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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 373 496
Rank change year-on-year +82 +123 +32
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 86 49 65
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 0.76% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 62 38 57
10th Percentile £41,600 £51,500 £52,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £61,250 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -18.75%
75th Percentile £74,750 £83,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,075 £96,250
UK median annual salary £64,250 £75,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year -14.33% +14.50% -14.10%

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 4,368 6,444 13,089
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.32% 46.03% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,177 4,569 11,386
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,750
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 £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 10 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 (1.16%) Apache
1 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (67.44%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (45.35%) GitHub
4 37 (43.02%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (36.05%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (23.26%) PaaS
7 19 (22.09%) IaaS
8 17 (19.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (17.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (16.28%) AWS
10 14 (16.28%) Azure AKS
10 14 (16.28%) Azure Event Grid
10 14 (16.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (12.79%) Entra ID
13 7 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (8.14%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (8.14%) SaaS
14 6 (6.98%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.09%) Firewall
2 14 (16.28%) VPN
3 10 (11.63%) DNS
4 3 (3.49%) DHCP
4 3 (3.49%) Network Security
5 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.16%) Metadata
4 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.65%) Git
2 4 (4.65%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (30.23%) Finance
2 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Law
6 1 (1.16%) Advertising
6 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Electronics
6 1 (1.16%) German Language
6 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.16%) Legal
6 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (29.07%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (22.09%) Senior
3 16 (18.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Integration Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Lead
8 8 (9.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Analyst
11 4 (4.65%) Architect
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) CloudOps Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Data Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Security Engineer
12 3 (3.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) .NET
1 15 (17.44%) JSON
1 15 (17.44%) OAuth
2 14 (16.28%) OAuth2
2 14 (16.28%) RESTful
3 11 (12.79%) YAML
4 10 (11.63%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.65%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.33%) React
7 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.16%) CSS
7 1 (1.16%) HTML
7 1 (1.16%) Kafka
7 1 (1.16%) Node.js
7 1 (1.16%) OpenID
7 1 (1.16%) PySpark
7 1 (1.16%) REST
7 1 (1.16%) SAML
7 1 (1.16%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 32 (37.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.14%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (6.98%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Clustering
7 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Podcast
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (15.12%) Windows
2 10 (11.63%) Linux
3 5 (5.81%) VMS
3 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (89.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 69 (80.23%) DevOps
3 64 (74.42%) CI/CD
4 34 (39.53%) Observability
5 33 (38.37%) RBAC
6 32 (37.21%) Analytics
7 29 (33.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (30.23%) Incident Response
8 26 (30.23%) Log Analytics
8 26 (30.23%) Root Cause Analysis
9 24 (27.91%) API Management
9 24 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (24.42%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (22.09%) Cloud Security
12 18 (20.93%) Identity Management
12 18 (20.93%) Test Automation
13 17 (19.77%) Containerisation
13 17 (19.77%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (18.60%) ETL
15 15 (17.44%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.70%) PowerShell
2 23 (26.74%) Python
3 14 (16.28%) Bash
4 7 (8.14%) C#
4 7 (8.14%) SQL
5 2 (2.33%) Scala
6 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Azure Certification
2 16 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
4 7 (8.14%) Degree
5 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.81%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.16%) CISSP
8 1 (1.16%) MCSA
8 1 (1.16%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) GDPR
2 7 (8.14%) NIST
3 4 (4.65%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.33%) GRC
5 2 (2.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (23.26%) Docker
2 12 (13.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (10.47%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.14%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.33%) vSphere
6 1 (1.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 71 (82.56%) Terraform
2 36 (41.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.98%) Grafana
3 6 (6.98%) SCOM
4 5 (5.81%) Ansible
5 4 (4.65%) logstash
6 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.33%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.28%) Ab Initio
3 11 (12.79%) VMware
4 8 (9.30%) New Relic
5 4 (4.65%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.49%) Databricks
6 3 (3.49%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.16%) Apple
8 1 (1.16%) Dell
8 1 (1.16%) HP
8 1 (1.16%) NetApp
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.16%) SAP
8 1 (1.16%) Splunk
8 1 (1.16%) Veeam