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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 445 469
Rank change year-on-year -89 +24 +18
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 137 107 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.15% 1.25% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 76 59
10th Percentile £400 £363 £415
25th Percentile £450 £406 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.17% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £608 £528 £616
90th Percentile £630 £588 £704
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £450 £588
% change year-on-year +17.17% -23.40% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £64.70 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 £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 11,904 8,573 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 25.97% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 5,684 6,029
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 187 186
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.05 £26.05
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.49 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.70% -15.38% +10.53%

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 7 October 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 15 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 7 October 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 -89 116 £525 +16.67% 65
UK excluding London -79 67 £527 +17.17% 48
Work from Home -53 46 £527 +24.06% 25
London -85 46 £525 +16.67% 22
South East -39 34 £609 +21.68% 17
North of England -63 13 £531 +1.19% 14
South West -48 10 £500 +21.21%
North West -35 7 £630 +40.04% 11
Midlands -42 7 £475 -2.06% 8
East Midlands -14 5 £475 +15.15% 3
Yorkshire -36 3 £500 -6.98% 2
North East - 3 £513 - 1
Scotland -22 2 £513 +7.89% 3
West Midlands -48 2 £475 -14.80% 5
East of England - 1 £400 - 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 12 (8.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.73%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (61.31%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (37.96%) Azure Monitor
4 49 (35.77%) Entra ID
5 40 (29.20%) Azure AKS
6 30 (21.90%) AWS
6 30 (21.90%) GitHub
7 24 (17.52%) Serverless
8 21 (15.33%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (13.87%) Azure Sentinel
10 17 (12.41%) Azure Functions
11 16 (11.68%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (9.49%) Power Platform
14 12 (8.76%) PaaS
15 11 (8.03%) Azure API Management
15 11 (8.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (8.03%) IaaS
16 10 (7.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 30 (21.90%) DNS
2 27 (19.71%) Firewall
3 18 (13.14%) VPN
4 17 (12.41%) Network Security
5 16 (11.68%) DHCP
6 14 (10.22%) TCP/IP
7 8 (5.84%) SSH
8 3 (2.19%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.73%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (7.30%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.92%) Power BI
6 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.19%) Parquet
6 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.46%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.46%) Metadata
7 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.73%) MySQL
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.73%) Power Query
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (31.39%) Git
2 10 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.57%) GitLab
4 6 (4.38%) JIRA
5 3 (2.19%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.19%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.73%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.73%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.71%) Public Sector
3 17 (12.41%) Finance
4 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.11%) Aerospace
6 6 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.65%) Military
8 3 (2.19%) Banking
8 3 (2.19%) Legal
8 3 (2.19%) Local Government
9 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.46%) Retail
10 1 (0.73%) Automotive
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 56 (40.88%) Azure Engineer
2 48 (35.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (20.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 27 (19.71%) Senior
5 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (13.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (12.41%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Architect
8 11 (8.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Developer
10 8 (5.84%) Azure Architect
11 7 (5.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (91.24%) Terraform
2 20 (14.60%) YAML
3 16 (11.68%) .NET
4 15 (10.95%) REST
5 8 (5.84%) OAuth
6 6 (4.38%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.38%) Entity Framework
6 6 (4.38%) JSON
6 6 (4.38%) OpenID
7 5 (3.65%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.65%) Azure Blueprints
7 5 (3.65%) RESTful
7 5 (3.65%) SAML
8 3 (2.19%) React
9 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.73%) LangChain
10 1 (0.73%) Loki
10 1 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.73%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 22 (16.06%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.49%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.76%) Wiki
5 11 (8.03%) Management Information System
6 10 (7.30%) ARM Cortex
7 9 (6.57%) Onboarding
8 8 (5.84%) Security Posture
9 7 (5.11%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.92%) NHS
12 3 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (2.19%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.46%) AS400
13 2 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
14 1 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.17%) Linux
2 25 (18.25%) Windows
3 19 (13.87%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.03%) VMS
5 7 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.92%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.73%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (86.13%) Infrastructure as Code
2 112 (81.75%) DevOps
3 103 (75.18%) CI/CD
4 55 (40.15%) Containerisation
5 53 (38.69%) Agile
6 50 (36.50%) Analytics
6 50 (36.50%) RBAC
7 48 (35.04%) Platform Engineering
8 44 (32.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (32.12%) Log Analytics
9 41 (29.93%) Deployment Automation
10 36 (26.28%) Observability
11 34 (24.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (23.36%) Cloud Security
13 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (20.44%) DevSecOps
15 27 (19.71%) Identity Access Management
16 26 (18.98%) Migration
17 25 (18.25%) Software Delivery
18 21 (15.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 110 (80.29%) Bicep
2 102 (74.45%) PowerShell
3 62 (45.26%) Bash
4 60 (43.80%) Python
5 23 (16.79%) SQL
6 14 (10.22%) C#
7 6 (4.38%) Java
8 2 (1.46%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.73%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.73%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 68 (49.64%) Security Cleared
2 48 (35.04%) Azure Certification
3 46 (33.58%) SC Cleared
4 17 (12.41%) Degree
4 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (10.22%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.57%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.11%) CISSP
8 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.19%) CEH
10 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.73%) CISM
12 1 (0.73%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) NCSC
1 6 (4.38%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.19%) NIST
3 3 (2.19%) SLA
4 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.73%) GDPR
5 1 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (35.04%) Docker
2 39 (28.47%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.68%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.73%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 63 (45.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.87%) Ansible
3 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.49%) Grafana
5 10 (7.30%) Prometheus
5 10 (7.30%) SCCM
6 7 (5.11%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.19%) Istio
8 3 (2.19%) Puppet
9 2 (1.46%) Argo
10 1 (0.73%) Packer
10 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (75.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.03%) CrowdStrike
2 11 (8.03%) Databricks
3 10 (7.30%) Google
4 7 (5.11%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.38%) VMware
6 4 (2.92%) Oracle
7 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.46%) SAP
8 2 (1.46%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.73%) Ariba
9 1 (0.73%) Citrix
9 1 (0.73%) Foundry
9 1 (0.73%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.73%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.73%) New Relic
9 1 (0.73%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.73%) Splunk
9 1 (0.73%) Veracode