Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ARM Templates skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ARM Templates over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 540 784 631
Rank change year-on-year +244 -153 -81
Permanent jobs citing ARM Templates 188 314 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.25% 0.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.32% 0.76% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 167 232 347
10th Percentile £56,525 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +1.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,449 £101,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,351 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.56% +1.63% +2.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ARM Templates is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,242 41,228 50,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.45% 32.62% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,171 24,746 32,182
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ARM Templates over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 13 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 30 November 2023. 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 +253 176 £75,000 -3.23% 53
London +219 95 £82,500 +3.13% 18
Work from Home +127 90 £72,500 +3.57% 28
UK excluding London +242 84 £65,351 +4.56% 37
North of England +141 25 £65,351 +1.32% 7
South West +90 25 £71,250 +68.27% 8
South East +160 23 £56,525 -33.50% 10
North West +112 18 £75,000 -
Yorkshire +75 7 £65,351 +54.34% 6
West Midlands +129 5 £57,500 - 8
Midlands +122 5 £57,500 -2.13% 10
Scotland +58 5 £79,064 +58.13% 2
Wales - 1 £57,500 -

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 5 (2.66%) IIS
2 4 (2.13%) Apache
2 4 (2.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.60%) MS Exchange
3 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 185 (98.40%) Azure
2 128 (68.09%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (42.02%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (32.45%) IaaS
5 58 (30.85%) PaaS
6 43 (22.87%) Azure Monitor
7 42 (22.34%) Entra ID
8 34 (18.09%) Azure Storage
9 32 (17.02%) Azure AKS
10 25 (13.30%) AWS
11 22 (11.70%) Serverless
12 21 (11.17%) GCP
13 18 (9.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 18 (9.57%) Pulumi
14 15 (7.98%) Azure App Service
14 15 (7.98%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (7.45%) Datadog
16 13 (6.91%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (6.91%) SaaS
17 12 (6.38%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.36%) VPN
2 26 (13.83%) DNS
3 25 (13.30%) Firewall
4 23 (12.23%) NGFW
5 18 (9.57%) Network Security
6 14 (7.45%) DHCP
7 3 (1.60%) SAN
7 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.06%) BGP
9 1 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.53%) Internet
9 1 (0.53%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (7.98%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.38%) InterSystems Cache
4 6 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.06%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.06%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.06%) MySQL
7 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (14.36%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.04%) Git
3 14 (7.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (4.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (2.66%) Gatling
5 5 (2.66%) GitLab
5 5 (2.66%) JUnit
5 5 (2.66%) LoadRunner
5 5 (2.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (2.66%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.13%) JIRA
7 3 (1.60%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 34 (18.09%) Finance
2 31 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 17 (9.04%) Banking
4 16 (8.51%) Law
4 16 (8.51%) Retail
5 14 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.66%) Billing
7 4 (2.13%) Legal
8 3 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Electronics
9 2 (1.06%) Police
9 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (38.83%) Azure Engineer
2 61 (32.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (20.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 39 (20.74%) Senior
4 38 (20.21%) Architect
5 36 (19.15%) Cloud Architect
6 24 (12.77%) Citrix Architect
6 24 (12.77%) Senior DevOps
7 23 (12.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (11.70%) Lead
9 21 (11.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 21 (11.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.91%) Active Directory Support
10 13 (6.91%) Azure Architect
10 13 (6.91%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (5.32%) Active Directory Specialist
13 10 (5.32%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.32%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.87%) YAML
2 38 (20.21%) JSON
3 15 (7.98%) .NET
3 15 (7.98%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.66%) React
4 5 (2.66%) Web Services
5 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.06%) ADO
6 2 (1.06%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.06%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.53%) LDAP
7 1 (0.53%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.15%) Public Cloud
2 26 (13.83%) Private Cloud
3 16 (8.51%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (8.51%) PKI
4 7 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.66%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.60%) W3C
9 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.06%) Tandem
10 1 (0.53%) CBDC
10 1 (0.53%) Cybercrime
10 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (23.94%) Windows
2 37 (19.68%) Windows Server
3 19 (10.11%) Linux
4 13 (6.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (3.19%) VMS
7 4 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (87.23%) DevOps
2 109 (57.98%) CI/CD
3 108 (57.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (48.40%) Agile
5 43 (22.87%) Network Virtualisation
6 35 (18.62%) Mentoring
7 31 (16.49%) Analytics
7 31 (16.49%) Log Analytics
8 30 (15.96%) SDLC
9 29 (15.43%) Microservices
10 27 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (13.83%) Configuration Management
12 23 (12.23%) Network Design
12 23 (12.23%) Scrum
12 23 (12.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 21 (11.17%) Cloud Security
13 21 (11.17%) Migration
14 20 (10.64%) Containerisation
14 20 (10.64%) ITIL
15 19 (10.11%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (80.32%) PowerShell
2 58 (30.85%) Bicep
3 47 (25.00%) Bash
4 42 (22.34%) Python
5 34 (18.09%) SQL
6 25 (13.30%) C#
7 23 (12.23%) Groovy
8 16 (8.51%) VB
9 14 (7.45%) Ruby
10 13 (6.91%) VBScript
11 9 (4.79%) Java
12 5 (2.66%) Go
12 5 (2.66%) JavaScript
12 5 (2.66%) Scala
13 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.53%) C++
14 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (12.23%) Azure Certification
2 21 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.57%) Degree
3 18 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.45%) DV Cleared
6 13 (6.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.60%) MCSE
8 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.06%) CISM
10 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.53%) CCNA
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.19%) SLA
2 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.13%) QA
4 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (31.38%) Active Directory
2 52 (27.66%) Virtual Machines
3 40 (21.28%) Docker
4 38 (20.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 33 (17.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 26 (13.83%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (12.23%) vSphere
8 8 (4.26%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 94 (50.00%) Terraform
2 70 (37.23%) Kubernetes
3 22 (11.70%) Ansible
4 21 (11.17%) Puppet
5 18 (9.57%) Grafana
6 17 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (9.04%) Progress Chef
7 16 (8.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 15 (7.98%) Prometheus
9 14 (7.45%) SCOM
9 14 (7.45%) WSUS
10 13 (6.91%) SCCM
11 5 (2.66%) Istio
11 5 (2.66%) Nagios
12 3 (1.60%) Cacti
12 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.06%) Norton AntiVirus
13 2 (1.06%) Packer
14 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 90 (47.87%) Microsoft
2 44 (23.40%) VMware
3 38 (20.21%) Citrix
4 14 (7.45%) New Relic
4 14 (7.45%) SaltStack
5 13 (6.91%) SolarWinds
6 6 (3.19%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.66%) Commvault
7 5 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.66%) Google
7 5 (2.66%) HP
7 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.13%) Okta
8 4 (2.13%) Sonatype
9 3 (1.60%) NetApp
9 3 (1.60%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (1.60%) Veeam
10 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.06%) Symantec
10 2 (1.06%) Veritas