Terraform Contracts

Terraform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,466 3,033 5,098
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.40% 5.13% 5.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.60% 32.02% 35.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 2,272 3,789
10th Percentile £415 £456 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 3
10th Percentile - £45.30 £36.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £66.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.15% +88.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £74.44 £86.97 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.05 £89.15 £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.56% +64.21% +18.75%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,125 9,471 14,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 16.03% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,655 6,832 10,249
10th Percentile £258 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 211 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.73 £24.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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 -20 1,239 £550 -8.33% 770
London -16 749 £573 -8.40% 412
Work from Home -19 561 £563 -6.25% 452
UK excluding London -22 497 £550 -6.38% 379
North of England -21 150 £550 -6.38% 116
South East -17 134 £563 -6.25% 84
South West -20 102 £550 -4.35% 61
North West -13 96 £550 -4.35% 62
Scotland +25 65 £516 -13.96% 15
Yorkshire -26 47 £538 -10.42% 42
Midlands -29 27 £475 -15.56% 54
West Midlands -34 19 £488 -22.00% 35
East of England -19 13 £565 -19.29% 23
Wales +15 12 £645 +7.42% 17
East Midlands -3 8 £450 -35.71% 19
North East -12 7 - - 12
Northern Ireland +4 1 £640 -1.54% 14

Terraform
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 58 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.82%) Confluence
3 41 (2.80%) Apache
4 40 (2.73%) nginx
5 21 (1.43%) OpenStack
6 16 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
10 6 (0.41%) NServiceBus
11 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) CMS
13 3 (0.20%) IIS
14 2 (0.14%) Traefik
15 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.068%) Trello
4 1 (0.068%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) NEC Housing
1 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.068%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.068%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.068%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 839 (57.23%) AWS
2 578 (39.43%) Azure
3 224 (15.28%) GitHub
4 217 (14.80%) GCP
5 212 (14.46%) Serverless
6 196 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
7 145 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
8 132 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
9 128 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 127 (8.66%) Amazon S3
11 101 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
11 101 (6.89%) GitHub Actions
12 90 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 90 (6.14%) PaaS
13 84 (5.73%) IaaS
14 75 (5.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 73 (4.98%) OpenShift
16 62 (4.23%) SaaS
17 43 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 43 (2.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 124 (8.46%) Firewall
2 71 (4.84%) DNS
3 52 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 51 (3.48%) Network Security
5 47 (3.21%) VPN
6 27 (1.84%) SAN
7 26 (1.77%) DHCP
8 19 (1.30%) VLAN
8 19 (1.30%) WAN
9 17 (1.16%) HTTP
10 16 (1.09%) LAN
10 16 (1.09%) NAS
11 14 (0.95%) Kerberos
12 13 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (0.89%) IPsec
12 13 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (0.82%) IPv4
13 12 (0.82%) OSPF
14 11 (0.75%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (4.77%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (4.23%) SQL Server
4 57 (3.89%) Data Lake
5 56 (3.82%) MySQL
6 54 (3.68%) Big Data
6 54 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 46 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 43 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 43 (2.93%) BigQuery
9 40 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (2.39%) MongoDB
12 33 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.50%) DynamoDB
15 21 (1.43%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
17 12 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
17 12 (0.82%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 325 (22.17%) Jenkins
2 249 (16.98%) Git
3 228 (15.55%) GitLab
4 104 (7.09%) JIRA
5 58 (3.96%) SonarQube
6 38 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 37 (2.52%) Selenium
8 32 (2.18%) Maven
8 32 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.77%) TeamCity
11 25 (1.71%) Artifactory
12 21 (1.43%) CircleCI
13 20 (1.36%) Cypress.io
14 15 (1.02%) Gradle
14 15 (1.02%) Robot Framework
15 14 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 14 (0.95%) Burp Suite
16 13 (0.89%) JMeter
16 13 (0.89%) Travis CI
General
1 248 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 162 (11.05%) Finance
3 142 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 57 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (2.52%) Banking
6 31 (2.11%) Law
7 22 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (1.30%) Marketing
10 18 (1.23%) Electronics
10 18 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.09%) Legal
12 16 (1.09%) Retail
13 15 (1.02%) Tech for Good
14 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.55%) Police
17 7 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 444 (30.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 183 (12.48%) Developer
3 176 (12.01%) AWS Engineer
4 166 (11.32%) Senior
5 144 (9.82%) Architect
6 122 (8.32%) Azure Engineer
7 117 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (7.71%) AWS DevOps
9 101 (6.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 86 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
