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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 730 1202
Rank change year-on-year +8 +472 -275
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 187 220 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.23% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 0.55% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 144 177 50
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -

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 33,900 40,052 91,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 42.32% 54.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,257 26,577 43,330
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +19 172 £67,500 -3.57% 23
UK excluding London -4 119 £65,000 - 21
Work from Home +6 87 £68,750 -12.70% 21
London +65 53 £92,500 +2.78% 4
South East +5 42 £60,000 -14.29% 8
Midlands +3 26 £60,000 -20.00% 4
North of England +22 24 £65,500 +13.91% 5
West Midlands -4 19 £65,000 -13.33%
South West -15 16 £60,000 -13.60% 1
Yorkshire +52 14 £75,996 +72.59% 3
North West 0 10 £65,500 +5.27% 2
East Midlands -12 7 £60,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +23 4 £60,000 -
Scotland -68 4 £80,000 +15.20% 3
East of England - 3 £70,000 -

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 17 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 183 (97.86%) Azure
2 111 (59.36%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (31.02%) PaaS
4 51 (27.27%) AWS
5 49 (26.20%) IaaS
6 39 (20.86%) Azure Monitor
7 33 (17.65%) Entra ID
8 32 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (12.83%) Azure Storage
10 21 (11.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (9.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (8.02%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (8.02%) SaaS
13 14 (7.49%) Azure AKS
14 13 (6.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (6.42%) Serverless
16 11 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (5.88%) Azure Stack
16 11 (5.88%) GCP
17 10 (5.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.51%) Firewall
2 26 (13.90%) Network Security
3 22 (11.76%) DNS
4 18 (9.63%) DHCP
5 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.07%) LAN
6 2 (1.07%) WAN
7 1 (0.53%) FTP
7 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (25.13%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (3.74%) MySQL
4 6 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.07%) Power BI
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 36 (19.25%) Git
2 11 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.74%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.74%) NUnit
3 7 (3.74%) Selenium
3 7 (3.74%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.74%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.74%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.21%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.14%) GitLab
5 4 (2.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.32%) Finance
3 20 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.09%) Back Office
5 16 (8.56%) Local Government
6 13 (6.95%) Law
7 12 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.35%) Retail
9 9 (4.81%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.28%) Manufacturing
10 8 (4.28%) Marketing
11 6 (3.21%) Legal
12 4 (2.14%) Electronics
12 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.60%) German Language
14 2 (1.07%) Banking
14 2 (1.07%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 43 (22.99%) Cloud Engineer
2 33 (17.65%) Lead
3 32 (17.11%) Senior
4 30 (16.04%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (12.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 24 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (12.83%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (10.70%) Architect
7 19 (10.16%) Azure Consultant
7 19 (10.16%) Consultant
8 18 (9.63%) Developer
8 18 (9.63%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (9.09%) Active Directory Specialist
9 17 (9.09%) Active Directory Support
9 17 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
9 17 (9.09%) Support Specialist
10 13 (6.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.42%) .NET Developer
12 10 (5.35%) Senior Consultant
12 10 (5.35%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (44.92%) ARM Templates
2 42 (22.46%) .NET
3 27 (14.44%) .NET Core
4 18 (9.63%) YAML
5 10 (5.35%) .NET Framework
5 10 (5.35%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.28%) CSS
6 8 (4.28%) HTML
6 8 (4.28%) React
7 7 (3.74%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.74%) Entity Framework
7 7 (3.74%) HTML5
7 7 (3.74%) JSON
7 7 (3.74%) OpenID
7 7 (3.74%) RESTful
7 7 (3.74%) XML
8 6 (3.21%) Azure Blueprints
9 5 (2.67%) LDAP
10 2 (1.07%) ADO
10 2 (1.07%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.09%) PKI
2 17 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.14%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.14%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.60%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.07%) BYOD
7 2 (1.07%) IoT
7 2 (1.07%) NHS
7 2 (1.07%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.07%) PropTech
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.97%) Windows
2 23 (12.30%) Linux
3 20 (10.70%) Windows Server
4 17 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.28%) VMS
6 2 (1.07%) Android
6 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (86.10%) DevOps
2 115 (61.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 98 (52.41%) CI/CD
4 72 (38.50%) Agile
5 37 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (19.79%) Software Engineering
6 33 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 33 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (17.65%) Scrum
7 32 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
8 30 (16.04%) API Management
9 29 (15.51%) Network Virtualisation
10 27 (14.44%) Identity Management
11 26 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (13.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (13.37%) TDD
13 24 (12.83%) Cloud Security
14 23 (12.30%) ITIL
15 21 (11.23%) Analytics
15 21 (11.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.32%) PowerShell
2 61 (32.62%) C#
3 36 (19.25%) Bash
4 27 (14.44%) Python
5 22 (11.76%) SQL
6 17 (9.09%) VB
6 17 (9.09%) VBScript
7 10 (5.35%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.28%) Go
9 6 (3.21%) Java
9 6 (3.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.21%) PHP
10 4 (2.14%) Rust
11 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.65%) Degree
3 28 (14.97%) SC Cleared
4 26 (13.90%) Azure Certification
5 17 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.21%) SLA
3 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 47 (25.13%) Active Directory
2 43 (22.99%) Virtual Machines
3 36 (19.25%) Docker
4 25 (13.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 97 (51.87%) Terraform
2 67 (35.83%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (9.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (9.63%) SCCM
4 18 (9.63%) SCOM
5 17 (9.09%) WSUS
6 9 (4.81%) Ansible
7 8 (4.28%) Istio
8 7 (3.74%) MIIS
9 4 (2.14%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.60%) Puppet
11 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.53%) Podman
11 1 (0.53%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 100 (53.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.21%) Google
2 6 (3.21%) ServiceNow
2 6 (3.21%) Twitter
3 4 (2.14%) SAP
4 3 (1.60%) BT
5 2 (1.07%) Databricks
5 2 (1.07%) VMware
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco
6 1 (0.53%) Commvault
6 1 (0.53%) Dell
6 1 (0.53%) HP
6 1 (0.53%) NetApp
6 1 (0.53%) Sophos
6 1 (0.53%) Veeam