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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 459 474
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +69
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 105 84 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.23% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% 1.07% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 120
10th Percentile £363 £427 £375
25th Percentile £413 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £544 £675 £600
90th Percentile £593 £745 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% -7.69%

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 8,066 7,866 10,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.92% 21.71% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 4,965 7,443
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £657
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 110 189
10th Percentile £29.10 £21.93 £36.13
25th Percentile £42.19 £36.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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 12 November 2025.

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 13 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 12 November 2025. 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 -1 91 £450 -18.18% 48
London +21 47 £475 -11.63% 13
UK excluding London -29 42 £450 -20.00% 36
Work from Home -4 29 £425 -29.75% 29
South West +18 19 £413 -17.50% 8
North of England -37 10 £550 +12.24% 13
Midlands -28 6 £558 +24.58% 7
South East -6 5 £450 -25.62% 5
North West -16 5 £450 -28.00% 12
Yorkshire -29 5 £563 +14.80%
West Midlands -31 4 £566 +26.54% 4
Scotland +2 2 £475 +11.37%
East Midlands - 2 £413 - 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 1 (0.95%) IIS
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 102 (97.14%) Azure
2 63 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (36.19%) GitHub
4 29 (27.62%) Azure Monitor
5 28 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (21.90%) Entra ID
7 22 (20.95%) AWS
8 21 (20.00%) Azure AKS
9 16 (15.24%) PaaS
9 16 (15.24%) Serverless
10 14 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (12.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (12.38%) IaaS
12 11 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (10.48%) Azure Functions
12 11 (10.48%) Azure Storage
13 10 (9.52%) Azure API Management
13 10 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (7.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) Network Security
1 11 (10.48%) VPN
2 8 (7.62%) Firewall
3 2 (1.90%) DNS
3 2 (1.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.95%) DHCP
4 1 (0.95%) DKIM
4 1 (0.95%) DMARC
4 1 (0.95%) DMZ
4 1 (0.95%) Internet
4 1 (0.95%) LAN
4 1 (0.95%) MPLS
4 1 (0.95%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.95%) SMTP
4 1 (0.95%) WAN
4 1 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.86%) Power BI
5 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.95%) KNIME
6 1 (0.95%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata
6 1 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.95%) Power Query
6 1 (0.95%) Redis
6 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.67%) GitLab
2 7 (6.67%) JIRA
3 5 (4.76%) Git
3 5 (4.76%) Gradle
3 5 (4.76%) Maven
3 5 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.95%) NUnit
4 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.48%) Finance
4 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.62%) Law
6 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Billing
8 2 (1.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Games
9 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (37.14%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Architect
6 9 (8.57%) Senior
7 8 (7.62%) Azure Architect
8 7 (6.67%) Lead
8 7 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Developer
9 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Active Directory Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Migration Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
12 3 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.14%) .NET
2 13 (12.38%) ADO
3 10 (9.52%) React
4 9 (8.57%) YAML
5 8 (7.62%) Node.js
6 6 (5.71%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.71%) REST
7 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.81%) OAuth
8 4 (3.81%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.81%) OpenID
8 4 (3.81%) RESTful
9 3 (2.86%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.86%) Blazor
9 3 (2.86%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.86%) JSON
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.86%) PySpark
9 3 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) IoT
6 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.95%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.95%) PKI
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Windows
2 11 (10.48%) Linux
3 7 (6.67%) VMS
4 4 (3.81%) Solaris
4 4 (3.81%) Unix
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.95%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (79.05%) DevOps
2 80 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 77 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (28.57%) Agile
5 28 (26.67%) Analytics
5 28 (26.67%) Migration
5 28 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (24.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 25 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 23 (21.90%) RBAC
9 18 (17.14%) Cloud Security
9 18 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
9 18 (17.14%) Log Analytics
10 17 (16.19%) High Availability
11 16 (15.24%) Microservices
12 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
13 14 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
14 13 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 47 (44.76%) Bicep
1 47 (44.76%) PowerShell
2 29 (27.62%) Python
3 27 (25.71%) Bash
4 18 (17.14%) SQL
5 12 (11.43%) C#
6 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.57%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.81%) Java
9 3 (2.86%) PHP
10 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.95%) Korn
11 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (29.52%) Azure Certification
2 24 (22.86%) SC Cleared
2 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.67%) Degree
5 4 (3.81%) CISM
5 4 (3.81%) CISSP
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 3 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.95%) CCSP
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.95%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.76%) NIST
3 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.86%) NIST 800
3 3 (2.86%) QA
3 3 (2.86%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.90%) WCAG
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.95%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (28.57%) Docker
2 19 (18.10%) Active Directory
3 14 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (78.10%) Terraform
2 39 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (4.76%) Grafana
4 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.90%) Istio
5 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.95%) Consul
6 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.95%) Puppet
6 1 (0.95%) SCCM
6 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.95%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 41 (39.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) Databricks
3 7 (6.67%) NetApp
3 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.81%) IBM
5 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.90%) Splunk
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco
6 1 (0.95%) Citrix
6 1 (0.95%) CloudEndure
6 1 (0.95%) Google
6 1 (0.95%) Okta
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle
6 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.95%) Sophos
6 1 (0.95%) Tenable
6 1 (0.95%) VMware