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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 441 457
Rank change year-on-year -118 +16 +66
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 104 104 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 1.41% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 70 87
10th Percentile £363 £363 £425
25th Percentile £425 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £548 £638
90th Percentile £624 £726 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £605
% change year-on-year -0.10% -17.27% +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 10,242 7,356 8,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.42% 22.55% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,688 4,963 6,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £543
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +5.87% -5.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 154 260
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.08 £22.73
25th Percentile £46.53 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.71 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 22 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 22 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 -103 87 £506 +13.76% 17
UK excluding London -106 45 £500 -0.10% 15
London -80 41 £515 +17.05% 5
Work from Home -55 34 £527 +17.17% 8
South East -56 21 £500 -0.10% 6
North of England -69 12 £566 +2.91% 4
North West -40 10 £566 -5.67% 2
Scotland -16 5 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands -51 5 £488 -12.56%
East Midlands - 4 £488 -
South West -44 2 £500 +30.72% 3
Yorkshire -49 2 - - 1
West Midlands -56 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 (2.88%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.96%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (59.62%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (46.15%) Azure Monitor
4 35 (33.65%) Entra ID
5 31 (29.81%) Azure AKS
6 24 (23.08%) GitHub
7 20 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (13.46%) AWS
9 13 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (12.50%) Serverless
10 12 (11.54%) PaaS
11 10 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (9.62%) IaaS
12 9 (8.65%) GCP
13 8 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (7.69%) Azure Functions
13 8 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.04%) DNS
2 20 (19.23%) Firewall
3 14 (13.46%) Network Security
4 13 (12.50%) DHCP
5 12 (11.54%) VPN
6 11 (10.58%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.81%) SSH
8 3 (2.88%) WAN
9 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.96%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.96%) LAN
10 1 (0.96%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.77%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.88%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.92%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.92%) Power BI
5 2 (1.92%) Redis
5 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.96%) MySQL
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.96%) Parquet
6 1 (0.96%) Power Query
6 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (25.96%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) GitLab
3 10 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.77%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.96%) MLflow
5 1 (0.96%) Moq
5 1 (0.96%) NUnit
5 1 (0.96%) PeopleTools
5 1 (0.96%) Serilog
5 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.96%) VersionOne
5 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (26.92%) Public Sector
2 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.77%) Finance
5 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Law
5 3 (2.88%) Military
6 2 (1.92%) Legal
6 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.96%) Local Government
7 1 (0.96%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 37 (35.58%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (33.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (21.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Senior
5 12 (11.54%) Architect
6 10 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Azure Architect
7 9 (8.65%) Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Lead
9 6 (5.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.58%) YAML
2 9 (8.65%) REST
3 8 (7.69%) .NET
4 6 (5.77%) Entity Framework
5 4 (3.85%) OAuth
5 4 (3.85%) PySpark
5 4 (3.85%) RESTful
6 3 (2.88%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.88%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (2.88%) JSON
6 3 (2.88%) OpenID
6 3 (2.88%) React
6 3 (2.88%) SAML
7 1 (0.96%) LangChain
7 1 (0.96%) Loki
7 1 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.96%) pgvector
7 1 (0.96%) pydantic
7 1 (0.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 16 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.77%) ARM Cortex
4 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.92%) NHS
9 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.96%) Replication
9 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.35%) Linux
2 16 (15.38%) Windows
3 11 (10.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.69%) VMS
5 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.88%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (83.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 85 (81.73%) DevOps
3 79 (75.96%) CI/CD
4 44 (42.31%) Containerisation
5 38 (36.54%) Analytics
6 33 (31.73%) Log Analytics
7 29 (27.88%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (26.92%) Agile
9 27 (25.96%) RBAC
10 26 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
10 26 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (22.12%) Observability
12 18 (17.31%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (16.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (14.42%) Cloud Security
15 14 (13.46%) Configuration Management
15 14 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
15 14 (13.46%) High Availability
15 14 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (60.58%) Bicep
2 62 (59.62%) PowerShell
3 40 (38.46%) Python
4 35 (33.65%) Bash
5 22 (21.15%) SQL
6 5 (4.81%) C#
6 5 (4.81%) Java
7 2 (1.92%) C
7 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 44 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 39 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
4 12 (11.54%) Degree
5 9 (8.65%) DV Cleared
5 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.92%) CISSP
8 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.96%) CCNA
9 1 (0.96%) CCNP
9 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.96%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) SLA
2 4 (3.85%) GDPR
2 4 (3.85%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) GRC
4 1 (0.96%) NCSC
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (41.35%) Docker
2 29 (27.88%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 90 (86.54%) Terraform
2 44 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 18 (17.31%) Ansible
4 11 (10.58%) Grafana
5 10 (9.62%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.65%) Progress Chef
7 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (6.73%) Puppet
9 6 (5.77%) SCCM
10 3 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.92%) Argo
12 1 (0.96%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.96%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.96%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.96%) logstash
12 1 (0.96%) QRadar
Vendors
1 65 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.58%) Databricks
3 7 (6.73%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (6.73%) Google
4 4 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (2.88%) Splunk
6 2 (1.92%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.92%) SAP
6 2 (1.92%) VMware
7 1 (0.96%) Alibaba
7 1 (0.96%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.96%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.96%) Okta
7 1 (0.96%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.96%) Temenos
7 1 (0.96%) Zscaler