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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 489 892 1,179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.40% 3.79% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.24% 25.36% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 689 879
10th Percentile £415 £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 £630 £675 £632
90th Percentile £688 £716 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile £55.40 £53.42 £41.50
25th Percentile £56.00 £70.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +64.21% +18.75%
75th Percentile - - £51.25
90th Percentile £76.28 £80.40 £53.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.15% +88.75% -20.00%

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 2,302 3,517 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.30% 14.96% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,674 2,576 2,986
10th Percentile £211 £281 £237
25th Percentile £372 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 136 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.93% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.28 £75.25 £51.66
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -26 148 £550 -6.38% 114
South East -15 135 £550 -8.33% 75
South West -26 99 £550 -4.35% 61
North West -12 95 £550 -4.35% 62
Scotland +32 65 £516 -13.96% 14
Yorkshire -20 46 £538 -10.42% 39
Midlands -28 26 £463 -17.78% 51
West Midlands -35 18 £475 -24.00% 32
East of England -32 14 £583 -16.79% 21
Wales +15 8 £645 +7.42% 17
East Midlands -2 8 £450 -35.71% 18
North East -10 7 - - 13
Northern Ireland +4 1 £640 -1.54% 12
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 28 (5.73%) Confluence
2 18 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.66%) Apache
3 13 (2.66%) nginx
4 7 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.02%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.82%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.41%) Traefik
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 282 (57.67%) AWS
2 189 (38.65%) Azure
3 58 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (11.66%) GitHub
5 51 (10.43%) Serverless
6 49 (10.02%) Amazon EC2
7 47 (9.61%) GCP
8 44 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 44 (9.00%) OpenShift
9 41 (8.38%) Amazon S3
10 39 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (3.89%) IaaS
15 18 (3.68%) Snowflake
16 17 (3.48%) PaaS
17 16 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.45%) Route 53
19 11 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (10.63%) Firewall
2 27 (5.52%) DNS
3 25 (5.11%) TCP/IP
4 24 (4.91%) VPN
5 19 (3.89%) Network Security
6 10 (2.04%) SAN
7 7 (1.43%) HTTP
8 6 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.02%) AMQP
9 5 (1.02%) NAS
10 4 (0.82%) 5G
10 4 (0.82%) Diameter Protocol
10 4 (0.82%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.82%) IPsec
10 4 (0.82%) LTE
10 4 (0.82%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.82%) SNA
10 4 (0.82%) VSAN
10 4 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.77%) MySQL
2 27 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.32%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.91%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.68%) NoSQL
8 15 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.84%) InfluxDB
11 9 (1.84%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.64%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.23%) BigQuery
15 5 (1.02%) Big Data
15 5 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 4 (0.82%) Couchbase
16 4 (0.82%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 105 (21.47%) Jenkins
2 104 (21.27%) GitLab
3 71 (14.52%) Git
4 49 (10.02%) JIRA
5 33 (6.75%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.50%) Selenium
7 21 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (3.68%) Cucumber
9 15 (3.07%) Robot Framework
10 14 (2.86%) Bitbucket
11 13 (2.66%) Artifactory
12 12 (2.45%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.25%) Maven
14 9 (1.84%) Burp Suite
15 8 (1.64%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.64%) Gradle
15 8 (1.64%) Travis CI
16 7 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (1.02%) AppScan
18 4 (0.82%) Cypress.io
General
1 84 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 44 (9.00%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.95%) Finance
4 31 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (2.45%) Legal
6 9 (1.84%) Law
7 8 (1.64%) Police
8 7 (1.43%) Banking
8 7 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.23%) Marketing
9 6 (1.23%) Retail
9 6 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.02%) Back Office
10 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.02%) Electronics
11 4 (0.82%) German Language
12 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (30.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (11.66%) Senior
3 49 (10.02%) AWS Engineer
3 49 (10.02%) Developer
4 42 (8.59%) Architect
4 42 (8.59%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (8.18%) AWS DevOps
6 36 (7.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 32 (6.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 28 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (5.73%) Security Engineer
9 27 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (5.11%) Site Engineer
