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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 441 447
Rank change year-on-year -122 +6 +61
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 104 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 1.41% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 73 76
10th Percentile £365 £363 £414
25th Percentile £450 £400 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £612
90th Percentile £625 £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 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 10,132 7,350 8,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.36% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,588 4,921 5,784
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
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 £745 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 177 232
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.70 £22.53
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -0.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 18 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 18 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 -123 95 £523 +16.11% 20
London -69 47 £523 +18.75% 7
UK excluding London -100 46 £513 +2.45% 15
Work from Home -44 38 £532 +21.66% 9
South East -65 26 £552 +10.34% 5
North of England -77 12 £513 -4.65% 5
North West -43 8 £519 +15.33% 5
Midlands -50 5 £488 -12.56% 3
East Midlands -15 4 £488 - 1
North East -37 3 £513 -6.82%
Scotland -13 2 £513 +2.50%
West Midlands -47 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -48 1 - -
South West -50 1 £500 +30.72% 1

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 1 (0.90%) Apache
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
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 68 (61.26%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (39.64%) Azure Monitor
4 38 (34.23%) Entra ID
5 32 (28.83%) Azure AKS
6 31 (27.93%) GitHub
7 25 (22.52%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (21.62%) AWS
9 17 (15.32%) Serverless
10 16 (14.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (12.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (9.91%) Azure Functions
14 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
15 10 (9.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (8.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 9 (8.11%) PaaS
17 8 (7.21%) GCP
17 8 (7.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.42%) DNS
2 24 (21.62%) Firewall
3 15 (13.51%) VPN
4 13 (11.71%) DHCP
4 13 (11.71%) Network Security
5 11 (9.91%) 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 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
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) Git
2 14 (12.61%) Jenkins
3 13 (11.71%) 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
2 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.11%) Finance
4 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.41%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.70%) Local Government
7 3 (2.70%) Military
8 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 38 (34.23%) Azure Engineer
2 34 (30.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (18.92%) Senior
4 18 (16.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Architect
6 9 (8.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Developer
7 8 (7.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
9 6 (5.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Analyst
10 4 (3.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) Windows 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%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (3.60%) OAuth
5 4 (3.60%) OpenID
5 4 (3.60%) SAML
6 3 (2.70%) JSON
6 3 (2.70%) React
6 3 (2.70%) RESTful
7 1 (0.90%) ADO
7 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.90%) Loki
7 1 (0.90%) Next.js
7 1 (0.90%) Node.js
7 1 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (18.92%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.21%) ARM Cortex
3 8 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.60%) NHS
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 23 (20.72%) Linux
2 21 (18.92%) Windows
3 16 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.21%) VMS
5 6 (5.41%) 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 46 (41.44%) Containerisation
5 41 (36.94%) Analytics
6 40 (36.04%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (33.33%) RBAC
8 35 (31.53%) Log Analytics
9 32 (28.83%) Agile
10 31 (27.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (26.13%) Cloud Security
12 28 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (24.32%) Observability
14 26 (23.42%) Identity Access Management
14 26 (23.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (18.92%) Deployment Automation
16 16 (14.41%) AI
16 16 (14.41%) DevSecOps
16 16 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
17 15 (13.51%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 82 (73.87%) Bicep
2 79 (71.17%) PowerShell
3 50 (45.05%) Python
4 42 (37.84%) Bash
5 17 (15.32%) SQL
6 9 (8.11%) C#
7 5 (4.50%) 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 12 (10.81%) Degree
5 11 (9.91%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (6.31%) AWS Certification
8 6 (5.41%) CISSP
9 5 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (3.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.70%) CEH
11 3 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.90%) CCNP
13 1 (0.90%) CCSP
13 1 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.41%) NCSC
2 4 (3.60%) NIST
2 4 (3.60%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
4 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
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 31 (27.93%) 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 50 (45.05%) Kubernetes
3 19 (17.12%) Ansible
4 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (10.81%) Grafana
5 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.01%) 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 9 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
2 9 (8.11%) Databricks
3 7 (6.31%) Google
4 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.50%) VMware
5 4 (3.60%) Oracle
6 3 (2.70%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) SAP
7 2 (1.80%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.90%) Ariba
8 1 (0.90%) Citrix
8 1 (0.90%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.90%) New Relic
8 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.90%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Temenos