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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 726 1174
Rank change year-on-year +2 +448 -262
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 180 250 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.54% 0.57% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 142 203 48
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,750 £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £93,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,376 £98,500 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -

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 33,162 43,852 84,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.46% 43.27% 54.01%
Number of salaries quoted 24,974 27,985 43,449
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £106,275 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year -1.82% +3.55% +6.22%

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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bicep in the UK

Bicep
Top 16 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 9 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 +57 167 £67,500 -8.47% 34
UK excluding London +11 106 £60,000 -11.11% 21
Work from Home -3 73 £66,500 -16.88% 19
London +44 58 £92,500 +2.78% 12
South East +15 41 £70,000 - 7
Midlands +4 25 £60,000 -29.41% 5
West Midlands +20 18 £65,000 -23.53% 2
North of England +29 16 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -13 15 £60,000 -13.60% 2
Yorkshire +69 8 £60,000 +36.26% 3
North West +14 8 £65,250 -6.04% 2
East Midlands -10 7 £60,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +26 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 3 £70,000 - 1
Wales +4 1 £82,500 +10.00%
Scotland -71 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 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.67%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 176 (97.78%) Azure
2 106 (58.89%) Azure DevOps
3 61 (33.89%) PaaS
4 53 (29.44%) AWS
5 51 (28.33%) IaaS
6 37 (20.56%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (13.89%) Entra ID
9 21 (11.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (11.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (9.44%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (8.89%) Azure Storage
12 15 (8.33%) SaaS
12 15 (8.33%) Serverless
13 13 (7.22%) Azure AKS
13 13 (7.22%) GCP
14 11 (6.11%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (6.11%) Azure Stack
14 11 (6.11%) GitHub
15 10 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.44%) Firewall
1 26 (14.44%) Network Security
2 19 (10.56%) DNS
3 14 (7.78%) DHCP
4 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.11%) LAN
5 2 (1.11%) WAN
6 1 (0.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (3.89%) MySQL
4 6 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (17.22%) Git
2 12 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 8 (4.44%) Selenium
4 7 (3.89%) Jasmine
4 7 (3.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.89%) NUnit
4 7 (3.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.89%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.89%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.78%) GitLab
5 5 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.78%) Finance
3 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.56%) Law
5 17 (9.44%) Back Office
6 16 (8.89%) Local Government
7 13 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.56%) Legal
8 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.00%) Marketing
10 8 (4.44%) Retail
11 4 (2.22%) Electronics
11 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.67%) German Language
12 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.11%) Banking
13 2 (1.11%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 38 (21.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 37 (20.56%) Lead
3 36 (20.00%) Senior
4 28 (15.56%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (13.89%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 24 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (11.11%) Architect
7 20 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
7 20 (11.11%) Consultant
8 18 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (9.44%) Developer
10 14 (7.78%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.78%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (7.78%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.78%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.56%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
12 10 (5.56%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (42.22%) ARM Templates
2 44 (24.44%) .NET
3 24 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 13 (7.22%) YAML
5 10 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.56%) CSS
5 10 (5.56%) HTML
5 10 (5.56%) JSON
5 10 (5.56%) React
5 10 (5.56%) XML
6 9 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 7 (3.89%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.89%) Entity Framework
7 7 (3.89%) HTML5
7 7 (3.89%) OpenID
7 7 (3.89%) RESTful
8 5 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (2.78%) LDAP
9 4 (2.22%) Vue
10 3 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.56%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.78%) PKI
2 14 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.78%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.67%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.11%) BYOD
8 2 (1.11%) IoT
8 2 (1.11%) NHS
8 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.11%) PropTech
9 1 (0.56%) Blog
9 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.89%) Windows
2 20 (11.11%) Linux
3 16 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (7.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.00%) VMS
6 2 (1.11%) Android
6 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (85.56%) DevOps
2 116 (64.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 70 (38.89%) Agile
5 41 (22.78%) Software Engineering
6 40 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (18.89%) Containerisation
8 34 (18.89%) Scrum
9 33 (18.33%) API Management
9 33 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (16.11%) Network Virtualisation
11 25 (13.89%) TDD
12 24 (13.33%) Cloud Security
12 24 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (12.78%) Identity Management
13 23 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.78%) Test Automation
14 21 (11.67%) Clean Code
14 21 (11.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.11%) PowerShell
2 59 (32.78%) C#
3 38 (21.11%) Bash
4 30 (16.67%) Python
5 19 (10.56%) SQL
6 14 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.78%) VB
6 14 (7.78%) VBScript
7 8 (4.44%) Go
8 6 (3.33%) Java
8 6 (3.33%) PHP
9 4 (2.22%) Rust
9 4 (2.22%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.11%) Degree
3 25 (13.89%) Azure Certification
3 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.78%) SLA
3 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 39 (21.67%) Docker
2 38 (21.11%) Active Directory
3 36 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (9.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (51.67%) Terraform
2 64 (35.56%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (7.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (7.78%) SCCM
4 14 (7.78%) SCOM
4 14 (7.78%) WSUS
5 11 (6.11%) Ansible
6 7 (3.89%) Istio
6 7 (3.89%) MIIS
7 4 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.67%) Puppet
9 1 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 93 (51.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.33%) Google
2 6 (3.33%) Twitter
3 5 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) NetApp
5 1 (0.56%) VMware