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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 451 459
Rank change year-on-year -112 +8 +48
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 120 107 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.28% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 75 72
10th Percentile £375 £363 £413
25th Percentile £450 £403 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £608
90th Percentile £623 £633 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £488 £605
% change year-on-year +5.13% -19.42% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £65.75 - -
25th Percentile £69.13 £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 11,809 8,337 9,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.94% 25.41% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 5,631 6,452
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £631 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 184 215
10th Percentile £29.81 £30.40 £23.80
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.32 £79.61 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +2.67%

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 22 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 22 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 -98 104 £515 +14.44% 41
London -72 51 £515 +17.05% 15
UK excluding London -100 50 £513 +5.13% 29
Work from Home -46 40 £527 +24.06% 15
South East -57 26 £575 +14.89% 7
North of England -65 11 £513 -4.65% 11
North West -45 7 £519 +15.33% 7
Midlands -45 7 £475 -14.80% 8
East Midlands -13 5 £475 - 1
South West -51 4 £500 +25.00% 2
North East -41 3 £513 -6.82% 1
Scotland -18 2 £513 +2.50%
West Midlands -47 2 £475 -14.80% 7
Yorkshire -42 1 - - 3

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 4 (3.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.83%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (63.33%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (40.83%) Azure Monitor
4 38 (31.67%) Azure AKS
5 37 (30.83%) Entra ID
6 34 (28.33%) GitHub
7 26 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (20.00%) AWS
9 21 (17.50%) Serverless
10 16 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (12.50%) Azure Functions
11 15 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
14 11 (9.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 8 (6.67%) GCP
16 8 (6.67%) PaaS
17 7 (5.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.50%) DNS
2 25 (20.83%) Firewall
3 16 (13.33%) VPN
4 14 (11.67%) DHCP
4 14 (11.67%) Network Security
5 12 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.00%) SSH
7 3 (2.50%) WAN
8 2 (1.67%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.83%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.83%) LAN
9 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.83%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.67%) Power BI
5 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.67%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.83%) Parquet
6 1 (0.83%) Power Query
6 1 (0.83%) Redis
6 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (26.67%) Git
2 15 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.67%) GitLab
4 5 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.83%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.83%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.83%) Finance
4 7 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.50%) Local Government
6 3 (2.50%) Military
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (35.83%) Azure Engineer
2 42 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (19.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 23 (19.17%) Senior
4 15 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Architect
6 9 (7.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Developer
6 9 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Architect
8 6 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (2.50%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (89.17%) Terraform
2 18 (15.00%) YAML
3 13 (10.83%) .NET
4 10 (8.33%) REST
5 5 (4.17%) OAuth
6 4 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.33%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (3.33%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.33%) OpenID
7 3 (2.50%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.50%) JSON
7 3 (2.50%) RESTful
7 3 (2.50%) SAML
8 2 (1.67%) React
9 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.83%) Kafka
9 1 (0.83%) Loki
9 1 (0.83%) Node.js
9 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.67%) ARM Cortex
3 8 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.83%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.17%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.33%) NHS
7 4 (3.33%) Wiki
8 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.00%) Linux
2 22 (18.33%) Windows
3 17 (14.17%) Windows Server
4 11 (9.17%) VMS
5 6 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 99 (82.50%) DevOps
3 91 (75.83%) CI/CD
4 52 (43.33%) Containerisation
5 44 (36.67%) Analytics
6 42 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (33.33%) RBAC
8 39 (32.50%) Agile
9 38 (31.67%) Log Analytics
10 35 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (25.83%) Observability
12 30 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (24.17%) Cloud Security
14 27 (22.50%) Deployment Automation
15 26 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 24 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
17 23 (19.17%) DevSecOps
18 17 (14.17%) High Availability
18 17 (14.17%) Infrastructure Automation
19 16 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 91 (75.83%) Bicep
2 86 (71.67%) PowerShell
3 54 (45.00%) Python
4 51 (42.50%) Bash
5 17 (14.17%) SQL
6 10 (8.33%) C#
7 5 (4.17%) Java
8 1 (0.83%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.83%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 44 (36.67%) Azure Certification
3 39 (32.50%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.67%) Degree
5 12 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
8 6 (5.00%) CISSP
9 5 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) CEH
11 3 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.83%) CRISC
13 1 (0.83%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.00%) NCSC
3 4 (3.33%) NIST
4 3 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.50%) GDPR
4 3 (2.50%) SLA
5 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (35.00%) Docker
2 30 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (47.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.67%) Ansible
3 15 (12.50%) Grafana
4 13 (10.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.33%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.67%) SCCM
8 7 (5.83%) Puppet
9 2 (1.67%) Argo
9 2 (1.67%) Istio
10 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (68.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.33%) Databricks
3 9 (7.50%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (5.83%) Google
5 5 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.17%) VMware
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle
7 3 (2.50%) Splunk
8 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.67%) SAP
8 2 (1.67%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.83%) Ariba
9 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.83%) Citrix
9 1 (0.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.83%) New Relic
9 1 (0.83%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.83%) Temenos