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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 458 497
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 +67
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 101 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.17% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 66 117
10th Percentile £363 £414 £398
25th Percentile £406 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -1.48%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £600
90th Percentile £630 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -25.62% +10.00% -2.22%
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 7,498 8,630 10,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 22.41% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,987 5,626 7,855
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £794 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 187 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.42 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.40 £74.65 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -13.46% +10.11% -6.24%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +22 95 £450 -25.00% 21
London +28 50 £461 -14.23% 3
UK excluding London -11 45 £450 -25.62% 19
Work from Home +12 34 £431 -28.72% 9
South East +10 16 £501 -17.27% 9
South West +35 14 £406 -16.67%
North of England -10 9 £525 -16.00% 5
Yorkshire -13 5 £538 +9.69% 2
North West -13 4 £450 -28.00% 2
Midlands -20 4 £485 -11.82% 4
East Midlands -1 2 £413 -34.00%
Scotland -4 2 £475 +11.37%
West Midlands -15 2 £558 +24.58% 4

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 2 (1.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 108 (97.30%) Azure
2 55 (49.55%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (26.13%) AWS
4 27 (24.32%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (24.32%) GitHub
5 23 (20.72%) Azure AKS
5 23 (20.72%) Entra ID
6 20 (18.02%) Serverless
7 19 (17.12%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (17.12%) PaaS
8 17 (15.32%) Azure Storage
8 17 (15.32%) IaaS
9 12 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (9.91%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (9.01%) SaaS
12 8 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (7.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (7.21%) Azure Functions
12 8 (7.21%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.01%) VPN
2 9 (8.11%) Firewall
3 8 (7.21%) Network Security
4 1 (0.90%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) DMZ
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.90%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.50%) Power BI
5 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Power Query
6 1 (0.90%) Redis
6 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.51%) GitLab
3 14 (12.61%) JIRA
4 10 (9.01%) SonarQube
5 9 (8.11%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.11%) REST Assured
5 9 (8.11%) Selenium
6 5 (4.50%) Gradle
6 5 (4.50%) Maven
6 5 (4.50%) NUnit
6 5 (4.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.60%) Git
8 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Law
3 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.01%) Finance
6 5 (4.50%) Marketing
7 4 (3.60%) Police
8 2 (1.80%) Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Billing
9 1 (0.90%) Games
9 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (41.44%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (27.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (18.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (13.51%) Developer
5 12 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Architect
7 9 (8.11%) Azure Architect
8 8 (7.21%) Senior
9 7 (6.31%) Software Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) .NET Developer
10 6 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.41%) Lead
11 5 (4.50%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Site Engineer
12 4 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.72%) .NET
2 16 (14.41%) ADO
3 11 (9.91%) .NET Core
4 9 (8.11%) Java EE
4 9 (8.11%) React
4 9 (8.11%) REST
4 9 (8.11%) YAML
5 8 (7.21%) Node.js
5 8 (7.21%) RESTful
6 5 (4.50%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.60%) OAuth
7 4 (3.60%) OpenID
8 3 (2.70%) Blazor
8 3 (2.70%) JSON
8 3 (2.70%) PySpark
9 2 (1.80%) XML
10 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.90%) CSS
10 1 (0.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.90%) Life Science
6 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.61%) Linux
2 12 (10.81%) Windows
3 5 (4.50%) VMS
4 4 (3.60%) Solaris
4 4 (3.60%) Unix
5 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (84.68%) DevOps
2 90 (81.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (64.86%) CI/CD
4 35 (31.53%) Agile
5 34 (30.63%) Containerisation
5 34 (30.63%) Migration
6 28 (25.23%) Infrastructure Automation
7 22 (19.82%) Analytics
8 21 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.12%) Test Automation
10 18 (16.22%) Microservices
11 17 (15.32%) RBAC
12 15 (13.51%) Cloud Security
12 15 (13.51%) Knowledge Transfer
13 13 (11.71%) Configuration Management
13 13 (11.71%) High Availability
13 13 (11.71%) Identity Access Management
13 13 (11.71%) Log Analytics
13 13 (11.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.14%) Bicep
2 36 (32.43%) PowerShell
3 26 (23.42%) SQL
4 24 (21.62%) Bash
5 22 (19.82%) Python
6 18 (16.22%) C#
7 11 (9.91%) Java
8 9 (8.11%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.90%) Korn
11 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.90%) VB
11 1 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Azure Certification
2 25 (22.52%) SC Cleared
2 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (14.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.41%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.80%) CISM
6 2 (1.80%) CISSP
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.90%) CCSP
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.90%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) Accessibility
1 6 (5.41%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.70%) NIST
3 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.80%) WCAG
4 1 (0.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
4 1 (0.90%) NCSC
4 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (35.14%) Docker
2 15 (13.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (12.61%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (7.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (80.18%) Terraform
2 54 (48.65%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.61%) Ansible
4 9 (8.11%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (8.11%) Podman
5 8 (7.21%) Grafana
5 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.80%) Istio
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.80%) Puppet
8 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.90%) Consul
8 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.90%) Salt
8 1 (0.90%) SCCM
8 1 (0.90%) SCOM
8 1 (0.90%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (34.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.41%) Databricks
3 5 (4.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.60%) NetApp
5 1 (0.90%) Citrix
5 1 (0.90%) CloudEndure
5 1 (0.90%) Google
5 1 (0.90%) IBM
5 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle
5 1 (0.90%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.90%) Splunk
5 1 (0.90%) Tenable