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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 362 387
Rank change year-on-year +42 +25 +69
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 128 63 109
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.55% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.10% 1.19% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 92 39 81
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,950 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,188 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% +2.42%

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 6,094 5,300 9,356
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.12% 32.23% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,576 3,653 6,859
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,615
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +1.78% -3.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 September 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 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.25%) IIS
3 5 (3.91%) nginx
4 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (42.97%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (32.03%) PaaS
4 39 (30.47%) IaaS
5 36 (28.13%) Azure Monitor
6 33 (25.78%) Entra ID
7 29 (22.66%) Azure AKS
8 27 (21.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 27 (21.09%) GitHub
9 26 (20.31%) Azure Functions
9 26 (20.31%) Serverless
10 24 (18.75%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (14.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (14.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (14.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (12.50%) AWS
13 16 (12.50%) Azure Databricks
13 16 (12.50%) Snowflake
14 15 (11.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (25.00%) VPN
2 16 (12.50%) DNS
3 14 (10.94%) DHCP
4 13 (10.16%) Firewall
5 10 (7.81%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.34%) BGP
6 3 (2.34%) HTTP
6 3 (2.34%) LAN
6 3 (2.34%) OSPF
6 3 (2.34%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.56%) Wireless
8 1 (0.78%) NAS
8 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (14.84%) Delta Lake
3 18 (14.06%) Metadata
4 16 (12.50%) Data Vault
5 9 (7.03%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.56%) Big Data
6 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.78%) Looker
7 1 (0.78%) Power BI
7 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Git
2 5 (3.91%) NUnit
2 5 (3.91%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.34%) GitLab
4 2 (1.56%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.56%) MLflow
4 2 (1.56%) Selenium
4 2 (1.56%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.78%) JIRA
General
1 49 (38.28%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Finance
3 21 (16.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (14.06%) Law
5 6 (4.69%) Legal
5 6 (4.69%) Legal Technology
5 6 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.13%) Banking
7 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (21.88%) Architect
3 26 (20.31%) Senior
4 19 (14.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (14.06%) Data Architect
5 18 (14.06%) Lead
6 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Analyst
7 12 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 10 (7.81%) Consultant
8 10 (7.81%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (7.03%) Azure Consultant
10 8 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Azure Architect
11 7 (5.47%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (88.28%) Terraform
2 28 (21.88%) ARM Templates
3 17 (13.28%) PySpark
4 13 (10.16%) .NET
5 7 (5.47%) RESTful
6 5 (3.91%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.91%) Loki
7 4 (3.13%) OpenAPI
7 4 (3.13%) REST
7 4 (3.13%) Swagger
7 4 (3.13%) YAML
8 3 (2.34%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.34%) 802.1X
8 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.34%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (2.34%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.34%) Vitest
9 2 (1.56%) GeoJSON
9 2 (1.56%) OpenID
9 2 (1.56%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (35.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.84%) Public Cloud
3 18 (14.06%) Podcast
4 16 (12.50%) Security Posture
5 13 (10.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.03%) Product Ownership
7 6 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.91%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.34%) SystemC
11 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.56%) NHS
12 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.66%) Windows
2 12 (9.38%) VMS
2 12 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.03%) Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Android
4 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (92.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (71.09%) CI/CD
3 77 (60.16%) DevOps
4 49 (38.28%) AI
5 46 (35.94%) Analytics
6 41 (32.03%) Observability
7 40 (31.25%) Roadmaps
8 39 (30.47%) Cloud Security
9 37 (28.91%) Technical Leadership
10 28 (21.88%) Log Analytics
10 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (21.09%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (19.53%) Cost Optimisation
12 25 (19.53%) FinOps
12 25 (19.53%) Identity Access Management
12 25 (19.53%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (19.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (19.53%) Mentoring
13 24 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (47.66%) PowerShell
2 47 (36.72%) Python
3 44 (34.38%) SQL
4 26 (20.31%) Bash
5 16 (12.50%) Scala
6 12 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (8.59%) C#
8 3 (2.34%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.78%) Java
9 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (41.41%) Azure Certification
2 30 (23.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (12.50%) SnowPro
4 13 (10.16%) Degree
5 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.47%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.06%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.69%) NIST
2 6 (4.69%) PCI DSS
2 6 (4.69%) QA
3 3 (2.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.56%) IFRS
4 2 (1.56%) IFRS 17
4 2 (1.56%) NCSC
4 2 (1.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (28.91%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.41%) Docker
3 20 (15.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (14.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (9.38%) vSphere
6 11 (8.59%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.69%) Grafana
2 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.69%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.13%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) MIIS
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) Istio
5 1 (0.78%) linkerd
Vendors
1 88 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.63%) VMware
3 19 (14.84%) Databricks
4 12 (9.38%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (5.47%) Oracle
6 3 (2.34%) Cisco
6 3 (2.34%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.56%) Veeam
8 1 (0.78%) Apple
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.78%) Commvault