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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 443 465
Rank change year-on-year -124 +22 +52
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 90 109 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 1.52% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 97
10th Percentile £354 £363 £427
25th Percentile £413 £398 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -25.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £539 £650
90th Percentile £633 £709 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £605
% change year-on-year -7.50% -17.36% +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 10,044 7,186 9,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.78% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,582 4,863 6,372
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 146 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.29 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 4 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 4 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 -131 77 £463 +3.93% 28
UK excluding London -96 37 £463 -7.50% 20
London -88 36 £483 +9.66% 10
Work from Home -68 25 £527 +8.99% 17
South East -56 16 £438 -12.59% 8
North of England -69 12 £525 - 6
North West -36 8 £446 -15.00% 3
Midlands -52 5 £488 -12.56% 2
Yorkshire -52 4 £525 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £488 - 2
Scotland -12 3 £800 +60.00% 2
South West -41 1 - - 2
West Midlands -64 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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (67.78%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (42.22%) Azure Monitor
4 28 (31.11%) Azure AKS
5 26 (28.89%) GitHub
6 24 (26.67%) Entra ID
7 19 (21.11%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (17.78%) Serverless
9 13 (14.44%) Azure Functions
10 12 (13.33%) AWS
10 12 (13.33%) IaaS
10 12 (13.33%) PaaS
11 10 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (10.00%) Azure Storage
12 9 (10.00%) Power Platform
13 7 (7.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (7.78%) GCP
14 6 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.78%) DNS
2 10 (11.11%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) Network Security
3 6 (6.67%) DHCP
4 5 (5.56%) VPN
5 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.33%) WAN
7 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.11%) DNSSEC
8 1 (1.11%) LAN
8 1 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.44%) Power BI
4 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.33%) Spark SQL
4 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.22%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.22%) Tableau
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.11%) Parquet
6 1 (1.11%) Redis
6 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) GitLab
3 8 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.67%) JIRA
5 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.11%) MLflow
5 1 (1.11%) Moq
5 1 (1.11%) NUnit
5 1 (1.11%) PeopleTools
5 1 (1.11%) Serilog
5 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.11%) VersionOne
5 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.44%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Finance
6 3 (3.33%) Law
6 3 (3.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (34.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (25.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Architect
5 10 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 8 (8.89%) Azure Architect
8 7 (7.78%) Lead
9 6 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 3 (3.33%) Azure Software Engineer
12 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
12 3 (3.33%) Senior Architect
12 3 (3.33%) Software Engineer
13 2 (2.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) YAML
2 9 (10.00%) .NET
2 9 (10.00%) REST
3 4 (4.44%) Entity Framework
3 4 (4.44%) PySpark
4 3 (3.33%) React
5 2 (2.22%) JSON
5 2 (2.22%) Node.js
5 2 (2.22%) OAuth
5 2 (2.22%) RESTful
6 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.11%) Jest
6 1 (1.11%) LangChain
6 1 (1.11%) Loki
6 1 (1.11%) Next.js
6 1 (1.11%) OpenID
6 1 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.11%) pgvector
6 1 (1.11%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.11%) NHS
7 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.89%) VMS
2 7 (7.78%) Linux
3 6 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (84.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 75 (83.33%) DevOps
3 71 (78.89%) CI/CD
4 38 (42.22%) Containerisation
5 31 (34.44%) Analytics
6 29 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (28.89%) Agile
8 24 (26.67%) Log Analytics
9 23 (25.56%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (23.33%) RBAC
11 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (21.11%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (21.11%) Observability
13 14 (15.56%) Migration
14 13 (14.44%) Incident Response
14 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
15 12 (13.33%) AI
15 12 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 12 (13.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Bicep
2 44 (48.89%) PowerShell
3 36 (40.00%) Python
4 23 (25.56%) Bash
5 20 (22.22%) SQL
6 6 (6.67%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) Java
7 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) C
8 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 30 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 27 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CCNA
7 1 (1.11%) CCNP
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CISSP
7 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) GDPR
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.22%) NCSC
3 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.11%) GRC
4 1 (1.11%) NIST
4 1 (1.11%) QA
System Software
1 40 (44.44%) Docker
2 15 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (81.11%) Terraform
2 39 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.11%) Ansible
4 7 (7.78%) Grafana
4 7 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.44%) Puppet
6 3 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.11%) Argo
7 1 (1.11%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.11%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.11%) logstash
7 1 (1.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) Databricks
3 4 (4.44%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Splunk
4 3 (3.33%) Alibaba
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) Ariba
6 1 (1.11%) Citrix
6 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic
6 1 (1.11%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.11%) Temenos