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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 362 407
Rank change year-on-year +70 +45 +257
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 88 100 86
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.51% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 1.22% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 73 70 80
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £55,381 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.20% -15.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,906
90th Percentile £91,500 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.11% -12.87%

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 4,226 8,171 10,087
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.66% 41.71% 47.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,288 5,191 8,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 November 2025.

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 4 (4.55%) IIS
1 4 (4.55%) nginx
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 88 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (71.59%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (46.59%) GitHub
4 36 (40.91%) Azure Monitor
4 36 (40.91%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (26.14%) Azure AKS
6 19 (21.59%) AWS
7 18 (20.45%) IaaS
8 16 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (18.18%) PaaS
9 15 (17.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (14.77%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
11 11 (12.50%) Entra ID
12 10 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (10.23%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (10.23%) SaaS
14 8 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.00%) Firewall
2 16 (18.18%) VPN
3 11 (12.50%) DNS
4 3 (3.41%) Network Security
4 3 (3.41%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.68%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Metadata
5 1 (1.14%) Power BI
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.82%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (21.59%) Finance
2 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.27%) Electronics
4 2 (2.27%) Law
4 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.27%) Marketing
4 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (26.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 23 (26.14%) Senior
3 16 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (15.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Analyst
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.91%) .NET
1 14 (15.91%) ARM Templates
2 12 (13.64%) YAML
3 9 (10.23%) JSON
4 8 (9.09%) OAuth
4 8 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 8 (9.09%) RESTful
5 4 (4.55%) Loki
5 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.27%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.27%) Blazor
6 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.27%) React
7 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.14%) Node.js
7 1 (1.14%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.14%) Svelte
7 1 (1.14%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.68%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.27%) IoT
6 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Windows
2 14 (15.91%) Linux
3 7 (7.95%) VMS
4 4 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (84.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 70 (79.55%) DevOps
3 57 (64.77%) CI/CD
4 33 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (27.27%) RBAC
6 21 (23.86%) Analytics
6 21 (23.86%) Incident Response
7 19 (21.59%) Observability
8 17 (19.32%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 15 (17.05%) Cloud Security
11 14 (15.91%) Log Analytics
11 14 (15.91%) Mentoring
12 13 (14.77%) Coaching
13 12 (13.64%) Asset Management
13 12 (13.64%) Migration
13 12 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
14 11 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 33 (37.50%) Python
3 21 (23.86%) Bash
4 20 (22.73%) SQL
5 7 (7.95%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) Go
7 1 (1.14%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 22 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (10.23%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.14%) CCNA
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.14%) Degree
7 1 (1.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) GDPR
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.27%) GRC
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.14%) QA
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (32.95%) Docker
2 11 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (7.95%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 66 (75.00%) Terraform
2 41 (46.59%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.05%) Grafana
4 12 (13.64%) Ansible
5 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) VMware
3 8 (9.09%) Ab Initio
4 6 (6.82%) New Relic
5 4 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (3.41%) Databricks
6 3 (3.41%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.27%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.27%) SAP
8 1 (1.14%) DataCore
8 1 (1.14%) Dell
8 1 (1.14%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) NetApp
8 1 (1.14%) Splunk
8 1 (1.14%) Veeam