ARM Templates Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 258 383 465
Rank change year-on-year +125 +82 -158
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 83 85 150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.28% 1.34% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 61 100
10th Percentile £448 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £513 £554
Median % change year-on-year +18.05% -7.49% +0.73%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £612
90th Percentile £688 £645 £675
UK median daily rate £605 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +15.24% -4.55% +0.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,636 6,344 12,982
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.12% 25.29% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,551 4,723 9,580
10th Percentile £331 £399 £400
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 116
10th Percentile £24.45 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

ARM Templates
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ARM Templates as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ARM Templates trend for jobs with a WFH option

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ARM Templates.

ARM Templates daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

ARM Templates daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ARM Templates
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (19.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.82%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) Azure
2 53 (63.86%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (36.14%) Azure Monitor
4 26 (31.33%) Entra ID
5 21 (25.30%) AWS
6 20 (24.10%) Azure Storage
7 17 (20.48%) PaaS
8 16 (19.28%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (16.87%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (15.66%) IaaS
10 13 (15.66%) SaaS
10 13 (15.66%) Serverless
11 12 (14.46%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (13.25%) Azure Functions
12 11 (13.25%) GitHub
12 11 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (12.05%) Azure API Management
14 9 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (8.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) Firewall
2 23 (27.71%) DNS
3 16 (19.28%) DHCP
4 6 (7.23%) Network Security
5 4 (4.82%) SSL
6 2 (2.41%) VPN
7 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) SQL Server
2 17 (20.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.82%) OLTP
3 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.61%) Big Data
4 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.20%) MySQL
5 1 (1.20%) Parquet
5 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.20%) Power Query
5 1 (1.20%) Redis
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) SonarQube
2 13 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.05%) Git
3 10 (12.05%) GitLab
4 8 (9.64%) Cucumber
4 8 (9.64%) JIRA
4 8 (9.64%) REST Assured
4 8 (9.64%) Selenium
5 7 (8.43%) Visual Studio
6 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (3.61%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.41%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.20%) Deequ
9 1 (1.20%) Gradle
9 1 (1.20%) gulp
9 1 (1.20%) Maven
9 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.20%) Travis CI
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Law
3 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Police
4 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Finance
6 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (24.10%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Azure Specialist
2 17 (20.48%) Developer
3 16 (19.28%) Active Directory Support
3 16 (19.28%) Senior
4 14 (16.87%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (16.87%) Support Specialist
5 13 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Lead
7 9 (10.84%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Azure Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Java Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.46%) XML
2 11 (13.25%) JSON
2 11 (13.25%) REST
3 10 (12.05%) Azure Blueprints
4 9 (10.84%) .NET
5 8 (9.64%) Java EE
6 7 (8.43%) YAML
7 4 (4.82%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.61%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.61%) OAuth
8 3 (3.61%) OpenID
8 3 (3.61%) SOAP
8 3 (3.61%) Web Services
9 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (2.41%) CSS
9 2 (2.41%) jQuery
9 2 (2.41%) React
9 2 (2.41%) SailPoint
9 2 (2.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) PKI
1 16 (19.28%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (12.05%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.05%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.02%) Contactless
3 5 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.41%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.92%) Windows
2 21 (25.30%) Linux
3 19 (22.89%) Windows Server
4 16 (19.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (19.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (6.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (96.39%) DevOps
2 53 (63.86%) CI/CD
3 45 (54.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (37.35%) Agile
5 27 (32.53%) Release Management
6 26 (31.33%) Test Automation
7 23 (27.71%) RBAC
8 22 (26.51%) Software Engineering
9 21 (25.30%) Containerisation
10 20 (24.10%) Analytics
10 20 (24.10%) Log Analytics
11 18 (21.69%) Identity Management
11 18 (21.69%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 17 (20.48%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (20.48%) Service Management
13 16 (19.28%) ITIL
13 16 (19.28%) Privileged Identity Management
14 15 (18.07%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (16.87%) Continuous Delivery
16 13 (15.66%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 55 (66.27%) PowerShell
2 27 (32.53%) C#
3 25 (30.12%) Bicep
4 20 (24.10%) SQL
5 17 (20.48%) VB
6 16 (19.28%) VBScript
7 12 (14.46%) Java
8 6 (7.23%) Bash
8 6 (7.23%) Python
9 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.20%) Go
10 1 (1.20%) Groovy
10 1 (1.20%) PHP
10 1 (1.20%) Ruby
10 1 (1.20%) Scala
10 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (49.40%) SC Cleared
1 41 (49.40%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) Degree
3 17 (20.48%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 10 (12.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) NCSC
2 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Active Directory
2 23 (27.71%) Docker
3 22 (26.51%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (19.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (51.81%) Terraform
2 42 (50.60%) Kubernetes
3 20 (24.10%) Ansible
3 20 (24.10%) SCCM
4 18 (21.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (19.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (19.28%) SCOM
5 16 (19.28%) WSUS
6 8 (9.64%) Docker Swarm
6 8 (9.64%) Podman
7 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.20%) Grafana
8 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (43.37%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.41%) Databricks
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle
2 2 (2.41%) SAP
3 1 (1.20%) BMC
3 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.20%) Remedy
3 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.20%) Splunk
3 1 (1.20%) VMware