Terraform Contracts with Work from Home Options

Terraform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 34 27
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 551 1,467 2,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.65% 5.84% 6.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.87% 35.43% 40.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 1,140 2,257
10th Percentile £406 £450 £450
25th Percentile £484 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.13% +8.80%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 1
10th Percentile - £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £67.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +92.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.15% +88.75% -20.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,627 4,141 7,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.78% 16.48% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 3,059 5,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 78 50
10th Percentile £20.40 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £43.28 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £62.25 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Terraform
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Terraform trend for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Terraform.

Terraform daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Terraform over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Terraform daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Terraform.

Terraform hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.63%) Confluence
2 30 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.90%) nginx
4 10 (1.81%) Apache
4 10 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
5 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.54%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Trello
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 319 (57.89%) AWS
2 239 (43.38%) Azure
3 97 (17.60%) GitHub
4 87 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 70 (12.70%) Serverless
6 69 (12.52%) GCP
7 47 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (8.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (8.35%) GitHub Actions
9 45 (8.17%) IaaS
9 45 (8.17%) PaaS
10 43 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
11 39 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (6.17%) Amazon S3
14 33 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (5.63%) SaaS
16 24 (4.36%) Snowflake
17 23 (4.17%) dbt
18 20 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.25%) Firewall
2 33 (5.99%) TCP/IP
3 26 (4.72%) DNS
4 17 (3.09%) VPN
5 15 (2.72%) Network Security
6 11 (2.00%) DHCP
7 10 (1.81%) SAN
8 8 (1.45%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.45%) NAS
8 8 (1.45%) VLAN
9 7 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.27%) HTTP
9 7 (1.27%) WAN
10 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.73%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.73%) IPsec
11 4 (0.73%) LAN
11 4 (0.73%) SNA
12 3 (0.54%) FTP
12 3 (0.54%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
2 31 (5.63%) Data Lake
3 30 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (4.72%) MySQL
5 25 (4.54%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (3.99%) Big Data
7 21 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (2.72%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.54%) Apache Arrow
10 14 (2.54%) Dremio
11 13 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (2.36%) Relational Database
12 12 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.18%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.00%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.27%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.09%) Couchbase
15 6 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 119 (21.60%) Jenkins
2 103 (18.69%) Git
3 73 (13.25%) GitLab
4 62 (11.25%) JIRA
5 28 (5.08%) SonarQube
6 22 (3.99%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.45%) Selenium
8 16 (2.90%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.72%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.81%) Artifactory
10 10 (1.81%) Maven
11 9 (1.63%) CircleCI
12 8 (1.45%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.27%) Terragrunt
14 6 (1.09%) Gradle
15 5 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.91%) Travis CI
15 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 105 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 76 (13.79%) Finance
3 72 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.54%) Law
5 23 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.18%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.18%) Marketing
7 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.63%) Banking
8 9 (1.63%) Electronics
9 8 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.45%) Tech for Good
10 7 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.27%) Police
11 6 (1.09%) Retail
12 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.73%) Legal
14 3 (0.54%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.54%) Front Office
15 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (33.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 92 (16.70%) AWS Engineer
3 81 (14.70%) Developer
4 69 (12.52%) Senior
5 57 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
6 53 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 43 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
7 43 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 42 (7.62%) Lead
9 38 (6.90%) Architect
10 33 (5.99%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (5.81%) Data Engineer
12 27 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
13 25 (4.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 24 (4.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 23 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 22 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.63%) Full Stack Developer
18 19 (3.45%) Site Engineer
19 18 (3.27%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.80%) ARM Templates
2 36 (6.53%) REST
2 36 (6.53%) YAML
3 32 (5.81%) .NET
4 27 (4.90%) Node.js
5 24 (4.36%) JSON
6 22 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (3.45%) React
8 14 (2.54%) gRPC
8 14 (2.54%) Kafka
8 14 (2.54%) Protocol Buffers
9 12 (2.18%) .NET Core
9 12 (2.18%) AWS CDK
9 12 (2.18%) GraphQL
9 12 (2.18%) LDAP
9 12 (2.18%) RESTful
10 11 (2.00%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (1.81%) SOAP
11 10 (1.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.72%) Clustering
2 25 (4.54%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.81%) Public Cloud
4 19 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.72%) Hedge funds
6 14 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 14 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.00%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.63%) PKI
10 8 (1.45%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.45%) Replication
11 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.91%) Tandem
12 4 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.54%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.54%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (17.97%) Linux
2 51 (9.26%) Windows
3 19 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.90%) Unix
6 12 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.63%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (1.27%) CentOS
8 7 (1.27%) Solaris
9 4 (0.73%) Android
9 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.73%) VMS
9 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.36%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.36%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (67.33%) DevOps
2 237 (43.01%) CI/CD
3 212 (38.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (21.60%) Agile
5 87 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 80 (14.52%) Test Automation
7 62 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
9 53 (9.62%) Software Engineering
10 51 (9.26%) Configuration Management
11 47 (8.53%) Microservices
12 46 (8.35%) Platform Engineering
13 45 (8.17%) Migration
13 45 (8.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (7.26%) DevSecOps
14 40 (7.26%) Mentoring
15 36 (6.53%) High Availability
16 34 (6.17%) Deployment Automation
17 31 (5.63%) Scrum
17 31 (5.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 224 (40.65%) Python
2 83 (15.06%) Java
3 82 (14.88%) PowerShell
4 76 (13.79%) Bash
5 57 (10.34%) Go
6 55 (9.98%) SQL
7 49 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 39 (7.08%) C#
9 26 (4.72%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.81%) Bicep
11 15 (2.72%) Ruby
12 13 (2.36%) C
12 13 (2.36%) PHP
13 10 (1.81%) Scala
14 9 (1.63%) C++
15 8 (1.45%) Groovy
15 8 (1.45%) Perl
16 7 (1.27%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 129 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.72%) Degree
4 19 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 19 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 19 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.36%) SANS
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.18%) CCNA
10 1 (0.18%) CCNP
10 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.90%) QA
2 15 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.54%) GDPR
3 14 (2.54%) NIST
4 12 (2.18%) NCSC
5 10 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.54%) WCAG
9 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 192 (34.85%) Docker
2 25 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.90%) VMware NSX
5 14 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (2.00%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.81%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.81%) vSphere
8 3 (0.54%) Firmware
8 3 (0.54%) vCloud
9 2 (0.36%) Ceph
9 2 (0.36%) Squid
9 2 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.18%) Lustre
10 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 242 (43.92%) Kubernetes
2 178 (32.30%) Ansible
3 53 (9.62%) Prometheus
4 45 (8.17%) Grafana
5 44 (7.99%) Puppet
6 37 (6.72%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.54%) Packer
8 13 (2.36%) Kibana
9 11 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (1.81%) Podman
11 7 (1.27%) Consul
11 7 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (1.27%) logstash
11 7 (1.27%) Nagios
11 7 (1.27%) Netcool
11 7 (1.27%) Tivoli
11 7 (1.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 5 (0.91%) Argo
12 5 (0.91%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.73%) vRealize
Vendors
1 61 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.44%) VMware
3 32 (5.81%) Oracle
3 32 (5.81%) Splunk
4 21 (3.81%) Cisco
5 20 (3.63%) Google
6 19 (3.45%) Databricks
7 15 (2.72%) Palo Alto
7 15 (2.72%) SAP
8 12 (2.18%) Dell
8 12 (2.18%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.00%) IBM
9 11 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.81%) HP
11 9 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.63%) CyberArk
12 8 (1.45%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.27%) EMC
13 7 (1.27%) Isilon
13 7 (1.27%) Qualys