Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ARM Templates skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 592 716
Rank change year-on-year -69 +124 -46
Permanent jobs citing ARM Templates 87 82 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 0.92% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 72 53 144
10th Percentile £53,498 £51,500 £56,333
25th Percentile £58,438 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £82,813 £91,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £102,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -7.14%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,188 8,919 20,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 18.15% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7,603 5,899 15,163
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -10.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

ARM Templates
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ARM Templates relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

ARM Templates job vacancy trend in the UK

ARM Templates
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ARM Templates.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ARM Templates

ARM Templates
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ARM Templates within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -66 87 £67,500 -6.90% 39
UK excluding London -40 67 £67,500 +3.85% 42
Work from Home -6 39 £72,250 +3.21% 35
South East +5 33 £70,000 - 11
North of England -20 28 £67,500 -6.90% 10
London -58 19 £60,000 -34.07% 6
Yorkshire -23 12 £82,500 +32.00% 3
North West -12 8 £67,250 -14.60% 5
North East - 8 £59,000 - 2
South West -61 5 £57,500 -12.88% 7
Midlands -39 1 £75,000 +20.00% 2
East Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 2

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 6 (6.90%) Confluence
1 6 (6.90%) IIS
1 6 (6.90%) nginx
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Drupal
3 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (63.22%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (37.93%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (22.99%) IaaS
4 20 (22.99%) PaaS
5 19 (21.84%) AWS
5 19 (21.84%) Azure Functions
5 19 (21.84%) Serverless
6 18 (20.69%) Azure AKS
7 17 (19.54%) Entra ID
8 12 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (12.64%) GitHub
10 10 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (11.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (11.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (10.34%) SaaS
12 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (8.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (8.05%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.09%) VPN
2 12 (13.79%) Firewall
3 8 (9.20%) DNS
4 6 (6.90%) DHCP
4 6 (6.90%) LAN
4 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.45%) BGP
5 3 (3.45%) HTTP
5 3 (3.45%) OSPF
5 3 (3.45%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.45%) WAN
5 3 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.64%) Spark SQL
3 10 (11.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.15%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.15%) Metadata
5 1 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Git
2 10 (11.49%) GitLab
3 8 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.20%) JIRA
4 5 (5.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.30%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.30%) NUnit
5 2 (2.30%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.30%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.15%) Gatling
6 1 (1.15%) JMeter
6 1 (1.15%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Finance
3 9 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Advertising
7 2 (2.30%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) Senior
4 13 (14.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Lead
4 13 (14.94%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (13.79%) Data Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Lead Data Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Site Engineer
6 11 (12.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 10 (11.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.34%) CloudOps Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (8.05%) Architect
10 7 (8.05%) Azure Architect
10 7 (8.05%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
11 6 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.39%) .NET
2 13 (14.94%) YAML
3 11 (12.64%) PySpark
3 11 (12.64%) REST
4 5 (5.75%) ADO
4 5 (5.75%) Loki
5 3 (3.45%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.30%) OpenID
6 2 (2.30%) RESTful
7 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.15%) Kafka
7 1 (1.15%) Memcached
7 1 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.29%) Linux
1 22 (25.29%) Windows
2 14 (16.09%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.20%) Ubuntu
4 7 (8.05%) CentOS
4 7 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.75%) VMS
5 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.15%) SUSE
6 1 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (91.95%) DevOps
2 70 (80.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (79.31%) CI/CD
4 36 (41.38%) Platform Engineering
5 35 (40.23%) Observability
6 28 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (28.74%) Containerisation
8 22 (25.29%) Cost Optimisation
9 21 (24.14%) Agile
9 21 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (22.99%) Analytics
10 20 (22.99%) Cloud Security
10 20 (22.99%) Infrastructure Automation
11 17 (19.54%) AI
11 17 (19.54%) Computer Science
11 17 (19.54%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (19.54%) Identity Access Management
12 16 (18.39%) RBAC
13 15 (17.24%) Enterprise Architecture
13 15 (17.24%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 54 (62.07%) PowerShell
2 51 (58.62%) Python
3 45 (51.72%) Bicep
4 25 (28.74%) Bash
4 25 (28.74%) SQL
5 17 (19.54%) C#
6 9 (10.34%) PHP
7 1 (1.15%) Perl
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Azure Certification
1 17 (19.54%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (19.54%) Degree
2 15 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.45%) CCNA
4 3 (3.45%) CCNP
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) GDPR
2 11 (12.64%) NIST
3 8 (9.20%) PCI DSS
4 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (5.75%) QA
6 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Docker
2 21 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 10 (11.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 76 (87.36%) Terraform
2 46 (52.87%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.64%) Ansible
3 11 (12.64%) Grafana
3 11 (12.64%) Prometheus
4 7 (8.05%) Nagios
5 5 (5.75%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (5.75%) Podman
6 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.30%) Argo
7 2 (2.30%) Istio
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.30%) MIIS
8 1 (1.15%) Cilium
8 1 (1.15%) Consul
8 1 (1.15%) linkerd
8 1 (1.15%) Packer
8 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) Databricks
3 7 (8.05%) SolarWinds
3 7 (8.05%) Splunk
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (2.30%) Apple
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.15%) VMware