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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 453 468
Rank change year-on-year -67 +15 +85
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 111 69 124
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.18% 1.05% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 93
10th Percentile £400 £400 £378
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £574 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £749 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £605
% change year-on-year -2.49% -15.25% +21.00%

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 9,417 6,577 8,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.63% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,273 4,491 6,268
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 99 176
10th Percentile £35.05 £26.25 £20.49
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.13 £34.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.95 £73.13
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 April 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 April 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 -70 101 £491 -4.01% 23
UK excluding London -75 49 £500 -2.49% 13
London -51 46 £492 -1.60% 10
Work from Home -31 24 £513 -12.77% 11
South East -49 17 £425 -23.11% 2
North of England -61 15 £572 +27.11% 8
South West -16 12 £500 +11.11% 1
North West -30 9 £566 +25.78% 3
Yorkshire - 6 £600 - 2
Scotland +8 3 £800 +52.38%
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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) IIS
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 75 (67.57%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (38.74%) Azure Monitor
4 38 (34.23%) Entra ID
5 31 (27.93%) GitHub
6 26 (23.42%) Azure AKS
7 23 (20.72%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (20.72%) PaaS
7 23 (20.72%) Serverless
8 20 (18.02%) Azure Functions
9 16 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (14.41%) IaaS
10 15 (13.51%) AWS
11 14 (12.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (11.71%) Azure API Management
12 13 (11.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (11.71%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (10.81%) Azure Storage
14 11 (9.91%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (9.91%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) VPN
2 11 (9.91%) Firewall
3 8 (7.21%) DNS
4 6 (5.41%) Network Security
5 4 (3.60%) DHCP
5 4 (3.60%) WAN
6 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.80%) LAN
7 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.80%) SSL
8 1 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.90%) DKIM
8 1 (0.90%) DMARC
8 1 (0.90%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.60%) Power BI
4 3 (2.70%) Spark SQL
4 3 (2.70%) Tableau
5 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.80%) Metadata
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) KNIME
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.90%) Parquet
6 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Redis
6 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) Git
2 11 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) GitLab
4 6 (5.41%) JIRA
5 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.90%) MLflow
6 1 (0.90%) Moq
6 1 (0.90%) NUnit
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.90%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.90%) Serilog
6 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.31%) Finance
5 6 (5.41%) Legal
6 5 (4.50%) Law
7 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Retail
9 2 (1.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (43.24%) Azure Engineer
2 38 (34.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (24.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.81%) Architect
5 11 (9.91%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Lead
6 9 (8.11%) Senior
7 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
9 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Software Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.70%) Lead DevOps
12 3 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.82%) YAML
2 17 (15.32%) .NET
3 14 (12.61%) REST
4 12 (10.81%) Entity Framework
5 7 (6.31%) .NET Core
5 7 (6.31%) SailPoint
6 6 (5.41%) OAuth
6 6 (5.41%) React
7 5 (4.50%) OAuth2
7 5 (4.50%) OpenID
8 4 (3.60%) Node.js
8 4 (3.60%) PySpark
8 4 (3.60%) SAML
9 3 (2.70%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.70%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.70%) JSON
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.80%) Kafka
10 2 (1.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.80%) IoT
7 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.90%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.90%) Replication
8 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
3 3 (2.70%) VMS
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (81.98%) DevOps
2 84 (75.68%) CI/CD
3 81 (72.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (35.14%) Analytics
5 36 (32.43%) Containerisation
6 32 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (27.93%) Identity Access Management
8 30 (27.03%) RBAC
9 28 (25.23%) Log Analytics
10 21 (18.92%) Agile
11 20 (18.02%) Microservices
12 18 (16.22%) AI
12 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
12 18 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (15.32%) Cloud Security
14 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (13.51%) B2C
15 15 (13.51%) Observability
16 14 (12.61%) Data Engineering
16 14 (12.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (42.34%) Bicep
1 47 (42.34%) PowerShell
2 43 (38.74%) Python
3 32 (28.83%) SQL
4 23 (20.72%) Bash
5 12 (10.81%) C#
6 11 (9.91%) JavaScript
7 7 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.60%) Java
9 3 (2.70%) C
9 3 (2.70%) PHP
10 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) ProC
10 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.94%) Azure Certification
3 40 (36.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.21%) CISSP
6 7 (6.31%) CISM
6 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 5 (4.50%) Degree
8 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) CCNA
10 1 (0.90%) CCNP
10 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.21%) NIST
3 7 (6.31%) NIST 800
4 5 (4.50%) SOC 2
5 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.60%) GDPR
5 4 (3.60%) NCSC
6 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.80%) QA
6 2 (1.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.90%) GRC
7 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 45 (40.54%) Docker
2 27 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (76.58%) Terraform
2 40 (36.04%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.81%) Ansible
4 9 (8.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (7.21%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.60%) Grafana
6 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.60%) Puppet
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.90%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.90%) logstash
8 1 (0.90%) QRadar
8 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (55.86%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.82%) Databricks
3 9 (8.11%) IBM
4 7 (6.31%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.50%) Splunk
6 4 (3.60%) Google
7 3 (2.70%) Alibaba
7 3 (2.70%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco
8 2 (1.80%) Okta
8 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.90%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.90%) Cribl.io
9 1 (0.90%) Oracle
9 1 (0.90%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.90%) Sophos
9 1 (0.90%) Temenos
9 1 (0.90%) VMware