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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,464 3,102 5,085
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.38% 5.19% 5.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.77% 32.25% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 2,322 3,786
10th Percentile £413 £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 10 23 3
10th Percentile £31.25 £52.18 £36.00
25th Percentile £35.13 £66.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £78.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +95.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £74.44 £84.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.30 £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.56% +64.21% +72.73%

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 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £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 £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -19 1,237 £550 -8.33% 624
London -12 736 £575 -8.00% 314
Work from Home -20 560 £565 -5.83% 400
UK excluding London -18 511 £550 -6.38% 340
North of England -21 157 £550 -4.35% 101
South East -16 130 £575 -4.17% 71
South West -24 105 £550 -4.35% 59
North West -11 104 £550 -4.35% 61
Scotland +28 68 £520 -13.33% 20
Yorkshire -25 46 £525 -12.50% 27
Midlands -32 30 £500 -9.09% 42
West Midlands -24 22 £500 -18.37% 28
East of England -15 14 £565 -19.29% 19
Wales +17 13 £647 +7.88% 17
East Midlands -4 8 £625 -10.71% 14
North East -8 7 - - 13
Northern Ireland +5 1 £640 -1.54% 15

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 56 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (3.07%) Confluence
3 41 (2.80%) Apache
4 34 (2.32%) 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%) NServiceBus
11 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) CMS
12 4 (0.27%) IIS
13 2 (0.14%) Traefik
14 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
4 1 (0.068%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 833 (56.90%) AWS
2 581 (39.69%) Azure
3 222 (15.16%) GitHub
4 217 (14.82%) GCP
5 210 (14.34%) Serverless
6 204 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
7 146 (9.97%) AWS Lambda
8 132 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
9 125 (8.54%) Amazon S3
10 121 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 101 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
12 100 (6.83%) GitHub Actions
13 92 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 87 (5.94%) PaaS
15 85 (5.81%) IaaS
16 76 (5.19%) OpenShift
17 74 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (4.51%) SaaS
19 42 (2.87%) Azure AKS
20 39 (2.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 127 (8.67%) Firewall
2 71 (4.85%) DNS
3 54 (3.69%) Network Security
4 53 (3.62%) TCP/IP
5 51 (3.48%) VPN
6 27 (1.84%) SAN
7 26 (1.78%) DHCP
8 19 (1.30%) VLAN
9 18 (1.23%) WAN
10 17 (1.16%) HTTP
11 16 (1.09%) LAN
11 16 (1.09%) NAS
12 13 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (0.89%) IPsec
12 13 (0.89%) Kerberos
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 78 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (4.99%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (4.03%) MySQL
4 57 (3.89%) SQL Server
5 56 (3.83%) NoSQL
6 54 (3.69%) Data Lake
7 51 (3.48%) Big Data
8 45 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (3.07%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.87%) BigQuery
10 38 (2.60%) MongoDB
11 36 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
14 27 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.64%) DynamoDB
16 21 (1.43%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
18 12 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
18 12 (0.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 319 (21.79%) Jenkins
2 241 (16.46%) Git
3 227 (15.51%) GitLab
4 92 (6.28%) JIRA
5 56 (3.83%) SonarQube
6 38 (2.60%) Selenium
7 36 (2.46%) Bitbucket
8 32 (2.19%) Maven
8 32 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 25 (1.71%) Artifactory
10 25 (1.71%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.50%) CircleCI
12 20 (1.37%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.02%) Gradle
13 15 (1.02%) Robot Framework
14 14 (0.96%) Burp Suite
15 13 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (0.89%) JMeter
15 13 (0.89%) Travis CI
General
1 244 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 167 (11.41%) Finance
3 142 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 55 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (2.53%) Banking
6 30 (2.05%) Law
7 22 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (1.30%) Marketing
10 18 (1.23%) Electronics
10 18 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.16%) Retail
12 16 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.09%) Legal
12 16 (1.09%) Tech for Good
13 11 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.55%) Police
16 7 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 431 (29.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (12.77%) Developer
3 177 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
4 168 (11.48%) Senior
5 145 (9.90%) Architect
6 128 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
7 122 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 113 (7.72%) AWS DevOps
9 101 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 90 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
11 81 (5.53%) Lead
12 76 (5.19%) Data Engineer
