ARM Templates Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring ARM Templates skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 83 89
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 5 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.37% 0.29% 0.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 1.22% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £536 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.11% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £605 - £588
90th Percentile £624 - £600
North West median daily rate £572 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +27.11% -12.20% -8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

ARM Templates falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 370 246 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.67% 23.95% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 177 326
10th Percentile £342 £370 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £565 £575
90th Percentile £602 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 9
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £81.00
90th Percentile £95.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £67.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.32% +46.71% +2.62%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ARM Templates relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

ARM Templates job vacancy trend in Manchester

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ARM Templates.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ARM Templates

ARM Templates
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Law
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) API Management
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks