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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 328 384
Rank change year-on-year +23 +56 +40
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 33 50 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.38% 1.53% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 48 38
10th Percentile £363 £493 £450
25th Percentile £438 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +21.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £546 £638 £575
90th Percentile £609 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £605 £545
% change year-on-year -17.36% +11.01% -0.91%

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 2,384 3,270 4,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.59% 16.05% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 2,154 3,108
10th Percentile £325 £324 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 216 87
10th Percentile £33.54 £22.50 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.80 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.52% -26.21% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £74.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £74.47 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +30.00%

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 24 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 24 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 +22 16 £501 -17.27% 76
North of England +17 9 £525 -12.50% 50
South West +44 6 £388 -26.19% 19
North West +11 5 £450 -25.00% 27
Scotland - 3 £513 - 6
Yorkshire +11 2 £525 +13.51% 19
North East - 2 £558 - 4
East of England - 1 £751 - 30
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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (42.42%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (33.33%) AWS
4 9 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (24.24%) Azure Storage
6 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
7 6 (18.18%) Azure AKS
7 6 (18.18%) Power Automate
8 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (15.15%) Serverless
9 4 (12.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (12.12%) Azure Functions
9 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
9 4 (12.12%) IaaS
9 4 (12.12%) SaaS
10 3 (9.09%) Azure App Service
10 3 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (9.09%) Azure Table
10 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) DHCP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) MariaDB
3 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.09%) MySQL
3 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) Power Query
3 3 (9.09%) Redis
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) HBase
4 1 (3.03%) HDInsight
4 1 (3.03%) Impala
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) GitLab
1 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
1 10 (30.30%) JIRA
1 10 (30.30%) Selenium
2 9 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 9 (27.27%) REST Assured
2 9 (27.27%) SonarQube
3 4 (12.12%) Git
General
1 14 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Law
4 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.12%) Police
6 2 (6.06%) Finance
7 1 (3.03%) Electronics
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
7 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Java Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Architect
6 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
6 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Senior
7 3 (9.09%) .NET Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Site Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) .NET Software Developer
8 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.06%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) REST
2 9 (27.27%) .NET
2 9 (27.27%) Java EE
3 6 (18.18%) .NET Core
3 6 (18.18%) JSON
4 5 (15.15%) ADO
5 3 (9.09%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (9.09%) React
5 3 (9.09%) YAML
6 2 (6.06%) Node.js
6 2 (6.06%) XML
7 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.03%) Kafka
7 1 (3.03%) OAuth
7 1 (3.03%) OpenID
7 1 (3.03%) PySpark
7 1 (3.03%) pytest
7 1 (3.03%) RESTful
7 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) IoT
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) DevOps
2 27 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
4 12 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 10 (30.30%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
7 9 (27.27%) Software Architecture
7 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 9 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (18.18%) Analytics
8 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
9 5 (15.15%) Agile
9 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (15.15%) Log Analytics
9 5 (15.15%) RBAC
10 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (12.12%) Identity Management
10 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Bicep
2 12 (36.36%) Java
2 12 (36.36%) SQL
3 11 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 10 (30.30%) C#
4 10 (30.30%) Python
5 9 (27.27%) Bash
6 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.03%) Perl
8 1 (3.03%) VB
8 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Flume
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (81.82%) Terraform
2 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 13 (39.39%) Ansible
4 10 (30.30%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (27.27%) Podman
6 8 (24.24%) Grafana
6 8 (24.24%) Prometheus
7 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (3.03%) SCCM
8 1 (3.03%) SCOM
8 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) StreamSets