Terraform Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Terraform
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 17 13 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 8.13% 7.03% 3.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.17% 81.25% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
10th Percentile £425 - £498
25th Percentile £438 £413 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £623
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -19.68% -11.07%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £711
90th Percentile £619 £765 £749
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridge

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 47 16 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 22.49% 8.65% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 6 7
10th Percentile £176 £413 £293
25th Percentile £383 £434 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £605 £675 £564
90th Percentile £648 £788 £664
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +101.34%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Terraform job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Cambridge

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (29.41%) Slack
4 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 5 (29.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (58.82%) Migration
4 8 (47.06%) Dashboard Development
4 8 (47.06%) Observability
4 8 (47.06%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) RBAC
5 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
7 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (17.65%) AI
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 2 (11.76%) Cost Management
8 2 (11.76%) ITSM
9 1 (5.88%) Agile
9 1 (5.88%) Identity Management
9 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) GPFS
1 1 (5.88%) Lustre
1 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
3 6 (35.29%) Grafana
4 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Puppet
4 3 (17.65%) Salt
5 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.88%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) CloudEndure
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft