ARM Templates Contracts

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ARM Templates skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ARM Templates over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 550 546
Rank change year-on-year +76 -4 -110
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 124 170 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.22% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 106 205
10th Percentile £417 £419 £421
25th Percentile £500 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ARM Templates within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +87 101 £600 +14.29% 35
Work from Home +127 81 £605 +18.22% 26
London +71 53 £500 -13.04% 17
UK excluding London +60 46 £605 +21.00% 20
South East +39 36 £605 +21.00% 6
North of England +28 4 £550 +10.00% 4
South West +24 3 £538 - 3
North West +12 3 £600 +20.00% 3
Midlands +16 2 £500 -4.76% 3
Scotland +32 1 - - 4
West Midlands +27 1 £375 -34.78% 2
Yorkshire +19 1 £463 -9.76%
East Midlands +14 1 £625 +19.05% 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 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.03%) IIS
3 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.61%) Apache
4 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (62.90%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (33.06%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (25.81%) AWS
5 27 (21.77%) Entra ID
6 24 (19.35%) PaaS
7 23 (18.55%) Azure Storage
7 23 (18.55%) Serverless
8 21 (16.94%) Azure Functions
9 20 (16.13%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (13.71%) SaaS
11 16 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (12.10%) IaaS
12 15 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (10.48%) Azure API Management
13 13 (10.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (8.87%) GitHub
16 10 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (5.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.16%) Firewall
2 23 (18.55%) DNS
3 15 (12.10%) DHCP
4 6 (4.84%) Network Security
5 5 (4.03%) SSL
6 2 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.39%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.68%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.26%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (5.65%) OLTP
7 6 (4.84%) Big Data
8 3 (2.42%) Parquet
8 3 (2.42%) Redis
8 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.61%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.61%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.61%) MySQL
9 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.61%) Power Query
10 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.74%) SonarQube
3 18 (14.52%) Git
4 17 (13.71%) GitLab
5 14 (11.29%) Selenium
6 12 (9.68%) Cucumber
6 12 (9.68%) JIRA
6 12 (9.68%) REST Assured
7 10 (8.06%) Visual Studio
8 7 (5.65%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (4.03%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.42%) Deequ
11 2 (1.61%) Maven
11 2 (1.61%) NUnit
11 2 (1.61%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.81%) Appium
12 1 (0.81%) Gradle
12 1 (0.81%) gulp
12 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 41 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.29%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.87%) Law
5 8 (6.45%) Police
6 6 (4.84%) Finance
7 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Back Office
8 1 (0.81%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Billing
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (25.81%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (21.77%) Developer
3 26 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.32%) Senior
5 18 (14.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 17 (13.71%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (12.10%) Active Directory Support
8 14 (11.29%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (11.29%) Support Specialist
9 12 (9.68%) Lead
9 12 (9.68%) Senior Developer
10 11 (8.87%) Architect
11 9 (7.26%) Azure Developer
11 9 (7.26%) Software Developer
12 8 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
13 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
14 6 (4.84%) Azure Architect
14 6 (4.84%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 6 (4.84%) Software Engineer
15 5 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.55%) XML
2 20 (16.13%) JSON
3 19 (15.32%) .NET
4 18 (14.52%) REST
5 12 (9.68%) Java EE
6 10 (8.06%) Azure Blueprints
7 8 (6.45%) YAML
8 7 (5.65%) Entity Framework
9 6 (4.84%) .NET Framework
9 6 (4.84%) OAuth
9 6 (4.84%) OpenID
9 6 (4.84%) PySpark
9 6 (4.84%) SOAP
9 6 (4.84%) Web Services
10 5 (4.03%) React
11 4 (3.23%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.23%) jQuery
12 3 (2.42%) ASP.NET Web API
12 3 (2.42%) Great Expectations
12 3 (2.42%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) PKI
1 15 (12.10%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.65%) Contactless
3 7 (5.65%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.42%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.97%) Windows
2 22 (17.74%) Linux
3 19 (15.32%) Windows Server
4 15 (12.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (12.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (5.65%) VMS
6 2 (1.61%) Unix
7 1 (0.81%) CentOS
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (89.52%) DevOps
2 72 (58.06%) CI/CD
3 61 (49.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (35.48%) Agile
5 36 (29.03%) Test Automation
6 29 (23.39%) Software Engineering
7 28 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 27 (21.77%) Release Management
9 26 (20.97%) Analytics
9 26 (20.97%) Continuous Integration
9 26 (20.97%) Log Analytics
10 23 (18.55%) RBAC
11 22 (17.74%) Scrum
12 21 (16.94%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (14.52%) Continuous Delivery
13 18 (14.52%) Migration
13 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (13.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 16 (12.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.52%) PowerShell
2 35 (28.23%) C#
3 33 (26.61%) Bicep
4 32 (25.81%) SQL
5 20 (16.13%) Java
6 19 (15.32%) Python
7 16 (12.90%) VB
8 15 (12.10%) VBScript
9 11 (8.87%) Bash
10 5 (4.03%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.42%) Scala
12 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.81%) Go
13 1 (0.81%) Groovy
13 1 (0.81%) Perl
13 1 (0.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) Ruby
13 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 50 (40.32%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.94%) Degree
4 19 (15.32%) DV Cleared
5 15 (12.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.06%) NCSC
2 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 35 (28.23%) Docker
2 27 (21.77%) Active Directory
3 23 (18.55%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (12.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (56.45%) Terraform
2 54 (43.55%) Kubernetes
3 26 (20.97%) Ansible
4 20 (16.13%) SCCM
5 18 (14.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 15 (12.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (12.10%) SCOM
6 15 (12.10%) WSUS
7 12 (9.68%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (9.68%) Podman
8 3 (2.42%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.61%) Grafana
9 2 (1.61%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.81%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (42.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.65%) Databricks
3 4 (3.23%) Oracle
4 3 (2.42%) SAP
4 3 (2.42%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.81%) BMC
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco
5 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) New Relic
5 1 (0.81%) Nintex
5 1 (0.81%) Remedy
5 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.81%) Splunk
5 1 (0.81%) Sybase
5 1 (0.81%) VMware