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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 448 473
Rank change year-on-year -75 +25 +67
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 95 75 125
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.00% 1.12% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 43 93
10th Percentile £400 £400 £417
25th Percentile £413 £440 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £605
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -17.36% +15.24%
75th Percentile £577 £581 £650
90th Percentile £639 £710 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £605
% change year-on-year -0.10% -17.27% +21.00%
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 9,460 6,673 8,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.00% 22.75% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,266 4,573 6,200
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £780 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 114 234
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.22 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.70 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -24.00%

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 2 May 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 12 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 2 May 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 -79 89 £492 -1.70% 20
UK excluding London -84 46 £500 -0.10% 15
London -65 40 £490 +1.03% 8
Work from Home -51 16 £525 - 6
North of England -53 15 £572 +8.95% 6
South East -56 15 £425 -15.08% 6
South West -23 11 £500 +11.11% 1
North West -34 9 £566 +25.78% 2
Yorkshire -43 6 £600 +14.29% 1
Scotland +2 3 £800 +52.38% 1
Midlands - 2 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 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 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (67.37%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (37.89%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (33.68%) Entra ID
5 25 (26.32%) Azure AKS
6 21 (22.11%) GitHub
7 20 (21.05%) PaaS
8 19 (20.00%) Serverless
9 17 (17.89%) Azure Functions
10 14 (14.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (14.74%) IaaS
11 12 (12.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (12.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (12.63%) Azure Storage
12 11 (11.58%) AWS
12 11 (11.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (11.58%) Azure Service Fabric
13 9 (9.47%) Azure API Management
14 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.58%) VPN
2 9 (9.47%) Firewall
3 6 (6.32%) DNS
4 4 (4.21%) WAN
5 3 (3.16%) DHCP
5 3 (3.16%) Network Security
5 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.11%) LAN
6 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.16%) Power BI
3 3 (3.16%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.11%) Tableau
5 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.05%) Metadata
5 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.05%) Parquet
5 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Redis
5 1 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.84%) Git
2 8 (8.42%) GitLab
3 7 (7.37%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.05%) MLflow
6 1 (1.05%) Moq
6 1 (1.05%) NUnit
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.05%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.05%) Serilog
6 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.32%) Legal
4 5 (5.26%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Law
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (47.37%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (36.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (26.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) Architect
4 8 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) Lead
4 8 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Azure Architect
5 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Developer
5 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Senior
5 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.05%) YAML
2 14 (14.74%) .NET
3 12 (12.63%) Entity Framework
4 8 (8.42%) REST
5 7 (7.37%) SailPoint
6 5 (5.26%) React
7 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.21%) Node.js
7 4 (4.21%) PySpark
8 3 (3.16%) JSON
9 2 (2.11%) Next.js
9 2 (2.11%) OAuth
9 2 (2.11%) RESTful
10 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (1.05%) AWS CDK
10 1 (1.05%) Kafka
10 1 (1.05%) Loki
10 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (1.05%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.16%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) VMS
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (83.16%) DevOps
2 71 (74.74%) CI/CD
3 69 (72.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (34.74%) Containerisation
5 28 (29.47%) Analytics
6 25 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
7 24 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (23.16%) Log Analytics
9 21 (22.11%) RBAC
10 20 (21.05%) Agile
11 18 (18.95%) Microservices
12 15 (15.79%) Cloud Security
12 15 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (14.74%) Observability
14 12 (12.63%) B2C
14 12 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (12.63%) DevSecOps
15 11 (11.58%) AI
15 11 (11.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (43.16%) Bicep
2 35 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 32 (33.68%) Python
4 30 (31.58%) SQL
5 16 (16.84%) Bash
6 9 (9.47%) C#
7 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
8 6 (6.32%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) C
10 2 (2.11%) Java
11 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.05%) ProC
11 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (41.05%) Security Cleared
2 37 (38.95%) SC Cleared
3 34 (35.79%) Azure Certification
4 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.37%) CISSP
6 6 (6.32%) CISM
6 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (6.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 3 (3.16%) Degree
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.05%) CCNA
8 1 (1.05%) CCNP
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.37%) NIST
3 6 (6.32%) NIST 800
4 4 (4.21%) NCSC
5 3 (3.16%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.11%) SLA
6 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.05%) GRC
7 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 42 (44.21%) Docker
2 21 (22.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 72 (75.79%) Terraform
2 36 (37.89%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.58%) Ansible
4 9 (9.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (8.42%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.26%) Grafana
6 5 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.21%) Puppet
8 1 (1.05%) Argo
8 1 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.05%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.05%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.05%) logstash
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.05%) QRadar
Vendors
1 51 (53.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.84%) Databricks
3 7 (7.37%) IBM
4 6 (6.32%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.21%) Splunk
6 3 (3.16%) Alibaba
6 3 (3.16%) Google
6 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.05%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco
8 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.05%) New Relic
8 1 (1.05%) Okta
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle
8 1 (1.05%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.05%) Sophos
8 1 (1.05%) Temenos