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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 458 481
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 +56
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 116 71 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.02% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 39 90
10th Percentile £406 £432 £386
25th Percentile £413 £475 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £557 £745 £638
90th Percentile £600 £751 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -2.22%

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 9,030 6,932 9,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 22.50% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,041 4,493 6,378
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 84 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £23.88
25th Percentile £51.44 £39.06 £43.75
Median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +21.50% -17.69%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -31 104 £450 -14.29% 28
UK excluding London -23 53 £475 -5.00% 26
London -46 46 £475 -20.83% 8
Work from Home -19 27 £513 -15.29% 16
South West -2 19 £450 - 3
South East -18 17 £425 -19.05% 11
North of England -69 11 £574 +27.44% 6
North West -25 6 £572 +27.11% 3
Yorkshire -53 5 £600 - 2
Scotland +6 3 £800 - 4
Midlands - 3 £494 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £413 -

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 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.86%) IIS
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 115 (99.14%) Azure
2 80 (68.97%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (34.48%) Azure Monitor
4 37 (31.90%) Entra ID
5 35 (30.17%) GitHub
6 24 (20.69%) Azure AKS
7 23 (19.83%) PaaS
8 22 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (18.97%) Serverless
9 18 (15.52%) Azure Functions
10 16 (13.79%) AWS
10 16 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (13.79%) IaaS
11 14 (12.07%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (11.21%) Azure API Management
12 13 (11.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (9.48%) Azure Service Fabric
15 10 (8.62%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (7.76%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.21%) VPN
2 9 (7.76%) Firewall
3 6 (5.17%) DNS
3 6 (5.17%) Network Security
4 3 (2.59%) DHCP
5 2 (1.72%) LAN
5 2 (1.72%) MPLS
5 2 (1.72%) SSL
5 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.72%) WAN
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.86%) DKIM
6 1 (0.86%) DMARC
6 1 (0.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.31%) Power BI
3 4 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.59%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.59%) Tableau
5 2 (1.72%) Metadata
5 2 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.86%) KNIME
6 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.86%) Redis
6 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Git
2 8 (6.90%) JIRA
3 7 (6.03%) GitLab
4 6 (5.17%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.59%) Gradle
5 3 (2.59%) Maven
5 3 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.86%) MLflow
7 1 (0.86%) Moq
7 1 (0.86%) NUnit
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.86%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.86%) Serilog
7 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Finance
4 6 (5.17%) Legal
5 5 (4.31%) Law
6 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Billing
8 2 (1.72%) Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (43.97%) Azure Engineer
2 42 (36.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (12.93%) Architect
5 10 (8.62%) Azure Architect
5 10 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Lead
6 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Senior
8 7 (6.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Developer
11 4 (3.45%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.59%) Active Directory Engineer
12 3 (2.59%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) .NET
1 18 (15.52%) YAML
2 12 (10.34%) REST
3 11 (9.48%) Entity Framework
4 7 (6.03%) PySpark
4 7 (6.03%) SailPoint
5 6 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 5 (4.31%) OAuth
6 5 (4.31%) OAuth2
6 5 (4.31%) React
6 5 (4.31%) RESTful
7 4 (3.45%) Node.js
7 4 (3.45%) OpenID
8 3 (2.59%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.59%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.59%) SAML
9 2 (1.72%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.72%) JSON
9 2 (1.72%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.48%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) IoT
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.86%) PKI
8 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 7 (6.03%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) Solaris
3 3 (2.59%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (84.48%) DevOps
2 89 (76.72%) CI/CD
3 86 (74.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (32.76%) Analytics
5 37 (31.90%) Containerisation
6 30 (25.86%) Agile
6 30 (25.86%) RBAC
7 28 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (22.41%) Identity Access Management
8 26 (22.41%) Log Analytics
9 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure Automation
9 23 (19.83%) Microservices
10 19 (16.38%) Migration
11 17 (14.66%) Cloud Security
11 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (13.79%) AI
12 16 (13.79%) Data Engineering
13 15 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (12.07%) B2C
15 13 (11.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (39.66%) Bicep
2 42 (36.21%) PowerShell
3 34 (29.31%) Python
4 33 (28.45%) SQL
5 22 (18.97%) Bash
6 15 (12.93%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.48%) C#
8 9 (7.76%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.45%) Java
10 3 (2.59%) C
10 3 (2.59%) PHP
11 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.86%) ProC
11 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (38.79%) Security Cleared
2 43 (37.07%) SC Cleared
3 41 (35.34%) Azure Certification
4 21 (18.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (7.76%) CISSP
6 8 (6.90%) CISM
6 8 (6.90%) Degree
6 8 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.90%) NIST
2 8 (6.90%) NIST 800
3 5 (4.31%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.45%) NCSC
5 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.72%) GDPR
6 2 (1.72%) SLA
7 1 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.86%) GRC
7 1 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 48 (41.38%) Docker
2 25 (21.55%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (81.03%) Terraform
2 45 (38.79%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (6.03%) Ansible
6 3 (2.59%) Grafana
6 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.86%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.86%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.86%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.86%) logstash
8 1 (0.86%) QRadar
8 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (53.45%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.97%) Databricks
3 11 (9.48%) Red Hat
4 9 (7.76%) IBM
5 6 (5.17%) NetApp
6 4 (3.45%) Google
7 3 (2.59%) Alibaba
7 3 (2.59%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.59%) Splunk
8 2 (1.72%) Cisco
8 2 (1.72%) Okta
8 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.86%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.86%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle
9 1 (0.86%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.86%) Sophos
9 1 (0.86%) VMware