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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 475 478
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +57
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 95 67 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.14% 0.92% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 38 96
10th Percentile £406 £425 £360
25th Percentile £413 £468 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +11.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £558 £726 £588
90th Percentile £594 £745 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%

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 8,335 7,252 9,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 21.86% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,523 4,605 6,619
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 86 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.50 £29.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -11 85 £475 -9.52% 25
London 0 43 £484 -22.64% 5
UK excluding London -43 37 £475 -9.52% 23
Work from Home -6 19 £513 -14.94% 14
South West +5 17 £475 +8.57% 3
North of England -53 9 £575 +22.34% 4
South East -12 7 £425 -19.05% 11
Yorkshire -50 5 £588 +19.90% 1
North West -25 4 £450 - 3
Midlands -38 4 £494 -10.23% 4
West Midlands -34 2 £575 +4.55% 4
East Midlands - 2 £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 1 (1.05%) IIS
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 92 (96.84%) Azure
2 59 (62.11%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (33.68%) Entra ID
3 32 (33.68%) GitHub
4 24 (25.26%) Azure Monitor
5 23 (24.21%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (22.11%) PaaS
7 20 (21.05%) Azure AKS
8 18 (18.95%) Serverless
9 16 (16.84%) AWS
10 14 (14.74%) Azure Functions
10 14 (14.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (13.68%) IaaS
12 10 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (9.47%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (8.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (8.42%) Azure API Management
14 8 (8.42%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (8.42%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.68%) VPN
2 9 (9.47%) Firewall
3 4 (4.21%) Network Security
4 2 (2.11%) DNS
4 2 (2.11%) LAN
4 2 (2.11%) MPLS
4 2 (2.11%) SSL
4 2 (2.11%) WAN
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.05%) DHCP
5 1 (1.05%) DKIM
5 1 (1.05%) DMARC
5 1 (1.05%) DMZ
5 1 (1.05%) Internet
5 1 (1.05%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.05%) SMTP
5 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.16%) Power BI
3 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.11%) Metadata
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.05%) KNIME
5 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Git
2 6 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.32%) JIRA
3 5 (5.26%) GitLab
4 3 (3.16%) Gradle
4 3 (3.16%) Maven
4 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.05%) PowerBuilder
General
1 33 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Finance
5 4 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Legal
6 3 (3.16%) Billing
7 2 (2.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (28.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (16.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (14.74%) Architect
5 11 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Azure Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Senior
10 5 (5.26%) Lead
11 4 (4.21%) Software Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Active Directory Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (3.16%) Operations Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Technical Architect
13 2 (2.11%) Automation Specialist
13 2 (2.11%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) YAML
3 8 (8.42%) Entity Framework
4 7 (7.37%) .NET Core
4 7 (7.37%) REST
5 6 (6.32%) React
6 5 (5.26%) SailPoint
7 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.21%) Node.js
7 4 (4.21%) OAuth
7 4 (4.21%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.21%) OpenID
7 4 (4.21%) PySpark
8 3 (3.16%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (3.16%) RESTful
8 3 (3.16%) SAML
9 2 (2.11%) Blazor
9 2 (2.11%) Next.js
9 2 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.32%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.16%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.11%) IoT
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) PKI
7 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (5.26%) Linux
3 4 (4.21%) VMS
4 3 (3.16%) Solaris
4 3 (3.16%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.05%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (81.05%) DevOps
2 74 (77.89%) CI/CD
3 73 (76.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.53%) Containerisation
5 27 (28.42%) Analytics
6 26 (27.37%) RBAC
7 23 (24.21%) Agile
8 21 (22.11%) Migration
9 20 (21.05%) Cloud Security
9 20 (21.05%) Microservices
9 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (18.95%) High Availability
10 18 (18.95%) Identity Access Management
11 17 (17.89%) Log Analytics
12 16 (16.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (13.68%) Data Engineering
15 12 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 11 (11.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.26%) Bicep
2 37 (38.95%) PowerShell
3 25 (26.32%) SQL
4 22 (23.16%) Python
5 14 (14.74%) Bash
6 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.47%) C#
8 8 (8.42%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) Java
9 3 (3.16%) PHP
9 3 (3.16%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.05%) C
10 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.05%) ProC
10 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (38.95%) Azure Certification
2 33 (34.74%) Security Cleared
3 32 (33.68%) SC Cleared
4 18 (18.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.37%) CISM
5 7 (7.37%) CISSP
5 7 (7.37%) Degree
6 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.05%) CCSP
9 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.05%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.42%) NIST
3 6 (6.32%) NIST 800
4 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.16%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.11%) NCSC
5 2 (2.11%) QA
6 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.05%) GDPR
6 1 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 35 (36.84%) Docker
2 24 (25.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (83.16%) Terraform
2 37 (38.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.21%) Ansible
4 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.11%) Grafana
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.05%) Istio
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) SCCM
6 1 (1.05%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 50 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.74%) Databricks
3 9 (9.47%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.37%) IBM
5 6 (6.32%) NetApp
6 2 (2.11%) Cisco
6 2 (2.11%) Oracle
6 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Citrix
7 1 (1.05%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.05%) Google
7 1 (1.05%) Okta
7 1 (1.05%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) Sophos
7 1 (1.05%) Splunk
7 1 (1.05%) Tenable
7 1 (1.05%) VMware