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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 369 413
Rank change year-on-year +33 +44 +66
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 115 50 106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.30% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 0.88% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 79 29 81
10th Percentile £53,750 £53,700 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,625 £57,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,300 £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 5,915 5,672 10,321
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.02% 34.46% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 3,932 8,231
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,995
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 29 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 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.22%) IIS
3 5 (4.35%) nginx
4 3 (2.61%) Apache
4 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (44.35%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (33.91%) IaaS
3 39 (33.91%) PaaS
4 29 (25.22%) Azure Monitor
5 27 (23.48%) Azure AKS
5 27 (23.48%) Entra ID
6 26 (22.61%) Azure Functions
6 26 (22.61%) Serverless
7 24 (20.87%) GitHub
8 22 (19.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 20 (17.39%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (13.91%) AWS
10 16 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (12.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (11.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (9.57%) Snowflake
15 10 (8.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (25.22%) VPN
2 11 (9.57%) DNS
3 9 (7.83%) DHCP
4 7 (6.09%) Firewall
4 7 (6.09%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.61%) BGP
5 3 (2.61%) HTTP
5 3 (2.61%) LAN
5 3 (2.61%) OSPF
5 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.74%) Wireless
7 1 (0.87%) NAS
7 1 (0.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (13.04%) Delta Lake
3 13 (11.30%) Metadata
4 11 (9.57%) Data Vault
5 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.61%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.74%) Big Data
7 2 (1.74%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.74%) Power BI
8 1 (0.87%) Looker
8 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (23.48%) Git
2 5 (4.35%) NUnit
2 5 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.74%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.74%) MLflow
4 2 (1.74%) Selenium
4 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.61%) Finance
3 21 (18.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (16.52%) Law
5 6 (5.22%) Legal
5 6 (5.22%) Legal Technology
6 5 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.87%) Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (23.48%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (21.74%) Architect
2 25 (21.74%) Senior
3 18 (15.65%) Lead
4 15 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Data Architect
5 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Analyst
6 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.70%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (6.09%) Azure Architect
11 7 (6.09%) Developer
11 7 (6.09%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
12 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Manager
12 6 (5.22%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (25.22%) ARM Templates
2 14 (12.17%) .NET
3 13 (11.30%) PySpark
4 7 (6.09%) RESTful
5 5 (4.35%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.35%) Loki
5 5 (4.35%) REST
6 4 (3.48%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.48%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.48%) Swagger
6 4 (3.48%) YAML
7 3 (2.61%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.61%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.61%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.61%) Vitest
8 2 (1.74%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.74%) OpenID
8 2 (1.74%) RxJS
9 1 (0.87%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 45 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.52%) Public Cloud
3 18 (15.65%) Podcast
4 13 (11.30%) Security Posture
5 11 (9.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
7 6 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.74%) PKI
11 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.87%) NHS
11 1 (0.87%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.87%) Windows
2 12 (10.43%) VMS
3 10 (8.70%) Linux
4 7 (6.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (91.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (74.78%) CI/CD
3 75 (65.22%) DevOps
4 47 (40.87%) AI
5 39 (33.91%) Observability
6 36 (31.30%) Analytics
6 36 (31.30%) Roadmaps
7 32 (27.83%) Cloud Security
8 30 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (24.35%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
11 23 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
11 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (19.13%) FinOps
13 21 (18.26%) Log Analytics
13 21 (18.26%) Mentoring
14 20 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (17.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (45.22%) PowerShell
2 40 (34.78%) Python
3 38 (33.04%) SQL
4 23 (20.00%) Bash
5 13 (11.30%) C#
6 12 (10.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (10.43%) Scala
7 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.87%) Java
8 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 45 (39.13%) Azure Certification
2 24 (20.87%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (12.17%) Degree
4 11 (9.57%) SnowPro
5 8 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.35%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.17%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.09%) NIST
2 7 (6.09%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.22%) QA
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) IFRS
5 2 (1.74%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 2 (1.74%) Solvency II
System Software
1 30 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.26%) Docker
3 15 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (11.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (11.30%) vSphere
5 7 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 99 (86.09%) Terraform
2 23 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.22%) Grafana
3 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (5.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) MIIS
5 1 (0.87%) Argo
5 1 (0.87%) Istio
5 1 (0.87%) linkerd
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (64.35%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.78%) VMware
3 15 (13.04%) Databricks
4 12 (10.43%) ScienceLogic
5 7 (6.09%) Oracle
6 3 (2.61%) Cisco
6 3 (2.61%) DevExpress
6 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.74%) Apple
7 2 (1.74%) Veeam
8 1 (0.87%) Commvault