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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 773 695
Rank change year-on-year +50 -78 -154
Permanent jobs citing ARM Templates 183 220 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 0.70% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 152 177 305
10th Percentile £56,375 £50,000 £49,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +16.67%

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 21,080 31,272 63,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.38% 30.13% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15,747 19,246 30,345
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ARM Templates in the UK

ARM Templates
Top 14 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 176 £75,000 - 33
UK excluding London -5 93 £65,000 -10.34% 15
Work from Home +55 89 £70,000 -6.67% 20
London +124 77 £80,000 -4.76% 17
Midlands +25 33 £67,500 -6.90% 3
West Midlands +26 31 £70,000 -3.45% 2
South East -1 31 £59,000 -32.57% 4
North of England +27 15 £65,000 +4.00% 4
South West -18 11 £75,000 +36.36% 3
North West +14 8 £65,250 +4.40% 3
Yorkshire +57 5 £57,500 -9.80% 1
East of England +17 3 - -
North East -13 2 £63,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 - 1

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 27 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.19%) IIS
3 3 (1.64%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) nginx
4 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 177 (96.72%) Azure
2 119 (65.03%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (34.97%) PaaS
4 57 (31.15%) IaaS
4 57 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (19.67%) Azure Monitor
6 32 (17.49%) Entra ID
7 29 (15.85%) Azure Storage
8 28 (15.30%) Azure AKS
9 26 (14.21%) AWS
10 21 (11.48%) SaaS
11 17 (9.29%) Nutanix
11 17 (9.29%) Serverless
12 16 (8.74%) GCP
13 15 (8.20%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (7.65%) Pulumi
15 12 (6.56%) Azure Functions
15 12 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (6.56%) Power Platform
16 11 (6.01%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.77%) DNS
2 31 (16.94%) DHCP
3 18 (9.84%) Firewall
4 17 (9.29%) SAN
5 15 (8.20%) VPN
6 13 (7.10%) NGFW
7 11 (6.01%) Network Security
8 7 (3.83%) NetScaler
9 4 (2.19%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.09%) LAN
10 2 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.74%) Azure SQL Database
1 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.83%) MariaDB
3 7 (3.83%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.83%) MySQL
3 7 (3.83%) Redis
4 6 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.19%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.19%) Power BI
6 2 (1.09%) Big Data
6 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.55%) OLTP
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (15.30%) Git
2 26 (14.21%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 12 (6.56%) SonarQube
4 12 (6.56%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.83%) GitLab
5 7 (3.83%) Jasmine
5 7 (3.83%) NUnit
5 7 (3.83%) Selenium
5 7 (3.83%) Visual Studio
5 7 (3.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (2.73%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.55%) Gatling
7 1 (0.55%) JUnit
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 40 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.75%) Finance
3 23 (12.57%) Law
4 21 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.56%) Retail
7 9 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.92%) Marketing
8 4 (2.19%) Electronics
8 4 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.64%) Police
10 2 (1.09%) Back Office
10 2 (1.09%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (16.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (15.85%) Architect
3 28 (15.30%) Senior
4 25 (13.66%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (12.02%) Lead
6 21 (11.48%) Cloud Architect
7 15 (8.20%) Analyst
7 15 (8.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 15 (8.20%) DevOps Architect
7 15 (8.20%) Storage Specialist
8 14 (7.65%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (7.65%) Active Directory Support
8 14 (7.65%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (7.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Developer
8 14 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Support Specialist
9 13 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (7.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 13 (7.10%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.85%) JSON
2 27 (14.75%) YAML
3 18 (9.84%) .NET
4 15 (8.20%) Azure Blueprints
5 12 (6.56%) Entity Framework
6 10 (5.46%) .NET Framework
7 9 (4.92%) .NET Core
7 9 (4.92%) CSS
8 8 (4.37%) ASP.NET
8 8 (4.37%) HTML
9 7 (3.83%) HTML5
9 7 (3.83%) OpenID
9 7 (3.83%) React
9 7 (3.83%) RESTful
10 5 (2.73%) LDAP
11 4 (2.19%) REST
12 3 (1.64%) SailPoint
13 2 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 2 (1.09%) jQuery
13 2 (1.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.84%) PKI
2 16 (8.74%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (7.65%) Private Cloud
5 13 (7.10%) Public Cloud
5 13 (7.10%) Security Posture
6 11 (6.01%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.37%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.83%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.73%) Mobile App
11 4 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.64%) Cyberattack
12 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (1.09%) N-Tier
13 2 (1.09%) PropTech
13 2 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (26.23%) Windows
2 41 (22.40%) Windows Server
3 24 (13.11%) Linux
4 18 (9.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (9.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.92%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (83.61%) DevOps
2 106 (57.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (56.28%) CI/CD
4 73 (39.89%) Agile
5 42 (22.95%) Containerisation
6 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (15.85%) Analytics
8 28 (15.30%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (15.30%) Log Analytics
8 28 (15.30%) Network Virtualisation
9 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.66%) Identity Management
10 25 (13.66%) Microservices
10 25 (13.66%) Test Automation
11 24 (13.11%) SDLC
12 23 (12.57%) Release Management
13 22 (12.02%) ITIL
14 21 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (10.93%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (10.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 103 (56.28%) PowerShell
2 75 (40.98%) Bicep
3 38 (20.77%) C#
4 34 (18.58%) Bash
5 26 (14.21%) Python
6 24 (13.11%) SQL
7 21 (11.48%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.65%) VB
8 14 (7.65%) VBScript
9 12 (6.56%) Java
10 9 (4.92%) PHP
11 8 (4.37%) Go
11 8 (4.37%) Groovy
11 8 (4.37%) TypeScript
12 7 (3.83%) Ruby
13 2 (1.09%) Korn
13 2 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.58%) Azure Certification
3 31 (16.94%) SC Cleared
4 29 (15.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (12.02%) Degree
6 17 (9.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (8.20%) MCSE
8 14 (7.65%) DV Cleared
8 14 (7.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.09%) CCNA
10 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.55%) PMP
11 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.37%) NCSC
2 4 (2.19%) SLA
3 2 (1.09%) PMO
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (29.51%) Docker
2 53 (28.96%) Active Directory
3 42 (22.95%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (17.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (15.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (9.29%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (8.20%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (7.10%) vSphere
9 4 (2.19%) Firmware
10 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 113 (61.75%) Terraform
2 75 (40.98%) Kubernetes
3 24 (13.11%) Ansible
4 17 (9.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (8.74%) SCOM
5 16 (8.74%) WSUS
6 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (7.65%) SCCM
7 11 (6.01%) Progress Chef
7 11 (6.01%) Puppet
8 10 (5.46%) Grafana
9 9 (4.92%) Prometheus
10 7 (3.83%) MIIS
10 7 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.73%) Istio
12 4 (2.19%) PowerCLI
12 4 (2.19%) vCenter Server
12 4 (2.19%) vRealize
12 4 (2.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (1.09%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 106 (57.92%) Microsoft
2 44 (24.04%) VMware
3 33 (18.03%) Citrix
4 17 (9.29%) HP
4 17 (9.29%) Nimble Storage
5 15 (8.20%) Commvault
5 15 (8.20%) Veeam
6 14 (7.65%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.83%) New Relic
7 7 (3.83%) SaltStack
8 6 (3.28%) SAP
9 4 (2.19%) 3PAR
9 4 (2.19%) Brocade
9 4 (2.19%) Databricks
9 4 (2.19%) Google
9 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.64%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.64%) Cisco
10 3 (1.64%) Oracle
11 2 (1.09%) Nintex