ARM Templates Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ARM Templates skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 115 115
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +52
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 3 2 28
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.086% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.58% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 26
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £425 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £575
90th Percentile - - £675
England median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -5.98%

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 459 346 588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 19.21% 14.84% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 218 466
10th Percentile £315 £316 £378
25th Percentile £364 £375 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £551 £619
90th Percentile £675 £638 £678
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 33
10th Percentile £29.20 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.75 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £56.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +31.22% +22.54% -38.43%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.65 £81.00 £72.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

ARM Templates job vacancy trend in the North West

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ARM Templates.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ARM Templates

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 3 November 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
Lancashire - 2 £450 - 6
Manchester -8 1 - - 8
ARM Templates
England

ARM Templates
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes