
5 6 (4.76%) Legal
5 6 (4.76%) Legal Technology
6 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.38%) Banking
7 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Local Government
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (26.98%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (20.63%) Architect
2 26 (20.63%) Senior
3 18 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (13.49%) Lead
5 16 (12.70%) Data Architect
6 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.52%) Analyst
7 12 (9.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 10 (7.94%) Consultant
8 10 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.94%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
10 8 (6.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.56%) Azure Architect
11 7 (5.56%) Developer
11 7 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (87.30%) Terraform
2 28 (22.22%) ARM Templates
3 16 (12.70%) PySpark
4 14 (11.11%) .NET
5 7 (5.56%) RESTful
6 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.97%) Loki
6 5 (3.97%) REST
7 4 (3.17%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.17%) OpenAPI
7 4 (3.17%) Swagger
7 4 (3.17%) YAML
8 3 (2.38%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.38%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.38%) Vitest
9 2 (1.59%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.59%) OpenID
9 2 (1.59%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.08%) Public Cloud
3 18 (14.29%) Podcast
4 15 (11.90%) Security Posture
5 14 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.14%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.38%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.38%) SystemC
10 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.59%) NHS
11 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.81%) Windows
2 13 (10.32%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.52%) VMS
4 9 (7.14%) Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (90.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 90 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 77 (61.11%) DevOps
4 49 (38.89%) AI
5 43 (34.13%) Analytics
6 39 (30.95%) Observability
7 38 (30.16%) Cloud Security
7 38 (30.16%) Roadmaps
8 33 (26.19%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (20.63%) Log Analytics
12 25 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (19.84%) Identity Access Management
12 25 (19.84%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (19.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (19.05%) FinOps
13 24 (19.05%) Mentoring
13 24 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
14 22 (17.46%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 44 (34.92%) Python
3 43 (34.13%) SQL
4 24 (19.05%) Bash
5 15 (11.90%) Scala
6 12 (9.52%) C#
6 12 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) Java
8 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (42.06%) Azure Certification
2 28 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (11.11%) Degree
3 14 (11.11%) SnowPro
4 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.56%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.49%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.76%) NIST
2 6 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.76%) QA
3 3 (2.38%) GDPR
4 2 (1.59%) IFRS
4 2 (1.59%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.59%) NCSC
4 2 (1.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (30.16%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.08%) Docker
2 19 (15.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (15.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.32%) vSphere
4 11 (8.73%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (6.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.76%) Grafana
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (1.59%) MIIS
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) linkerd
5 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (68.25%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.67%) VMware
3 18 (14.29%) Databricks
4 12 (9.52%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (5.56%) Oracle
6 3 (2.38%) Cisco
6 3 (2.38%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.59%) Veeam
8 1 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.79%) Commvault