ARM Templates Contracts

Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM Templates)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ARM Templates skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ARM Templates over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 529 564
Rank change year-on-year +76 +35 -108
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 121 172 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.36% 1.30% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 107 187
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £618
90th Percentile £688 £688 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,901 13,257 23,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.92% 23.22% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,172 9,669 17,311
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 150 242
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.58 £22.75
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.13 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.36% +28.36% +11.67%

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 15 May 2024.

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 13 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 15 May 2024. 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 +55 101 £605 +13.88% 38
Work from Home +121 80 £605 +18.05% 24
London +73 51 £500 -13.04% 18
UK excluding London +45 50 £605 +21.00% 22
South East +35 38 £605 +21.00% 5
North of England +13 5 £600 +14.29% 7
South West +20 4 £525 -12.50% 2
North West +13 4 £600 +20.00% 3
Midlands +25 2 £485 -7.62% 5
Scotland +46 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +18 1 £463 -15.91% 3
West Midlands +16 1 £345 -40.00% 2
East Midlands +11 1 £625 +19.05% 3

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 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.48%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 121 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (59.50%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (33.06%) Azure Monitor
4 32 (26.45%) AWS
5 25 (20.66%) Azure Storage
6 24 (19.83%) Entra ID
7 23 (19.01%) PaaS
7 23 (19.01%) Serverless
8 22 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
9 21 (17.36%) Azure Functions
10 18 (14.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (14.05%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (14.05%) SaaS
12 16 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (12.40%) IaaS
14 13 (10.74%) Azure API Management
15 12 (9.92%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (9.92%) GitHub
16 11 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.18%) Firewall
2 20 (16.53%) DNS
3 17 (14.05%) DHCP
4 2 (1.65%) Network Security
4 2 (1.65%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.79%) SQL Server
2 28 (23.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (10.74%) Data Lake
4 10 (8.26%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (5.79%) OLTP
7 6 (4.96%) Big Data
8 4 (3.31%) Parquet
8 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.65%) Power Query
9 2 (1.65%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.83%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.83%) MySQL
10 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 22 (18.18%) SonarQube
2 16 (13.22%) Git
2 16 (13.22%) GitLab
3 13 (10.74%) Selenium
4 12 (9.92%) Cucumber
4 12 (9.92%) JIRA
4 12 (9.92%) REST Assured
5 10 (8.26%) Visual Studio
6 7 (5.79%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (4.13%) TeamCity
8 4 (3.31%) Deequ
9 2 (1.65%) Maven
9 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.83%) Appium
10 1 (0.83%) Gradle
10 1 (0.83%) gulp
10 1 (0.83%) MSTest
10 1 (0.83%) NUnit
10 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.09%) Law
5 8 (6.61%) Police
6 7 (5.79%) Finance
7 1 (0.83%) Back Office
7 1 (0.83%) Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Billing
7 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (28.93%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (22.31%) Developer
3 23 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.70%) Senior
5 17 (14.05%) Active Directory Support
5 17 (14.05%) Azure Specialist
6 16 (13.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (11.57%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (11.57%) Support Specialist
8 12 (9.92%) Architect
8 12 (9.92%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Azure Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Data Engineer
9 9 (7.44%) Software Developer
10 8 (6.61%) Senior Software Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Azure Architect
11 7 (5.79%) Azure Data Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) Lead
12 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.01%) XML
2 21 (17.36%) JSON
3 18 (14.88%) .NET
3 18 (14.88%) REST
4 12 (9.92%) Java EE
5 10 (8.26%) Azure Blueprints
6 7 (5.79%) PySpark
6 7 (5.79%) YAML
7 6 (4.96%) OAuth
7 6 (4.96%) OpenID
7 6 (4.96%) SOAP
7 6 (4.96%) Web Services
8 5 (4.13%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.13%) Entity Framework
8 5 (4.13%) React
9 4 (3.31%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.31%) Apache Avro
9 4 (3.31%) Great Expectations
9 4 (3.31%) JSON Schema
10 3 (2.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.05%) PKI
1 17 (14.05%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.26%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.79%) Contactless
4 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.48%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.01%) Windows
2 21 (17.36%) Windows Server
3 19 (15.70%) Linux
4 17 (14.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (14.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.65%) Unix
5 2 (1.65%) VMS
6 1 (0.83%) CentOS
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (88.43%) DevOps
2 75 (61.98%) CI/CD
3 64 (52.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (38.02%) Agile
5 36 (29.75%) Test Automation
6 30 (24.79%) Software Engineering
7 29 (23.97%) Analytics
7 29 (23.97%) Log Analytics
8 28 (23.14%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (23.14%) Release Management
9 26 (21.49%) Containerisation
10 23 (19.01%) Scrum
11 22 (18.18%) RBAC
12 21 (17.36%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (16.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (15.70%) Identity Management
15 18 (14.88%) Continuous Delivery
15 18 (14.88%) Service Management
16 17 (14.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 75 (61.98%) PowerShell
2 37 (30.58%) Bicep
2 37 (30.58%) C#
3 29 (23.97%) SQL
4 20 (16.53%) Java
5 18 (14.88%) Python
5 18 (14.88%) VB
6 17 (14.05%) VBScript
7 10 (8.26%) Bash
8 5 (4.13%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.31%) Scala
10 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.83%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) Groovy
11 1 (0.83%) Perl
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.83%) Ruby
11 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (42.15%) Security Cleared
2 50 (41.32%) SC Cleared
3 22 (18.18%) Degree
4 20 (16.53%) DV Cleared
5 17 (14.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) NCSC
2 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 31 (25.62%) Docker
2 27 (22.31%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (20.66%) Active Directory
4 18 (14.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (57.02%) Terraform
2 52 (42.98%) Kubernetes
3 25 (20.66%) Ansible
4 19 (15.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (14.05%) SCCM
5 17 (14.05%) SCOM
5 17 (14.05%) WSUS
6 12 (9.92%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (9.92%) Podman
7 3 (2.48%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.83%) Grafana
9 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (46.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.61%) Databricks
3 4 (3.31%) Oracle
4 3 (2.48%) SAP
4 3 (2.48%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.83%) BMC
5 1 (0.83%) Cisco
5 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) Nintex
5 1 (0.83%) Remedy
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.83%) Splunk
5 1 (0.83%) Sybase
5 1 (0.83%) VMware