ARM Templates Contracts

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ARM Templates skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ARM Templates over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 458 525
Rank change year-on-year +36 +67 +60
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 108 130 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 1.40% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 97 108
10th Percentile £363 £427 £425
25th Percentile £397 £506 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £541 £650 £628
90th Percentile £713 £688 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ARM Templates as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Daily rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Hourly rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 14 Contract 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 July 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 +42 93 £445 -26.45% 250
London +38 57 £440 -16.19% 75
UK excluding London +31 39 £500 -17.36% 192
Work from Home -5 38 £488 -19.42% 79
South East +29 16 £501 -17.27% 53
South West +43 10 £383 -28.84% 24
North of England +11 7 £525 -12.50% 31
North West +10 4 £525 -12.50% 19
Scotland +6 4 £500 +17.23% 12
West Midlands +11 2 £558 +61.59% 21
Midlands +6 2 £558 +14.95% 34
Yorkshire -1 2 £525 +13.51% 12
North East - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £751 - 31

ARM Templates
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (47.22%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (28.70%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (25.00%) AWS
4 27 (25.00%) Azure AKS
5 26 (24.07%) Serverless
6 24 (22.22%) Azure Storage
7 21 (19.44%) Entra ID
8 19 (17.59%) PaaS
9 18 (16.67%) IaaS
10 16 (14.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (12.96%) GitHub
11 14 (12.96%) SaaS
12 13 (12.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (9.26%) Azure Functions
14 9 (8.33%) Azure API Management
14 9 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.89%) Firewall
2 8 (7.41%) Network Security
3 7 (6.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) DHCP
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.63%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.63%) Power BI
4 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.78%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.78%) MySQL
5 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.78%) Power Query
5 3 (2.78%) Redis
6 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.96%) JIRA
3 11 (10.19%) GitLab
3 11 (10.19%) SonarQube
4 9 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 9 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 9 (8.33%) Selenium
5 6 (5.56%) Git
6 5 (4.63%) NUnit
7 2 (1.85%) Gradle
7 2 (1.85%) Maven
7 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.74%) Public Sector
3 14 (12.96%) Law
4 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.11%) Finance
6 5 (4.63%) Marketing
7 4 (3.70%) Police
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Games
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (36.11%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (20.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 18 (16.67%) Architect
5 17 (15.74%) Developer
6 16 (14.81%) Azure Architect
7 12 (11.11%) Senior
8 9 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (6.48%) .NET Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Lead
10 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Architect
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.70%) Site Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.59%) .NET
2 16 (14.81%) ADO
3 15 (13.89%) YAML
4 11 (10.19%) .NET Core
5 10 (9.26%) REST
6 9 (8.33%) Java EE
7 7 (6.48%) JSON
7 7 (6.48%) React
8 6 (5.56%) Node.js
8 6 (5.56%) RESTful
9 5 (4.63%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.63%) OAuth
9 5 (4.63%) OpenID
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Blueprints
11 3 (2.78%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (2.78%) XML
12 2 (1.85%) .NET Framework
12 2 (1.85%) Entity Framework
12 2 (1.85%) Kafka
12 2 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.78%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.78%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.81%) Linux
2 11 (10.19%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (79.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 85 (78.70%) DevOps
3 57 (52.78%) CI/CD
4 34 (31.48%) Agile
5 30 (27.78%) Containerisation
6 27 (25.00%) Migration
7 26 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (23.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 24 (22.22%) Analytics
10 22 (20.37%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (19.44%) Test Automation
12 20 (18.52%) RBAC
13 19 (17.59%) Log Analytics
14 18 (16.67%) Cloud Security
15 17 (15.74%) Identity Access Management
15 17 (15.74%) Microservices
16 13 (12.04%) API Management
16 13 (12.04%) Software Engineering
17 12 (11.11%) Configuration Management
17 12 (11.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 46 (42.59%) Bicep
2 37 (34.26%) PowerShell
3 30 (27.78%) Python
4 29 (26.85%) Bash
5 27 (25.00%) SQL
6 19 (17.59%) C#
7 15 (13.89%) Java
8 8 (7.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.85%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Korn
11 1 (0.93%) VB
11 1 (0.93%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.59%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.78%) Degree
6 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.63%) GDPR
4 4 (3.70%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.85%) WCAG
6 1 (0.93%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.93%) GxP
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (33.33%) Docker
2 16 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (12.96%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (75.93%) Terraform
2 51 (47.22%) Kubernetes
3 19 (17.59%) Ansible
4 10 (9.26%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (8.33%) Grafana
5 9 (8.33%) Podman
5 9 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.70%) Puppet
6 4 (3.70%) Salt
7 3 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.93%) Consul
9 1 (0.93%) Istio
9 1 (0.93%) SCCM
9 1 (0.93%) SCOM
9 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.93%) Google
4 1 (0.93%) NetApp
4 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.93%) Splunk