13 72 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 68 (4.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 64 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
16 62 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 55 (3.76%) Security Engineer
17 55 (3.76%) Site Engineer
18 54 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 51 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.08%) Node.js
2 81 (5.53%) REST
3 80 (5.46%) YAML
4 72 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
5 71 (4.85%) .NET
6 70 (4.78%) ARM Templates
6 70 (4.78%) Kafka
7 61 (4.17%) React
8 49 (3.35%) JSON
9 47 (3.21%) RESTful
10 39 (2.66%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.19%) AWS CDK
12 27 (1.84%) OAuth
12 27 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (1.78%) Lambda Expressions
14 24 (1.64%) GraphQL
14 24 (1.64%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.57%) SOAP
16 21 (1.43%) XML
17 20 (1.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 63 (4.30%) PKI
3 61 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 43 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.39%) Clustering
7 33 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
9 30 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.71%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.43%) Product Ownership
13 19 (1.30%) Private Cloud
13 19 (1.30%) Replication
14 17 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (0.89%) Security Posture
17 12 (0.82%) IoT
18 11 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 291 (19.88%) Linux
2 131 (8.95%) Windows
3 56 (3.83%) Windows Server
4 50 (3.42%) Unix
5 37 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.30%) CentOS
7 18 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (0.75%) VMS
10 8 (0.55%) Solaris
11 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.20%) Debian
13 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.20%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (58.61%) DevOps
2 643 (43.92%) CI/CD
3 562 (38.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 321 (21.93%) Agile
5 233 (15.92%) Containerisation
6 151 (10.31%) Test Automation
7 150 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (9.90%) Continuous Integration
9 136 (9.29%) Microservices
10 133 (9.08%) Software Engineering
11 131 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
12 129 (8.81%) Configuration Management
13 123 (8.40%) Scrum
14 121 (8.27%) Migration
15 111 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 100 (6.83%) Cloud Security
17 99 (6.76%) DevSecOps
17 99 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 80 (5.46%) SDLC
19 77 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 641 (43.78%) Python
2 250 (17.08%) PowerShell
3 210 (14.34%) Bash
4 204 (13.93%) Java
5 171 (11.68%) SQL
6 124 (8.47%) Go
7 101 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 84 (5.74%) C#
9 55 (3.76%) TypeScript
10 47 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 41 (2.80%) Ruby
12 33 (2.25%) Bicep
13 30 (2.05%) Scala
14 27 (1.84%) C
15 24 (1.64%) Groovy
16 20 (1.37%) Perl
16 20 (1.37%) PHP
17 14 (0.96%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.89%) C++
19 9 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 441 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 313 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.31%) DV Cleared
4 83 (5.67%) Degree
5 66 (4.51%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 50 (3.42%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.96%) CCNP
12 11 (0.75%) CCNA
13 6 (0.41%) CISSP
13 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.41%) OSCP
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.34%) CCIE
15 4 (0.27%) SANS
16 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.28%) QA
2 33 (2.25%) NIST
3 31 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.37%) NCSC
5 19 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.16%) GDPR
7 12 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.48%) RMADS
10 6 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.27%) SLA
12 4 (0.27%) WCAG
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.068%) JSP 440
System Software
1 459 (31.35%) Docker
2 70 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 66 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 24 (1.64%) vSphere
7 19 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 5 (0.34%) KVM
9 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.27%) Ceph
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.20%) vCloud
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
1 602 (41.12%) Kubernetes
2 490 (33.47%) Ansible
3 132 (9.02%) Prometheus
4 122 (8.33%) Grafana
5 110 (7.51%) Puppet
6 81 (5.53%) Progress Chef
7 34 (2.32%) Packer
8 33 (2.25%) Docker Swarm
9 19 (1.30%) Kibana
10 18 (1.23%) Argo
10 18 (1.23%) Nagios
11 17 (1.16%) Podman
12 16 (1.09%) Istio
13 15 (1.02%) Consul
14 14 (0.96%) Graylog
15 13 (0.89%) HP Fortify
15 13 (0.89%) Rancher
15 13 (0.89%) vCenter Server
16 12 (0.82%) vRealize
17 11 (0.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 169 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.58%) VMware
3 91 (6.22%) Google
3 91 (6.22%) Oracle
4 72 (4.92%) Splunk
5 52 (3.55%) Cisco
6 43 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 39 (2.66%) Databricks
8 36 (2.46%) SAP
9 33 (2.25%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 27 (1.84%) SolarWinds
11 26 (1.78%) Dell
12 25 (1.71%) F5
13 22 (1.50%) ServiceNow
14 19 (1.30%) IBM
14 19 (1.30%) New Relic
14 19 (1.30%) Salesforce
15 16 (1.09%) CyberArk
16 14 (0.96%) CheckPoint