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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 473 484
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +58
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 103 87 146
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.31% 1.08% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 55 118
10th Percentile £363 £445 £384
25th Percentile £406 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £663 £600
90th Percentile £588 £745 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -23.40% +6.82% -4.35%

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 7,889 8,088 10,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.08% 21.98% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,222 5,124 7,557
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 131 190
10th Percentile £30.08 £25.09 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.25 £42.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +15 89 £450 -20.00% 41
London +24 50 £475 -11.63% 11
UK excluding London -26 38 £450 -23.40% 38
Work from Home +9 29 £425 -29.75% 25
South West +22 17 £413 -15.38% 1
North of England -28 8 £525 -16.00% 9
South East -8 6 £450 -25.62% 14
Yorkshire -24 5 £538 +9.69%
Midlands -27 5 £485 +8.38% 12
North West -19 3 £450 -28.00% 8
West Midlands -27 3 £558 +24.58% 11
Scotland -4 2 £475 +11.37%
East Midlands - 2 £413 - 2

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 (0.97%) IIS
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 100 (97.09%) Azure
2 62 (60.19%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (33.98%) GitHub
4 28 (27.18%) Azure Monitor
5 25 (24.27%) Entra ID
5 25 (24.27%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (20.39%) Azure AKS
7 20 (19.42%) AWS
8 17 (16.50%) PaaS
8 17 (16.50%) Serverless
9 14 (13.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 14 (13.59%) IaaS
10 13 (12.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (11.65%) Azure Storage
12 11 (10.68%) Azure Functions
13 10 (9.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (8.74%) Azure API Management
14 9 (8.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 9 (8.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) Network Security
1 10 (9.71%) VPN
2 8 (7.77%) Firewall
3 2 (1.94%) DNS
3 2 (1.94%) SSL
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.97%) DHCP
4 1 (0.97%) DKIM
4 1 (0.97%) DMARC
4 1 (0.97%) DMZ
4 1 (0.97%) Internet
4 1 (0.97%) LAN
4 1 (0.97%) MPLS
4 1 (0.97%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.97%) SMTP
4 1 (0.97%) WAN
4 1 (0.97%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.62%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.91%) Power BI
5 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.97%) Metadata
6 1 (0.97%) MySQL
6 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.97%) Power Query
6 1 (0.97%) Redis
6 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.83%) GitLab
3 5 (4.85%) Git
3 5 (4.85%) Gradle
3 5 (4.85%) JIRA
3 5 (4.85%) Maven
3 5 (4.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.97%) NUnit
4 1 (0.97%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.59%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.71%) Finance
4 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.83%) Law
6 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Billing
8 2 (1.94%) Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Games
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Legal
9 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (39.81%) Azure Engineer
2 32 (31.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (20.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) Architect
5 11 (10.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Senior
6 9 (8.74%) Azure Architect
7 7 (6.80%) Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Lead
10 4 (3.88%) Migration Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) C# Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Technical Engineer
11 3 (2.91%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.42%) .NET
2 14 (13.59%) ADO
3 9 (8.74%) React
3 9 (8.74%) YAML
4 8 (7.77%) .NET Core
4 8 (7.77%) Node.js
5 5 (4.85%) REST
6 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.88%) RESTful
7 3 (2.91%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.91%) Blazor
7 3 (2.91%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.91%) JSON
7 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (2.91%) OAuth
7 3 (2.91%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.91%) OpenID
7 3 (2.91%) PySpark
7 3 (2.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.88%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.91%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) IoT
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Windows
2 11 (10.68%) Linux
3 7 (6.80%) VMS
4 4 (3.88%) Solaris
4 4 (3.88%) Unix
5 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.97%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (84.47%) DevOps
2 79 (76.70%) CI/CD
3 77 (74.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (32.04%) Migration
5 29 (28.16%) Agile
6 26 (25.24%) Analytics
6 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure Automation
7 25 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (23.30%) Containerisation
9 22 (21.36%) RBAC
10 17 (16.50%) High Availability
10 17 (16.50%) Log Analytics
11 16 (15.53%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (15.53%) Knowledge Transfer
12 15 (14.56%) Cloud Security
12 15 (14.56%) Microservices
13 14 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (12.62%) DevSecOps
14 13 (12.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.69%) Bicep
1 45 (43.69%) PowerShell
2 28 (27.18%) Python
3 27 (26.21%) Bash
4 20 (19.42%) SQL
5 14 (13.59%) C#
6 9 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.77%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.88%) Java
9 3 (2.91%) PHP
10 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.97%) Korn
11 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (30.10%) Azure Certification
2 21 (20.39%) SC Cleared
2 21 (20.39%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 3 (2.91%) CISM
5 3 (2.91%) CISSP
5 3 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.97%) CCSP
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.97%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.88%) NIST
2 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) NIST 800
3 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.97%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (28.16%) Docker
2 18 (17.48%) Active Directory
3 14 (13.59%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (9.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (77.67%) Terraform
2 38 (36.89%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.83%) Grafana
3 6 (5.83%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.85%) Ansible
5 2 (1.94%) Istio
5 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.97%) Consul
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.97%) Puppet
6 1 (0.97%) SCCM
6 1 (0.97%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 41 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.65%) Databricks
3 7 (6.80%) NetApp
4 6 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.94%) IBM
5 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco
6 1 (0.97%) Citrix
6 1 (0.97%) CloudEndure
6 1 (0.97%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle
6 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.97%) Splunk
6 1 (0.97%) Tenable
6 1 (0.97%) VMware