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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 358 483
Rank change year-on-year +36 +125 +51
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 80 32 78
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 0.55% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 53 29 68
10th Percentile £44,375 £53,300 £55,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.50% -18.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £75,938
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,800 £96,075
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +17.42% -14.84%

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 4,705 5,790 13,274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.40% 44.88% 42.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,439 4,556 11,459
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 £112,500 £97,500
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 7 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 1 (1.25%) Apache
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (36.25%) GitHub
4 27 (33.75%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (18.75%) AWS
7 13 (16.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (16.25%) PaaS
8 12 (15.00%) IaaS
9 11 (13.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
10 10 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (10.00%) Azure AKS
12 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
12 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (6.25%) Azure API Management
13 5 (6.25%) Azure App Service
13 5 (6.25%) SaaS
14 4 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.00%) Firewall
2 11 (13.75%) VPN
3 8 (10.00%) DNS
4 5 (6.25%) DHCP
5 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.50%) BGP
6 2 (2.50%) HTTP
6 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 2 (2.50%) Network Security
6 2 (2.50%) OSPF
6 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.25%) NAS
7 1 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
1 6 (7.50%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.25%) NUnit
3 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.50%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.50%) Selenium
5 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.25%) GitLab
6 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 11 (13.75%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Law
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.50%) Legal
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) German Language
8 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Azure Engineer
1 22 (27.50%) Senior
2 13 (16.25%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Lead
4 11 (13.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Product Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Architect
8 4 (5.00%) CloudOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.00%) .NET
2 15 (18.75%) RESTful
3 13 (16.25%) ARM Templates
4 11 (13.75%) JSON
4 11 (13.75%) OAuth
5 10 (12.50%) OAuth2
6 8 (10.00%) YAML
7 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET
7 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
8 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (3.75%) Entity Framework
9 3 (3.75%) OpenID
9 3 (3.75%) REST
9 3 (3.75%) Vitest
10 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
10 2 (2.50%) React
10 2 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 36 (45.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.75%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.50%) Podcast
4 5 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.50%) PKI
7 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Linux
3 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) VMS
5 1 (1.25%) Android
5 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 68 (85.00%) DevOps
3 62 (77.50%) CI/CD
4 34 (42.50%) Observability
5 30 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (35.00%) RBAC
7 27 (33.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (30.00%) Analytics
8 24 (30.00%) Incident Response
9 22 (27.50%) Log Analytics
10 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
11 19 (23.75%) API Management
12 18 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (21.25%) Cloud Security
13 17 (21.25%) Test Automation
14 14 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (17.50%) Identity Management
15 13 (16.25%) Data Pipeline
15 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 20 (25.00%) Python
3 10 (12.50%) Bash
3 10 (12.50%) SQL
4 9 (11.25%) C#
5 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.50%) Scala
7 1 (1.25%) Java
7 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 13 (16.25%) Degree
3 7 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CISSP
8 1 (1.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) GDPR
2 8 (10.00%) NIST
3 5 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.50%) GRC
5 2 (2.50%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) vSphere
4 1 (1.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 67 (83.75%) Terraform
2 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.00%) logstash
4 3 (3.75%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.50%) MIIS
5 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Ab Initio
3 8 (10.00%) New Relic
4 5 (6.25%) VMware
5 4 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 3 (3.75%) DevExpress
6 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco
7 2 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.25%) Apple
8 1 (1.25%) Commvault
8 1 (1.25%) NetApp
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) Splunk
8 1 (1.25%) Veeam