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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 432 446
Rank change year-on-year -113 +14 +88
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 94 106 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 1.54% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 69 98
10th Percentile £398 £363 £428
25th Percentile £413 £400 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -25.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £562 £544 £650
90th Percentile £653 £715 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £605
% change year-on-year -10.00% -17.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 9,934 6,861 9,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.84% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,532 4,676 6,354
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 134 280
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.12 £22.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -11.43%

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 24 June 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 13 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 24 June 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 -117 83 £450 - 20
UK excluding London -94 41 £450 -10.00% 15
London -89 38 £483 +9.66% 6
Work from Home -59 23 £527 +5.98% 9
South East -58 18 £438 -12.59% 9
North of England -75 12 £525 - 4
North West -45 8 £446 -0.83% 2
South West -35 6 - - 1
Yorkshire -50 4 £525 -
Scotland -14 3 £800 +56.10%
Midlands -53 2 £500 -10.31% 1
West Midlands -57 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (70.21%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (42.55%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (30.85%) Azure AKS
5 26 (27.66%) GitHub
6 23 (24.47%) Entra ID
7 17 (18.09%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (17.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (17.02%) Serverless
9 13 (13.83%) Azure Functions
9 13 (13.83%) PaaS
10 12 (12.77%) AWS
10 12 (12.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (11.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (11.70%) Azure Storage
11 11 (11.70%) IaaS
12 9 (9.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
14 7 (7.45%) Azure API Management
14 7 (7.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) DNS
2 10 (10.64%) Firewall
2 10 (10.64%) Network Security
3 8 (8.51%) VPN
4 6 (6.38%) DHCP
5 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.19%) WAN
7 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.06%) DNSSEC
8 1 (1.06%) LAN
8 1 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.38%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.26%) Power BI
4 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.19%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.13%) Tableau
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.06%) Parquet
6 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.06%) Redis
6 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (17.02%) Git
2 10 (10.64%) GitLab
3 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.38%) JIRA
5 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.06%) MLflow
5 1 (1.06%) Moq
5 1 (1.06%) NUnit
5 1 (1.06%) Serilog
5 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.47%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.32%) Finance
5 3 (3.19%) Law
5 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (47.87%) Azure Engineer
2 38 (40.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (31.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Azure Architect
5 8 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Senior
6 7 (7.45%) Lead
7 6 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Software Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.32%) Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.13%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) YAML
2 10 (10.64%) .NET
3 9 (9.57%) REST
4 6 (6.38%) Entity Framework
5 4 (4.26%) PySpark
5 4 (4.26%) React
6 3 (3.19%) Node.js
6 3 (3.19%) SailPoint
7 2 (2.13%) JSON
7 2 (2.13%) Next.js
7 2 (2.13%) OAuth
7 2 (2.13%) RESTful
8 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.06%) ADO
8 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (1.06%) OpenID
8 1 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.32%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.13%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Replication
8 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Linux
1 5 (5.32%) VMS
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (84.04%) DevOps
2 73 (77.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (76.60%) CI/CD
4 34 (36.17%) Containerisation
5 33 (35.11%) Analytics
6 28 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (28.72%) Log Analytics
8 26 (27.66%) RBAC
9 25 (26.60%) Agile
10 23 (24.47%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (22.34%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (17.02%) Observability
14 13 (13.83%) Incident Response
14 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (12.77%) Migration
16 11 (11.70%) AI
16 11 (11.70%) Cloud Security
16 11 (11.70%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 50 (53.19%) Bicep
2 39 (41.49%) PowerShell
3 34 (36.17%) Python
4 22 (23.40%) SQL
5 20 (21.28%) Bash
6 7 (7.45%) C#
7 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.13%) C
9 2 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 40 (42.55%) Security Cleared
2 37 (39.36%) Azure Certification
3 36 (38.30%) SC Cleared
4 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.38%) CISSP
6 5 (5.32%) CISM
6 5 (5.32%) Degree
6 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CCNA
8 1 (1.06%) CCNP
8 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.06%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.38%) NIST
3 5 (5.32%) NIST 800
3 5 (5.32%) SLA
4 4 (4.26%) NCSC
5 3 (3.19%) GDPR
6 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.06%) GRC
7 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 39 (41.49%) Docker
2 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.06%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (78.72%) Terraform
2 41 (43.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.64%) Ansible
4 7 (7.45%) Grafana
4 7 (7.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (5.32%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.26%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.26%) Puppet
7 1 (1.06%) Argo
7 1 (1.06%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.06%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.06%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.06%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.06%) logstash
7 1 (1.06%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (53.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) Databricks
3 6 (6.38%) IBM
4 5 (5.32%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.26%) Google
5 4 (4.26%) Splunk
6 3 (3.19%) Alibaba
6 3 (3.19%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.13%) VMware
8 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.06%) Citrix
8 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.06%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.06%) New Relic
8 1 (1.06%) Okta
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.06%) Temenos