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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 368 416
Rank change year-on-year +94 +48 +112
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 93 64 76
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 0.90% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 69 47 74
10th Percentile £42,300 £51,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.11% -13.54%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £80,375
90th Percentile £93,750 £86,250 £95,700
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.94% -12.87%

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 4,192 7,116 10,527
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.34% 43.35% 46.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,159 4,459 8,996
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,750 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 17 January 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 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (74.19%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (55.91%) GitHub
4 46 (49.46%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (38.71%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (21.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (20.43%) AWS
7 19 (20.43%) Azure AKS
8 17 (18.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (18.28%) IaaS
9 15 (16.13%) Azure Event Grid
9 15 (16.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 15 (16.13%) PaaS
10 14 (15.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (13.98%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (10.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (10.75%) Entra ID
13 9 (9.68%) SaaS
14 8 (8.60%) Azure App Service
14 8 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.73%) Firewall
2 17 (18.28%) VPN
3 11 (11.83%) DNS
4 3 (3.23%) Network Security
4 3 (3.23%) SAN
5 1 (1.08%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.08%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (33.33%) Finance
2 16 (17.20%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Electronics
5 2 (2.15%) Law
5 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.15%) Marketing
5 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.96%) Azure Engineer
1 26 (27.96%) Senior
2 23 (24.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (15.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 13 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Integration Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Architect
8 7 (7.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Lead
9 5 (5.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Analyst
10 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Architect
11 3 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.13%) .NET
1 15 (16.13%) JSON
1 15 (16.13%) OAuth
2 14 (15.05%) OAuth2
2 14 (15.05%) RESTful
3 12 (12.90%) YAML
4 8 (8.60%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.15%) React
7 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.08%) Blazor
7 1 (1.08%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.08%) Node.js
7 1 (1.08%) OpenID
7 1 (1.08%) SAML
7 1 (1.08%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.08%) Svelte
7 1 (1.08%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.53%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) Clustering
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.08%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.28%) Windows
2 14 (15.05%) Linux
3 9 (9.68%) VMS
4 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (92.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (80.65%) DevOps
3 69 (74.19%) CI/CD
4 36 (38.71%) RBAC
5 35 (37.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 31 (33.33%) Analytics
6 31 (33.33%) Observability
7 29 (31.18%) Incident Response
8 27 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (26.88%) Root Cause Analysis
10 24 (25.81%) API Management
10 24 (25.81%) Log Analytics
11 21 (22.58%) Cloud Security
11 21 (22.58%) Deployment Automation
12 19 (20.43%) Coaching
12 19 (20.43%) Test Automation
13 18 (19.35%) Asset Management
13 18 (19.35%) Identity Management
14 16 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (17.20%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.09%) PowerShell
2 33 (35.48%) Python
3 21 (22.58%) Bash
4 13 (13.98%) SQL
5 6 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (2.15%) Go
7 1 (1.08%) Scala
7 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (27.96%) Azure Certification
2 22 (23.66%) Security Cleared
3 21 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 18 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.68%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.23%) Degree
7 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.08%) CCNA
9 1 (1.08%) CISSP
9 1 (1.08%) MCSA
9 1 (1.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.28%) GDPR
2 4 (4.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.15%) GRC
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (27.96%) Docker
2 11 (11.83%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.53%) Hyper-V
3 7 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.08%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 76 (81.72%) Terraform
2 46 (49.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.83%) Ansible
3 11 (11.83%) Grafana
4 6 (6.45%) SCOM
5 4 (4.30%) logstash
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Ab Initio
3 11 (11.83%) VMware
4 8 (8.60%) New Relic
5 4 (4.30%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.30%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.15%) Databricks
7 2 (2.15%) SAP
8 1 (1.08%) Dell
8 1 (1.08%) HP
8 1 (1.08%) NetApp
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.08%) Veeam