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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 377 418
Rank change year-on-year +43 +41 +63
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 113 50 105
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 0.87% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 77 28 81
10th Percentile £55,000 £53,675 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £83,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -3.57%

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 5,843 5,770 11,013
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.92% 35.04% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,400 4,017 8,868
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% +7.50% -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 24 July 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 (10.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.31%) IIS
3 5 (4.42%) nginx
4 3 (2.65%) Apache
4 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 113 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (43.36%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (34.51%) IaaS
4 37 (32.74%) PaaS
5 29 (25.66%) Azure Monitor
6 27 (23.89%) Azure AKS
7 26 (23.01%) Azure Functions
7 26 (23.01%) Entra ID
7 26 (23.01%) Serverless
8 24 (21.24%) GitHub
9 22 (19.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 19 (16.81%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (14.16%) AWS
11 16 (14.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (11.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (10.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (8.85%) SaaS
14 10 (8.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.66%) VPN
2 12 (10.62%) DNS
3 10 (8.85%) DHCP
4 8 (7.08%) TCP/IP
5 7 (6.19%) Firewall
6 3 (2.65%) BGP
6 3 (2.65%) HTTP
6 3 (2.65%) LAN
6 3 (2.65%) OSPF
6 3 (2.65%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.77%) Wireless
8 1 (0.88%) NAS
8 1 (0.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (12.39%) Delta Lake
3 12 (10.62%) Metadata
4 10 (8.85%) Data Vault
5 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.77%) Big Data
7 2 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.77%) Power BI
8 1 (0.88%) Looker
8 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (23.89%) Git
2 5 (4.42%) NUnit
2 5 (4.42%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.77%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.77%) MLflow
4 2 (1.77%) Selenium
4 2 (1.77%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.01%) Finance
3 21 (18.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (16.81%) Law
5 6 (5.31%) Legal
5 6 (5.31%) Legal Technology
6 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (23.89%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (22.12%) Senior
3 24 (21.24%) Architect
4 18 (15.93%) Lead
5 13 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (10.62%) Analyst
6 12 (10.62%) Data Architect
6 12 (10.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (9.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.85%) Engineering Manager
9 8 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Architect
10 7 (6.19%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Developer
10 7 (6.19%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
11 6 (5.31%) Infrastructure Manager
11 6 (5.31%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.66%) ARM Templates
2 14 (12.39%) .NET
3 12 (10.62%) PySpark
4 7 (6.19%) RESTful
5 5 (4.42%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.42%) Loki
5 5 (4.42%) REST
6 4 (3.54%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.54%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.54%) Swagger
6 4 (3.54%) YAML
7 3 (2.65%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.65%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.65%) Vitest
8 2 (1.77%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.77%) OpenID
8 2 (1.77%) RxJS
9 1 (0.88%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 44 (38.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.81%) Public Cloud
3 18 (15.93%) Podcast
4 12 (10.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (10.62%) Security Posture
5 9 (7.96%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.77%) PKI
10 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.88%) NHS
10 1 (0.88%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.12%) Windows
2 12 (10.62%) VMS
3 10 (8.85%) Linux
4 8 (7.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (90.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 85 (75.22%) CI/CD
3 74 (65.49%) DevOps
4 46 (40.71%) AI
5 39 (34.51%) Observability
6 35 (30.97%) Analytics
6 35 (30.97%) Roadmaps
7 30 (26.55%) Cloud Security
8 29 (25.66%) Technical Leadership
9 27 (23.89%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (22.12%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (22.12%) Root Cause Analysis
11 23 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (20.35%) Identity Access Management
11 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (18.58%) FinOps
12 21 (18.58%) Log Analytics
12 21 (18.58%) Mentoring
13 20 (17.70%) Computer Science
13 20 (17.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (46.02%) PowerShell
2 39 (34.51%) Python
3 36 (31.86%) SQL
4 23 (20.35%) Bash
5 13 (11.50%) C#
6 12 (10.62%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (9.73%) Scala
8 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.88%) Java
9 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 45 (39.82%) Azure Certification
2 23 (20.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (12.39%) Degree
4 10 (8.85%) SnowPro
5 8 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.42%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.50%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) NIST
2 7 (6.19%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.31%) QA
4 3 (2.65%) GDPR
5 2 (1.77%) IFRS
5 2 (1.77%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.77%) NCSC
5 2 (1.77%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (27.43%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.58%) Docker
3 15 (13.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (12.39%) vSphere
5 12 (10.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (3.54%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 97 (85.84%) Terraform
2 23 (20.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.31%) Grafana
3 6 (5.31%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.77%) Ansible
5 2 (1.77%) MIIS
5 2 (1.77%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.88%) Argo
6 1 (0.88%) Istio
6 1 (0.88%) linkerd
6 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (64.60%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.93%) VMware
3 14 (12.39%) Databricks
4 12 (10.62%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (6.19%) Oracle
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.65%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.77%) Apple
7 2 (1.77%) Veeam
8 1 (0.88%) Commvault