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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 342 380
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +60
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 135 74 106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.17% 1.47% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 102 48 80
10th Percentile £54,000 £42,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -10.71% +7.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,625 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +7.11%

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 6,209 5,046 8,843
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.36% 31.26% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,637 3,386 5,994
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 22 September 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 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.93%) IIS
3 5 (3.70%) nginx
4 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (47.41%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (34.07%) PaaS
4 42 (31.11%) Azure Monitor
4 42 (31.11%) Entra ID
4 42 (31.11%) IaaS
5 34 (25.19%) GitHub
6 33 (24.44%) Azure Functions
6 33 (24.44%) Serverless
7 31 (22.96%) Azure AKS
8 30 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 28 (20.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 26 (19.26%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (15.56%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (11.85%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (11.85%) Snowflake
14 15 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.44%) VPN
2 17 (12.59%) DNS
3 15 (11.11%) Firewall
4 14 (10.37%) DHCP
5 9 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.22%) LAN
6 3 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.22%) Wireless
7 2 (1.48%) BGP
7 2 (1.48%) HTTP
7 2 (1.48%) Network Security
7 2 (1.48%) OSPF
8 1 (0.74%) Internet
8 1 (0.74%) NAS
8 1 (0.74%) SAN
8 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.74%) SSL
8 1 (0.74%) TETRA
8 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (14.81%) Metadata
3 19 (14.07%) Delta Lake
4 16 (11.85%) Data Vault
5 11 (8.15%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.22%) Power BI
7 2 (1.48%) Big Data
7 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.74%) GIS
8 1 (0.74%) Looker
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
8 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.74%) SSDT
8 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (17.78%) Git
2 5 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.48%) MLflow
4 2 (1.48%) NUnit
5 1 (0.74%) Flyway
5 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 55 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.74%) Finance
3 17 (12.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.37%) Law
5 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
6 4 (2.96%) Police
7 3 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Local Government
8 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 2 (1.48%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (27.41%) Azure Engineer
2 34 (25.19%) Architect
3 29 (21.48%) Senior
4 24 (17.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (14.07%) Data Architect
6 18 (13.33%) Lead
7 14 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.89%) Analyst
9 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 11 (8.15%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 11 (8.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (7.41%) Consultant
12 9 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
13 8 (5.93%) Azure Architect
14 7 (5.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (5.19%) Enterprise Architect
14 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
15 6 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (86.67%) Terraform
2 27 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 17 (12.59%) PySpark
4 13 (9.63%) .NET
5 6 (4.44%) REST
6 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.70%) Loki
6 5 (3.70%) RESTful
7 4 (2.96%) OpenAPI
7 4 (2.96%) Swagger
7 4 (2.96%) YAML
8 3 (2.22%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.22%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.22%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.22%) OAuth
8 3 (2.22%) Vitest
9 2 (1.48%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.48%) JWT
9 2 (1.48%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 41 (30.37%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.07%) Public Cloud
3 17 (12.59%) Security Posture
4 15 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (10.37%) Podcast
6 7 (5.19%) Management Information System
6 7 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.22%) NHS
9 3 (2.22%) SystemC
10 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.70%) Windows
2 14 (10.37%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.89%) VMS
4 8 (5.93%) Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (90.37%) Infrastructure as Code
2 99 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 84 (62.22%) DevOps
4 54 (40.00%) Analytics
5 46 (34.07%) AI
6 44 (32.59%) Cloud Security
7 42 (31.11%) Observability
7 42 (31.11%) Roadmaps
8 35 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
9 31 (22.96%) Log Analytics
10 30 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (20.74%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (20.74%) FinOps
12 28 (20.74%) Mentoring
12 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (19.26%) Architecture Roadmap
14 25 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (18.52%) RBAC
15 24 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (49.63%) PowerShell
2 48 (35.56%) Python
2 48 (35.56%) SQL
3 28 (20.74%) Bash
4 16 (11.85%) Scala
5 12 (8.89%) C#
5 12 (8.89%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (43.70%) Azure Certification
2 32 (23.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (11.85%) SnowPro
4 13 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
5 9 (6.67%) Degree
6 7 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.44%) NIST
2 6 (4.44%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.44%) QA
3 4 (2.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) IFRS
4 2 (1.48%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.48%) NCSC
4 2 (1.48%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (15.56%) Docker
2 21 (15.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (9.63%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (8.89%) vSphere
6 8 (5.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.89%) Grafana
3 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.96%) Ansible
6 1 (0.74%) Argo
6 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.74%) Istio
6 1 (0.74%) linkerd
6 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (74.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.81%) VMware
3 19 (14.07%) Databricks
4 12 (8.89%) ScienceLogic
5 8 (5.93%) Oracle
6 6 (4.44%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.22%) Cisco
8 2 (1.48%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.48%) Veeam
9 1 (0.74%) Adobe
9 1 (0.74%) Apple
9 1 (0.74%) Aruba
9 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.74%) Commvault
9 1 (0.74%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.74%) Hyland
9 1 (0.74%) Juniper
9 1 (0.74%) Kofax
9 1 (0.74%) OpenText