11 22 (4.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 22 (4.50%) Lead
12 20 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.09%) Software Engineer
13 18 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.48%) Data Engineer
15 15 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.95%) REST
2 32 (6.54%) YAML
3 29 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (5.52%) Node.js
5 25 (5.11%) ARM Templates
6 22 (4.50%) .NET
7 21 (4.29%) RESTful
8 20 (4.09%) JSON
9 17 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (2.86%) Kafka
11 13 (2.66%) Java EE
12 11 (2.25%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.64%) AWS CDK
14 7 (1.43%) AngularJS
15 6 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
15 6 (1.23%) React
15 6 (1.23%) SOAP
15 6 (1.23%) XML
16 5 (1.02%) GraphQL
16 5 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.59%) PKI
2 29 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.91%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.25%) Clustering
6 11 (2.25%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.64%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.64%) Replication
9 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.02%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.82%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (24.54%) Linux
2 59 (12.07%) Windows
3 26 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.29%) Unix
5 19 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (2.04%) CentOS
8 7 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.02%) VMS
10 4 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.61%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.61%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.61%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.41%) Debian
13 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (58.08%) DevOps
2 209 (42.74%) CI/CD
3 172 (35.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (26.38%) Agile
5 93 (19.02%) Containerisation
6 63 (12.88%) Continuous Integration
7 62 (12.68%) Test Automation
8 59 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (11.86%) Configuration Management
10 57 (11.66%) Migration
11 50 (10.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 47 (9.61%) Software Engineering
13 39 (7.98%) Scrum
14 33 (6.75%) Microservices
15 31 (6.34%) Platform Engineering
16 29 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 28 (5.73%) Software Delivery
18 27 (5.52%) Observability
18 27 (5.52%) Task Automation
19 26 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 228 (46.63%) Python
2 111 (22.70%) PowerShell
3 92 (18.81%) Bash
4 78 (15.95%) Java
5 55 (11.25%) SQL
6 40 (8.18%) Go
7 29 (5.93%) Shell Script
8 23 (4.70%) JavaScript
9 22 (4.50%) C
10 21 (4.29%) Ruby
11 19 (3.89%) Scala
12 18 (3.68%) Groovy
13 16 (3.27%) C#
14 12 (2.45%) TypeScript
15 11 (2.25%) Bicep
15 11 (2.25%) Perl
16 8 (1.64%) C++
16 8 (1.64%) PHP
17 3 (0.61%) Julia
18 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 180 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 86 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 72 (14.72%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.29%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.07%) Degree
6 12 (2.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.82%) CCNA
9 4 (0.82%) CCNP
10 3 (0.61%) OSCP
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.41%) CCIE
11 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.73%) QA
2 10 (2.04%) NIST
3 9 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (1.43%) RMADS
5 6 (1.23%) GDPR
5 6 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.82%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.82%) SLA
7 3 (0.61%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.41%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 170 (34.76%) Docker
2 39 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (5.73%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.48%) vSphere
5 16 (3.27%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.41%) Ceph
10 2 (0.41%) Varnish
10 2 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.20%) HDFS
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 237 (48.47%) Ansible
2 212 (43.35%) Kubernetes
3 62 (12.68%) Grafana
4 61 (12.47%) Prometheus
5 35 (7.16%) Progress Chef
6 34 (6.95%) Puppet
7 29 (5.93%) Docker Swarm
8 16 (3.27%) Podman
9 14 (2.86%) Rancher
10 13 (2.66%) Istio
10 13 (2.66%) Nagios
11 11 (2.25%) Graylog
11 11 (2.25%) HP Fortify
12 10 (2.04%) Kibana
12 10 (2.04%) Packer
13 7 (1.43%) Nessus
13 7 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (1.23%) logstash
15 5 (1.02%) vRealize
15 5 (1.02%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 55 (11.25%) VMware
2 45 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 36 (7.36%) Splunk
4 28 (5.73%) Red Hat
5 26 (5.32%) Oracle
6 19 (3.89%) Cisco
6 19 (3.89%) Google
7 18 (3.68%) Databricks
8 12 (2.45%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.45%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.84%) F5
9 9 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.64%) SAP
11 6 (1.23%) Checkmarx
11 6 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.23%) Juniper
11 6 (1.23%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.23%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.02%) Dynatrace