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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 358 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +117 +57
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 80 36 74
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54 32 65
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,719 £54,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,188 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +10.69% -18.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,000 £96,150
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +16.54% -14.19%

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 4,579 5,874 13,164
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.13% 45.67% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,339 4,528 11,422
10th Percentile £39,688 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 28 March 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 1 (1.25%) Apache
1 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (67.50%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (40.00%) GitHub
4 30 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (26.25%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (18.75%) AWS
7 14 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (15.00%) PaaS
9 11 (13.75%) Azure AKS
9 11 (13.75%) Azure Event Grid
9 11 (13.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (13.75%) IaaS
10 10 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (7.50%) Azure API Management
11 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (7.50%) SaaS
12 5 (6.25%) Azure App Service
13 4 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.75%) Firewall
2 9 (11.25%) VPN
3 7 (8.75%) DNS
4 4 (5.00%) DHCP
5 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.50%) Network Security
7 1 (1.25%) BGP
7 1 (1.25%) HTTP
7 1 (1.25%) LAN
7 1 (1.25%) NAS
7 1 (1.25%) OSPF
7 1 (1.25%) SAN
7 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.25%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.75%) NUnit
4 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.50%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.50%) Selenium
4 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.25%) GitLab
5 1 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
2 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Law
4 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.25%) Legal
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) German Language
8 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Azure Engineer
1 21 (26.25%) Senior
2 14 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Lead
5 9 (11.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Product Manager
9 4 (5.00%) Architect
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) .NET
2 14 (17.50%) RESTful
3 12 (15.00%) ARM Templates
3 12 (15.00%) JSON
3 12 (15.00%) OAuth
4 11 (13.75%) OAuth2
5 9 (11.25%) YAML
6 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.75%) OpenID
7 3 (3.75%) REST
8 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.50%) React
9 1 (1.25%) 802.1X
9 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
9 1 (1.25%) PySpark
9 1 (1.25%) RxJS
9 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.75%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Podcast
3 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.50%) PKI
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Windows
2 9 (11.25%) Linux
3 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (90.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 69 (86.25%) DevOps
3 63 (78.75%) CI/CD
4 36 (45.00%) Observability
5 30 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (33.75%) RBAC
7 26 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (31.25%) Incident Response
9 24 (30.00%) Analytics
10 22 (27.50%) Log Analytics
11 21 (26.25%) API Management
12 20 (25.00%) Containerisation
13 18 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (21.25%) Cloud Security
14 17 (21.25%) Test Automation
15 15 (18.75%) Identity Management
16 14 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
17 13 (16.25%) AI
17 13 (16.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) PowerShell
2 21 (26.25%) Python
3 12 (15.00%) Bash
4 9 (11.25%) C#
5 8 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (2.50%) Scala
6 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) Java
7 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Azure Certification
2 11 (13.75%) Degree
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.25%) CISSP
7 1 (1.25%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) GDPR
2 7 (8.75%) NIST
3 4 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.50%) GRC
5 2 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) vSphere
4 1 (1.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 67 (83.75%) Terraform
2 35 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Grafana
3 4 (5.00%) logstash
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.50%) MIIS
4 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Ab Initio
3 8 (10.00%) New Relic
4 5 (6.25%) VMware
5 4 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.75%) Databricks
7 2 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.25%) Apple
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco
8 1 (1.25%) Commvault
8 1 (1.25%) DevExpress
8 1 (1.25%) NetApp
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) Splunk
8 1 (1.25%) Veeam