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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 360 383
Rank change year-on-year +27 +23 +48
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 127 65 107
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 1.27% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 92 40 81
10th Percentile £52,200 £50,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -10.71% +7.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.11%

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 6,141 5,100 9,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.68% 31.42% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,593 3,456 6,322
10th Percentile £38,772 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -1.54% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £117,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

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 12 September 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 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.30%) IIS
3 5 (3.94%) nginx
4 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.57%) Apache
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 127 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (44.09%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (33.07%) PaaS
4 40 (31.50%) IaaS
5 37 (29.13%) Azure Monitor
6 33 (25.98%) Entra ID
7 30 (23.62%) Azure AKS
8 27 (21.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 27 (21.26%) GitHub
9 26 (20.47%) Azure Functions
9 26 (20.47%) Serverless
10 24 (18.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (18.90%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (15.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (15.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (14.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (12.60%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (12.60%) Snowflake
14 15 (11.81%) AWS
15 14 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.20%) VPN
2 16 (12.60%) DNS
3 14 (11.02%) DHCP
4 13 (10.24%) Firewall
5 10 (7.87%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.36%) BGP
6 3 (2.36%) HTTP
6 3 (2.36%) LAN
6 3 (2.36%) OSPF
6 3 (2.36%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.57%) Wireless
8 1 (0.79%) NAS
8 1 (0.79%) SAN
8 1 (0.79%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (14.96%) Delta Lake
3 18 (14.17%) Metadata
4 16 (12.60%) Data Vault
5 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.57%) Big Data
6 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.79%) GIS
7 1 (0.79%) Looker
7 1 (0.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Git
2 5 (3.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.36%) GitLab
3 3 (2.36%) NUnit
4 2 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.57%) MLflow
5 1 (0.79%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (38.58%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.90%) Finance
3 19 (14.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (12.60%) Law
5 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.15%) Banking
6 4 (3.15%) Legal
6 4 (3.15%) Legal Technology
7 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Local Government
8 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (25.98%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (22.05%) Architect
3 26 (20.47%) Senior
4 21 (16.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (14.17%) Data Architect
5 18 (14.17%) Lead
6 15 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.45%) Analyst
7 12 (9.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 10 (7.87%) Consultant
9 9 (7.09%) Azure Consultant
9 9 (7.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.30%) Engineering Manager
11 7 (5.51%) Azure Architect
11 7 (5.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (86.61%) Terraform
2 27 (21.26%) ARM Templates
3 17 (13.39%) PySpark
4 13 (10.24%) .NET
5 6 (4.72%) RESTful
6 5 (3.94%) Loki
7 4 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.15%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.15%) YAML
8 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.36%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.36%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.36%) REST
8 3 (2.36%) Swagger
8 3 (2.36%) Vitest
9 2 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.57%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.57%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.57%) Playwright
9 2 (1.57%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 42 (33.07%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.96%) Public Cloud
3 16 (12.60%) Podcast
3 16 (12.60%) Security Posture
4 14 (11.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.15%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.36%) SystemC
9 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.83%) Windows
2 12 (9.45%) VMS
2 12 (9.45%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.30%) Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Android
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (90.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (71.65%) CI/CD
3 76 (59.84%) DevOps
4 47 (37.01%) AI
4 47 (37.01%) Analytics
5 39 (30.71%) Cloud Security
5 39 (30.71%) Observability
6 38 (29.92%) Roadmaps
7 36 (28.35%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (21.26%) Log Analytics
9 27 (21.26%) Mentoring
9 27 (21.26%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (20.47%) Cost Optimisation
10 26 (20.47%) FinOps
11 25 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (18.90%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (18.11%) Architecture Roadmap
13 23 (18.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (18.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.82%) PowerShell
2 46 (36.22%) Python
3 43 (33.86%) SQL
4 27 (21.26%) Bash
5 16 (12.60%) Scala
6 12 (9.45%) C#
6 12 (9.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (40.94%) Azure Certification
2 30 (23.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (12.60%) SnowPro
4 11 (8.66%) Degree
5 7 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) NIST
2 6 (4.72%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.72%) QA
3 3 (2.36%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) IFRS
4 2 (1.57%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.57%) NCSC
4 2 (1.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (29.13%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.54%) Docker
3 20 (15.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (14.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (9.45%) vSphere
6 11 (8.66%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (6.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (17.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.72%) Grafana
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.72%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Argo
4 1 (0.79%) Istio
4 1 (0.79%) linkerd
4 1 (0.79%) MIIS
Vendors
1 90 (70.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.75%) VMware
3 19 (14.96%) Databricks
4 12 (9.45%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (5.51%) Oracle
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.36%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.57%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.57%) Veeam
8 1 (0.79%) Apple
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.79%) Commvault