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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 367 413
Rank change year-on-year +56 +46 +260
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 92 99 83
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.58% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.99% 1.19% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 63 70 77
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £48,500 £56,525 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.11% -14.19%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.11% -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 4,614 8,307 10,338
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.95% 41.82% 47.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,268 5,285 8,718
10th Percentile £34,925 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

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 5 November 2025.

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 4 (4.35%) IIS
1 4 (4.35%) nginx
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 92 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (76.09%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (52.17%) Azure Monitor
4 36 (39.13%) GitHub
5 31 (33.70%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (33.70%) IaaS
6 30 (32.61%) AWS
6 30 (32.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (31.52%) PaaS
8 26 (28.26%) Entra ID
9 23 (25.00%) Azure AKS
10 21 (22.83%) SaaS
11 18 (19.57%) Power Platform
12 17 (18.48%) Azure Key Vault
13 15 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (16.30%) Azure AI
13 15 (16.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 15 (16.30%) Power Automate
14 13 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 32 (34.78%) Firewall
2 30 (32.61%) VPN
3 25 (27.17%) DNS
4 15 (16.30%) SD-WAN
4 15 (16.30%) WAN
5 3 (3.26%) SAN
6 1 (1.09%) DHCP
6 1 (1.09%) Internet
6 1 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.65%) Data Lake
2 15 (16.30%) MySQL
2 15 (16.30%) Power BI
3 10 (10.87%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.09%) Metadata
5 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Git
2 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.17%) GitLab
4 2 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (17.39%) Finance
2 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.09%) Banking
5 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.09%) Electronics
5 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.09%) Law
5 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.09%) Marketing
5 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) Architect
3 20 (21.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (20.65%) Senior
5 16 (17.39%) Cloud Architect
6 15 (16.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (15.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (9.78%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Analyst
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Architect
11 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (3.26%) Developer
12 3 (3.26%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) ARM Templates
2 12 (13.04%) .NET
2 12 (13.04%) YAML
3 7 (7.61%) JSON
4 6 (6.52%) OAuth
4 6 (6.52%) OAuth2
4 6 (6.52%) RESTful
5 4 (4.35%) Loki
5 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.17%) Blazor
6 2 (2.17%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.09%) React
7 1 (1.09%) Semantic Kernel
7 1 (1.09%) Svelte
7 1 (1.09%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 17 (18.48%) Data Centre
3 15 (16.30%) NHS
4 7 (7.61%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.17%) IoT
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.09%) Clustering
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.09%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.48%) Windows
2 13 (14.13%) Linux
3 6 (6.52%) VMS
4 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (84.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (81.52%) DevOps
3 63 (68.48%) CI/CD
4 36 (39.13%) RBAC
5 33 (35.87%) Analytics
6 28 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (28.26%) Log Analytics
7 26 (28.26%) Migration
8 24 (26.09%) API Management
9 23 (25.00%) ITIL
10 22 (23.91%) Agile
10 22 (23.91%) AI
11 21 (22.83%) Data Integration
12 20 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (18.48%) Incident Response
13 17 (18.48%) Project Management
14 16 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
14 16 (17.39%) Service Management
15 15 (16.30%) B2B
15 15 (16.30%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 58 (63.04%) PowerShell
2 32 (34.78%) SQL
3 31 (33.70%) Python
4 19 (20.65%) Bash
5 8 (8.70%) C#
6 2 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (1.09%) Scala
7 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (41.30%) Azure Certification
2 21 (22.83%) Security Cleared
3 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (16.30%) DBS Check
6 9 (9.78%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.09%) CCNA
9 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.09%) Degree
9 1 (1.09%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) NIST
2 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.09%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (28.26%) Docker
1 26 (28.26%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (11.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 55 (59.78%) Terraform
2 35 (38.04%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.30%) Grafana
3 15 (16.30%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (11.96%) Ansible
5 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.48%) Databricks
3 15 (16.30%) Meraki
4 10 (10.87%) VMware
5 6 (6.52%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (4.35%) New Relic
7 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.09%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.09%) DataCore
8 1 (1.09%) Dell
8 1 (1.09%) HP
8 1 (1.09%) SAP
8 1 (1.09%) Splunk
8 1 (1.09%) Veeam