ARM Cortex Contract Job Trends

ARM Cortex
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ARM Cortex in contract job vacancies. 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 656 - 553
Rank change year-on-year - - +115
Contract jobs citing ARM Cortex 9 0 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% - 0.067%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.051% - 0.22%
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 excluding London median daily rate £615 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 21
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,684 11,405 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.32% 34.64% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,829 7,039 7,981
10th Percentile £316 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £643 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £810
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 548 701
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.13 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £16.63
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.52 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -28.57% -8.34%

ARM Cortex
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ARM Cortex job vacancy trend in the UK

ARM Cortex
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ARM Cortex
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ARM Cortex
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 9 £615 - 29
South East - 8 £615 - 6
UK excluding London - 8 £615 - 28
Work from Home - 1 - - 14
London - 1 - - 2

ARM Cortex
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
1 6 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) DHCP
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) SSH
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (22.22%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 6 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Service Management
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) Data Collection
3 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Security Hardening
3 4 (44.44%) Validation
4 3 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 3 (33.33%) Server Patching
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Bash
1 6 (66.67%) Bicep
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) C
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (66.67%) SCCM
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) CrowdStrike
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft