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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 359 386
Rank change year-on-year +80 +27 +195
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 96 75 78
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.63% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.31% 1.02% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 76 56 75
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,625 £55,000 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.29% -14.19%
75th Percentile £72,813 £85,000 £81,438
90th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -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 4,149 7,369 9,195
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.12% 42.57% 46.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,174 4,739 7,775
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,951 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 21 December 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 2 (2.08%) IIS
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.08%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (55.21%) GitHub
4 47 (48.96%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
6 23 (23.96%) Azure AKS
7 22 (22.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (20.83%) AWS
9 19 (19.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (18.75%) IaaS
11 16 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
11 16 (16.67%) PaaS
12 15 (15.63%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (11.46%) Entra ID
15 10 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (9.38%) SaaS
17 6 (6.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.00%) Firewall
2 17 (17.71%) VPN
3 11 (11.46%) DNS
4 3 (3.13%) Network Security
4 3 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (1.04%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.08%) Metadata
3 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.13%) Git
2 3 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 26 (27.08%) Finance
2 15 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.08%) Electronics
4 2 (2.08%) Law
4 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.08%) Marketing
4 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (27.08%) Senior
3 24 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (14.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Architect
11 5 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (4.17%) Analyst
12 4 (4.17%) Support Engineer
13 3 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
13 3 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
13 3 (3.13%) Azure Architect
13 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
13 3 (3.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) .NET
1 15 (15.63%) JSON
2 14 (14.58%) OAuth
2 14 (14.58%) OAuth2
2 14 (14.58%) RESTful
3 13 (13.54%) ARM Templates
4 12 (12.50%) YAML
5 2 (2.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.08%) Blazor
5 2 (2.08%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.08%) Loki
5 2 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.08%) React
6 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.04%) Node.js
6 1 (1.04%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (1.04%) Svelte
6 1 (1.04%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.29%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.29%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Clustering
6 1 (1.04%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.79%) Windows
2 16 (16.67%) Linux
3 9 (9.38%) VMS
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 78 (81.25%) DevOps
3 70 (72.92%) CI/CD
4 35 (36.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (33.33%) RBAC
6 31 (32.29%) Observability
7 30 (31.25%) Incident Response
8 29 (30.21%) Analytics
9 25 (26.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (21.88%) API Management
11 21 (21.88%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (20.83%) Cloud Security
12 20 (20.83%) Log Analytics
12 20 (20.83%) Test Automation
13 19 (19.79%) Coaching
14 18 (18.75%) Asset Management
14 18 (18.75%) Identity Management
15 17 (17.71%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (16.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 45 (46.88%) PowerShell
2 36 (37.50%) Python
3 23 (23.96%) Bash
4 18 (18.75%) SQL
5 6 (6.25%) C#
6 2 (2.08%) Go
6 2 (2.08%) Scala
6 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (23.96%) Azure Certification
2 22 (22.92%) Security Cleared
3 21 (21.88%) SC Cleared
4 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.08%) Degree
9 1 (1.04%) CCNA
9 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.04%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.75%) GDPR
2 4 (4.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) GRC
3 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Docker
2 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (7.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.04%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 76 (79.17%) Terraform
2 44 (45.83%) Kubernetes
3 13 (13.54%) Grafana
4 11 (11.46%) Ansible
5 6 (6.25%) SCOM
6 4 (4.17%) logstash
7 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.58%) Ab Initio
3 12 (12.50%) VMware
4 8 (8.33%) New Relic
5 5 (5.21%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.17%) AppDynamics
6 4 (4.17%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.13%) Databricks
8 2 (2.08%) SAP
9 1 (1.04%) Dell
9 1 (1.04%) HP
9 1 (1.04%) NetApp
9 1 (1.04%) Splunk
9 1 (1.04%) Veeam