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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 736 1145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +409 -227
Permanent jobs citing Bicep 179 247 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.036%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.54% 0.56% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 141 200 49
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,180 £55,000
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £98,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £68,474 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.37% +5.34% -

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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +55 166 £67,500 -8.47% 31
UK excluding London -1 106 £60,000 -12.37% 20
Work from Home -8 73 £66,500 -16.88% 19
London +54 57 £92,500 +2.78% 10
South East +25 41 £70,000 - 7
Midlands -1 25 £60,000 -29.41% 4
West Midlands +8 18 £65,000 -23.53% 1
North of England +23 16 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -12 15 £60,000 -13.60% 2
Yorkshire +67 8 £60,000 +36.26% 3
North West +3 8 £65,250 -6.04% 2
East Midlands -9 7 £60,000 - 3
Northern Ireland +21 4 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 3 £70,000 - 1
Wales +7 1 £82,500 +10.00%
Scotland -64 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 (7.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.12%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 175 (97.77%) Azure
2 105 (58.66%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (33.52%) PaaS
4 53 (29.61%) AWS
5 50 (27.93%) IaaS
6 37 (20.67%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (13.97%) Entra ID
9 21 (11.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 20 (11.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (9.50%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (8.94%) Azure Storage
13 15 (8.38%) Serverless
14 14 (7.82%) SaaS
15 13 (7.26%) Azure AKS
15 13 (7.26%) GCP
16 11 (6.15%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (6.15%) Azure Stack
16 11 (6.15%) GitHub
17 10 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.53%) Firewall
1 26 (14.53%) Network Security
2 19 (10.61%) DNS
3 14 (7.82%) DHCP
4 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.12%) LAN
5 2 (1.12%) WAN
6 1 (0.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.46%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (3.91%) MySQL
4 6 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (17.32%) Git
2 12 (6.70%) TeamCity
3 8 (4.47%) Selenium
4 7 (3.91%) Jasmine
4 7 (3.91%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.91%) NUnit
4 7 (3.91%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.91%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.91%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.79%) GitLab
5 5 (2.79%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.79%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (33.52%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.32%) Finance
3 20 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.06%) Law
5 17 (9.50%) Back Office
6 16 (8.94%) Local Government
7 13 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.03%) Legal
9 9 (5.03%) Manufacturing
9 9 (5.03%) Marketing
10 8 (4.47%) Retail
11 4 (2.23%) Electronics
11 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.68%) German Language
13 2 (1.12%) Banking
13 2 (1.12%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (21.23%) Cloud Engineer
2 36 (20.11%) Lead
2 36 (20.11%) Senior
3 27 (15.08%) Azure Engineer
4 25 (13.97%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (13.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 24 (13.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (11.17%) Architect
6 20 (11.17%) Azure Consultant
6 20 (11.17%) Consultant
7 18 (10.06%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (9.50%) Developer
9 14 (7.82%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (7.82%) Active Directory Support
9 14 (7.82%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (7.82%) Support Specialist
10 13 (7.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Network Infrastructure Consultant
11 10 (5.59%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
11 10 (5.59%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (42.46%) ARM Templates
2 44 (24.58%) .NET
3 24 (13.41%) .NET Core
4 13 (7.26%) YAML
5 10 (5.59%) AngularJS
5 10 (5.59%) CSS
5 10 (5.59%) HTML
5 10 (5.59%) React
6 9 (5.03%) .NET Framework
6 9 (5.03%) JSON
6 9 (5.03%) XML
7 7 (3.91%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.91%) Entity Framework
7 7 (3.91%) HTML5
7 7 (3.91%) OpenID
7 7 (3.91%) RESTful
8 5 (2.79%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (2.79%) LDAP
9 4 (2.23%) Vue
10 2 (1.12%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.82%) PKI
2 14 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.23%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.68%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) BYOD
8 2 (1.12%) IoT
8 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) PropTech
9 1 (0.56%) Blog
9 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.97%) Windows
2 20 (11.17%) Linux
3 16 (8.94%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.03%) VMS
6 2 (1.12%) Android
6 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (85.47%) DevOps
2 115 (64.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 95 (53.07%) CI/CD
4 70 (39.11%) Agile
5 41 (22.91%) Software Engineering
6 39 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.55%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (18.99%) Containerisation
8 34 (18.99%) Scrum
9 33 (18.44%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (17.88%) API Management
11 29 (16.20%) Network Virtualisation
12 25 (13.97%) TDD
13 24 (13.41%) Cloud Security
13 24 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (12.85%) Identity Management
14 23 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (12.85%) Test Automation
15 21 (11.73%) Clean Code
15 21 (11.73%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.78%) PowerShell
2 59 (32.96%) C#
3 38 (21.23%) Bash
4 30 (16.76%) Python
5 19 (10.61%) SQL
6 14 (7.82%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.82%) VB
6 14 (7.82%) VBScript
7 8 (4.47%) Go
8 6 (3.35%) Java
8 6 (3.35%) PHP
9 4 (2.23%) Rust
9 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.20%) Degree
3 25 (13.97%) Azure Certification
3 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.82%) DV Cleared
4 14 (7.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.79%) SLA
3 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 39 (21.79%) Docker
2 38 (21.23%) Active Directory
3 36 (20.11%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (9.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 93 (51.96%) Terraform
2 64 (35.75%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (7.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (7.82%) SCCM
4 14 (7.82%) SCOM
4 14 (7.82%) WSUS
5 11 (6.15%) Ansible
6 7 (3.91%) Istio
6 7 (3.91%) MIIS
7 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.68%) Puppet
9 1 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 93 (51.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.35%) Google
2 6 (3.35%) Twitter
3 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.23%) SAP
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco
5 1 (0.56%) Databricks
5 1 (0.56%) NetApp
5 1 (0.56%) VMware