ARM Templates Contracts

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ARM Templates skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ARM Templates over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 552 529
Rank change year-on-year +91 -23 -102
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 125 170 317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.40% 1.21% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 107 205
10th Percentile £418 £420 £414
25th Percentile £500 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £612
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ARM Templates is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,955 14,016 24,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.35% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,226 10,231 17,684
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 156 243
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.38 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.92 £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

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 25 April 2024.

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 13 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 25 April 2024. 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 +80 102 £600 +14.29% 35
Work from Home +122 80 £605 +18.22% 26
London +75 53 £500 -13.04% 18
UK excluding London +67 47 £605 +21.00% 19
South East +23 35 £605 +21.00% 7
North of England +30 4 £550 +10.00% 3
Midlands +21 4 £450 -14.29% 2
West Midlands +27 3 £450 -21.74% 2
South West +24 3 £538 - 3
North West +14 3 £600 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire +26 1 £463 -9.76%
Scotland +24 1 - - 4
East Midlands +14 1 £625 +19.05%

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 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.00%) IIS
3 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (62.40%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (32.00%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (25.60%) AWS
5 26 (20.80%) Entra ID
6 24 (19.20%) PaaS
7 23 (18.40%) Serverless
8 22 (17.60%) Azure Storage
9 21 (16.80%) Azure Functions
10 20 (16.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 17 (13.60%) SaaS
12 16 (12.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (12.00%) IaaS
14 14 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (10.40%) Azure API Management
15 13 (10.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (9.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (8.80%) GitHub
18 10 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
19 7 (5.60%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.20%) Firewall
2 22 (17.60%) DNS
3 14 (11.20%) DHCP
4 6 (4.80%) Network Security
5 5 (4.00%) SSL
6 2 (1.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.20%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.60%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.20%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (5.60%) OLTP
7 6 (4.80%) Big Data
8 3 (2.40%) Parquet
8 3 (2.40%) Redis
8 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.60%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.60%) MySQL
9 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.60%) Power Query
10 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (19.20%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.60%) SonarQube
3 20 (16.00%) Git
4 17 (13.60%) GitLab
5 16 (12.80%) Selenium
6 12 (9.60%) Cucumber
6 12 (9.60%) JIRA
6 12 (9.60%) REST Assured
7 10 (8.00%) Visual Studio
8 7 (5.60%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (4.00%) TeamCity
10 4 (3.20%) NUnit
11 3 (2.40%) Deequ
12 2 (1.60%) Maven
12 2 (1.60%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.80%) Appium
13 1 (0.80%) Gradle
13 1 (0.80%) gulp
13 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Law
5 8 (6.40%) Police
6 6 (4.80%) Finance
7 5 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Billing
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (21.60%) Developer
3 26 (20.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.20%) Senior
5 18 (14.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 17 (13.60%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Support
7 14 (11.20%) Support Specialist
8 12 (9.60%) Lead
8 12 (9.60%) Senior Developer
9 11 (8.80%) Architect
10 9 (7.20%) Azure Developer
10 9 (7.20%) Software Developer
11 8 (6.40%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (5.60%) Data Engineer
13 6 (4.80%) Azure Architect
13 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 6 (4.80%) Software Engineer
14 5 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.40%) XML
2 21 (16.80%) .NET
3 20 (16.00%) JSON
4 18 (14.40%) REST
5 12 (9.60%) Java EE
6 10 (8.00%) Azure Blueprints
7 9 (7.20%) Entity Framework
8 8 (6.40%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.40%) YAML
9 6 (4.80%) OAuth
9 6 (4.80%) OpenID
9 6 (4.80%) PySpark
9 6 (4.80%) SOAP
9 6 (4.80%) Web Services
10 5 (4.00%) ADO
10 5 (4.00%) React
11 4 (3.20%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.20%) jQuery
12 3 (2.40%) Razor View Engine
12 3 (2.40%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) PKI
1 14 (11.20%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.60%) Contactless
3 7 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.40%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.00%) Windows
2 21 (16.80%) Linux
3 18 (14.40%) Windows Server
4 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (5.60%) VMS
6 2 (1.60%) Unix
7 1 (0.80%) CentOS
7 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (89.60%) DevOps
2 71 (56.80%) CI/CD
3 60 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (34.40%) Agile
5 36 (28.80%) Test Automation
6 29 (23.20%) Software Engineering
7 28 (22.40%) Containerisation
8 26 (20.80%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (20.80%) Release Management
9 25 (20.00%) Analytics
9 25 (20.00%) Log Analytics
10 22 (17.60%) RBAC
10 22 (17.60%) Scrum
11 21 (16.80%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (14.40%) Continuous Delivery
12 18 (14.40%) Migration
12 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (14.40%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (12.80%) Microservices
13 16 (12.80%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 81 (64.80%) PowerShell
2 34 (27.20%) Bicep
2 34 (27.20%) C#
3 32 (25.60%) SQL
4 20 (16.00%) Java
5 19 (15.20%) Python
6 15 (12.00%) VB
7 14 (11.20%) VBScript
8 11 (8.80%) Bash
9 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.40%) Scala
11 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.80%) Go
12 1 (0.80%) Groovy
12 1 (0.80%) Perl
12 1 (0.80%) PHP
12 1 (0.80%) Ruby
12 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 50 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 49 (39.20%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.00%) Degree
4 18 (14.40%) DV Cleared
5 14 (11.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (9.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) NCSC
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 37 (29.60%) Docker
2 26 (20.80%) Active Directory
3 22 (17.60%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (11.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (56.00%) Terraform
2 55 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 26 (20.80%) Ansible
4 19 (15.20%) SCCM
5 17 (13.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (11.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (11.20%) SCOM
6 14 (11.20%) WSUS
7 12 (9.60%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (9.60%) Podman
8 3 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.60%) Grafana
9 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (43.20%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.60%) Databricks
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle
4 3 (2.40%) SAP
4 3 (2.40%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.80%) BMC
5 1 (0.80%) Cisco
5 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.80%) Google
5 1 (0.80%) New Relic
5 1 (0.80%) Nintex
5 1 (0.80%) Remedy
5 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.80%) Splunk
5 1 (0.80%) Sybase
5 1 (0.80%) VMware