ARM Templates Contract Job Trends

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ARM Templates skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 450 456
Rank change year-on-year -99 +6 +51
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 105 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 1.43% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 73 77
10th Percentile £365 £363 £414
25th Percentile £450 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £625
90th Percentile £623 £635 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £605
% change year-on-year +2.45% -17.31% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £65.00 - -
25th Percentile £67.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -
75th Percentile - £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,118 7,367 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 22.37% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,590 4,943 5,790
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £632 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 174 243
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.48 £22.55
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ARM Templates job vacancy trend in the UK

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ARM Templates
Top 14 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 Templates within the UK over the 6 months to 13 August 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 -91 93 £520 +15.56% 34
London -78 47 £523 +18.75% 15
UK excluding London -103 45 £513 +2.45% 17
Work from Home -46 38 £532 +21.66% 13
South East -53 25 £552 +10.34% 7
North of England -61 11 £513 -4.65% 7
North West -41 7 £425 -5.56% 6
Midlands -51 5 £488 -12.56% 3
East Midlands -13 4 £488 -
Scotland -10 3 £513 +2.50%
North East -40 3 £513 -6.82%
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 1
West Midlands -44 1 - - 3
South West -47 1 £500 +30.72%

ARM Templates
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.90%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.90%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (60.36%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (38.74%) Azure Monitor
4 37 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 33 (29.73%) Azure AKS
6 30 (27.03%) GitHub
7 24 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (19.82%) AWS
9 16 (14.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (14.41%) Serverless
10 15 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (9.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (9.91%) Azure Functions
11 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
12 10 (9.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (8.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (8.11%) PaaS
14 8 (7.21%) IaaS
15 7 (6.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.42%) DNS
2 23 (20.72%) Firewall
3 15 (13.51%) VPN
4 13 (11.71%) DHCP
5 12 (10.81%) Network Security
6 11 (9.91%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.50%) SSH
8 3 (2.70%) WAN
9 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.80%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.90%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.90%) LAN
10 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.31%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.80%) Parquet
6 2 (1.80%) Power BI
6 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.80%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.90%) Power Query
7 1 (0.90%) Redis
7 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (25.23%) Git
2 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.81%) GitLab
4 6 (5.41%) JIRA
5 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.90%) PeopleTools
5 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.90%) VersionOne
General
1 27 (24.32%) Public Sector
1 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.21%) Finance
3 7 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.50%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.70%) Local Government
5 3 (2.70%) Military
6 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.80%) Retail
7 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 39 (35.14%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (31.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (18.02%) Senior
4 19 (17.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 15 (13.51%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Architect
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Analyst
12 4 (3.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Lead
13 3 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) YAML
2 12 (10.81%) .NET
3 10 (9.01%) REST
4 5 (4.50%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.50%) Entity Framework
5 4 (3.60%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.60%) OAuth
5 4 (3.60%) OpenID
5 4 (3.60%) SAML
6 3 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (2.70%) JSON
6 3 (2.70%) React
6 3 (2.70%) RESTful
7 2 (1.80%) PySpark
8 1 (0.90%) ADO
8 1 (0.90%) LangChain
8 1 (0.90%) Next.js
8 1 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.90%) pgvector
8 1 (0.90%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (18.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.21%) ARM Cortex
4 7 (6.31%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.60%) NHS
6 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Linux
2 20 (18.02%) Windows
3 16 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.21%) VMS
5 5 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.60%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (82.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 91 (81.98%) DevOps
3 83 (74.77%) CI/CD
4 45 (40.54%) Containerisation
5 41 (36.94%) Platform Engineering
6 40 (36.04%) Analytics
7 35 (31.53%) RBAC
8 34 (30.63%) Log Analytics
9 32 (28.83%) Agile
9 32 (28.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (24.32%) Cloud Security
12 26 (23.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (23.42%) Observability
13 25 (22.52%) Identity Access Management
14 21 (18.92%) Deployment Automation
15 16 (14.41%) AI
15 16 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
16 15 (13.51%) High Availability
16 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (72.07%) Bicep
2 78 (70.27%) PowerShell
3 50 (45.05%) Python
4 41 (36.94%) Bash
5 18 (16.22%) SQL
6 9 (8.11%) C#
7 4 (3.60%) Java
8 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 42 (37.84%) Azure Certification
3 36 (32.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.91%) Degree
4 11 (9.91%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.41%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.60%) CISSP
8 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) CEH
10 2 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.90%) CCNP
11 1 (0.90%) CCSP
11 1 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (4.50%) NCSC
2 4 (3.60%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) NIST
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
4 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (32.43%) Docker
2 30 (27.03%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.91%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (7.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 98 (88.29%) Terraform
2 49 (44.14%) Kubernetes
3 18 (16.22%) Ansible
4 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (10.81%) Grafana
5 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.11%) Progress Chef
7 8 (7.21%) SCCM
8 7 (6.31%) Puppet
9 2 (1.80%) Argo
9 2 (1.80%) Istio
10 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.01%) Databricks
3 9 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (5.41%) Google
5 5 (4.50%) VMware
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
6 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.70%) Splunk
8 2 (1.80%) SAP
8 2 (1.80%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.90%) Ariba
9 1 (0.90%) Citrix
9 1 (0.90%) IBM
9 1 (0.90%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.90%) New Relic
9 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.90%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.90%) Temenos