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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 452 461
Rank change year-on-year -73 +9 +61
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 96 78 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.18% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 93
10th Percentile £400 £394 £425
25th Percentile £413 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -17.36% +15.24%
75th Percentile £572 £581 £650
90th Percentile £638 £695 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £605
% change year-on-year -0.10% -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 9,407 6,607 8,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.82% 22.70% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,212 4,520 6,185
10th Percentile £359 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 113 241
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £40.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £82.79 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 8 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 8 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 -88 88 £491 -1.90% 20
London -57 43 £492 +7.54% 5
UK excluding London -82 41 £500 -0.10% 17
Work from Home -37 19 £525 - 9
South East -65 16 £425 -15.08% 6
North of England -58 12 £560 +6.67% 8
South West -31 9 £500 +11.11% 1
North West -37 7 £560 +24.44% 2
Yorkshire -44 5 £563 +7.14% 3
Scotland -6 3 £800 +52.38%
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 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 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (70.83%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 25 (26.04%) Azure AKS
6 23 (23.96%) GitHub
7 22 (22.92%) PaaS
8 20 (20.83%) Serverless
9 17 (17.71%) Azure Functions
10 16 (16.67%) IaaS
11 15 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (13.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (12.50%) Azure Service Fabric
14 12 (12.50%) Azure Storage
15 10 (10.42%) AWS
15 10 (10.42%) Azure API Management
15 10 (10.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (10.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) DNS
2 9 (9.38%) VPN
3 8 (8.33%) Firewall
4 4 (4.17%) WAN
5 3 (3.13%) DHCP
5 3 (3.13%) Network Security
5 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.08%) LAN
6 2 (2.08%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.04%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.13%) Power BI
3 3 (3.13%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) Tableau
5 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.04%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.04%) Metadata
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.04%) Parquet
5 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Redis
5 1 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Git
2 9 (9.38%) GitLab
3 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.17%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.04%) MLflow
6 1 (1.04%) Moq
6 1 (1.04%) NUnit
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.04%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.04%) Serilog
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.54%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.21%) Finance
3 5 (5.21%) Legal
4 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (45.83%) Azure Engineer
2 37 (38.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (28.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Architect
5 8 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Azure Architect
6 7 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Lead
7 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Senior
7 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Software Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Developer
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) YAML
2 15 (15.63%) .NET
3 13 (13.54%) Entity Framework
4 9 (9.38%) REST
5 7 (7.29%) SailPoint
6 5 (5.21%) React
7 4 (4.17%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.17%) Node.js
7 4 (4.17%) PySpark
8 3 (3.13%) JSON
9 2 (2.08%) Next.js
9 2 (2.08%) OAuth
9 2 (2.08%) RESTful
10 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (1.04%) AWS CDK
10 1 (1.04%) Jest
10 1 (1.04%) Loki
10 1 (1.04%) OpenID
10 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (1.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) VMS
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Windows
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (86.46%) DevOps
2 75 (78.13%) CI/CD
3 73 (76.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (36.46%) Containerisation
5 28 (29.17%) Analytics
6 26 (27.08%) Identity Access Management
7 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (23.96%) RBAC
9 22 (22.92%) Log Analytics
10 19 (19.79%) Agile
11 18 (18.75%) Microservices
11 18 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (14.58%) Observability
13 13 (13.54%) B2C
13 13 (13.54%) Cloud Security
13 13 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (12.50%) AI
14 12 (12.50%) DevSecOps
14 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (11.46%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 44 (45.83%) Bicep
2 39 (40.63%) PowerShell
3 33 (34.38%) Python
4 31 (32.29%) SQL
5 17 (17.71%) Bash
6 9 (9.38%) C#
7 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.25%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.13%) C
9 3 (3.13%) Java
10 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.04%) ProC
10 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 37 (38.54%) Azure Certification
3 36 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.25%) CISSP
6 5 (5.21%) CISM
6 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (4.17%) Degree
8 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CCNA
9 1 (1.04%) CCNP
9 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.25%) NIST
3 5 (5.21%) NIST 800
4 4 (4.17%) NCSC
5 3 (3.13%) GDPR
6 2 (2.08%) SLA
6 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.04%) GRC
7 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 43 (44.79%) Docker
2 20 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (73.96%) Terraform
2 35 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.42%) Ansible
4 9 (9.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.21%) Grafana
6 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.17%) Puppet
8 1 (1.04%) Argo
8 1 (1.04%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.04%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.04%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.04%) logstash
8 1 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (55.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) Databricks
3 6 (6.25%) IBM
4 5 (5.21%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.17%) Splunk
6 3 (3.13%) Alibaba
6 3 (3.13%) Google
6 3 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle
7 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.04%) Cisco
8 1 (1.04%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.04%) New Relic
8 1 (1.04%) Okta
8 1 (1.04%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.04%) Temenos