Terraform Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Terraform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 43 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 101 86 119
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.49% 4.18% 4.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.56% 24.86% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 101
10th Percentile £383 £452 £406
25th Percentile £475 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -2.50% -15.38%
75th Percentile £669 £666 £663
90th Percentile £772 £704 £725
Central London median daily rate £578 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -12.84%

All Systems Management Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 249 346 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.53% 16.83% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 226 277
10th Percentile £362 £350 £370
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £728 £764
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £20.24 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - -
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% - -
75th Percentile £22.91 - -
90th Percentile £23.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 -
% change year-on-year -78.69% - -

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the City of London

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the City of London

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Terraform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Terraform

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (51.49%) AWS
2 44 (43.56%) Azure
3 36 (35.64%) GitHub
4 29 (28.71%) GCP
4 29 (28.71%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (16.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 16 (15.84%) Serverless
8 15 (14.85%) Amazon S3
8 15 (14.85%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (13.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (11.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (10.89%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (6.93%) Azure AKS
15 6 (5.94%) Apigee
15 6 (5.94%) AWS Fargate
16 5 (4.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.89%) Firewall
2 10 (9.90%) DNS
3 5 (4.95%) Network Security
3 5 (4.95%) SSL
3 5 (4.95%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.95%) VPN
4 2 (1.98%) DHCP
4 2 (1.98%) HTTP
5 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.99%) Internet
5 1 (0.99%) NGFW
5 1 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.96%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.97%) MySQL
5 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.98%) Big Data
5 2 (1.98%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.99%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.99%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.99%) Power BI
6 1 (0.99%) Redis
6 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.85%) GitLab
3 12 (11.88%) Git
4 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.96%) Gradle
5 4 (3.96%) Maven
6 3 (2.97%) Selenium
7 2 (1.98%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.98%) Snyk
8 1 (0.99%) Ant
8 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.99%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.99%) JIRA
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.99%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.99%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (26.73%) Finance
2 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Banking
4 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Games
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (12.87%) Architect
3 12 (11.88%) GCP Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) Lead
5 10 (9.90%) Senior
6 9 (8.91%) Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Architect
10 4 (3.96%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) Node.js
2 8 (7.92%) OAuth
3 6 (5.94%) React
3 6 (5.94%) Spring
4 5 (4.95%) Kafka
4 5 (4.95%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.96%) JWT
5 4 (3.96%) LangChain
5 4 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.97%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.97%) REST
7 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.98%) Faiss
7 2 (1.98%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.98%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.98%) OpenID
7 2 (1.98%) RESTful
7 2 (1.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.93%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.96%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.98%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (0.99%) IVR
6 1 (0.99%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) Online Games
6 1 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.92%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Windows
3 3 (2.97%) Unix
4 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.99%) Android
5 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (66.34%) CI/CD
2 66 (65.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (63.37%) DevOps
4 23 (22.77%) Containerisation
5 17 (16.83%) Migration
6 16 (15.84%) Cloud Security
7 15 (14.85%) AI
7 15 (14.85%) Observability
7 15 (14.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (11.88%) Agile
8 12 (11.88%) DevSecOps
8 12 (11.88%) High Availability
8 12 (11.88%) Microservices
9 11 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (9.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (8.91%) Generative AI
11 9 (8.91%) SDLC
12 8 (7.92%) Cloud Operations
12 8 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 45 (44.55%) Python
2 18 (17.82%) SQL
3 14 (13.86%) Java
4 11 (10.89%) Bash
5 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.95%) Go
7 3 (2.97%) Bicep
7 3 (2.97%) C#
7 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.97%) PromQL
7 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.98%) Perl
9 1 (0.99%) C
9 1 (0.99%) PHP
9 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.99%) ProC
9 1 (0.99%) Ruby
9 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) SC Cleared
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.94%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.96%) CISSP
4 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.98%) Degree
5 2 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.99%) CCNA
6 1 (0.99%) CCSP
6 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) MCP
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) OSCP
6 1 (0.99%) SANS
6 1 (0.99%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) GDPR
2 8 (7.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.96%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.97%) NIST
4 3 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.98%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.98%) NCSC
5 2 (1.98%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.99%) GRC
6 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 28 (27.72%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.98%) vSphere
4 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (33.66%) Kubernetes
2 25 (24.75%) Ansible
3 9 (8.91%) Grafana
4 7 (6.93%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.95%) Argo
5 5 (4.95%) Istio
6 2 (1.98%) Karpenter
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.98%) Puppet
7 1 (0.99%) Icinga
7 1 (0.99%) Kibana
7 1 (0.99%) Packer
7 1 (0.99%) Podman
7 1 (0.99%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.99%) vRealize
7 1 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (18.81%) Google
2 14 (13.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.91%) Databricks
4 6 (5.94%) Splunk
4 6 (5.94%) VMware
5 5 (4.95%) CheckPoint
5 5 (4.95%) F5
6 4 (3.96%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.97%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.98%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle
8 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.99%) Calypso
9 1 (0.99%) Cisco
9 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.99%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.99%) Veeam