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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 362 497
Rank change year-on-year +43 +135 +27
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 74 31 76
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.41% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 0.56% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 48 26 65
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,625 £57,650
25th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +9.02% -16.88%
75th Percentile £82,813 £83,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,000 £96,150
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +16.54% -11.33%

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 4,760 5,555 13,331
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 41.29% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,497 4,448 11,434
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
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 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 May 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 3 (4.05%) Apache
1 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (54.05%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (31.08%) GitHub
4 21 (28.38%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (25.68%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (20.27%) IaaS
7 14 (18.92%) AWS
8 13 (17.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (16.22%) Azure AKS
9 12 (16.22%) PaaS
10 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
11 9 (12.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (12.16%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (10.81%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (10.81%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (9.46%) Serverless
14 6 (8.11%) Azure Functions
14 6 (8.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) Firewall
2 11 (14.86%) VPN
3 9 (12.16%) DNS
4 6 (8.11%) DHCP
5 5 (6.76%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.05%) BGP
6 3 (4.05%) HTTP
6 3 (4.05%) LAN
6 3 (4.05%) OSPF
6 3 (4.05%) SD-WAN
6 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.70%) Network Security
8 1 (1.35%) NAS
8 1 (1.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.05%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.05%) Metadata
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) Power BI
4 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.76%) NUnit
4 3 (4.05%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.70%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.70%) MLflow
5 2 (2.70%) Selenium
5 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
2 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Law
4 7 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.11%) Legal
6 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Advertising
8 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Electronics
9 1 (1.35%) German Language
9 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.35%) Marketing
9 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Senior
2 18 (24.32%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Lead
4 10 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.81%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Architect
8 6 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (8.11%) Product Manager
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.62%) .NET
2 13 (17.57%) ARM Templates
2 13 (17.57%) RESTful
3 9 (12.16%) OAuth
4 8 (10.81%) JSON
4 8 (10.81%) OAuth2
5 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET
5 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.05%) 802.1X
7 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (4.05%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.05%) OpenID
7 3 (4.05%) REST
7 3 (4.05%) Vitest
8 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.70%) RxJS
8 2 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (39.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.11%) Podcast
4 5 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (4.05%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.70%) PKI
8 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Linux
1 8 (10.81%) Windows
2 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.05%) VMS
4 1 (1.35%) Android
4 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (89.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 57 (77.03%) DevOps
3 55 (74.32%) CI/CD
4 28 (37.84%) Observability
5 24 (32.43%) Analytics
5 24 (32.43%) RBAC
6 22 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (28.38%) Incident Response
7 21 (28.38%) Log Analytics
8 20 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (24.32%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (22.97%) API Management
11 15 (20.27%) AI
11 15 (20.27%) Cloud Security
11 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
11 15 (20.27%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (20.27%) Test Automation
12 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (17.57%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) PowerShell
2 18 (24.32%) Python
3 10 (13.51%) C#
3 10 (13.51%) SQL
4 9 (12.16%) Bash
5 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (1.35%) Java
7 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Azure Certification
2 12 (16.22%) Degree
3 6 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
6 1 (1.35%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.27%) GDPR
2 7 (9.46%) NIST
3 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.70%) GRC
5 2 (2.70%) IFRS
5 2 (2.70%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.70%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.70%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) Docker
2 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.70%) vSphere
5 1 (1.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 62 (83.78%) Terraform
2 26 (35.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.41%) logstash
4 2 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.70%) MIIS
4 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (41.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) Ab Initio
3 5 (6.76%) Databricks
3 5 (6.76%) VMware
4 4 (5.41%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.41%) New Relic
4 4 (5.41%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco
5 3 (4.05%) DevExpress
6 2 (2.70%) Apple
6 2 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.35%) Commvault
7 1 (1.35%) NetApp
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.35%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) Veeam