Terraform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Terraform
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Terraform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Terraform over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 58 56
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Terraform 496 889 1,182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.44% 3.86% 3.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.33% 25.61% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 680 871
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £688 £715 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 1
10th Percentile £55.40 £53.42 -
25th Percentile £56.00 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +95.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £76.28 £80.40 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £73.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.66% +94.67% -28.57%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Terraform is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,325 3,471 4,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 15.08% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,721 2,526 2,961
10th Percentile £213 £297 £248
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £558 £565
% change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 129 116
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.72
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.00 £14.81
Median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £70.93 £75.10 £51.11
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £54.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -52.44% +146.25% -45.00%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England -15 162 £550 -4.35% 111
South East -6 135 £550 -8.33% 145
North West -14 96 £550 -4.35% 59
South West -30 95 £550 -5.38% 57
Scotland +31 66 £506 -15.63% 13
Yorkshire -17 59 £520 -13.33% 44
Midlands -39 27 £450 -18.18% 52
West Midlands -34 20 £475 -24.00% 37
East of England -39 12 £583 -16.79% 25
Wales +10 7 £645 +7.42% 11
East Midlands -9 7 £450 -35.71% 15
North East -11 7 - - 8
Northern Ireland +1 1 £640 -1.54% 8
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (6.25%) Confluence
2 17 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.62%) nginx
4 12 (2.42%) Apache
5 11 (2.22%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.81%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.40%) Traefik
11 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.20%) CMS
11 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 292 (58.87%) AWS
2 193 (38.91%) Azure
3 59 (11.90%) GCP
3 59 (11.90%) GitHub
4 55 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (10.69%) Serverless
6 46 (9.27%) OpenShift
7 45 (9.07%) Amazon S3
8 44 (8.87%) Amazon EC2
9 42 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 36 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (3.63%) Snowflake
15 16 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (3.23%) IaaS
15 16 (3.23%) PaaS
16 12 (2.42%) Route 53
17 11 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.69%) Firewall
2 30 (6.05%) DNS
3 26 (5.24%) TCP/IP
4 25 (5.04%) VPN
5 20 (4.03%) Network Security
6 10 (2.02%) HTTP
6 10 (2.02%) SAN
7 6 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (1.01%) AMQP
8 5 (1.01%) NAS
8 5 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.01%) WAN
9 4 (0.81%) 5G
9 4 (0.81%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.81%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.81%) IPsec
9 4 (0.81%) LTE
9 4 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.85%) MySQL
2 28 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (5.04%) MongoDB
4 22 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.83%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 19 (3.83%) Relational Database
5 19 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.62%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.42%) Big Data
10 11 (2.22%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.81%) InfluxDB
12 8 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.61%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 117 (23.59%) Jenkins
2 107 (21.57%) GitLab
3 75 (15.12%) Git
4 50 (10.08%) JIRA
5 33 (6.65%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.44%) Selenium
7 20 (4.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (3.63%) Cucumber
9 15 (3.02%) Robot Framework
10 14 (2.82%) Artifactory
10 14 (2.82%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.42%) REST Assured
12 10 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (2.02%) CircleCI
12 10 (2.02%) Travis CI
13 9 (1.81%) Burp Suite
14 8 (1.61%) Maven
15 7 (1.41%) Gradle
16 5 (1.01%) AppScan
16 5 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 89 (17.94%) Social Skills
2 43 (8.67%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.65%) Finance
5 12 (2.42%) Legal
6 11 (2.22%) Banking
7 9 (1.81%) Law
8 8 (1.61%) Police
9 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.21%) Retail
11 5 (1.01%) Back Office
11 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.81%) Marketing
12 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.60%) Electronics
13 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.40%) German Language
14 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 155 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (11.49%) Senior
3 51 (10.28%) Architect