11 84 (5.73%) Lead
12 79 (5.39%) Data Engineer
13 73 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 66 (4.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 65 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
16 59 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 57 (3.89%) Site Engineer
18 54 (3.68%) Security Engineer
19 52 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 51 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.07%) Node.js
2 82 (5.59%) REST
2 82 (5.59%) YAML
3 74 (5.05%) .NET
3 74 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
4 73 (4.98%) Kafka
5 69 (4.71%) ARM Templates
6 64 (4.37%) React
7 48 (3.27%) JSON
8 45 (3.07%) RESTful
9 39 (2.66%) .NET Core
10 30 (2.05%) AWS CDK
11 27 (1.84%) OAuth
11 27 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
12 25 (1.71%) Spring Boot
13 24 (1.64%) GraphQL
13 24 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
14 23 (1.57%) SOAP
15 21 (1.43%) Spring
15 21 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.23%) Public Cloud
3 61 (4.16%) PKI
4 44 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 37 (2.52%) Clustering
5 37 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 33 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
7 32 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 22 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.30%) Replication
12 17 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 13 (0.89%) Hedge funds
14 13 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.82%) IoT
15 12 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 296 (20.19%) Linux
2 126 (8.59%) Windows
3 54 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.41%) Unix
5 38 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.30%) CentOS
7 18 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (0.75%) VMS
11 8 (0.55%) Solaris
12 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
13 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.27%) Android
14 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.20%) Debian
15 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.20%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (59.28%) DevOps
2 646 (44.07%) CI/CD
3 551 (37.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 327 (22.31%) Agile
5 230 (15.69%) Containerisation
6 156 (10.64%) Test Automation
7 152 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (9.75%) Continuous Integration
9 139 (9.48%) Microservices
10 130 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
11 129 (8.80%) Configuration Management
11 129 (8.80%) Software Engineering
12 125 (8.53%) Migration
13 117 (7.98%) Scrum
14 111 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 97 (6.62%) Cloud Security
15 97 (6.62%) DevSecOps
15 97 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 80 (5.46%) SDLC
17 77 (5.25%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 641 (43.72%) Python
2 249 (16.98%) PowerShell
3 213 (14.53%) Bash
4 210 (14.32%) Java
5 172 (11.73%) SQL
6 129 (8.80%) Go
7 102 (6.96%) JavaScript
8 86 (5.87%) C#
9 57 (3.89%) TypeScript
10 48 (3.27%) Shell Script
11 41 (2.80%) Ruby
12 37 (2.52%) Bicep
13 32 (2.18%) Scala
14 28 (1.91%) C
15 24 (1.64%) Groovy
16 20 (1.36%) PHP
17 19 (1.30%) Perl
18 13 (0.89%) C++
18 13 (0.89%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 452 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 316 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 114 (7.78%) DV Cleared
4 82 (5.59%) Degree
5 61 (4.16%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (3.21%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (0.95%) CCNP
11 11 (0.75%) CCNA
12 6 (0.41%) CISSP
12 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.41%) OSCP
13 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.34%) CCIE
14 4 (0.27%) SANS
15 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.55%) QA
2 32 (2.18%) NIST
3 27 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.36%) NCSC
4 20 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.09%) GDPR
6 13 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.48%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.48%) RMADS
9 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.27%) SLA
9 4 (0.27%) WCAG
10 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.068%) JSP 440
System Software
1 466 (31.79%) Docker
2 71 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 65 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.91%) VMware NSX
6 24 (1.64%) vSphere
7 19 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) Firmware
9 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.27%) Ceph
10 3 (0.20%) KVM
10 3 (0.20%) vCloud
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NFS
11 2 (0.14%) Squid
11 2 (0.14%) Varnish
11 2 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 617 (42.09%) Kubernetes
2 486 (33.15%) Ansible
3 139 (9.48%) Prometheus
4 123 (8.39%) Grafana
5 107 (7.30%) Puppet
6 77 (5.25%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.93%) Packer
8 33 (2.25%) Docker Swarm
9 22 (1.50%) Consul
10 18 (1.23%) Argo
10 18 (1.23%) Kibana
10 18 (1.23%) Nagios
11 17 (1.16%) Podman
12 16 (1.09%) Istio
13 14 (0.95%) Graylog
13 14 (0.95%) Rancher
14 13 (0.89%) HP Fortify
14 13 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (0.89%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 166 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 109 (7.44%) VMware
3 91 (6.21%) Oracle
4 89 (6.07%) Google
5 73 (4.98%) Splunk
6 52 (3.55%) Cisco
7 43 (2.93%) Red Hat
8 42 (2.86%) Databricks
9 37 (2.52%) SAP
10 30 (2.05%) Palo Alto
11 28 (1.91%) Dynatrace
12 27 (1.84%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.77%) Dell
14 23 (1.57%) ServiceNow
15 21 (1.43%) F5
16 20 (1.36%) New Relic
16 20 (1.36%) Salesforce
17 18 (1.23%) IBM
18 16 (1.09%) CyberArk
19 14 (0.95%) CheckPoint