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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 374 443
Rank change year-on-year +44 +69 +55
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 109 53 106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 0.91% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 74 31 82
10th Percentile £55,375 £53,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,063 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% - -9.68%
75th Percentile £91,250 £84,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -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 5,802 5,832 11,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.95% 35.29% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,383 4,069 9,656
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £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 £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 20 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 (11.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.59%) IIS
2 5 (4.59%) nginx
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (44.04%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (36.70%) IaaS
4 38 (34.86%) PaaS
5 27 (24.77%) Azure AKS
5 27 (24.77%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (23.85%) Azure Functions
6 26 (23.85%) Serverless
7 24 (22.02%) GitHub
8 23 (21.10%) Entra ID
9 22 (20.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 19 (17.43%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (14.68%) AWS
13 11 (10.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (10.09%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (9.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (8.26%) SaaS
16 8 (7.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (26.61%) VPN
2 9 (8.26%) DNS
3 7 (6.42%) DHCP
3 7 (6.42%) Firewall
4 6 (5.50%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.75%) BGP
5 3 (2.75%) HTTP
5 3 (2.75%) LAN
5 3 (2.75%) OSPF
5 3 (2.75%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.92%) NAS
6 1 (0.92%) SAN
6 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (11.01%) Delta Lake
3 10 (9.17%) Metadata
3 10 (9.17%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.34%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.83%) Big Data
6 2 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.83%) Power BI
7 1 (0.92%) Looker
7 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (24.77%) Git
2 5 (4.59%) NUnit
2 5 (4.59%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.83%) Jasmine
4 2 (1.83%) MLflow
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.92%) GitLab
5 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (44.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.85%) Finance
3 21 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (17.43%) Law
5 6 (5.50%) Legal
5 6 (5.50%) Legal Technology
6 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) German Language
9 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (22.02%) Senior
3 22 (20.18%) Architect
4 18 (16.51%) Lead
5 12 (11.01%) Analyst
5 12 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) Data Architect
7 10 (9.17%) Engineering Manager
7 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Developer
9 7 (6.42%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
10 6 (5.50%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (5.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.52%) ARM Templates
2 14 (12.84%) .NET
3 10 (9.17%) PySpark
4 7 (6.42%) RESTful
5 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.59%) Loki
5 5 (4.59%) REST
6 4 (3.67%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.67%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.67%) Swagger
6 4 (3.67%) YAML
7 3 (2.75%) 802.1X
7 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (2.75%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.75%) Vitest
8 2 (1.83%) GeoJSON
8 2 (1.83%) OpenID
8 2 (1.83%) RxJS
9 1 (0.92%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (39.45%) Cloud Native
2 19 (17.43%) Public Cloud
3 18 (16.51%) Podcast
4 12 (11.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (11.01%) Security Posture
5 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.83%) PKI
10 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Windows
2 12 (11.01%) VMS
3 10 (9.17%) Linux
4 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.92%) Android
5 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (91.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (75.23%) CI/CD
3 74 (67.89%) DevOps
4 44 (40.37%) AI
5 38 (34.86%) Observability
6 34 (31.19%) Analytics
7 32 (29.36%) Roadmaps
8 31 (28.44%) Cloud Security
9 27 (24.77%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (23.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 26 (23.85%) Root Cause Analysis
10 26 (23.85%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (22.94%) Identity Access Management
12 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (20.18%) FinOps
14 21 (19.27%) Computer Science
14 21 (19.27%) Log Analytics
14 21 (19.27%) Mentoring
14 21 (19.27%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.87%) PowerShell
2 38 (34.86%) Python
3 35 (32.11%) SQL
4 23 (21.10%) Bash
5 13 (11.93%) C#
6 12 (11.01%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (8.26%) Scala
8 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.92%) Java
9 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 40 (36.70%) Azure Certification
2 21 (19.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (13.76%) Degree
4 9 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.34%) SnowPro
6 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.75%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.26%) NIST
3 8 (7.34%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.50%) QA
5 4 (3.67%) GDPR
6 2 (1.83%) IFRS
6 2 (1.83%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.83%) NCSC
6 2 (1.83%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (23.85%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.18%) Docker
3 14 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.84%) vSphere
4 12 (11.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 93 (85.32%) Terraform
2 24 (22.02%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.50%) Grafana
3 6 (5.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.83%) MIIS
5 2 (1.83%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.92%) Ansible
6 1 (0.92%) Argo
6 1 (0.92%) Istio
6 1 (0.92%) linkerd
6 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (63.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.68%) VMware
3 12 (11.01%) Databricks
3 12 (11.01%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (6.42%) Oracle
5 3 (2.75%) Cisco
5 3 (2.75%) DevExpress
5 3 (2.75%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.83%) Apple
7 1 (0.92%) Commvault
7 1 (0.92%) Veeam