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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 454 467
Rank change year-on-year -54 +13 +80
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 64 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 0.96% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 42 91
10th Percentile £400 £400 £388
25th Percentile £413 £440 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £524 £568
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -7.71% +3.18%
75th Percentile £561 £647 £650
90th Percentile £623 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £600
% change year-on-year +2.56% -18.75% +20.00%

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 9,352 6,661 8,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.33% 22.71% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,252 4,486 6,245
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.91% +0.10% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 203
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £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 21 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 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 21 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 -59 101 £470 -6.00% 19
UK excluding London -53 50 £500 +2.56% 12
London -45 46 £484 -3.30% 7
Work from Home -25 23 £513 -2.38% 9
South East -40 17 £425 -19.05% 2
South West -14 14 £500 +11.11% 1
North of England -61 14 £572 +27.11% 6
North West -23 9 £566 +25.78% 2
Yorkshire - 5 £600 - 2
Scotland +8 3 £800 +52.38%
Midlands - 2 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 1

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 77 (69.37%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (37.84%) Azure Monitor
4 37 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 33 (29.73%) GitHub
6 23 (20.72%) Azure AKS
6 23 (20.72%) PaaS
6 23 (20.72%) Serverless
7 22 (19.82%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (18.02%) Azure Functions
9 17 (15.32%) AWS
10 16 (14.41%) IaaS
11 15 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (12.61%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (11.71%) Azure API Management
13 13 (11.71%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 12 (10.81%) Azure Storage
15 11 (9.91%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (9.91%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.71%) VPN
2 10 (9.01%) Firewall
3 7 (6.31%) DNS
4 6 (5.41%) Network Security
5 4 (3.60%) DHCP
6 3 (2.70%) LAN
6 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.70%) WAN
7 2 (1.80%) MPLS
7 2 (1.80%) SSL
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.90%) DKIM
8 1 (0.90%) DMARC
8 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%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.70%) Tableau
5 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.80%) Metadata
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) KNIME
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%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Git
2 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.21%) GitLab
3 8 (7.21%) JIRA
4 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
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%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.31%) Finance
5 6 (5.41%) Legal
6 5 (4.50%) Law
7 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (41.44%) Azure Engineer
2 38 (34.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (23.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.91%) Architect
4 11 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (8.11%) Lead
5 9 (8.11%) Senior
6 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Azure Software Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.70%) Active Directory Engineer
10 3 (2.70%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.92%) YAML
2 16 (14.41%) .NET
3 14 (12.61%) REST
4 12 (10.81%) Entity Framework
5 7 (6.31%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.31%) SailPoint
6 6 (5.41%) OAuth
6 6 (5.41%) React
7 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.50%) OpenID
8 4 (3.60%) Node.js
8 4 (3.60%) PySpark
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
10 2 (1.80%) Next.js
10 2 (1.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
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%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.90%) Replication
8 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
3 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.80%) VMS
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (82.88%) DevOps
2 84 (75.68%) CI/CD
3 82 (73.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (35.14%) Analytics
5 35 (31.53%) Containerisation
6 33 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (26.13%) Identity Access Management
7 29 (26.13%) RBAC
8 28 (25.23%) Log Analytics
9 24 (21.62%) Agile
10 20 (18.02%) Microservices
11 18 (16.22%) AI
11 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (15.32%) Cloud Security
12 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (13.51%) B2C
14 14 (12.61%) Data Engineering
14 14 (12.61%) Migration
14 14 (12.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.54%) PowerShell
2 44 (39.64%) Bicep
3 40 (36.04%) Python
4 32 (28.83%) SQL
5 22 (19.82%) Bash
6 12 (10.81%) C#
7 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
8 7 (6.31%) 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 44 (39.64%) Security Cleared
2 42 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 41 (36.94%) Azure Certification
4 15 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.21%) CISSP
6 7 (6.31%) CISM
6 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 5 (4.50%) Degree
8 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) CCNA
10 1 (0.90%) CCNP
10 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.31%) NIST
2 7 (6.31%) NIST 800
3 5 (4.50%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.60%) NCSC
5 3 (2.70%) GDPR
6 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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 45 (40.54%) Docker
2 27 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.01%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (78.38%) Terraform
2 39 (35.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.91%) Ansible
4 9 (8.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.60%) Grafana
6 4 (3.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.70%) Puppet
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.90%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.90%) logstash
9 1 (0.90%) QRadar
9 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.82%) Databricks
3 8 (7.21%) IBM
4 7 (6.31%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) Splunk
6 3 (2.70%) Alibaba
6 3 (2.70%) NetApp
6 3 (2.70%) OpenAI
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%) Dynatrace
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