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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 465 473
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +58
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 106 72 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.23% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.26% 1.02% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 39 98
10th Percentile £406 £420 £362
25th Percentile £413 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £551 £719 £608
90th Percentile £600 £745 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £513
% change year-on-year -2.70% -9.76% -6.82%

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 8,412 7,066 9,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.25% 22.29% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,607 4,496 6,521
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £772 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 92 181
10th Percentile £33.00 £22.31 £26.88
25th Percentile £46.25 £36.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.97 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £63.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.39% +15.91% -15.38%

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 January 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 22 January 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 -11 97 £450 -14.08% 91
London -12 45 £475 -9.52% 2
UK excluding London -52 45 £450 -2.70% 96
South West +1 18 £450 - 15
Work from Home -9 18 £513 -2.38% 10
South East -27 13 £425 -19.05% 23
North of England -58 10 £575 +27.78% 23
Yorkshire -48 6 £588 +19.90% 11
North West -27 4 £450 - 10
Midlands -48 4 £494 +43.12% 16
West Midlands -45 2 £575 +66.67% 3
East Midlands - 2 £413 - 11

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 1 (0.94%) IIS
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 104 (98.11%) Azure
2 73 (68.87%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (34.91%) GitHub
4 35 (33.02%) Entra ID
5 32 (30.19%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (22.64%) Serverless
7 22 (20.75%) Azure AKS
8 21 (19.81%) PaaS
9 20 (18.87%) Azure Functions
10 18 (16.98%) AWS
11 14 (13.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 14 (13.21%) IaaS
12 13 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (12.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (11.32%) Azure API Management
13 12 (11.32%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (8.49%) Azure Service Fabric
14 9 (8.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.15%) VPN
2 11 (10.38%) Firewall
3 4 (3.77%) Network Security
4 2 (1.89%) DNS
4 2 (1.89%) LAN
4 2 (1.89%) MPLS
4 2 (1.89%) SSL
4 2 (1.89%) WAN
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.94%) DHCP
5 1 (0.94%) DKIM
5 1 (0.94%) DMARC
5 1 (0.94%) DMZ
5 1 (0.94%) Internet
5 1 (0.94%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.94%) SMTP
5 1 (0.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.72%) Power BI
3 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.83%) Tableau
5 2 (1.89%) Metadata
5 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.94%) KNIME
6 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.66%) GitLab
3 6 (5.66%) JIRA
4 3 (2.83%) Gradle
4 3 (2.83%) Maven
4 3 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.94%) PowerBuilder
General
1 34 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Finance
5 6 (5.66%) Legal
6 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Billing
8 2 (1.89%) Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (44.34%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (31.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (18.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Architect
6 8 (7.55%) Azure Architect
6 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Senior
7 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Azure Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Lead
10 4 (3.77%) Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Active Directory Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (2.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) .NET
2 14 (13.21%) YAML
3 11 (10.38%) REST
4 9 (8.49%) Entity Framework
5 6 (5.66%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.66%) SailPoint
6 5 (4.72%) React
7 4 (3.77%) Node.js
7 4 (3.77%) OAuth
7 4 (3.77%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.77%) OpenID
7 4 (3.77%) PySpark
8 3 (2.83%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.83%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.83%) RESTful
8 3 (2.83%) SAML
9 2 (1.89%) Kafka
9 2 (1.89%) Next.js
9 2 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.58%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.49%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.60%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.72%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) IoT
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.94%) PKI
8 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Windows
2 5 (4.72%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Solaris
3 3 (2.83%) Unix
3 3 (2.83%) VMS
3 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.94%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (83.96%) DevOps
2 83 (78.30%) CI/CD
3 77 (72.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (33.02%) Analytics
5 31 (29.25%) Containerisation
6 29 (27.36%) RBAC
7 26 (24.53%) Agile
8 23 (21.70%) Log Analytics
8 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (19.81%) Identity Access Management
9 21 (19.81%) Migration
10 20 (18.87%) Cloud Security
10 20 (18.87%) Microservices
11 18 (16.98%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (16.04%) High Availability
13 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (13.21%) AI
14 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (12.26%) Data Engineering
15 13 (12.26%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.28%) Bicep
2 39 (36.79%) PowerShell
3 28 (26.42%) Python
4 27 (25.47%) SQL
5 16 (15.09%) Bash
6 15 (14.15%) JavaScript
7 11 (10.38%) C#
8 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.83%) Java
9 3 (2.83%) PHP
9 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.94%) C
10 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.94%) ProC
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (38.68%) Azure Certification
2 39 (36.79%) Security Cleared
3 38 (35.85%) SC Cleared
4 19 (17.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.55%) CISM
5 8 (7.55%) CISSP
5 8 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 7 (6.60%) Degree
7 3 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (8.49%) NIST
3 8 (7.55%) NIST 800
4 5 (4.72%) NCSC
5 4 (3.77%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.89%) QA
8 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.94%) GDPR
8 1 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 39 (36.79%) Docker
2 24 (22.64%) Active Directory
3 9 (8.49%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (80.19%) Terraform
2 41 (38.68%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.77%) Ansible
5 4 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.83%) Grafana
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.94%) Istio
8 1 (0.94%) Puppet
8 1 (0.94%) SCCM
8 1 (0.94%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 56 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.92%) Databricks
3 11 (10.38%) Red Hat
4 9 (8.49%) IBM
5 6 (5.66%) NetApp
6 3 (2.83%) Google
7 2 (1.89%) Alibaba
7 2 (1.89%) Cisco
7 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.89%) Splunk
8 1 (0.94%) Citrix
8 1 (0.94%) Okta
8 1 (0.94%) Oracle
8 1 (0.94%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.94%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.94%) Sophos
8 1 (0.94%) Tenable
8 1 (0.94%) VMware