ARM Templates Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 347 403
Rank change year-on-year +40 +56 +42
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 27 47 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.43% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 38
10th Percentile £420 £483 £413
25th Percentile £450 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +21.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £641 £561
90th Percentile £618 £688 £617
UK median daily rate £500 £603 £531
% change year-on-year -17.01% +13.41% -3.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,382 3,282 4,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.65% 15.86% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 2,153 3,265
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £606 £600
90th Percentile £658 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 199 91
10th Percentile £31.71 £21.63 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.03
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.80 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ARM Templates as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ARM Templates in the UK excluding London

ARM Templates
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK excluding London

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the UK excluding London

ARM Templates
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK excluding London

ARM Templates
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 Templates within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +15 15 £501 -17.27% 17
North of England +15 8 £525 -4.55% 12
North West +12 5 £450 -25.00% 7
South West +29 3 £450 -14.29% 5
Scotland +12 2 £525 - 3
North East - 2 £558 -
Yorkshire +8 1 £525 +13.51% 5
East of England - 1 £751 - 4
ARM Templates
UK

ARM Templates
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) AWS
4 7 (25.93%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (25.93%) Azure Storage
5 5 (18.52%) Azure AKS
5 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
6 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
6 4 (14.81%) IaaS
6 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
6 4 (14.81%) Serverless
7 3 (11.11%) Azure App Service
7 3 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (11.11%) Azure Functions
7 3 (11.11%) PaaS
7 3 (11.11%) SaaS
8 2 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (7.41%) Azure Table
8 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
3 2 (7.41%) MariaDB
3 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.41%) MySQL
3 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) Power Query
3 2 (7.41%) Redis
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.70%) HBase
4 1 (3.70%) HDInsight
4 1 (3.70%) Impala
4 1 (3.70%) Metadata
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) GitLab
1 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
1 10 (37.04%) JIRA
1 10 (37.04%) Selenium
2 9 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 9 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 9 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 4 (14.81%) Git
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 11 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Law
4 4 (14.81%) Police
4 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) REST
2 9 (33.33%) Java EE
3 5 (18.52%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Core
4 4 (14.81%) ADO
4 4 (14.81%) JSON
5 2 (7.41%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (7.41%) YAML
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) OAuth
6 1 (3.70%) OpenID
6 1 (3.70%) PySpark
6 1 (3.70%) pytest
6 1 (3.70%) React
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) SAML
6 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.41%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
4 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (40.74%) Test Automation
5 10 (37.04%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 9 (33.33%) Software Architecture
6 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 9 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
8 5 (18.52%) RBAC
9 4 (14.81%) Agile
9 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (14.81%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (14.81%) Log Analytics
10 3 (11.11%) Identity Management
10 3 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Bicep
1 11 (40.74%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Python
4 7 (25.93%) Bash
4 7 (25.93%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) VB
6 1 (3.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Docker
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Flume
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (88.89%) Terraform
2 17 (62.96%) Kubernetes
3 12 (44.44%) Ansible
4 10 (37.04%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (33.33%) Podman
6 6 (22.22%) Grafana
6 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (3.70%) SCCM
8 1 (3.70%) SCOM
8 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) StreamSets