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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 465 456
Rank change year-on-year -101 -9 +57
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 106 105 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% 1.41% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 74 80
10th Percentile £363 £363 £415
25th Percentile £425 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £628
90th Percentile £623 £646 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £500 £605
% change year-on-year +3.70% -17.31% +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 10,250 7,469 8,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.21% 22.56% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,681 5,046 5,854
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £637 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 164 248
10th Percentile £28.33 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.59 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.36 £79.61 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £58.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -4.01% +1.04%

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 2 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 2 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 -110 89 £513 +13.89% 27
UK excluding London -94 46 £519 +3.70% 17
London -63 43 £513 +16.48% 11
Work from Home -61 35 £525 +19.66% 15
South East -63 22 £527 +5.34% 7
North of England -65 13 £536 -0.23% 6
North West -49 9 £566 +25.78% 4
Scotland -6 5 £550 +10.00% 1
Midlands -49 5 £488 -12.56%
East Midlands -10 4 £488 -
North East -38 2 £513 -6.82% 1
Yorkshire -45 2 - - 1
South West -47 1 £500 +30.72% 3
West Midlands -60 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 4 (3.77%) Confluence
2 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.94%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (58.49%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (45.28%) Azure Monitor
4 34 (32.08%) Azure AKS
4 34 (32.08%) Entra ID
5 26 (24.53%) GitHub
6 21 (19.81%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (16.04%) AWS
8 15 (14.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (12.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (12.26%) Serverless
10 10 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (8.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (8.49%) GCP
11 9 (8.49%) PaaS
12 8 (7.55%) Azure Functions
12 8 (7.55%) IaaS
12 8 (7.55%) Power Platform
13 7 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.53%) DNS
2 22 (20.75%) Firewall
3 14 (13.21%) Network Security
3 14 (13.21%) VPN
4 12 (11.32%) DHCP
4 12 (11.32%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.72%) SSH
6 3 (2.83%) WAN
7 2 (1.89%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.94%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.94%) LAN
8 1 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.66%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.83%) Spark SQL
5 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.89%) Parquet
6 2 (1.89%) Power BI
6 2 (1.89%) Redis
6 2 (1.89%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.94%) MySQL
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.94%) Power Query
7 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (23.58%) Git
2 12 (11.32%) GitLab
3 10 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.72%) JIRA
5 1 (0.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.94%) Moq
5 1 (0.94%) NUnit
5 1 (0.94%) PeopleTools
5 1 (0.94%) Serilog
5 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.94%) VersionOne
General
1 28 (26.42%) Public Sector
2 27 (25.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.60%) Finance
4 7 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.83%) Law
5 3 (2.83%) Military
6 2 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.89%) Legal
6 2 (1.89%) Local Government
6 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 34 (32.08%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (29.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Senior
5 12 (11.32%) Architect
5 12 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Developer
8 9 (8.49%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Lead
10 6 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.77%) Data Engineer
13 3 (2.83%) Analyst
13 3 (2.83%) Security Engineer
13 3 (2.83%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) .NET
2 10 (9.43%) REST
2 10 (9.43%) YAML
3 5 (4.72%) Entity Framework
3 5 (4.72%) OAuth
3 5 (4.72%) RESTful
4 4 (3.77%) .NET Core
4 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.77%) JSON
4 4 (3.77%) OpenID
4 4 (3.77%) PySpark
4 4 (3.77%) React
4 4 (3.77%) SAML
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.94%) ADO
6 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.94%) LangChain
6 1 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.94%) pgvector
6 1 (0.94%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (16.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.60%) ARM Cortex
3 7 (6.60%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.83%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.83%) NHS
7 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.89%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.94%) Replication
9 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.92%) Linux
2 18 (16.98%) Windows
3 13 (12.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.55%) VMS
5 5 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (83.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 85 (80.19%) DevOps
3 77 (72.64%) CI/CD
4 45 (42.45%) Containerisation
5 40 (37.74%) Analytics
6 35 (33.02%) Log Analytics
6 35 (33.02%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (28.30%) RBAC
8 29 (27.36%) Agile
9 28 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (25.47%) Identity Access Management
11 26 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (22.64%) Observability
13 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (18.87%) Cloud Security
15 19 (17.92%) Deployment Automation
16 15 (14.15%) Disaster Recovery
17 14 (13.21%) Configuration Management
17 14 (13.21%) High Availability
17 14 (13.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (67.92%) Bicep
2 65 (61.32%) PowerShell
3 46 (43.40%) Python
4 38 (35.85%) Bash
5 21 (19.81%) SQL
6 8 (7.55%) C#
7 5 (4.72%) Java
8 2 (1.89%) C
8 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 45 (42.45%) Security Cleared
2 40 (37.74%) Azure Certification
3 31 (29.25%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.43%) Degree
4 10 (9.43%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.89%) CISSP
8 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.94%) CCNA
9 1 (0.94%) CCNP
9 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.94%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) GDPR
1 4 (3.77%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.83%) SLA
3 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.89%) NCSC
4 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.94%) GRC
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (38.68%) Docker
2 29 (27.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (12.26%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.83%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.94%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 93 (87.74%) Terraform
2 47 (44.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.04%) Ansible
4 12 (11.32%) Grafana
5 11 (10.38%) Prometheus
6 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (8.49%) Progress Chef
8 7 (6.60%) Puppet
8 7 (6.60%) SCCM
9 2 (1.89%) Argo
10 1 (0.94%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.94%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.94%) Istio
10 1 (0.94%) logstash
10 1 (0.94%) QRadar
Vendors
1 66 (62.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.38%) Databricks
3 8 (7.55%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.60%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Oracle
6 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.83%) Splunk
6 3 (2.83%) VMware
7 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.89%) SAP
8 1 (0.94%) Ariba
8 1 (0.94%) Citrix
8 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.94%) IBM
8 1 (0.94%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.94%) New Relic
8 1 (0.94%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.94%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.94%) Temenos