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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 423 462
Rank change year-on-year -118 +39 +72
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 95 106 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 1.54% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 69 97
10th Percentile £395 £363 £427
25th Percentile £413 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -25.62% +10.00%
75th Percentile £562 £544 £650
90th Percentile £655 £715 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £605
% change year-on-year -10.00% -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 9,927 6,897 9,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.90% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,526 4,700 6,384
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
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 282 135 279
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.14 £22.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.76% -10.08%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 84 £463 +2.78% 19
UK excluding London -109 43 £450 -10.00% 14
London -88 37 £490 +11.36% 6
Work from Home -60 23 £527 +5.98% 9
South East -61 18 £438 -12.59% 8
North of England -70 12 £525 - 4
North West -36 8 £446 -0.83% 1
South West -49 6 - - 1
Yorkshire -52 4 £525 - 1
Midlands -57 4 £500 -10.31% 1
Scotland -10 3 £800 +56.10%
East Midlands - 3 £500 - 1
West Midlands -58 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 5 (5.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (44.21%) Azure Monitor
4 31 (32.63%) Azure AKS
5 26 (27.37%) GitHub
6 25 (26.32%) Entra ID
7 18 (18.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (17.89%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (16.84%) Serverless
10 15 (15.79%) PaaS
11 13 (13.68%) Azure Functions
11 13 (13.68%) IaaS
12 12 (12.63%) AWS
12 12 (12.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (11.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (11.58%) Azure Storage
14 9 (9.47%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (8.42%) Power Platform
16 7 (7.37%) Azure API Management
16 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.74%) DNS
2 12 (12.63%) Firewall
3 10 (10.53%) Network Security
4 8 (8.42%) VPN
5 6 (6.32%) DHCP
6 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.16%) WAN
8 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.05%) DNSSEC
9 1 (1.05%) LAN
9 1 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.42%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.21%) Power BI
4 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.16%) Spark SQL
4 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.11%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.11%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.11%) Tableau
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.05%) Parquet
6 1 (1.05%) Redis
6 1 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.84%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) GitLab
3 8 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.32%) JIRA
5 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.05%) MLflow
5 1 (1.05%) Moq
5 1 (1.05%) NUnit
5 1 (1.05%) Serilog
5 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Finance
5 3 (3.16%) Law
5 3 (3.16%) Legal
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Local Government
7 1 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (47.37%) Azure Engineer
2 37 (38.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (30.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Architect
5 10 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Senior
7 8 (8.42%) Azure Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Lead
9 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Engineer
11 3 (3.16%) Senior Architect
12 2 (2.11%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) YAML
2 10 (10.53%) .NET
3 9 (9.47%) REST
4 6 (6.32%) Entity Framework
5 4 (4.21%) PySpark
5 4 (4.21%) React
6 3 (3.16%) Node.js
6 3 (3.16%) SailPoint
7 2 (2.11%) JSON
7 2 (2.11%) Next.js
7 2 (2.11%) OAuth
7 2 (2.11%) RESTful
8 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.05%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (1.05%) Dapper ORM
8 1 (1.05%) NLog
8 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.05%) OpenID
8 1 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Replication
8 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) VMS
2 6 (6.32%) Windows
3 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (84.21%) DevOps
2 73 (76.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (74.74%) CI/CD
4 35 (36.84%) Analytics
5 34 (35.79%) Containerisation
6 29 (30.53%) Log Analytics
7 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (27.37%) RBAC
9 25 (26.32%) Agile
10 23 (24.21%) Identity Access Management
11 22 (23.16%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (16.84%) Observability
14 14 (14.74%) Migration
15 13 (13.68%) Cloud Security
15 13 (13.68%) Incident Response
15 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Automation
15 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 11 (11.58%) AI
16 11 (11.58%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.63%) Bicep
2 41 (43.16%) PowerShell
3 34 (35.79%) Python
4 23 (24.21%) SQL
5 20 (21.05%) Bash
6 7 (7.37%) C#
7 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.11%) C
9 2 (2.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 41 (43.16%) Security Cleared
2 37 (38.95%) SC Cleared
3 36 (37.89%) Azure Certification
4 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.32%) CISSP
5 6 (6.32%) Degree
6 5 (5.26%) CISM
6 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
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
8 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.05%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.32%) NIST
3 5 (5.26%) NIST 800
3 5 (5.26%) SLA
4 4 (4.21%) NCSC
5 3 (3.16%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.05%) GRC
7 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 39 (41.05%) Docker
2 16 (16.84%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.58%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.05%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 73 (76.84%) Terraform
2 42 (44.21%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.53%) Ansible
4 7 (7.37%) Grafana
4 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.21%) Puppet
7 1 (1.05%) Argo
7 1 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.05%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.05%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.05%) logstash
7 1 (1.05%) QRadar
Vendors
1 50 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.89%) Databricks
3 6 (6.32%) IBM
4 5 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.21%) Google
5 4 (4.21%) Splunk
6 3 (3.16%) Alibaba
6 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.11%) VMware
8 1 (1.05%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.05%) Citrix
8 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.05%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.05%) New Relic
8 1 (1.05%) Okta
8 1 (1.05%) Oracle
8 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.05%) Temenos