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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 346 391
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 +36
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 133 79 103
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 1.57% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 101 51 73
10th Percentile £54,000 £41,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,500 £57,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -14.29% +7.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £69,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.41% +3.29%

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 6,237 5,038 8,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.02% 29.86% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 3,338 5,843
10th Percentile £39,891 £36,250 £39,226
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £116,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 2 October 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 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.02%) IIS
3 5 (3.76%) nginx
4 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.50%) Apache
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (48.12%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (35.34%) PaaS
4 43 (32.33%) IaaS
5 42 (31.58%) Azure Monitor
6 40 (30.08%) Entra ID
7 34 (25.56%) GitHub
8 33 (24.81%) Azure Functions
8 33 (24.81%) Serverless
9 31 (23.31%) Azure AKS
10 28 (21.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 28 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
11 26 (19.55%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (15.79%) Microsoft Purview
13 18 (13.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (12.03%) Azure Databricks
15 16 (12.03%) Snowflake
16 15 (11.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (26.32%) VPN
2 15 (11.28%) DNS
2 15 (11.28%) Firewall
3 13 (9.77%) DHCP
4 9 (6.77%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.26%) LAN
5 3 (2.26%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.26%) Wireless
6 2 (1.50%) BGP
6 2 (1.50%) HTTP
6 2 (1.50%) Network Security
6 2 (1.50%) OSPF
7 1 (0.75%) Internet
7 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.75%) SSL
7 1 (0.75%) TETRA
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 20 (15.04%) Metadata
3 19 (14.29%) Delta Lake
4 16 (12.03%) Data Vault
5 11 (8.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.26%) Power BI
7 2 (1.50%) Big Data
7 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.75%) GIS
8 1 (0.75%) Looker
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.75%) Redis
8 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.75%) SSDT
8 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Git
2 5 (3.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.26%) GitLab
4 2 (1.50%) MLflow
5 1 (0.75%) Flyway
5 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 54 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Finance
3 16 (12.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.77%) Law
4 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.01%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Police
6 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.26%) Local Government
7 1 (0.75%) Advertising
7 1 (0.75%) Legal
7 1 (0.75%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.32%) Azure Engineer
2 34 (25.56%) Architect
3 30 (22.56%) Senior
4 26 (19.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (14.29%) Data Architect
6 16 (12.03%) Lead
7 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) Analyst
9 12 (9.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.52%) Consultant
11 9 (6.77%) Azure Consultant
12 8 (6.02%) Azure Architect
13 7 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
14 6 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (87.97%) Terraform
2 29 (21.80%) ARM Templates
3 17 (12.78%) PySpark
4 11 (8.27%) .NET
5 6 (4.51%) REST
6 5 (3.76%) Loki
7 4 (3.01%) YAML
8 3 (2.26%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.26%) OAuth
8 3 (2.26%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.26%) RESTful
8 3 (2.26%) Swagger
9 2 (1.50%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.50%) JWT
9 2 (1.50%) Middleware
9 2 (1.50%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.50%) OpenID
10 1 (0.75%) HTML
10 1 (0.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 17 (12.78%) Security Posture
4 14 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (9.77%) Podcast
6 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 7 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.51%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.76%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.26%) NHS
10 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.26%) SystemC
11 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.75%) Clustering
12 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.06%) Windows
2 14 (10.53%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.02%) VMS
4 8 (6.02%) Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 98 (73.68%) CI/CD
3 84 (63.16%) DevOps
4 56 (42.11%) Analytics
5 46 (34.59%) Cloud Security
6 45 (33.83%) AI
7 41 (30.83%) Observability
8 40 (30.08%) Roadmaps
9 33 (24.81%) Technical Leadership
10 31 (23.31%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (22.56%) FinOps
11 30 (22.56%) Log Analytics
12 29 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
14 27 (20.30%) Cost Optimisation
15 26 (19.55%) Architecture Roadmap
15 26 (19.55%) Root Cause Analysis
16 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (51.13%) PowerShell
2 50 (37.59%) Python
3 46 (34.59%) SQL
4 27 (20.30%) Bash
5 16 (12.03%) Scala
6 12 (9.02%) C#
6 12 (9.02%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (44.36%) Azure Certification
2 32 (24.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (12.03%) SnowPro
4 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.77%) Security Cleared
5 10 (7.52%) Degree
6 9 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.02%) NIST
2 8 (6.02%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.76%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) GDPR
5 2 (1.50%) IFRS
5 2 (1.50%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.50%) NCSC
5 2 (1.50%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (30.08%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.29%) Docker
3 21 (15.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (13.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (9.77%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (9.02%) vSphere
7 8 (6.02%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (18.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.02%) Grafana
3 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.26%) Ansible
5 1 (0.75%) Argo
5 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.75%) Istio
5 1 (0.75%) linkerd
5 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (75.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.04%) VMware
3 19 (14.29%) Databricks
4 12 (9.02%) ScienceLogic
5 8 (6.02%) Oracle
6 6 (4.51%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.26%) Cisco
8 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.50%) Veeam
9 1 (0.75%) ABBYY
9 1 (0.75%) Adobe
9 1 (0.75%) Apple
9 1 (0.75%) Aruba
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.75%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.75%) Hyland
9 1 (0.75%) Juniper
9 1 (0.75%) Kofax
9 1 (0.75%) OpenText