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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 460 489
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +47
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 113 72 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 1.03% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 41 93
10th Percentile £406 £400 £390
25th Percentile £413 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £560 £745 £650
90th Percentile £600 £751 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -1.12%

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 8,960 6,968 9,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.98% 22.67% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,998 4,517 6,478
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 88 213
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.95 £21.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.44 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.63 £66.75
90th Percentile £81.20 £80.30 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 February 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 February 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 -30 101 £450 -14.29% 26
UK excluding London -50 51 £500 +5.26% 23
London -32 45 £475 -17.39% 6
Work from Home -17 25 £513 -13.14% 13
South East -17 18 £425 -19.05% 12
South West -10 15 £500 +11.11% 3
North of England -58 12 £574 +27.44% 5
North West -24 7 £572 +27.11% 2
Yorkshire -57 5 £600 - 1
Scotland -1 3 £800 - 1
Midlands - 3 £494 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £413 -

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 (2.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 112 (99.12%) Azure
2 78 (69.03%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (37.17%) Azure Monitor
4 39 (34.51%) Entra ID
5 32 (28.32%) GitHub
6 25 (22.12%) Azure AKS
7 24 (21.24%) PaaS
8 23 (20.35%) Serverless
9 22 (19.47%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (16.81%) Azure Functions
11 17 (15.04%) IaaS
12 16 (14.16%) AWS
12 16 (14.16%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (12.39%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (11.50%) Azure API Management
14 13 (11.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 13 (11.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (9.73%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (9.73%) Azure Service Fabric
15 11 (9.73%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) VPN
2 9 (7.96%) Firewall
3 6 (5.31%) DNS
3 6 (5.31%) Network Security
4 3 (2.65%) DHCP
5 2 (1.77%) LAN
5 2 (1.77%) MPLS
5 2 (1.77%) SSL
5 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.77%) WAN
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.88%) DKIM
6 1 (0.88%) DMARC
6 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.42%) Power BI
3 4 (3.54%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.65%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.65%) Tableau
5 2 (1.77%) Metadata
6 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.88%) KNIME
6 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.88%) Parquet
6 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Redis
6 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Git
2 7 (6.19%) GitLab
2 7 (6.19%) JIRA
3 6 (5.31%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.65%) Gradle
4 3 (2.65%) Maven
4 3 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.88%) MLflow
6 1 (0.88%) Moq
6 1 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.88%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.88%) Serilog
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.16%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.31%) Finance
4 6 (5.31%) Legal
5 5 (4.42%) Law
6 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Billing
8 2 (1.77%) Banking
8 2 (1.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (43.36%) Azure Engineer
2 40 (35.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (23.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 15 (13.27%) Architect
5 10 (8.85%) Azure Architect
5 10 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Lead
6 9 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Senior
8 7 (6.19%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.65%) Azure Developer
12 3 (2.65%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (2.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.81%) .NET
2 18 (15.93%) YAML
3 13 (11.50%) REST
4 12 (10.62%) Entity Framework
5 7 (6.19%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.19%) PySpark
5 7 (6.19%) SailPoint
6 6 (5.31%) OAuth
6 6 (5.31%) React
7 5 (4.42%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.42%) OpenID
7 5 (4.42%) RESTful
8 4 (3.54%) Node.js
8 4 (3.54%) SAML
9 3 (2.65%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.65%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.65%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.65%) JSON
9 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.77%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.62%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.54%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) IoT
7 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.88%) PKI
8 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.19%) Linux
2 6 (5.31%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Solaris
3 3 (2.65%) Unix
3 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.77%) VMS
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (84.07%) DevOps
2 86 (76.11%) CI/CD
3 83 (73.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (35.40%) Analytics
5 37 (32.74%) Containerisation
6 30 (26.55%) RBAC
7 29 (25.66%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (24.78%) Identity Access Management
8 28 (24.78%) Log Analytics
9 26 (23.01%) Agile
10 23 (20.35%) Microservices
11 21 (18.58%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (15.93%) Cloud Security
12 18 (15.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (15.04%) AI
14 16 (14.16%) Data Engineering
14 16 (14.16%) Migration
15 15 (13.27%) B2C
16 14 (12.39%) Test Automation
17 13 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.59%) Bicep
2 40 (35.40%) PowerShell
3 35 (30.97%) Python
4 34 (30.09%) SQL
5 21 (18.58%) Bash
6 15 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 12 (10.62%) C#
8 9 (7.96%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.54%) Java
10 3 (2.65%) C
10 3 (2.65%) PHP
11 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.88%) ProC
11 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (37.17%) Azure Certification
1 42 (37.17%) Security Cleared
2 40 (35.40%) SC Cleared
3 21 (18.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (7.96%) CISSP
5 8 (7.08%) CISM
5 8 (7.08%) Degree
5 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.08%) NIST
2 8 (7.08%) NIST 800
3 5 (4.42%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.54%) NCSC
5 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.77%) GDPR
6 2 (1.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 47 (41.59%) Docker
2 27 (23.89%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.96%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (80.53%) Terraform
2 45 (39.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (7.08%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (6.19%) Ansible
6 3 (2.65%) Grafana
6 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.88%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.88%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.88%) logstash
8 1 (0.88%) QRadar
8 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (55.75%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.47%) Databricks
3 11 (9.73%) Red Hat
4 9 (7.96%) IBM
5 4 (3.54%) Google
6 3 (2.65%) Alibaba
6 3 (2.65%) NetApp
6 3 (2.65%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.65%) Splunk
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco
7 2 (1.77%) Okta
7 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.88%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) Sophos
8 1 (0.88%) VMware