Azure Bicep
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bicep skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bicep over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 744 1190
Rank change year-on-year +29 +446 -277
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 176 236 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.034%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.53% 0.55% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 138 189 48
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,625 £97,750 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,224 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.75% -0.41% -

All Programming Languages
UK

Bicep is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Bicep
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bicep as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bicep.

Salary trend for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bicep over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bicep within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +54 164 £67,500 -5.26% 32
UK excluding London -17 106 £60,000 -10.75% 23
Work from Home +5 72 £66,500 -14.19% 24
London +52 54 £92,500 +2.78% 9
South East +18 41 £70,000 - 8
Midlands +6 25 £60,000 -20.00% 7
West Midlands +21 18 £65,000 -13.33% 1
North of England +29 17 £65,000 +10.64% 5
South West -17 15 £60,000 -13.60% 2
North West +7 9 £65,500 -5.68% 2
Yorkshire +62 8 £60,000 +36.26% 3
East Midlands -2 7 £60,000 - 6
Northern Ireland +21 4 £60,000 -
East of England - 3 £70,000 - 1
Scotland -68 1 £35,000 -49.60%

Bicep
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.57%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 172 (97.73%) Azure
2 102 (57.95%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (33.52%) PaaS
4 52 (29.55%) AWS
5 49 (27.84%) IaaS
6 37 (21.02%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (14.20%) Entra ID
9 21 (11.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 19 (10.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (9.66%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (9.09%) Azure Storage
13 15 (8.52%) Serverless
14 13 (7.39%) Azure AKS
14 13 (7.39%) GCP
14 13 (7.39%) SaaS
15 11 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (6.25%) Azure Stack
16 10 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (5.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.77%) Firewall
1 26 (14.77%) Network Security
2 18 (10.23%) DNS
3 14 (7.95%) DHCP
4 4 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.14%) LAN
5 2 (1.14%) WAN
6 1 (0.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.86%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (3.98%) MySQL
4 6 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (17.61%) Git
2 12 (6.82%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.98%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.98%) NUnit
3 7 (3.98%) Selenium
3 7 (3.98%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.98%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.98%) Visual Studio Code
4 5 (2.84%) GitLab
4 5 (2.84%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (2.84%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.48%) Finance
3 20 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.66%) Back Office
5 16 (9.09%) Law
5 16 (9.09%) Local Government
6 13 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.11%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.11%) Marketing
9 8 (4.55%) Legal
9 8 (4.55%) Retail
10 4 (2.27%) Electronics
10 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.70%) German Language
12 2 (1.14%) Banking
12 2 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (22.16%) Cloud Engineer
2 35 (19.89%) Senior
3 34 (19.32%) Lead
4 26 (14.77%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (14.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 25 (14.20%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (11.36%) Architect
7 20 (11.36%) Azure Consultant
7 20 (11.36%) Consultant
8 18 (10.23%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (9.09%) Developer
10 14 (7.95%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.95%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (7.95%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.95%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (5.68%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (5.68%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (43.18%) ARM Templates
2 42 (23.86%) .NET
3 24 (13.64%) .NET Core
4 13 (7.39%) YAML
5 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.68%) React
6 9 (5.11%) CSS
6 9 (5.11%) HTML
7 8 (4.55%) .NET Framework
7 8 (4.55%) JSON
7 8 (4.55%) XML
8 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET
8 7 (3.98%) Entity Framework
8 7 (3.98%) HTML5
8 7 (3.98%) OpenID
8 7 (3.98%) RESTful
9 5 (2.84%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (2.84%) LDAP
10 4 (2.27%) Vue
11 2 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.80%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) PKI
2 14 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.70%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) BYOD
8 2 (1.14%) IoT
8 2 (1.14%) NHS
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) PropTech
9 1 (0.57%) Blog
9 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.20%) Windows
2 20 (11.36%) Linux
3 16 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (7.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.11%) VMS
6 2 (1.14%) Android
6 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (85.23%) DevOps
2 113 (64.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 92 (52.27%) CI/CD
4 68 (38.64%) Agile
5 40 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 38 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (19.32%) Containerisation
7 34 (19.32%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (19.32%) Scrum
8 33 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (17.61%) API Management
10 29 (16.48%) Network Virtualisation
11 25 (14.20%) TDD
12 24 (13.64%) Cloud Security
12 24 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (13.07%) Identity Management
13 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (12.50%) Test Automation
15 21 (11.93%) Clean Code
15 21 (11.93%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.34%) PowerShell
2 58 (32.95%) C#
3 37 (21.02%) Bash
4 28 (15.91%) Python
5 19 (10.80%) SQL
6 14 (7.95%) VB
6 14 (7.95%) VBScript
7 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.55%) Go
9 6 (3.41%) Java
9 6 (3.41%) PHP
10 4 (2.27%) Rust
11 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.48%) Degree
3 25 (14.20%) Azure Certification
3 25 (14.20%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.95%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.84%) SLA
3 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 38 (21.59%) Active Directory
1 38 (21.59%) Docker
2 36 (20.45%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (9.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (52.27%) Terraform
2 64 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (7.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (7.95%) SCCM
4 14 (7.95%) SCOM
4 14 (7.95%) WSUS
5 10 (5.68%) Ansible
6 7 (3.98%) Istio
6 7 (3.98%) MIIS
7 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.70%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 93 (52.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.41%) Google
2 6 (3.41%) Twitter
3 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.27%) SAP
5 2 (1.14%) Databricks
6 1 (0.57%) Cisco
6 1 (0.57%) NetApp
6 1 (0.57%) VMware