ARM Cortex Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ARM Cortex
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ARM Cortex in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ARM Cortex over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 - 355
Rank change year-on-year - - +71
Contract jobs citing ARM Cortex 8 0 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.029% - 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.097% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £607 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £622 - -
UK median daily rate £615 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 21
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

ARM Cortex falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,280 5,066 5,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.51% 33.58% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,048 3,005 3,386
10th Percentile £281 £225 £218
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £681 £650 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 706 405 572
10th Percentile £15.45 £15.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £15.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -28.57% -8.34%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.58 £80.00 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%

ARM Cortex
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ARM Cortex relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ARM Cortex job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ARM Cortex
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ARM Cortex.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ARM Cortex

ARM Cortex
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ARM Cortex.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ARM Cortex

ARM Cortex
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ARM Cortex within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2026. 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
South East - 8 £615 - 6
ARM Cortex
UK

ARM Cortex
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Monitor
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Sentinel
1 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) SSH
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
General
1 2 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 5 (62.50%) Log Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 4 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 4 (50.00%) Service Management
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Bicep
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) CrowdStrike
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft