ARM Templates Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ARM Templates skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 110 143
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 +25
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 5 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 2.25% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £401 £488 -
25th Percentile £403 £516 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.99% +2.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile £434 £608 £600
90th Percentile £444 - £605
South East median daily rate £413 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -26.99% -1.74% +6.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 357 355 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.02% 17.96% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 242 217
10th Percentile £359 £375 £311
25th Percentile £413 £415 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £638 £670 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -4.95% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile - £32.14 £40.05
25th Percentile - £38.72 £53.42
Median hourly rate £81.00 £50.87 £63.03
Median % change year-on-year +59.22% -19.29% +41.24%
75th Percentile £81.25 £63.46 £90.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £70.31 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -3.85%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

ARM Templates job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ARM Templates.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ARM Templates

ARM Templates
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ARM Templates.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ARM Templates

ARM Templates
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Berkshire -6 5 £413 -26.99% 1
ARM Templates
South East

ARM Templates
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (60.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (60.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth
1 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (60.00%) OpenID
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SAML
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) API Management
3 3 (60.00%) B2C
3 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
3 3 (60.00%) MLOps
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) RBAC
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft