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 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 722 763 703
Rank change year-on-year +41 -60 -146
Permanent jobs citing ARM Templates 182 211 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.69% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 151 169 293
10th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £106,000
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 21,062 30,550 63,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15,764 18,827 29,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 14 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 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 +90 175 £75,000 - 37
UK excluding London -13 93 £65,000 -10.34% 20
Work from Home +42 89 £70,000 -6.67% 27
London +109 76 £80,000 -4.76% 16
Midlands +3 33 £67,500 -6.90% 6
West Midlands +23 31 £70,000 -3.45% 3
South East -9 31 £59,000 -32.57% 4
North of England +33 16 £65,000 +4.00% 7
South West -18 10 £72,500 +31.82% 1
North West +21 8 £65,250 +4.40% 4
Yorkshire +71 6 £68,750 +20.58% 2
East of England +21 3 - - 1
North East -13 2 £63,000 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 - 3

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 24 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.20%) IIS
3 3 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.10%) nginx
4 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 176 (96.70%) Azure
2 118 (64.84%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (35.16%) PaaS
4 58 (31.87%) IaaS
5 53 (29.12%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (20.33%) Azure Monitor
7 32 (17.58%) Entra ID
8 31 (17.03%) Azure Storage
9 30 (16.48%) Azure AKS
10 28 (15.38%) AWS
11 21 (11.54%) SaaS
12 18 (9.89%) GCP
13 17 (9.34%) Nutanix
13 17 (9.34%) Serverless
14 15 (8.24%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (7.69%) Pulumi
16 12 (6.59%) Azure Functions
16 12 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
16 12 (6.59%) Power Platform
17 11 (6.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.88%) DNS
2 31 (17.03%) DHCP
3 18 (9.89%) Firewall
4 17 (9.34%) SAN
5 14 (7.69%) VPN
6 12 (6.59%) NGFW
7 11 (6.04%) Network Security
8 7 (3.85%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.20%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.10%) LAN
10 2 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.34%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.85%) MariaDB
4 7 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.85%) MySQL
4 7 (3.85%) Redis
5 6 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.20%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.20%) Power BI
7 2 (1.10%) Big Data
7 2 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.55%) OLTP
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (15.93%) Git
2 25 (13.74%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 12 (6.59%) TeamCity
6 7 (3.85%) GitLab
6 7 (3.85%) Jasmine
6 7 (3.85%) NUnit
6 7 (3.85%) Selenium
6 7 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 7 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.55%) Gatling
8 1 (0.55%) JUnit
8 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 41 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.93%) Finance
3 20 (10.99%) Law
4 19 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.59%) Retail
7 10 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
8 9 (4.95%) Marketing
9 4 (2.20%) Electronics
9 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.65%) Police
11 2 (1.10%) Back Office
12 1 (0.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (17.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (15.38%) Architect
3 27 (14.84%) Senior
4 25 (13.74%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (12.64%) Lead
6 20 (10.99%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (8.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.24%) Storage Specialist
8 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Support
8 14 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.69%) Developer
8 14 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
8 14 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.69%) Support Specialist
9 13 (7.14%) Analyst
9 13 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (7.14%) Virtualisation Specialist
10 12 (6.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.84%) JSON
1 27 (14.84%) YAML
2 18 (9.89%) .NET
3 16 (8.79%) Azure Blueprints
4 12 (6.59%) Entity Framework
5 10 (5.49%) .NET Framework
6 9 (4.95%) .NET Core
6 9 (4.95%) CSS
7 8 (4.40%) ASP.NET
7 8 (4.40%) HTML
8 7 (3.85%) HTML5
8 7 (3.85%) OpenID
8 7 (3.85%) React
8 7 (3.85%) RESTful
9 5 (2.75%) LDAP
10 4 (2.20%) REST
11 3 (1.65%) SailPoint
12 2 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (1.10%) jQuery
12 2 (1.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.89%) PKI
2 16 (8.79%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 13 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 13 (7.14%) Security Posture
5 11 (6.04%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (4.40%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.85%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.30%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.75%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.65%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.10%) N-Tier
12 2 (1.10%) PropTech
12 2 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.27%) Windows
2 39 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 24 (13.19%) Linux
4 18 (9.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (9.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (5.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (83.52%) DevOps
2 106 (58.24%) CI/CD
3 105 (57.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (40.66%) Agile
5 43 (23.63%) Containerisation
6 33 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.48%) Analytics
8 29 (15.93%) Log Analytics
9 28 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (14.84%) Network Virtualisation
11 26 (14.29%) Microservices
11 26 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 26 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 25 (13.74%) Identity Management
13 23 (12.64%) ITIL
13 23 (12.64%) Release Management
13 23 (12.64%) SDLC
14 21 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (10.99%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 100 (54.95%) PowerShell
2 76 (41.76%) Bicep
3 38 (20.88%) C#
4 35 (19.23%) Bash
5 26 (14.29%) Python
6 25 (13.74%) SQL
7 21 (11.54%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.69%) VB
8 14 (7.69%) VBScript
9 12 (6.59%) Java
10 9 (4.95%) PHP
11 8 (4.40%) Go
11 8 (4.40%) Groovy
11 8 (4.40%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.85%) Ruby
13 2 (1.10%) Korn
13 2 (1.10%) Scala
14 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 48 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.78%) Azure Certification
3 32 (17.58%) SC Cleared
4 30 (16.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (12.09%) Degree
6 17 (9.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (8.24%) MCSE
8 14 (7.69%) DV Cleared
8 14 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.10%) CCNA
10 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.55%) PMP
11 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) NCSC
2 6 (3.30%) SLA
3 2 (1.10%) PMO
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (30.22%) Docker
2 51 (28.02%) Active Directory
3 42 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (15.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (8.79%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (8.24%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (6.59%) vSphere
9 4 (2.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 115 (63.19%) Terraform
2 77 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 23 (12.64%) Ansible
4 17 (9.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (8.79%) SCOM
5 16 (8.79%) WSUS
6 14 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (7.69%) SCCM
7 11 (6.04%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.49%) Puppet
9 9 (4.95%) Grafana
9 9 (4.95%) Prometheus
10 7 (3.85%) MIIS
10 7 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (3.30%) Istio
12 4 (2.20%) PowerCLI
12 4 (2.20%) vCenter Server
12 4 (2.20%) vRealize
12 4 (2.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (1.10%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 105 (57.69%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.98%) VMware
3 29 (15.93%) Citrix
4 17 (9.34%) HP
4 17 (9.34%) Nimble Storage
5 15 (8.24%) Commvault
5 15 (8.24%) Veeam
6 12 (6.59%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.85%) New Relic
7 7 (3.85%) SaltStack
8 6 (3.30%) SAP
9 5 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.20%) 3PAR
10 4 (2.20%) Brocade
10 4 (2.20%) Databricks
10 4 (2.20%) Google
11 3 (1.65%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.65%) Cisco
11 3 (1.65%) Oracle
12 2 (1.10%) Nintex