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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 439 457
Rank change year-on-year -99 +18 +75
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 97 87 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.34% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 90
10th Percentile £400 £394 £425
25th Percentile £413 £410 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -17.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £574 £650
90th Percentile £658 £698 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £501 £605
% change year-on-year -10.09% -17.27% +21.00%
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 9,510 6,500 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.73% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,248 4,454 6,211
10th Percentile £363 £361 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 105 250
10th Percentile £30.77 £27.44 £21.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £65.95
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 26 May 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 12 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 26 May 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 -108 88 £475 -5.09% 18
London -62 47 £492 +1.44% 5
UK excluding London -109 38 £450 -10.09% 16
Work from Home -51 20 £525 - 9
South East -61 17 £425 -15.08% 7
North of England -71 11 £543 +3.33% 6
North West -34 7 £560 +24.44% 4
South West -30 6 - - 2
Yorkshire -54 4 £525 -
Scotland -2 3 £800 +56.10%
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 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 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (69.07%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (38.14%) Azure Monitor
4 30 (30.93%) Entra ID
5 25 (25.77%) Azure AKS
6 24 (24.74%) GitHub
7 22 (22.68%) PaaS
8 17 (17.53%) Serverless
9 16 (16.49%) Azure Functions
9 16 (16.49%) IaaS
10 14 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (13.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (12.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (12.37%) Azure Service Fabric
13 11 (11.34%) Azure Storage
14 10 (10.31%) AWS
14 10 (10.31%) Azure API Management
14 10 (10.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (10.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (9.28%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) DNS
2 8 (8.25%) VPN
3 7 (7.22%) Network Security
4 6 (6.19%) Firewall
5 5 (5.15%) DHCP
6 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.09%) WAN
7 2 (2.06%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.03%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.09%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.06%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.06%) Tableau
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.03%) Parquet
4 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.03%) Redis
4 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) Git
2 9 (9.28%) GitLab
3 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.19%) JIRA
5 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.03%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.03%) MLflow
6 1 (1.03%) Moq
6 1 (1.03%) NUnit
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.03%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.03%) Serilog
6 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.12%) Finance
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Law
5 3 (3.09%) Legal
6 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (46.39%) Azure Engineer
2 39 (40.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (30.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 12 (12.37%) Architect
5 10 (10.31%) Azure Architect
6 9 (9.28%) Senior
7 8 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Lead
9 6 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Technical Architect
12 3 (3.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) YAML
2 13 (13.40%) .NET
2 13 (13.40%) Entity Framework
3 9 (9.28%) REST
4 7 (7.22%) SailPoint
5 5 (5.15%) React
6 4 (4.12%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.12%) Node.js
7 3 (3.09%) PySpark
8 2 (2.06%) JSON
8 2 (2.06%) Next.js
8 2 (2.06%) OAuth
8 2 (2.06%) RESTful
9 1 (1.03%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.03%) ADO
9 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.03%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.03%) J2EE
9 1 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (1.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (9.28%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Replication
7 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) VMS
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (84.54%) DevOps
2 75 (77.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (75.26%) CI/CD
4 34 (35.05%) Containerisation
5 30 (30.93%) Analytics
6 27 (27.84%) Identity Access Management
6 27 (27.84%) RBAC
7 25 (25.77%) Log Analytics
7 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (22.68%) Agile
9 19 (19.59%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (16.49%) Microservices
11 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (14.43%) Observability
13 13 (13.40%) B2C
13 13 (13.40%) Incident Response
13 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (12.37%) AI
14 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (11.34%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 47 (48.45%) Bicep
2 38 (39.18%) PowerShell
3 30 (30.93%) Python
3 30 (30.93%) SQL
4 17 (17.53%) Bash
5 7 (7.22%) C#
6 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.12%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.09%) C
8 3 (3.09%) Java
9 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.03%) ProC
9 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 39 (40.21%) SC Cleared
3 35 (36.08%) Azure Certification
4 11 (11.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.19%) CISSP
6 5 (5.15%) CISM
6 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (4.12%) Degree
8 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.03%) CCNA
9 1 (1.03%) CCNP
9 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.19%) NIST
3 5 (5.15%) NIST 800
3 5 (5.15%) SLA
4 4 (4.12%) NCSC
5 3 (3.09%) GDPR
6 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.03%) GRC
7 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 42 (43.30%) Docker
2 19 (19.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.03%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (75.26%) Terraform
2 36 (37.11%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.31%) Ansible
4 9 (9.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (8.25%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.15%) Grafana
6 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.12%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.12%) Puppet
8 1 (1.03%) Argo
8 1 (1.03%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.03%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.03%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.03%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.03%) logstash
8 1 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 49 (50.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.43%) Databricks
3 6 (6.19%) IBM
4 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.12%) Splunk
6 3 (3.09%) Alibaba
6 3 (3.09%) Google
6 3 (3.09%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.06%) Oracle
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) VMware
8 1 (1.03%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.03%) Citrix
8 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.03%) New Relic
8 1 (1.03%) Okta
8 1 (1.03%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.03%) Temenos