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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 453 476
Rank change year-on-year -92 +23 +12
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 134 104 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 1.20% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 74 59
10th Percentile £400 £363 £415
25th Percentile £450 £406 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £538 £616
90th Percentile £630 £620 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £603
% change year-on-year +13.89% -25.31% +9.55%
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 11,905 8,636 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.08% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 5,740 6,160
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.03%

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 October 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 15 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 October 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 -92 114 £525 +16.67% 67
UK excluding London -79 64 £513 +13.89% 54
London -85 46 £523 +13.34% 18
Work from Home -59 44 £527 +24.06% 24
South East -44 31 £575 +14.89% 17
North of England -68 13 £531 +1.19% 17
South West -39 10 £500 +23.08%
North West -47 7 £630 +40.04% 13
Midlands -50 7 £475 -2.06% 11
East Midlands -11 5 £475 +15.15% 4
Yorkshire -35 3 £500 -6.98% 3
North East - 3 £513 - 1
Scotland -28 2 £513 +7.89% 3
West Midlands -40 2 £475 -14.80% 7
East of England - 1 £400 - 3

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 11 (8.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.75%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (62.69%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (37.31%) Azure Monitor
4 47 (35.07%) Entra ID
5 39 (29.10%) Azure AKS
6 29 (21.64%) AWS
6 29 (21.64%) GitHub
7 23 (17.16%) Serverless
8 21 (15.67%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (12.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (11.94%) Azure Functions
10 16 (11.94%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (9.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (9.70%) Power Platform
12 12 (8.96%) PaaS
13 11 (8.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (8.21%) IaaS
14 10 (7.46%) Azure API Management
14 10 (7.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (20.90%) DNS
2 25 (18.66%) Firewall
3 15 (11.19%) Network Security
3 15 (11.19%) VPN
4 14 (10.45%) DHCP
5 12 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 6 (4.48%) SSH
7 3 (2.24%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.75%) DNSSEC
8 1 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (6.72%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.99%) Power BI
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.24%) Parquet
6 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.49%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.49%) Metadata
7 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.75%) MySQL
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.75%) Power Query
8 1 (0.75%) Redis
8 1 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (32.09%) Git
2 10 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.72%) GitLab
4 6 (4.48%) JIRA
5 3 (2.24%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.75%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.75%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.90%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.94%) Finance
4 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Aerospace
5 7 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.99%) Military
7 3 (2.24%) Banking
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
7 3 (2.24%) Local Government
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (41.79%) Azure Engineer
2 49 (36.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (22.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 25 (18.66%) Senior
5 19 (14.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (12.69%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Architect
7 11 (8.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (3.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.73%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (91.79%) Terraform
2 20 (14.93%) YAML
3 15 (11.19%) .NET
4 14 (10.45%) REST
5 8 (5.97%) OAuth
6 6 (4.48%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.48%) Entity Framework
6 6 (4.48%) JSON
6 6 (4.48%) OpenID
7 5 (3.73%) .NET Core
7 5 (3.73%) Azure Blueprints
7 5 (3.73%) RESTful
7 5 (3.73%) SAML
8 3 (2.24%) React
9 2 (1.49%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.75%) ADO
10 1 (0.75%) Django
10 1 (0.75%) Kafka
10 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (15.67%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.96%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.96%) Wiki
4 10 (7.46%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.97%) ARM Cortex
5 8 (5.97%) Security Posture
6 7 (5.22%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.99%) NHS
9 3 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.15%) Linux
2 23 (17.16%) Windows
3 17 (12.69%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.46%) VMS
5 7 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.99%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (85.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 109 (81.34%) DevOps
3 102 (76.12%) CI/CD
4 56 (41.79%) Containerisation
5 52 (38.81%) Agile
6 48 (35.82%) Analytics
6 48 (35.82%) RBAC
7 45 (33.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (33.58%) Platform Engineering
8 42 (31.34%) Log Analytics
9 39 (29.10%) Deployment Automation
10 34 (25.37%) Observability
11 32 (23.88%) Cloud Security
12 31 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (21.64%) DevSecOps
14 28 (20.90%) Identity Access Management
15 25 (18.66%) Migration
15 25 (18.66%) Software Delivery
16 19 (14.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 107 (79.85%) Bicep
2 100 (74.63%) PowerShell
3 60 (44.78%) Bash
3 60 (44.78%) Python
4 21 (15.67%) SQL
5 13 (9.70%) C#
6 6 (4.48%) Java
7 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 66 (49.25%) Security Cleared
2 48 (35.82%) Azure Certification
3 46 (34.33%) SC Cleared
4 17 (12.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (11.94%) Degree
6 12 (8.96%) DV Cleared
7 9 (6.72%) AWS Certification
8 7 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (5.22%) CISSP
9 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.24%) CEH
11 3 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.75%) CCSP
13 1 (0.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) NCSC
1 6 (4.48%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.24%) NIST
3 3 (2.24%) SLA
4 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (35.82%) Docker
2 37 (27.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (11.19%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.73%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 63 (47.01%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.69%) Ansible
3 15 (11.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.70%) Grafana
5 10 (7.46%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.97%) SCCM
7 7 (5.22%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.24%) Istio
9 3 (2.24%) Puppet
10 2 (1.49%) Argo
11 1 (0.75%) Packer
11 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 101 (75.37%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Databricks
2 10 (7.46%) Google
3 9 (6.72%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (5.22%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.48%) VMware
6 4 (2.99%) Oracle
7 3 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.49%) SAP
8 2 (1.49%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.75%) Ariba
9 1 (0.75%) Citrix
9 1 (0.75%) Foundry
9 1 (0.75%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.75%) Informatica
9 1 (0.75%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.75%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk