Terraform Contracts with Work from Home Options

Terraform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 570 1,353 2,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.86% 5.67% 6.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.11% 35.34% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 1,064 2,057
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £485 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £720 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 1
10th Percentile - £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% +88.57% -33.33%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.50 -
90th Percentile - £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £78.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% +106.62% -36.55%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,671 3,829 7,036
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 16.04% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 2,832 5,257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 12 June 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 34 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (5.79%) Confluence
3 14 (2.46%) nginx
4 8 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.40%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.23%) Apache
5 7 (1.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 7 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
6 5 (0.88%) Apache Solr
6 5 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.53%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.35%) Shopify
3 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 320 (56.14%) AWS
2 240 (42.11%) Azure
3 106 (18.60%) GitHub
4 90 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (13.51%) GCP
6 66 (11.58%) Serverless
7 58 (10.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
8 42 (7.37%) Amazon S3
8 42 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (7.37%) PaaS
9 40 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (7.02%) IaaS
10 39 (6.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (5.09%) Snowflake
12 28 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (4.91%) SaaS
13 26 (4.56%) dbt
14 24 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.58%) Firewall
2 28 (4.91%) TCP/IP
3 24 (4.21%) DNS
4 18 (3.16%) Network Security
5 17 (2.98%) VPN
6 9 (1.58%) DHCP
7 8 (1.40%) SAN
8 7 (1.23%) Kerberos
8 7 (1.23%) WAN
9 6 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.05%) HTTP
9 6 (1.05%) NAS
9 6 (1.05%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.05%) VLAN
10 5 (0.88%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.70%) IPsec
11 4 (0.70%) LAN
12 3 (0.53%) IPv4
12 3 (0.53%) OSPF
12 3 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 32 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (4.74%) Big Data
5 24 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 20 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (3.16%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (3.16%) Dremio
9 18 (3.16%) MySQL
10 17 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.63%) NoSQL
12 13 (2.28%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.75%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.23%) Power BI
16 6 (1.05%) MongoDB
16 6 (1.05%) Oracle Database
16 6 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 125 (21.93%) Jenkins
2 101 (17.72%) Git
3 69 (12.11%) GitLab
4 60 (10.53%) JIRA
5 29 (5.09%) SonarQube
6 23 (4.04%) Bitbucket
7 18 (3.16%) Selenium
8 15 (2.63%) Artifactory
8 15 (2.63%) TeamCity
9 13 (2.28%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.58%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.23%) Maven
13 6 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (1.05%) Terragrunt
14 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.70%) Gradle
15 4 (0.70%) Travis CI
15 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 114 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 73 (12.81%) Finance
3 65 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (4.04%) Law
6 10 (1.75%) Banking
7 9 (1.58%) Retail
8 8 (1.40%) Tech for Good
9 7 (1.23%) Marketing
9 7 (1.23%) Police
9 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.70%) Legal
13 3 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Electronics
13 3 (0.53%) Front Office
13 3 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 199 (34.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 102 (17.89%) AWS Engineer
3 79 (13.86%) Senior
4 70 (12.28%) Developer
5 61 (10.70%) AWS DevOps
6 59 (10.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 49 (8.60%) Architect
8 47 (8.25%) Azure Engineer
9 42 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
10 38 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
11 37 (6.49%) Lead
12 35 (6.14%) Data Engineer
13 31 (5.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 23 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 23 (4.04%) Site Engineer
16 19 (3.33%) Consultant
17 18 (3.16%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.07%) ARM Templates
2 33 (5.79%) YAML
3 32 (5.61%) REST
4 30 (5.26%) .NET
5 23 (4.04%) JSON
6 22 (3.86%) Node.js
7 19 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (3.16%) gRPC
8 18 (3.16%) Kafka
8 18 (3.16%) Protocol Buffers
9 17 (2.98%) React
10 15 (2.63%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.93%) Azure Blueprints
11 11 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.75%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.75%) LDAP
12 10 (1.75%) XML
13 9 (1.58%) AWS CDK
13 9 (1.58%) RESTful
14 8 (1.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.91%) Clustering
2 25 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 20 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.33%) Hedge funds
6 16 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 12 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.05%) PKI
10 6 (1.05%) Replication
11 5 (0.88%) Tandem
12 4 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.53%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 92 (16.14%) Linux
2 45 (7.89%) Windows
3 19 (3.33%) Unix
4 18 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (2.81%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.05%) Android
7 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.88%) Solaris
9 4 (0.70%) CentOS
10 3 (0.53%) VMS
10 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.35%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.35%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (70.53%) DevOps
2 225 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 223 (39.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 108 (18.95%) Agile
5 101 (17.72%) Containerisation
6 78 (13.68%) Test Automation
7 71 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (10.35%) Continuous Integration
9 51 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
10 50 (8.77%) Configuration Management
11 49 (8.60%) Software Engineering
12 48 (8.42%) Migration
13 47 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 41 (7.19%) DevSecOps
15 37 (6.49%) Microservices
16 36 (6.32%) High Availability
16 36 (6.32%) Mentoring
17 35 (6.14%) Infrastructure Automation
18 32 (5.61%) SDLC
19 30 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 245 (42.98%) Python
2 96 (16.84%) Java
3 88 (15.44%) PowerShell
4 69 (12.11%) Bash
5 61 (10.70%) Go
6 58 (10.18%) SQL
7 51 (8.95%) JavaScript
8 36 (6.32%) C#
9 27 (4.74%) Bicep
10 24 (4.21%) TypeScript
11 21 (3.68%) C
12 20 (3.51%) Ruby
13 16 (2.81%) C++
14 12 (2.11%) Scala
15 11 (1.93%) PHP
16 8 (1.40%) Shell Script
17 7 (1.23%) Groovy
17 7 (1.23%) Perl
18 4 (0.70%) Rust
19 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 132 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.04%) Degree
4 21 (3.68%) AWS Certification
5 20 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.35%) CCNP
11 2 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.35%) CISM
11 2 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.35%) GCIH
11 2 (0.35%) GIAC
11 2 (0.35%) GSEC
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.35%) SANS
11 2 (0.35%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (2.98%) NIST
3 15 (2.63%) QA
4 13 (2.28%) GDPR
5 12 (2.11%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.93%) NCSC
7 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.35%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.35%) WCAG
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 202 (35.44%) Docker
2 26 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.93%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.75%) vSphere
7 9 (1.58%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.53%) Firmware
9 3 (0.53%) vCloud
10 2 (0.35%) Ceph
10 2 (0.35%) Snort
10 2 (0.35%) Squid
10 2 (0.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 263 (46.14%) Kubernetes
2 172 (30.18%) Ansible
3 60 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 43 (7.54%) Grafana
5 42 (7.37%) Puppet
6 34 (5.96%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.28%) Kibana
7 13 (2.28%) Packer
8 12 (2.11%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (1.75%) logstash
9 10 (1.75%) Podman
10 8 (1.40%) Argo
11 6 (1.05%) Consul
12 5 (0.88%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (0.88%) Nagios
12 5 (0.88%) Netcool
12 5 (0.88%) Salt
12 5 (0.88%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.70%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 59 (10.35%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.49%) VMware
3 35 (6.14%) Splunk
4 34 (5.96%) Oracle
5 25 (4.39%) Google
6 23 (4.04%) Databricks
7 19 (3.33%) Cisco
8 15 (2.63%) Palo Alto
8 15 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.58%) SAP
11 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.40%) Dell
11 8 (1.40%) IBM
12 7 (1.23%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.23%) F5
12 7 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.23%) HP
12 7 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow