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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 375 419
Rank change year-on-year +56 +44 +295
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 89 98 84
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.48% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.84% 1.16% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59 69 76
10th Percentile £42,300 £50,000 £51,875
25th Percentile £48,500 £56,525 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.11% -7.92%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £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 4,850 8,470 10,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.76% 41.81% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,210 5,463 9,095
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%

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 22 October 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 5 (5.62%) IIS
2 4 (4.49%) nginx
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (73.03%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (53.93%) Azure Monitor
4 34 (38.20%) IaaS
5 32 (35.96%) GitHub
5 32 (35.96%) PaaS
6 31 (34.83%) AWS
7 30 (33.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 28 (31.46%) Entra ID
9 27 (30.34%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (26.97%) SaaS
11 23 (25.84%) Azure AKS
12 19 (21.35%) Azure Key Vault
12 19 (21.35%) Power Platform
13 16 (17.98%) Azure AI
13 16 (17.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 16 (17.98%) Power Automate
14 15 (16.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (14.61%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (12.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 31 (34.83%) Firewall
1 31 (34.83%) VPN
2 26 (29.21%) DNS
3 16 (17.98%) SD-WAN
3 16 (17.98%) WAN
4 3 (3.37%) SAN
5 1 (1.12%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) Internet
5 1 (1.12%) Network Security
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) Data Lake
2 16 (17.98%) MySQL
2 16 (17.98%) Power BI
3 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.12%) Metadata
5 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (23.60%) Git
2 13 (14.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.25%) GitLab
4 2 (2.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (16.85%) Finance
2 12 (13.48%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Electronics
5 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Law
5 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.12%) Marketing
5 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Azure Engineer
2 23 (25.84%) Architect
3 21 (23.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (20.22%) Cloud Architect
4 18 (20.22%) Senior
5 15 (16.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 14 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Azure Architect
10 5 (5.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Analyst
11 4 (4.49%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) Developer
12 3 (3.37%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.85%) ARM Templates
2 10 (11.24%) .NET
3 9 (10.11%) YAML
4 6 (6.74%) JSON
5 5 (5.62%) OAuth
5 5 (5.62%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.62%) RESTful
6 4 (4.49%) Loki
6 4 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.25%) Blazor
7 2 (2.25%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.12%) React
8 1 (1.12%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (1.12%) Svelte
8 1 (1.12%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) Data Centre
2 16 (17.98%) NHS
3 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.87%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.25%) IoT
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.12%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.22%) Windows
2 14 (15.73%) Linux
3 6 (6.74%) VMS
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (83.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 71 (79.78%) DevOps
3 61 (68.54%) CI/CD
4 36 (40.45%) RBAC
5 33 (37.08%) Analytics
6 28 (31.46%) Migration
7 26 (29.21%) Log Analytics
8 24 (26.97%) AI
8 24 (26.97%) API Management
8 24 (26.97%) ITIL
9 23 (25.84%) Agile
9 23 (25.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (23.60%) Data Integration
11 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (20.22%) Project Management
12 17 (19.10%) Network Virtualisation
12 17 (19.10%) Roadmaps
12 17 (19.10%) Service Management
12 17 (19.10%) TOGAF
12 17 (19.10%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 61 (68.54%) PowerShell
2 33 (37.08%) SQL
3 32 (35.96%) Python
4 20 (22.47%) Bash
5 8 (8.99%) C#
6 2 (2.25%) Go
7 1 (1.12%) Scala
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (44.94%) Azure Certification
2 21 (23.60%) Security Cleared
3 20 (22.47%) SC Cleared
4 18 (20.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (17.98%) DBS Check
6 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.12%) CCNA
9 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.12%) Degree
9 1 (1.12%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) GDPR
2 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.12%) NIST
2 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.12%) QA
2 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (30.34%) Virtual Machines
2 23 (25.84%) Docker
3 12 (13.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (6.74%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 53 (59.55%) Terraform
2 32 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.98%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (16.85%) Grafana
5 12 (13.48%) Ansible
6 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.74%) SCOM
7 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 19 (21.35%) Databricks
3 16 (17.98%) Meraki
4 11 (12.36%) VMware
5 5 (5.62%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.49%) LogicMonitor
7 3 (3.37%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.25%) New Relic
9 1 (1.12%) Darktrace
9 1 (1.12%) DataCore
9 1 (1.12%) Dell
9 1 (1.12%) HP
9 1 (1.12%) SAP
9 1 (1.12%) Splunk
9 1 (1.12%) Veeam