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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 459 477
Rank change year-on-year -91 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 122 104 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.04% 1.26% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 72 70
10th Percentile £378 £363 £413
25th Percentile £448 £405 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% -20.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £589 £539 £634
90th Percentile £625 £636 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £605
% change year-on-year +13.89% -25.62% +10.00%
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 11,690 8,286 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.81% 25.48% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,697 5,589 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £432 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 September 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 September 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 -95 105 £515 +14.44% 57
UK excluding London -96 53 £513 +13.89% 36
London -66 49 £515 +17.05% 24
Work from Home -52 40 £527 +24.06% 24
South East -54 28 £575 +14.89% 14
North of England -74 12 £513 -2.38% 12
North West -46 7 £613 +36.22% 8
Midlands -51 7 £475 -14.80% 8
East Midlands -11 5 £475 - 1
South West -52 4 £500 +25.00% 1
North East - 3 £513 - 1
Scotland -22 2 £513 +7.89%
Yorkshire -42 2 £447 -16.84% 3
West Midlands -47 2 £475 -14.80% 7

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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 3 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.82%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (63.11%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (41.80%) Azure Monitor
4 40 (32.79%) Entra ID
5 37 (30.33%) Azure AKS
6 34 (27.87%) GitHub
7 26 (21.31%) AWS
7 26 (21.31%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (18.85%) Serverless
9 17 (13.93%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (13.11%) Azure Functions
11 15 (12.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (12.30%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (9.02%) Power Platform
14 10 (8.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (7.38%) GCP
16 8 (6.56%) PaaS
17 7 (5.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (23.77%) DNS
2 27 (22.13%) Firewall
3 17 (13.93%) VPN
4 15 (12.30%) DHCP
4 15 (12.30%) Network Security
5 13 (10.66%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.92%) SSH
7 3 (2.46%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (2.46%) WAN
8 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.82%) DNSSEC
9 1 (0.82%) LAN
9 1 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.74%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.64%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.64%) Power BI
5 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) MySQL
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.82%) Parquet
6 1 (0.82%) Power Query
6 1 (0.82%) Redis
6 1 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (25.41%) Git
2 16 (13.11%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.48%) GitLab
4 5 (4.10%) JIRA
5 3 (2.46%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.82%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.82%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.95%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.48%) Finance
4 7 (5.74%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.28%) Military
6 3 (2.46%) Local Government
7 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 45 (36.89%) Azure Engineer
2 43 (35.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (19.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 24 (19.67%) Senior
4 16 (13.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (12.30%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Architect
6 10 (8.20%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Developer
8 7 (5.74%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (90.16%) Terraform
2 19 (15.57%) YAML
3 13 (10.66%) .NET
4 10 (8.20%) REST
5 5 (4.10%) Azure Blueprints
5 5 (4.10%) OAuth
6 4 (3.28%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.28%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.28%) OpenID
7 3 (2.46%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.46%) JSON
7 3 (2.46%) RESTful
7 3 (2.46%) SAML
8 1 (0.82%) ADO
8 1 (0.82%) Django
8 1 (0.82%) EDI
8 1 (0.82%) EDIFACT
8 1 (0.82%) PySpark
8 1 (0.82%) SOAP
8 1 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (17.21%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.56%) ARM Cortex
5 7 (5.74%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.74%) Security Posture
6 6 (4.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.10%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.28%) NHS
8 4 (3.28%) Wiki
9 3 (2.46%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.31%) Linux
2 24 (19.67%) Windows
3 18 (14.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (9.02%) VMS
5 7 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (84.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 102 (83.61%) DevOps
3 93 (76.23%) CI/CD
4 54 (44.26%) Containerisation
5 45 (36.89%) Analytics
6 43 (35.25%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (34.43%) Agile
7 42 (34.43%) RBAC
8 40 (32.79%) Log Analytics
9 38 (31.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (25.41%) Observability
11 30 (24.59%) Cloud Security
12 29 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (22.95%) Deployment Automation
14 26 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 25 (20.49%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (19.67%) DevSecOps
17 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure Automation
18 18 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
19 17 (13.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (76.23%) Bicep
2 89 (72.95%) PowerShell
3 56 (45.90%) Python
4 54 (44.26%) Bash
5 17 (13.93%) SQL
6 10 (8.20%) C#
7 6 (4.92%) Java
8 1 (0.82%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.82%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 58 (47.54%) Security Cleared
2 45 (36.89%) Azure Certification
3 40 (32.79%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.11%) Degree
5 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (9.84%) DV Cleared
7 8 (6.56%) AWS Certification
8 7 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (5.74%) CISSP
9 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.46%) CEH
12 3 (2.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (2.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.82%) CRISC
14 1 (0.82%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) QA
2 6 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.92%) NCSC
3 4 (3.28%) NIST
4 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.46%) GDPR
4 3 (2.46%) SLA
5 2 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (35.25%) Docker
2 31 (25.41%) Active Directory
3 10 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (4.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (48.36%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.03%) Ansible
3 15 (12.30%) Grafana
4 13 (10.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (9.84%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.02%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.56%) SCCM
8 7 (5.74%) Puppet
9 3 (2.46%) Istio
10 2 (1.64%) Argo
11 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.82%) Packer
11 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 84 (68.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) Databricks
3 9 (7.38%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (6.56%) Google
5 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.92%) VMware
7 4 (3.28%) Oracle
8 3 (2.46%) Splunk
9 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.64%) SAP
9 2 (1.64%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.82%) Ariba
10 1 (0.82%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.82%) Citrix
10 1 (0.82%) IBM
10 1 (0.82%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.82%) New Relic
10 1 (0.82%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.82%) Temenos