Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ARM Templates skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ARM Templates over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 740 704
Rank change year-on-year +36 -36 -133
Permanent jobs citing ARM Templates 192 213 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 0.72% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 150 172 293
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,068 £76,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £83,125 £92,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ARM Templates is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Salary trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ARM Templates within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +85 180 £74,137 -1.15% 45
UK excluding London 0 104 £65,000 -10.34% 36
Work from Home +35 90 £67,750 -9.67% 34
London +119 74 £80,000 -5.88% 20
Midlands +6 34 £65,000 -10.34% 4
South East -1 33 £59,000 -32.57% 13
West Midlands +20 31 £65,000 -10.34% 1
North of England +21 21 £65,000 +8.33% 10
North West +9 10 £65,250 +6.53% 4
South West -13 9 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Yorkshire +64 8 £80,000 +40.31% 5
East of England +9 3 - - 2
North East -15 3 £56,500 -4.24% 1
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 3
Scotland -57 2 - - 6
Wales +9 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

ARM Templates
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 21 (10.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.56%) Apache
2 3 (1.56%) IIS
3 2 (1.04%) nginx
3 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (96.88%) Azure
2 117 (60.94%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (32.29%) PaaS
4 56 (29.17%) IaaS
5 47 (24.48%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (21.35%) AWS
7 40 (20.83%) Azure Monitor
8 34 (17.71%) Entra ID
9 32 (16.67%) Azure Storage
10 30 (15.63%) Azure AKS
10 30 (15.63%) GCP
11 24 (12.50%) SaaS
12 17 (8.85%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (8.33%) Serverless
14 15 (7.81%) Nutanix
15 14 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (7.29%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (7.29%) Pulumi
16 12 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.79%) DNS
2 30 (15.63%) DHCP
3 20 (10.42%) Firewall
4 15 (7.81%) SAN
5 11 (5.73%) Network Security
5 11 (5.73%) VPN
6 9 (4.69%) NGFW
7 6 (3.13%) NetScaler
8 3 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.04%) LAN
9 2 (1.04%) WAN
10 1 (0.52%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.85%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.65%) MariaDB
4 7 (3.65%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.65%) MySQL
4 7 (3.65%) Redis
5 6 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.08%) Power BI
7 3 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.04%) Big Data
8 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) OLTP
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (19.27%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.63%) Git
3 26 (13.54%) SonarQube
4 14 (7.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 12 (6.25%) JIRA
5 12 (6.25%) Terragrunt
6 11 (5.73%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.65%) Jasmine
7 7 (3.65%) NUnit
7 7 (3.65%) Selenium
7 7 (3.65%) Visual Studio
7 7 (3.65%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (3.13%) GitLab
9 4 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.52%) Gatling
10 1 (0.52%) JUnit
10 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 57 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.63%) Finance
3 16 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.81%) Law
5 14 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.73%) Retail
7 10 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.17%) Marketing
9 4 (2.08%) Electronics
9 4 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Back Office
10 2 (1.04%) Police
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (22.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (14.06%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (14.06%) Senior
3 25 (13.02%) Architect
4 23 (11.98%) Lead
5 17 (8.85%) Cloud Architect
6 16 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.81%) Active Directory Specialist
7 15 (7.81%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (7.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 15 (7.81%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (7.81%) Developer
7 15 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (7.81%) Support Specialist
8 14 (7.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.77%) Storage Specialist
10 12 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (6.25%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 11 (5.73%) .NET Developer
11 11 (5.73%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.50%) YAML
2 20 (10.42%) JSON
3 19 (9.90%) .NET
4 17 (8.85%) Azure Blueprints
5 13 (6.77%) Node.js
6 11 (5.73%) Entity Framework
7 10 (5.21%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.69%) .NET Core
8 9 (4.69%) CSS
9 8 (4.17%) ASP.NET
9 8 (4.17%) HTML
10 7 (3.65%) HTML5
10 7 (3.65%) OpenID
10 7 (3.65%) React
10 7 (3.65%) RESTful
11 5 (2.60%) LDAP
12 4 (2.08%) REST
13 2 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
13 2 (1.04%) SailPoint
13 2 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.90%) Cloud Native
1 19 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.38%) PKI
3 17 (8.85%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.25%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.21%) Private Cloud
6 10 (5.21%) Public Cloud
7 9 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (4.69%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.13%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.56%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.04%) N-Tier
12 2 (1.04%) PropTech
13 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (23.44%) Windows
2 38 (19.79%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.54%) Linux
4 18 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.69%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (84.90%) DevOps
2 120 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 120 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (45.31%) Agile
4 47 (24.48%) Containerisation
5 39 (20.31%) Test Automation
6 36 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (16.67%) Analytics
8 31 (16.15%) Log Analytics
8 31 (16.15%) Scrum
9 30 (15.63%) Mentoring
10 29 (15.10%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (14.58%) Continuous Delivery
11 28 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (14.58%) Identity Management
12 26 (13.54%) Microservices
12 26 (13.54%) Software Engineering
13 25 (13.02%) Release Management
14 24 (12.50%) ITIL
14 24 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 97 (50.52%) PowerShell
2 77 (40.10%) Bicep
3 40 (20.83%) C#
3 40 (20.83%) Python
4 36 (18.75%) Bash
5 33 (17.19%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.50%) SQL
7 15 (7.81%) VB
7 15 (7.81%) VBScript
8 12 (6.25%) Java
9 9 (4.69%) PHP
10 8 (4.17%) Go
10 8 (4.17%) Groovy
10 8 (4.17%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.65%) Ruby
12 2 (1.04%) Korn
12 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 51 (26.56%) Azure Certification
3 45 (23.44%) SC Cleared
4 27 (14.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (11.98%) Degree
6 15 (7.81%) DV Cleared
6 15 (7.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (7.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 13 (6.77%) AWS Certification
7 13 (6.77%) MCSE
8 9 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.52%) CCNA
10 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.52%) PMP
10 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) NCSC
2 6 (3.13%) SLA
3 2 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (36.46%) Docker
2 48 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 43 (22.40%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (14.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 25 (13.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (6.77%) Virtual Servers
7 12 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (4.69%) vSphere
9 3 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 130 (67.71%) Terraform
2 93 (48.44%) Kubernetes
3 38 (19.79%) Ansible
4 17 (8.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (8.33%) SCOM
5 16 (8.33%) WSUS
6 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (7.81%) SCCM
7 11 (5.73%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.21%) Puppet
9 9 (4.69%) Grafana
9 9 (4.69%) Prometheus
10 7 (3.65%) MIIS
11 6 (3.13%) Istio
12 5 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.56%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.56%) vCenter Server
13 3 (1.56%) vRealize
13 3 (1.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 101 (52.60%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.15%) VMware
3 21 (10.94%) Citrix
4 17 (8.85%) ServiceNow
5 15 (7.81%) HP
5 15 (7.81%) Nimble Storage
6 13 (6.77%) Commvault
6 13 (6.77%) Veeam
7 12 (6.25%) Black Duck
8 7 (3.65%) New Relic
8 7 (3.65%) SaltStack
8 7 (3.65%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.13%) SAP
10 4 (2.08%) Databricks
10 4 (2.08%) Google
11 3 (1.56%) 3PAR
11 3 (1.56%) Brocade
11 3 (1.56%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.56%) Oracle
12 2 (1.04%) Nintex