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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 446 456
Rank change year-on-year -103 +10 +51
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 118 106 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 1.27% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 74 75
10th Percentile £370 £363 £414
25th Percentile £450 £402 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £594 £538 £608
90th Percentile £624 £634 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £488 £605
% change year-on-year +6.41% -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 11,739 8,318 9,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.94% 25.33% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,720 5,624 6,459
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £651
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 181 231
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £45.94 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

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 20 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 20 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 -114 102 £519 +15.28% 39
London -68 50 £518 +17.61% 15
UK excluding London -110 50 £519 +6.41% 26
Work from Home -58 38 £532 +25.24% 16
South East -45 27 £575 +14.89% 8
North of England -54 12 £513 -4.65% 10
North West -32 8 £519 +15.33% 6
Midlands -53 5 £488 -12.56% 6
East Midlands -14 4 £488 - 1
South West -48 4 £500 +25.00% 1
North East -36 3 £513 -6.82% 2
Scotland -16 2 £513 +2.50%
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 2
West Midlands -55 1 - - 5

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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 3 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.85%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (62.71%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (40.68%) Azure Monitor
4 38 (32.20%) Azure AKS
4 38 (32.20%) Entra ID
5 34 (28.81%) GitHub
6 26 (22.03%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (20.34%) AWS
8 20 (16.95%) Serverless
9 16 (13.56%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (12.71%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (11.86%) Azure Functions
12 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (9.32%) Power Platform
14 10 (8.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (7.63%) PaaS
16 8 (6.78%) GCP
16 8 (6.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.88%) DNS
2 25 (21.19%) Firewall
3 16 (13.56%) VPN
4 14 (11.86%) DHCP
4 14 (11.86%) Network Security
5 12 (10.17%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.08%) SSH
7 3 (2.54%) WAN
8 2 (1.69%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.85%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.85%) LAN
9 1 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.93%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.54%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.69%) Parquet
6 2 (1.69%) Power BI
6 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.69%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.85%) Power Query
7 1 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (27.12%) Git
2 15 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.86%) GitLab
4 6 (5.08%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) VersionOne
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.88%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.32%) Finance
4 8 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.08%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.54%) Local Government
7 3 (2.54%) Military
8 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
9 1 (0.85%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 43 (36.44%) Azure Engineer
2 40 (33.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (19.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 22 (18.64%) Senior
5 15 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (12.71%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Architect
7 9 (7.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Developer
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Architect
10 6 (5.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Analyst
11 4 (3.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.54%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (88.98%) Terraform
2 18 (15.25%) YAML
3 12 (10.17%) .NET
4 10 (8.47%) REST
5 5 (4.24%) .NET Framework
5 5 (4.24%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.39%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.39%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (3.39%) OAuth
6 4 (3.39%) OpenID
6 4 (3.39%) SAML
7 3 (2.54%) JSON
7 3 (2.54%) React
7 3 (2.54%) RESTful
8 1 (0.85%) ADO
8 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.85%) Kafka
8 1 (0.85%) Loki
8 1 (0.85%) Node.js
8 1 (0.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (17.80%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.78%) ARM Cortex
3 8 (6.78%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.93%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.24%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.39%) NHS
7 4 (3.39%) Wiki
8 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.34%) Linux
2 22 (18.64%) Windows
3 17 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 11 (9.32%) VMS
5 6 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (83.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 97 (82.20%) DevOps
3 89 (75.42%) CI/CD
4 52 (44.07%) Containerisation
5 45 (38.14%) Analytics
6 41 (34.75%) Platform Engineering
6 41 (34.75%) RBAC
7 39 (33.05%) Log Analytics
8 37 (31.36%) Agile
9 34 (28.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (26.27%) Observability
12 29 (24.58%) Cloud Security
13 27 (22.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (22.03%) Deployment Automation
14 26 (22.03%) Identity Access Management
15 22 (18.64%) DevSecOps
16 18 (15.25%) High Availability
17 17 (14.41%) Test Automation
18 16 (13.56%) AI
Programming Languages
1 89 (75.42%) Bicep
2 86 (72.88%) PowerShell
3 53 (44.92%) Python
4 49 (41.53%) Bash
5 17 (14.41%) SQL
6 9 (7.63%) C#
7 5 (4.24%) Java
8 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (46.61%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.44%) Azure Certification
3 38 (32.20%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.86%) Degree
5 12 (10.17%) DV Cleared
6 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (5.08%) CISSP
9 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) CEH
11 3 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.85%) CRISC
13 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.08%) NCSC
1 6 (5.08%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) NIST
3 3 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) SLA
4 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (35.59%) Docker
2 32 (27.12%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.32%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 56 (47.46%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.95%) Ansible
3 15 (12.71%) Grafana
4 13 (11.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (10.17%) Prometheus
6 10 (8.47%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.78%) SCCM
8 7 (5.93%) Puppet
9 2 (1.69%) Argo
9 2 (1.69%) Istio
10 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (68.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.47%) Databricks
3 9 (7.63%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (5.93%) Google
5 5 (4.24%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.24%) VMware
6 4 (3.39%) Oracle
7 3 (2.54%) Splunk
8 2 (1.69%) SAP
8 2 (1.69%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.85%) Ariba
9 1 (0.85%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.85%) Citrix
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.85%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.85%) Temenos