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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 390 497
Rank change year-on-year +46 +107 +3
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 75 40 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 0.69% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 47 19 70
10th Percentile £55,000 £57,750 £56,975
25th Percentile £60,625 £60,625 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £88,625 £74,721
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,800 £90,000
UK median annual salary £72,000 £80,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.30% -5.00%

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 5,116 5,829 13,641
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.58% 39.26% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,758 4,029 11,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,525
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 4 June 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 3 (4.00%) Apache
1 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 36 (48.00%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (29.33%) IaaS
4 20 (26.67%) Azure AKS
5 19 (25.33%) GitHub
6 18 (24.00%) PaaS
7 16 (21.33%) Entra ID
8 15 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (17.33%) AWS
9 13 (17.33%) Azure Functions
9 13 (17.33%) Serverless
10 11 (14.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 11 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (9.33%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (9.33%) SaaS
14 6 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (6.67%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) VPN
2 8 (10.67%) DNS
3 6 (8.00%) DHCP
3 6 (8.00%) Firewall
4 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.00%) BGP
5 3 (4.00%) HTTP
5 3 (4.00%) LAN
5 3 (4.00%) OSPF
5 3 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.33%) NAS
6 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (6.67%) Delta Lake
1 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.33%) Metadata
3 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) Big Data
4 2 (2.67%) Power BI
4 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Looker
5 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Git
2 6 (8.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.67%) NUnit
4 3 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.67%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.67%) MLflow
5 2 (2.67%) Selenium
5 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (37.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.00%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (12.00%) Law
4 6 (8.00%) Legal
5 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.67%) Advertising
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) German Language
7 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (25.33%) Senior
3 15 (20.00%) Lead
4 10 (13.33%) Architect
5 8 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Developer
6 7 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
7 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 6 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Product Manager
8 5 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Consultant
8 5 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.33%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) ARM Templates
2 12 (16.00%) .NET
3 8 (10.67%) RESTful
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (5.33%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.33%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.33%) OAuth
5 4 (5.33%) REST
6 3 (4.00%) 802.1X
6 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.00%) JSON
6 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.00%) OpenID
6 3 (4.00%) PySpark
6 3 (4.00%) Vitest
7 2 (2.67%) Swagger
7 2 (2.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (10.67%) Podcast
4 7 (9.33%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (4.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.67%) PKI
8 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.33%) NHS
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Linux
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.67%) VMS
4 1 (1.33%) Android
4 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (90.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 54 (72.00%) DevOps
4 25 (33.33%) Observability
5 24 (32.00%) AI
6 20 (26.67%) Analytics
7 18 (24.00%) RBAC
8 17 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (22.67%) Identity Access Management
8 17 (22.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 17 (22.67%) Log Analytics
9 16 (21.33%) Cloud Security
9 16 (21.33%) Incident Response
9 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (21.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (18.67%) Containerisation
10 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.67%) Roadmaps
11 13 (17.33%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (17.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 23 (30.67%) Python
3 13 (17.33%) Bash
4 11 (14.67%) C#
4 11 (14.67%) SQL
5 3 (4.00%) Scala
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.33%) Java
7 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 12 (16.00%) Degree
3 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.33%) CISSP
7 1 (1.33%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) GDPR
2 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.67%) NIST
3 4 (5.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.67%) IFRS
4 2 (2.67%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.67%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 16 (21.33%) Docker
2 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.33%) vSphere
4 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (84.00%) Terraform
2 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.67%) logstash
4 2 (2.67%) MIIS
4 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (54.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Databricks
2 6 (8.00%) VMware
3 4 (5.33%) SolarWinds
4 3 (4.00%) Ab Initio
4 3 (4.00%) Cisco
4 3 (4.00%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.67%) Apple
5 2 (2.67%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (1.33%) Commvault
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) Veeam