ARM Templates Contracts

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ARM Templates skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ARM Templates over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 433 450 537
Rank change year-on-year +17 +87 +34
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 106 131 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.55% 1.42% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 98 101
10th Percentile £363 £428 £425
25th Percentile £400 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £544 £650 £625
90th Percentile £715 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 6,843 9,254 12,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.79% 21.21% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,665 6,354 9,207
10th Percentile £356 £350 £390
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 280 152
10th Percentile £29.11 £22.45 £30.08
25th Percentile £39.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +26.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £80.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £57.13 £64.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% -11.43% +17.27%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ARM Templates as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Daily rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ARM Templates.

Hourly rate trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 14 Contract 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 23 June 2025. 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 +52 93 £450 -25.62% 176
London +50 56 £440 -16.19% 91
UK excluding London +25 39 £500 -17.36% 88
Work from Home -17 34 £498 -17.77% 87
South East +24 16 £501 -17.27% 35
South West +51 11 £390 -27.44% 10
North of England +19 8 £525 -12.50% 23
North West +4 5 £450 -25.00% 16
Scotland +4 3 £513 +20.16% 2
West Midlands +12 2 £558 +61.59% 7
Midlands +7 2 £558 +14.95% 10
Yorkshire +4 2 £525 +13.51% 7
North East - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £751 - 8

ARM Templates
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (45.28%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (28.30%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (25.47%) AWS
4 27 (25.47%) Azure AKS
5 26 (24.53%) Serverless
6 24 (22.64%) Azure Storage
7 20 (18.87%) Entra ID
8 17 (16.04%) PaaS
9 16 (15.09%) IaaS
10 15 (14.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (14.15%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (13.21%) SaaS
12 12 (11.32%) GitHub
13 11 (10.38%) Azure Functions
14 10 (9.43%) Azure App Service
15 9 (8.49%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (8.49%) GCP
15 9 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (8.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.04%) Firewall
2 7 (6.60%) Network Security
2 7 (6.60%) VPN
3 1 (0.94%) DHCP
3 1 (0.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.72%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.72%) Power BI
4 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.83%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.83%) MySQL
5 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.83%) Power Query
5 3 (2.83%) Redis
6 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.94%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Jenkins
2 14 (13.21%) JIRA
3 11 (10.38%) GitLab
3 11 (10.38%) SonarQube
4 9 (8.49%) Cucumber
4 9 (8.49%) REST Assured
4 9 (8.49%) Selenium
5 6 (5.66%) Git
6 5 (4.72%) NUnit
7 2 (1.89%) Gradle
7 2 (1.89%) Maven
7 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.26%) Finance
4 13 (12.26%) Law
5 5 (4.72%) Marketing
6 4 (3.77%) Police
7 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Games
8 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (28.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (20.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 21 (19.81%) Architect
5 19 (17.92%) Azure Architect
6 17 (16.04%) Developer
7 12 (11.32%) Senior
8 10 (9.43%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (6.60%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Lead
10 5 (4.72%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Site Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.98%) .NET
2 14 (13.21%) ADO
2 14 (13.21%) YAML
3 11 (10.38%) .NET Core
4 10 (9.43%) REST
5 9 (8.49%) Java EE
6 7 (6.60%) JSON
6 7 (6.60%) React
7 6 (5.66%) Node.js
7 6 (5.66%) RESTful
8 5 (4.72%) ASP.NET
8 5 (4.72%) OAuth
8 5 (4.72%) OpenID
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Blueprints
10 3 (2.83%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (2.83%) XML
11 2 (1.89%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.89%) Entity Framework
11 2 (1.89%) Kafka
11 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.83%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.83%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.89%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.94%) Life Science
7 1 (0.94%) PKI
7 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.15%) Linux
2 10 (9.43%) Windows
3 5 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.94%) Solaris
5 1 (0.94%) Unix
5 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (80.19%) Infrastructure as Code
2 82 (77.36%) DevOps
3 53 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 32 (30.19%) Agile
5 29 (27.36%) Containerisation
6 25 (23.58%) Migration
6 25 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (21.70%) Analytics
7 23 (21.70%) Infrastructure Automation
8 21 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (19.81%) RBAC
8 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
9 18 (16.98%) Cloud Security
9 18 (16.98%) Log Analytics
10 17 (16.04%) Microservices
11 15 (14.15%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (12.26%) Software Engineering
13 12 (11.32%) API Management
13 12 (11.32%) Configuration Management
14 11 (10.38%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.51%) Bicep
2 35 (33.02%) PowerShell
3 30 (28.30%) Python
4 28 (26.42%) Bash
5 26 (24.53%) SQL
6 19 (17.92%) C#
7 15 (14.15%) Java
8 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.89%) Scala
11 1 (0.94%) Korn
11 1 (0.94%) VB
11 1 (0.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.98%) Azure Certification
4 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.83%) Degree
6 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) Accessibility
1 6 (5.66%) QA
2 5 (4.72%) GDPR
3 4 (3.77%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.89%) WCAG
5 1 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.94%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.94%) GxP
5 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (33.02%) Docker
2 16 (15.09%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (12.26%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (77.36%) Terraform
2 51 (48.11%) Kubernetes
3 19 (17.92%) Ansible
4 10 (9.43%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (8.49%) Grafana
5 9 (8.49%) Podman
5 9 (8.49%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.77%) Puppet
6 4 (3.77%) Salt
7 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.94%) Consul
9 1 (0.94%) Istio
9 1 (0.94%) SCCM
9 1 (0.94%) SCOM
9 1 (0.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.77%) Databricks
3 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.94%) Google
4 1 (0.94%) NetApp
4 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.94%) Splunk