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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 397 500
Rank change year-on-year +55 +103 -4
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 70 42 87
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.28% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.37% 0.71% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 44 21 70
10th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £56,975
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £72,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +5.45% -12.70%
75th Percentile £84,813 £86,250 £74,721
90th Percentile £92,125 £91,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £80,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -10.63% +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 5,105 5,917 13,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.59% 39.51% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,777 4,096 11,479
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,500
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 £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 1 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 (4.29%) Apache
1 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (47.14%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (27.14%) Azure AKS
3 19 (27.14%) IaaS
4 17 (24.29%) GitHub
5 15 (21.43%) Entra ID
5 15 (21.43%) PaaS
6 13 (18.57%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (17.14%) AWS
8 11 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (14.29%) Azure Functions
9 10 (14.29%) Serverless
10 9 (12.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (8.57%) SaaS
14 5 (7.14%) Azure App Service
15 4 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) VPN
2 8 (11.43%) DNS
3 6 (8.57%) DHCP
3 6 (8.57%) Firewall
4 5 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.29%) BGP
5 3 (4.29%) HTTP
5 3 (4.29%) LAN
5 3 (4.29%) OSPF
5 3 (4.29%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.43%) NAS
6 1 (1.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.29%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.29%) Metadata
4 2 (2.86%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Git
2 6 (8.57%) Visual Studio
3 5 (7.14%) NUnit
4 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.86%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.86%) MLflow
5 2 (2.86%) Selenium
5 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.43%) GitLab
6 1 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (10.00%) Law
4 6 (8.57%) Legal
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Advertising
6 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) German Language
7 1 (1.43%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (24.29%) Senior
3 15 (21.43%) Lead
4 8 (11.43%) Architect
4 8 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Developer
5 7 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
6 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Manager
6 6 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Product Manager
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Consultant
7 5 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (5.71%) Lead Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.71%) ARM Templates
2 12 (17.14%) .NET
3 8 (11.43%) RESTful
4 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 4 (5.71%) .NET Core
5 4 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.71%) OAuth
5 4 (5.71%) REST
6 3 (4.29%) 802.1X
6 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (4.29%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.29%) JSON
6 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.29%) OpenID
6 3 (4.29%) Vitest
7 2 (2.86%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.86%) RxJS
7 2 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (8.57%) Podcast
5 3 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.86%) PKI
6 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.43%) NHS
7 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Android
3 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (72.86%) DevOps
3 50 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 23 (32.86%) Observability
5 20 (28.57%) AI
6 18 (25.71%) RBAC
7 17 (24.29%) Analytics
7 17 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 16 (22.86%) Identity Access Management
8 16 (22.86%) Incident Response
8 16 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (21.43%) Log Analytics
10 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 14 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (18.57%) Cloud Security
11 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (17.14%) Mentoring
12 12 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 21 (30.00%) Python
3 11 (15.71%) Bash
3 11 (15.71%) C#
4 7 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.86%) Scala
7 1 (1.43%) Java
7 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (31.43%) Azure Certification
2 12 (17.14%) Degree
3 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) GDPR
2 5 (7.14%) NIST
3 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.86%) IFRS
4 2 (2.86%) IFRS 17
4 2 (2.86%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Docker
2 8 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.86%) vSphere
5 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (82.86%) Terraform
2 18 (25.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.86%) logstash
4 2 (2.86%) MIIS
4 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.43%) Ansible
5 1 (1.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (52.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) Databricks
2 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
2 4 (5.71%) VMware
3 3 (4.29%) Ab Initio
3 3 (4.29%) Cisco
3 3 (4.29%) DevExpress
4 2 (2.86%) Apple
4 2 (2.86%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Commvault
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Veeam