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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 526 557
Rank change year-on-year +79 +31 -79
Contract jobs citing ARM Templates 128 157 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.41% 1.22% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 99 170
10th Percentile £425 £425 £413
25th Percentile £502 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £618
90th Percentile £688 £715 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +15.24% - +2.44%

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +67 108 £605 +10.00% 34
Work from Home +120 81 £605 +18.05% 29
London +84 57 £520 -8.77% 8
UK excluding London +37 52 £605 +15.24% 32
South East +33 39 £605 +21.00% 5
North of England +11 5 £600 +9.09% 13
North West +12 4 £600 +11.63% 6
South West +6 4 £525 -12.50% 5
Scotland +37 2 £427 - 6
Midlands +18 2 £485 -0.51% 3
Yorkshire +15 1 £463 -15.91% 5
West Midlands +12 1 £345 -40.00% 3
East Midlands +9 1 £625 +51.52%

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 20 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 128 (100.00%) Azure
2 75 (58.59%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (32.03%) Azure Monitor
4 33 (25.78%) AWS
5 30 (23.44%) Entra ID
6 28 (21.88%) Azure Storage
7 24 (18.75%) Serverless
8 23 (17.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 22 (17.19%) Azure Functions
9 22 (17.19%) PaaS
10 20 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (14.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (12.50%) SaaS
13 15 (11.72%) IaaS
14 14 (10.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (10.94%) GitHub
15 12 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (8.59%) Azure API Management
16 11 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (20.31%) Firewall
2 23 (17.97%) DNS
3 20 (15.63%) DHCP
4 3 (2.34%) Network Security
4 3 (2.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.44%) SQL Server
2 29 (22.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (10.16%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.47%) OLTP
7 6 (4.69%) Big Data
8 4 (3.13%) Parquet
8 4 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.56%) Power Query
9 2 (1.56%) Redis
9 2 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.78%) MySQL
10 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (17.19%) SonarQube
2 21 (16.41%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.50%) Git
3 16 (12.50%) GitLab
4 13 (10.16%) Selenium
5 12 (9.38%) Cucumber
5 12 (9.38%) JIRA
5 12 (9.38%) REST Assured
6 8 (6.25%) Visual Studio
7 7 (5.47%) Visual Studio Team System
8 4 (3.13%) Deequ
8 4 (3.13%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.78%) Appium
10 1 (0.78%) Maven
10 1 (0.78%) MSTest
10 1 (0.78%) NUnit
10 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.59%) Law
3 11 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.03%) Finance
5 8 (6.25%) Police
6 2 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Back Office
7 1 (0.78%) Billing
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (32.03%) Azure Engineer
2 28 (21.88%) Developer
3 22 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (16.41%) Senior
5 20 (15.63%) Active Directory Support
6 17 (13.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 17 (13.28%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (10.94%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (10.94%) Support Specialist
8 12 (9.38%) Senior Developer
9 11 (8.59%) Architect
10 9 (7.03%) Azure Developer
10 9 (7.03%) Data Engineer
10 9 (7.03%) Software Developer
11 8 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (5.47%) Azure Architect
12 7 (5.47%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (4.69%) Active Directory Engineer
13 6 (4.69%) Active Directory Support Engineer
13 6 (4.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.41%) XML
2 19 (14.84%) JSON
3 18 (14.06%) .NET
4 16 (12.50%) REST
5 12 (9.38%) Java EE
6 11 (8.59%) Azure Blueprints
7 8 (6.25%) Web Services
8 7 (5.47%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.47%) PySpark
9 6 (4.69%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.69%) OAuth
9 6 (4.69%) OpenID
9 6 (4.69%) SOAP
10 5 (3.91%) CSS
10 5 (3.91%) Entity Framework
10 5 (3.91%) jQuery
10 5 (3.91%) React
11 4 (3.13%) Apache Avro
11 4 (3.13%) RESTful
11 4 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) PKI
1 20 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (7.81%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.47%) Contactless
4 4 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.34%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.53%) Windows
2 24 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 23 (17.97%) Linux
4 20 (15.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (15.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.56%) Unix
5 2 (1.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.78%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (88.28%) DevOps
2 80 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 71 (55.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (44.53%) Agile
5 36 (28.13%) Test Automation
6 34 (26.56%) Analytics
7 33 (25.78%) Log Analytics
8 32 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 31 (24.22%) Release Management
10 30 (23.44%) Software Engineering
11 28 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (20.31%) RBAC
13 25 (19.53%) Scrum
14 24 (18.75%) Identity Management
14 24 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 23 (17.97%) Deployment Automation
16 21 (16.41%) Service Management
17 20 (15.63%) ITIL
17 20 (15.63%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.94%) PowerShell
2 42 (32.81%) Bicep
3 39 (30.47%) C#
4 27 (21.09%) SQL
5 21 (16.41%) VB
6 20 (15.63%) VBScript
7 19 (14.84%) Java
7 19 (14.84%) Python
8 9 (7.03%) Bash
9 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
10 5 (3.91%) T-SQL
11 4 (3.13%) Scala
12 1 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (44.53%) Security Cleared
2 55 (42.97%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.75%) Degree
4 23 (17.97%) DV Cleared
5 20 (15.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (10.94%) Azure Certification
7 10 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.81%) NCSC
2 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.78%) NIST
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (28.13%) Docker
2 31 (24.22%) Active Directory
2 31 (24.22%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (16.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (58.59%) Terraform
2 60 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 26 (20.31%) Ansible
4 20 (15.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (15.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (15.63%) SCCM
4 20 (15.63%) SCOM
4 20 (15.63%) WSUS
5 12 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (9.38%) Podman
6 1 (0.78%) Grafana
6 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (42.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.25%) Databricks
3 4 (3.13%) Oracle
4 3 (2.34%) SAP
4 3 (2.34%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) BMC
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco
6 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.78%) New Relic
6 1 (0.78%) Nintex
6 1 (0.78%) Remedy
6 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk
6 1 (0.78%) Sun
6 1 (0.78%) Sybase
6 1 (0.78%) VMware