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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 457 464
Rank change year-on-year -83 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 129 108 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.28% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 66
10th Percentile £380 £363 £414
25th Percentile £449 £407 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% -22.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £638
90th Percentile £623 £634 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £605
% change year-on-year +13.89% -25.62% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £64.70 - -
25th Percentile £66.50 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -
75th Percentile - £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.00 - -

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 11,843 8,430 9,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 25.53% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 5,674 6,372
10th Percentile £375 £355 £359
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +8.33%

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 11 September 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 14 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 11 September 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 -100 112 £513 +10.81% 43
UK excluding London -83 61 £513 +13.89% 31
London -74 48 £513 +7.89% 15
Work from Home -70 40 £527 +22.26% 20
South East -46 28 £575 +14.89% 10
North of England -64 14 £513 -2.38% 11
South West -52 10 £500 +25.00% 1
North West -37 7 £613 +36.22% 6
Midlands -44 7 £475 -14.80% 6
East Midlands -9 5 £475 -
Yorkshire -39 4 £500 -6.98% 3
North East - 3 £513 - 2
Scotland -15 2 £513 +7.89%
West Midlands -47 2 £475 -14.80% 6

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 9 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.10%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.78%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (65.12%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (39.53%) Azure Monitor
4 43 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 41 (31.78%) Entra ID
6 34 (26.36%) GitHub
7 26 (20.16%) AWS
7 26 (20.16%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (18.60%) Serverless
9 17 (13.18%) Azure Functions
9 17 (13.18%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (11.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (11.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (10.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (8.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (8.53%) Power Platform
13 10 (7.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (6.98%) GCP
14 9 (6.98%) PaaS
15 8 (6.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (22.48%) DNS
2 27 (20.93%) Firewall
3 17 (13.18%) VPN
4 15 (11.63%) Network Security
5 14 (10.85%) DHCP
6 12 (9.30%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.65%) SSH
8 3 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.55%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.55%) WAN
10 1 (0.78%) DNSSEC
10 1 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.43%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.55%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.55%) Power BI
5 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.78%) MySQL
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.78%) Parquet
6 1 (0.78%) Power Query
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (28.68%) Git
2 16 (12.40%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.85%) GitLab
4 5 (3.88%) JIRA
5 3 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.78%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.78%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.71%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.63%) Finance
4 7 (5.43%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.10%) Military
6 3 (2.33%) Local Government
7 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 51 (39.53%) Azure Engineer
2 50 (38.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (22.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 23 (17.83%) Senior
5 17 (13.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (12.40%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Architect
9 9 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Azure Architect
12 6 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Security Engineer
14 4 (3.10%) Cloud Architect
14 4 (3.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 4 (3.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 4 (3.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (90.70%) Terraform
2 19 (14.73%) YAML
3 13 (10.08%) .NET
4 10 (7.75%) REST
5 5 (3.88%) Azure Blueprints
5 5 (3.88%) OAuth
6 4 (3.10%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.10%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.10%) OpenID
7 3 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.33%) JSON
7 3 (2.33%) RESTful
7 3 (2.33%) SAML
8 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.78%) LangChain
8 1 (0.78%) Loki
8 1 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.78%) pgvector
8 1 (0.78%) pydantic
8 1 (0.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (16.28%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.53%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.75%) Management Information System
4 10 (7.75%) Wiki
5 8 (6.20%) ARM Cortex
6 7 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.43%) Security Posture
7 6 (4.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.10%) NHS
9 3 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.93%) Linux
2 24 (18.60%) Windows
3 17 (13.18%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.53%) VMS
5 7 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (85.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 109 (84.50%) DevOps
3 100 (77.52%) CI/CD
4 60 (46.51%) Containerisation
5 48 (37.21%) Agile
6 46 (35.66%) Analytics
7 45 (34.88%) Platform Engineering
8 44 (34.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (33.33%) RBAC
10 41 (31.78%) Log Analytics
11 37 (28.68%) Observability
12 35 (27.13%) Deployment Automation
13 31 (24.03%) DevSecOps
13 31 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (23.26%) Cloud Security
15 27 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (19.38%) Identity Access Management
17 20 (15.50%) Identity Management
17 20 (15.50%) Software Delivery
18 19 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 101 (78.29%) Bicep
2 96 (74.42%) PowerShell
3 61 (47.29%) Bash
4 56 (43.41%) Python
5 17 (13.18%) SQL
6 10 (7.75%) C#
7 6 (4.65%) Java
8 1 (0.78%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 45 (34.88%) Azure Certification
2 45 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.40%) Degree
4 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (9.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.20%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.43%) CISSP
8 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.33%) CEH
10 3 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.78%) CCSP
12 1 (0.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) NCSC
3 5 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.10%) NIST
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.33%) SLA
6 2 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (37.98%) Docker
2 31 (24.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (6.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.88%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 65 (50.39%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.05%) Ansible
3 15 (11.63%) Grafana
4 13 (10.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.53%) Progress Chef
7 8 (6.20%) SCCM
8 7 (5.43%) Puppet
9 3 (2.33%) Istio
10 2 (1.55%) Argo
11 1 (0.78%) Packer
11 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (70.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.75%) Databricks
3 9 (6.98%) CrowdStrike
4 8 (6.20%) Google
5 7 (5.43%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.65%) VMware
7 4 (3.10%) Oracle
8 3 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.33%) Splunk
9 2 (1.55%) SAP
9 2 (1.55%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.78%) Ariba
10 1 (0.78%) Citrix
10 1 (0.78%) Foundry
10 1 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.78%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.78%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.78%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.78%) Temenos