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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 464 481
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 +63
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 67 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 0.96% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 41 94
10th Percentile £405 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £560 £745 £638
90th Percentile £600 £751 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 9,326 6,982 9,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.84% 22.78% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,230 4,579 6,389
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 93 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.36 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 7 March 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 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 7 March 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 -57 100 £450 -14.29% 21
UK excluding London -46 50 £500 -4.76% 18
London -35 45 £463 -11.90% 8
Work from Home -24 25 £513 -6.82% 8
South East -23 17 £425 -19.05% 9
South West -13 14 £500 +11.11% 3
North of England -59 13 £574 +27.44% 3
North West -31 8 £572 +27.11% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £600 - 1
Scotland +10 3 £800 +52.38% 1
Midlands - 3 £494 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £413 -

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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) IIS
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (70.27%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (36.94%) Azure Monitor
4 38 (34.23%) Entra ID
5 33 (29.73%) GitHub
6 24 (21.62%) PaaS
6 24 (21.62%) Serverless
7 23 (20.72%) Azure AKS
7 23 (20.72%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (18.02%) Azure Functions
9 17 (15.32%) IaaS
10 16 (14.41%) AWS
11 14 (12.61%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (12.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (11.71%) Azure API Management
12 13 (11.71%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (10.81%) Azure Storage
14 11 (9.91%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) VPN
2 9 (8.11%) Firewall
3 6 (5.41%) DNS
3 6 (5.41%) Network Security
4 3 (2.70%) DHCP
5 2 (1.80%) LAN
5 2 (1.80%) MPLS
5 2 (1.80%) SSL
5 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.80%) WAN
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.90%) DKIM
6 1 (0.90%) DMARC
6 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.60%) Power BI
4 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.70%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.70%) Tableau
5 2 (1.80%) Metadata
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) KNIME
6 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.90%) Parquet
6 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Redis
6 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) JIRA
3 6 (5.41%) GitLab
3 6 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.80%) Gradle
4 2 (1.80%) Maven
4 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.90%) MLflow
5 1 (0.90%) Moq
5 1 (0.90%) NUnit
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.90%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.90%) Serilog
5 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Finance
4 6 (5.41%) Legal
5 5 (4.50%) Law
6 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Retail
8 2 (1.80%) Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Billing
9 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (41.44%) Azure Engineer
2 39 (35.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (24.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.61%) Architect
5 10 (9.01%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Azure Architect
6 9 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Lead
7 8 (7.21%) Senior
8 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.12%) .NET
2 18 (16.22%) YAML
3 13 (11.71%) REST
4 12 (10.81%) Entity Framework
5 7 (6.31%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.31%) PySpark
5 7 (6.31%) React
5 7 (6.31%) SailPoint
6 6 (5.41%) OAuth
7 5 (4.50%) Node.js
7 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.50%) OpenID
7 5 (4.50%) RESTful
8 4 (3.60%) SAML
9 3 (2.70%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.70%) JSON
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.91%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) IoT
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Linux
1 6 (5.41%) Windows
2 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Solaris
3 2 (1.80%) Unix
3 2 (1.80%) VMS
4 1 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (83.78%) DevOps
2 85 (76.58%) CI/CD
3 82 (73.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (36.04%) Analytics
5 38 (34.23%) Containerisation
6 31 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (26.13%) RBAC
8 28 (25.23%) Identity Access Management
9 27 (24.32%) Log Analytics
10 26 (23.42%) Agile
11 24 (21.62%) Microservices
12 21 (18.92%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (16.22%) AI
13 18 (16.22%) Cloud Security
14 16 (14.41%) Data Engineering
14 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (14.41%) Migration
15 15 (13.51%) B2C
15 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
16 14 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.54%) Bicep
2 41 (36.94%) PowerShell
3 36 (32.43%) Python
4 35 (31.53%) SQL
5 21 (18.92%) Bash
6 15 (13.51%) JavaScript
7 12 (10.81%) C#
8 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.60%) Java
10 3 (2.70%) C
10 3 (2.70%) PHP
11 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.90%) ProC
11 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (36.94%) Azure Certification
2 40 (36.04%) Security Cleared
3 38 (34.23%) SC Cleared
4 19 (17.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.21%) CISSP
5 8 (7.21%) Degree
6 7 (6.31%) CISM
6 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.31%) NIST
2 7 (6.31%) NIST 800
3 5 (4.50%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.60%) NCSC
5 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.80%) GDPR
6 2 (1.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.90%) GRC
7 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 47 (42.34%) Docker
2 27 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.01%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 88 (79.28%) Terraform
2 42 (37.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (6.31%) Ansible
6 3 (2.70%) Grafana
6 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.90%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.90%) logstash
8 1 (0.90%) QRadar
8 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.82%) Databricks
3 9 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 8 (7.21%) IBM
5 4 (3.60%) Google
6 3 (2.70%) Alibaba
6 3 (2.70%) NetApp
6 3 (2.70%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.70%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) Cisco
7 2 (1.80%) Okta
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.90%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.90%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle
8 1 (0.90%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) Sophos
8 1 (0.90%) VMware