ARM Templates Contracts

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 475 542
Rank change year-on-year +31 +67 +7
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 75 125 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.39% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 93 106
10th Percentile £400 £417 £419
25th Percentile £426 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £625
90th Percentile £710 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -17.27% +21.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ARM Templates as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Daily rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Hourly rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 11 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +26 65 £501 -16.58% 53
London +19 38 £485 -3.00% 17
UK excluding London +36 28 £501 -17.27% 37
Work from Home -3 28 £525 -13.22% 32
South East +23 16 £501 -17.27% 10
North of England +32 8 £450 -18.18% 10
North West +13 5 £450 -25.00% 6
South West +45 3 £450 -16.28% 3
Scotland +10 2 £525 - 3
North East - 2 £558 -
East of England - 1 £751 - 4

ARM Templates
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (30.67%) AWS
3 23 (30.67%) Serverless
4 21 (28.00%) Azure AKS
5 20 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (21.33%) Azure Storage
7 14 (18.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
8 12 (16.00%) IaaS
8 12 (16.00%) PaaS
9 11 (14.67%) SaaS
10 10 (13.33%) Azure App Service
10 10 (13.33%) Azure Functions
11 9 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (10.67%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (10.67%) GCP
13 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
15 5 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.33%) Firewall
2 5 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (1.33%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.33%) Power BI
4 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.67%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.67%) MySQL
5 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.67%) Power Query
5 2 (2.67%) Redis
5 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.33%) HBase
6 1 (1.33%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.33%) Impala
6 1 (1.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (17.33%) JIRA
3 11 (14.67%) SonarQube
4 10 (13.33%) GitLab
4 10 (13.33%) Selenium
5 9 (12.00%) Cucumber
5 9 (12.00%) REST Assured
6 6 (8.00%) Git
7 4 (5.33%) NUnit
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.33%) Public Sector
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.67%) Finance
5 8 (10.67%) Law
6 5 (6.67%) Marketing
7 4 (5.33%) Police
8 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.33%) Electronics
9 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (26.67%) Architect
3 18 (24.00%) Azure Architect
4 17 (22.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (14.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (13.33%) Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (9.33%) Senior
9 5 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Java Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Architect
9 5 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 5 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (4.00%) Python Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) REST
2 9 (12.00%) Java EE
3 8 (10.67%) .NET
3 8 (10.67%) YAML
4 7 (9.33%) .NET Core
5 5 (6.67%) ADO
5 5 (6.67%) OAuth
5 5 (6.67%) OpenID
5 5 (6.67%) RESTful
6 4 (5.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (5.33%) JSON
7 3 (4.00%) Kafka
8 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.67%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (2.67%) pytest
8 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.33%) React
9 1 (1.33%) TensorFlow
9 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.67%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) IoT
5 1 (1.33%) Life Science
5 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.33%) PKI
5 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.00%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Windows
3 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (89.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 59 (78.67%) DevOps
3 34 (45.33%) CI/CD
4 28 (37.33%) Containerisation
5 24 (32.00%) Agile
6 20 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (26.67%) RBAC
7 19 (25.33%) Analytics
8 18 (24.00%) Test Automation
9 15 (20.00%) Cloud Security
10 14 (18.67%) Log Analytics
10 14 (18.67%) Migration
11 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
13 11 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (13.33%) Configuration Management
15 9 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (12.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (45.33%) Bicep
2 23 (30.67%) PowerShell
2 23 (30.67%) Python
3 20 (26.67%) SQL
4 18 (24.00%) Bash
5 13 (17.33%) C#
5 13 (17.33%) Java
6 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.67%) Scala
6 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.33%) Perl
7 1 (1.33%) R
7 1 (1.33%) VB
7 1 (1.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.33%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.00%) Degree
6 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.33%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.33%) GxP
5 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (44.00%) Docker
2 12 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (89.33%) Terraform
2 46 (61.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (22.67%) Ansible
4 10 (13.33%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (12.00%) Podman
6 6 (8.00%) Grafana
6 6 (8.00%) Prometheus
7 5 (6.67%) Puppet
8 4 (5.33%) Salt
9 2 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.67%) WSUS
10 1 (1.33%) SCCM
10 1 (1.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.33%) Databricks
3 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.67%) Google
3 2 (2.67%) SAP
4 1 (1.33%) Ariba
4 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.33%) StreamSets