ARM Templates Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring ARM Templates skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ARM Templates over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 134 150
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.60% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £500 £453
25th Percentile - £538 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +26.26%
75th Percentile £494 - £538
90th Percentile £573 - £545
England median daily rate £501 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.58% +14.29% -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ARM Templates as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ARM Templates in the North West

ARM Templates
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for ARM Templates in the North West

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the North West

ARM Templates
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Manchester +18 4 £450 -25.00% 6
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
ARM Templates
England

ARM Templates
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure App Service
3 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft