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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 442 470
Rank change year-on-year -128 +28 +43
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 89 108 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 1.46% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 72 89
10th Percentile £383 £363 £425
25th Percentile £413 £398 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £562 £539 £650
90th Percentile £624 £709 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £605
% change year-on-year -5.00% -17.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 10,251 7,385 9,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.60% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,718 4,986 6,286
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +1.82% -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -132 73 £483 +8.43% 22
UK excluding London -97 36 £475 -5.00% 17
London -87 35 £513 +16.48% 8
Work from Home -68 26 £530 +10.31% 13
South East -77 13 £450 -10.09% 6
North of England -71 12 £525 - 6
North West -48 8 £446 -15.00% 3
Scotland -13 5 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands -46 5 £488 -12.56% 2
Yorkshire -50 4 £525 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £488 - 2
South West -41 1 - - 2
West Midlands -66 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 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 89 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (65.17%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (43.82%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (30.34%) Azure AKS
5 24 (26.97%) Entra ID
5 24 (26.97%) GitHub
6 19 (21.35%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (15.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (15.73%) Serverless
8 12 (13.48%) AWS
9 11 (12.36%) Azure Functions
9 11 (12.36%) IaaS
9 11 (12.36%) PaaS
10 10 (11.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (10.11%) Power Platform
12 7 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (7.87%) Azure Storage
12 7 (7.87%) GCP
13 6 (6.74%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (5.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.10%) DNS
2 10 (11.24%) Network Security
3 9 (10.11%) Firewall
4 6 (6.74%) DHCP
5 5 (5.62%) VPN
6 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.37%) WAN
8 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.12%) DNSSEC
9 1 (1.12%) LAN
9 1 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.37%) Spark SQL
4 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.25%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 2 (2.25%) Redis
5 2 (2.25%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.12%) MySQL
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.12%) Parquet
6 1 (1.12%) Power Query
6 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Git
2 10 (11.24%) GitLab
3 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) JIRA
5 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.12%) MLflow
5 1 (1.12%) Moq
5 1 (1.12%) NUnit
5 1 (1.12%) PeopleTools
5 1 (1.12%) Serilog
5 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.12%) VersionOne
5 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.09%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Finance
6 3 (3.37%) Law
6 3 (3.37%) Legal
7 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.12%) Local Government
8 1 (1.12%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (37.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (25.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Azure Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Senior
6 7 (7.87%) Lead
7 6 (6.74%) Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Architect
11 2 (2.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 2 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.36%) YAML
2 7 (7.87%) .NET
2 7 (7.87%) REST
3 4 (4.49%) Entity Framework
3 4 (4.49%) PySpark
4 3 (3.37%) JSON
4 3 (3.37%) React
5 2 (2.25%) Node.js
5 2 (2.25%) OAuth
5 2 (2.25%) RESTful
6 1 (1.12%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.12%) ADO
6 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.12%) Loki
6 1 (1.12%) OpenID
6 1 (1.12%) Redux
6 1 (1.12%) SailPoint
6 1 (1.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.37%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.25%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.12%) NHS
8 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Replication
8 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
1 8 (8.99%) VMS
2 6 (6.74%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.37%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (85.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 74 (83.15%) DevOps
3 69 (77.53%) CI/CD
4 39 (43.82%) Containerisation
5 29 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (31.46%) Analytics
7 24 (26.97%) Agile
8 23 (25.84%) Log Analytics
8 23 (25.84%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (22.47%) RBAC
10 19 (21.35%) Identity Access Management
10 19 (21.35%) Observability
11 15 (16.85%) Migration
12 13 (14.61%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (14.61%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (14.61%) High Availability
12 13 (14.61%) Incident Response
12 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (12.36%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 50 (56.18%) Bicep
2 46 (51.69%) PowerShell
3 36 (40.45%) Python
4 25 (28.09%) Bash
5 19 (21.35%) SQL
6 4 (4.49%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) Java
8 2 (2.25%) C
8 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.83%) Azure Certification
3 27 (30.34%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.87%) Degree
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CCNA
7 1 (1.12%) CCNP
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CISSP
7 1 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.12%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) SLA
2 3 (3.37%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.25%) NCSC
3 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Docker
2 16 (17.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (13.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.12%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (83.15%) Terraform
2 40 (44.94%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.24%) Ansible
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
4 9 (10.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.49%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.49%) Puppet
6 3 (3.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.25%) Argo
8 1 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.12%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.12%) logstash
8 1 (1.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 47 (52.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) Databricks
3 4 (4.49%) Google
3 4 (4.49%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) Alibaba
5 2 (2.25%) SAP
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) Ariba
6 1 (1.12%) Citrix
6 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.12%) IBM
6 1 (1.12%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.12%) New Relic
6 1 (1.12%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.12%) Temenos