4 49 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
5 46 (9.27%) Developer
6 42 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
7 40 (8.06%) AWS DevOps
8 37 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 32 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 31 (6.25%) Security Engineer
11 26 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
11 26 (5.24%) Site Engineer
12 24 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 21 (4.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 21 (4.23%) Software Engineer
14 20 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
15 18 (3.63%) Lead
16 16 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 15 (3.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.06%) REST
2 31 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (6.25%) YAML
3 28 (5.65%) Node.js
4 26 (5.24%) ARM Templates
5 22 (4.44%) JSON
6 21 (4.23%) .NET
6 21 (4.23%) Kafka
6 21 (4.23%) RESTful
7 17 (3.43%) RabbitMQ
8 13 (2.62%) Java EE
9 11 (2.22%) .NET Core
10 9 (1.81%) XML
11 8 (1.61%) AWS CDK
11 8 (1.61%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (1.41%) React
13 6 (1.21%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.21%) SOAP
14 5 (1.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.27%) PKI
2 25 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.22%) Clustering
6 11 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.61%) Replication
9 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.21%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.60%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (23.79%) Linux
2 57 (11.49%) Windows
3 27 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.03%) Unix
5 18 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.02%) CentOS
8 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.01%) VMS
10 4 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.60%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.60%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.40%) Debian
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (60.28%) DevOps
2 208 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 179 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (25.60%) Agile
5 106 (21.37%) Containerisation
6 65 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
6 65 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 59 (11.90%) Configuration Management
9 53 (10.69%) Migration
10 51 (10.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 48 (9.68%) Software Engineering
12 40 (8.06%) Scrum
13 32 (6.45%) Microservices
13 32 (6.45%) Task Automation
13 32 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (5.85%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (5.85%) Software Delivery
15 28 (5.65%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 242 (48.79%) Python
2 115 (23.19%) PowerShell
3 94 (18.95%) Bash
4 87 (17.54%) Java
5 57 (11.49%) SQL
6 39 (7.86%) Go
7 26 (5.24%) C
7 26 (5.24%) Shell Script
8 23 (4.64%) JavaScript
9 20 (4.03%) Ruby
9 20 (4.03%) Scala
10 17 (3.43%) Groovy
11 14 (2.82%) C#
12 13 (2.62%) Bicep
13 11 (2.22%) C++
13 11 (2.22%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.81%) Perl
15 7 (1.41%) PHP
16 4 (0.81%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 181 (36.49%) Security Cleared
2 81 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 78 (15.73%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.23%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.02%) Degree
6 12 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.61%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.81%) CCNA
10 4 (0.81%) CCNP
11 3 (0.60%) OSCP
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.40%) CCIE
12 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.85%) QA
2 10 (2.02%) NIST
3 9 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (1.41%) RMADS
5 6 (1.21%) GDPR
5 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 178 (35.89%) Docker
2 39 (7.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (5.85%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.43%) vSphere
5 12 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.40%) Ceph
10 2 (0.40%) Varnish
10 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 237 (47.78%) Ansible
2 219 (44.15%) Kubernetes
3 65 (13.10%) Prometheus
4 64 (12.90%) Grafana
5 36 (7.26%) Progress Chef
6 35 (7.06%) Puppet
7 32 (6.45%) Docker Swarm
8 16 (3.23%) Podman
9 15 (3.02%) Rancher
10 13 (2.62%) Istio
10 13 (2.62%) Kibana
11 11 (2.22%) HP Fortify
11 11 (2.22%) Nagios
12 10 (2.02%) Graylog
13 9 (1.81%) logstash
13 9 (1.81%) Packer
14 7 (1.41%) Nessus
14 7 (1.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 6 (1.21%) Argo
16 5 (1.01%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 52 (10.48%) VMware
2 50 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.46%) Splunk
4 28 (5.65%) Oracle
4 28 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 26 (5.24%) Google
6 19 (3.83%) Cisco
7 18 (3.63%) Databricks
8 12 (2.42%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.42%) F5
9 11 (2.22%) SolarWinds
10 8 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.61%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.21%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.21%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.21%) Juniper
11 6 (1.21%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.21%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.01%) Veracode