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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 460 454
Rank change year-on-year -100 -6 +62
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 106 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.43% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 74 78
10th Percentile £366 £363 £414
25th Percentile £428 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £621
90th Percentile £623 £646 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £605
% change year-on-year +1.20% -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 10,137 7,412 8,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 22.51% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,603 4,984 5,799
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £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 264 171 241
10th Percentile £28.11 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.39% +0.16%

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 11 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 11 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 -109 94 £518 +15.00% 32
London -83 48 £523 +18.75% 15
UK excluding London -94 45 £506 +1.20% 18
Work from Home -55 39 £530 +20.68% 12
South East -64 25 £527 +5.34% 5
North of England -74 11 £513 -4.65% 7
North West -35 7 £425 -5.56% 6
Midlands -52 5 £488 -12.56% 2
East Midlands -7 4 £488 -
Scotland -13 3 £513 +2.50%
North East -40 3 £513 -6.82%
South West -45 1 £500 +30.72% 3
Yorkshire -49 1 - - 1
West Midlands -56 1 - - 2

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 69 (62.16%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (39.64%) Azure Monitor
4 37 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 34 (30.63%) Azure AKS
6 30 (27.03%) GitHub
7 24 (21.62%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (18.92%) AWS
9 16 (14.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (14.41%) Serverless
10 15 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (13.51%) Azure Sentinel
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
5 12 (10.81%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.50%) SSH
7 3 (2.70%) WAN
8 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.80%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.90%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.90%) LAN
9 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) 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
5 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.80%) Parquet
6 2 (1.80%) Power BI
6 2 (1.80%) Redis
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%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) Git
2 13 (11.71%) GitLab
2 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.41%) JIRA
4 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.90%) Moq
4 1 (0.90%) NUnit
4 1 (0.90%) PeopleTools
4 1 (0.90%) Serilog
4 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 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%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Architect
8 9 (8.11%) Developer
9 8 (7.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Lead
13 3 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
13 3 (2.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) YAML
2 13 (11.71%) .NET
3 10 (9.01%) REST
4 5 (4.50%) .NET Framework
4 5 (4.50%) Entity Framework
4 5 (4.50%) OAuth
5 4 (3.60%) .NET Core
5 4 (3.60%) OpenID
5 4 (3.60%) React
5 4 (3.60%) RESTful
5 4 (3.60%) SAML
6 3 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (2.70%) JSON
7 2 (1.80%) PySpark
8 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.90%) Jest
8 1 (0.90%) LangChain
8 1 (0.90%) Next.js
8 1 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.90%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Cloud Native
1 21 (18.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (6.31%) ARM Cortex
2 7 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.60%) NHS
4 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.92%) Linux
2 19 (17.12%) Windows
3 15 (13.51%) 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 93 (83.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 92 (82.88%) DevOps
3 82 (73.87%) CI/CD
4 47 (42.34%) Containerisation
5 39 (35.14%) Analytics
5 39 (35.14%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (31.53%) RBAC
7 33 (29.73%) Agile
7 33 (29.73%) Log Analytics
8 30 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (23.42%) Cloud Security
10 26 (23.42%) Identity Access Management
10 26 (23.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (23.42%) Observability
11 20 (18.02%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 15 (13.51%) AI
13 15 (13.51%) DevSecOps
13 15 (13.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 79 (71.17%) Bicep
2 75 (67.57%) PowerShell
3 50 (45.05%) Python
4 41 (36.94%) Bash
5 19 (17.12%) SQL
6 9 (8.11%) C#
7 4 (3.60%) Java
8 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (45.05%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.94%) Azure Certification
3 36 (32.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.91%) Degree
5 10 (9.01%) 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%) CCSP
11 1 (0.90%) CISM
11 1 (0.90%) CRISC
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%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (35.14%) Docker
2 29 (26.13%) 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 51 (45.95%) Kubernetes
3 19 (17.12%) Ansible
4 12 (10.81%) Grafana
4 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.11%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.31%) Puppet
6 7 (6.31%) SCCM
7 2 (1.80%) Argo
7 2 (1.80%) Istio
8 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (64.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.01%) Databricks
3 8 (7.21%) 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