Terraform Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Terraform
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.71% 3.35% 6.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 31.58% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 12
10th Percentile - £523 £515
25th Percentile £413 £538 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £645
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -10.78% -4.52%
75th Percentile £444 £587 £667
90th Percentile £448 £587 £677
South Wales median daily rate £425 £586 £645
% change year-on-year -27.47% -9.08% -4.52%

All Systems Management Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 10 19 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.27% 10.61% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 31
10th Percentile £237 £200 £285
25th Percentile £274 £211 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £406 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -20.73% +2.50%
75th Percentile £441 £466 £633
90th Percentile £458 £571 £667
South Wales median daily rate £450 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% -4.55%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Terraform

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle