Terraform Contracts in the City of London

Terraform
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -14
Contract jobs citing Terraform 109 96 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.82% 4.46% 4.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.33% 29.54% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 67 103
10th Percentile £403 £425 £500
25th Percentile £480 £500 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £700
90th Percentile £756 £765 £738
Central London median daily rate £548 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -3.10% -9.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £60.45
25th Percentile - £46.75 £79.89
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year - -42.32% -
75th Percentile - £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year - -42.32% -

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 292 325 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.59% 15.10% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 224 376
10th Percentile £275 £350 £400
25th Percentile £424 £426 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £700
90th Percentile £764 £755 £781
Central London median daily rate £544 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.14% -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £30.26 - £20.84
25th Percentile £35.53 £12.75 £34.38
Median hourly rate £46.11 £27.00 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +70.77% -67.89% +217.32%
75th Percentile £56.74 - £88.30
90th Percentile £62.04 £40.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £67.05
% change year-on-year +5.56% -59.73% +153.00%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the City of London

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the City of London

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 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the City of London

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the City of London region over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Terraform
Central London

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.83%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) nginx
3 1 (0.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (47.71%) AWS
2 45 (41.28%) Azure
3 27 (24.77%) GitHub
4 21 (19.27%) GCP
5 18 (16.51%) Serverless
6 13 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (9.17%) Azure AKS
9 9 (8.26%) PaaS
10 8 (7.34%) Amazon S3
10 8 (7.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (7.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (7.34%) SaaS
11 6 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (5.50%) Entra ID
11 6 (5.50%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.60%) DNS
2 16 (14.68%) Firewall
3 14 (12.84%) VPN
4 8 (7.34%) NGFW
5 3 (2.75%) Network Security
5 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.83%) DHCP
7 1 (0.92%) HTTP
7 1 (0.92%) Internet
7 1 (0.92%) NAS
7 1 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.92%) SAN
7 1 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.92%) SSH
7 1 (0.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.42%) BigQuery
3 5 (4.59%) Power BI
3 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.67%) Big Data
4 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.67%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.67%) MySQL
4 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.75%) Tableau
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.83%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.83%) Parquet
6 2 (1.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) GitLab
2 15 (13.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.34%) Git
4 5 (4.59%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) Gradle
5 4 (3.67%) Maven
6 3 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.92%) git-flow
8 1 (0.92%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.92%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (20.18%) Finance
2 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.42%) Banking
5 4 (3.67%) Retail
6 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Military
6 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.92%) Advertising
7 1 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (13.76%) Azure Engineer
2 15 (13.76%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) Developer
4 11 (10.09%) Architect
5 9 (8.26%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Network Support
6 8 (7.34%) Network Support Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) GCP Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) ADO
1 9 (8.26%) Node.js
2 6 (5.50%) Kafka
2 6 (5.50%) RESTful
3 5 (4.59%) GraphQL
3 5 (4.59%) React
3 5 (4.59%) Spring
4 4 (3.67%) ARM Templates
4 4 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.75%) .NET
5 3 (2.75%) OAuth
5 3 (2.75%) OpenID
6 2 (1.83%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.83%) HTML
6 2 (1.83%) NumPy
6 2 (1.83%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.83%) Pandas
6 2 (1.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.34%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.59%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.75%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.83%) IVR
5 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.83%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) DataPower
6 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.02%) Linux
2 6 (5.50%) Unix
3 4 (3.67%) Windows
4 3 (2.75%) Rocky
5 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (66.06%) DevOps
2 69 (63.30%) CI/CD
3 62 (56.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (28.44%) Agile
4 31 (28.44%) Containerisation
5 21 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.51%) Cloud Security
6 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure Automation
6 18 (16.51%) Migration
7 17 (15.60%) Microservices
8 16 (14.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (11.01%) Configuration Management
9 12 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (11.01%) High Availability
9 12 (11.01%) Observability
10 9 (8.26%) Performance Optimisation
11 8 (7.34%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (7.34%) Kalman Filter
11 8 (7.34%) Software Engineering
12 7 (6.42%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.12%) Python
2 17 (15.60%) SQL
3 15 (13.76%) Bash
4 13 (11.93%) Java
5 10 (9.17%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.34%) Bicep
6 8 (7.34%) Go
7 7 (6.42%) C#
7 7 (6.42%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.83%) Perl
9 2 (1.83%) Rust
10 1 (0.92%) C++
10 1 (0.92%) Groovy
10 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.92%) Ruby
10 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.59%) Degree
4 4 (3.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.92%) CISSP
7 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.67%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
3 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (29.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.92%) Lustre
4 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (46.79%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.69%) Ansible
3 13 (11.93%) Grafana
4 10 (9.17%) Prometheus
5 8 (7.34%) Puppet
6 6 (5.50%) Argo
6 6 (5.50%) Istio
6 6 (5.50%) Progress Chef
7 4 (3.67%) Consul
7 4 (3.67%) Podman
8 2 (1.83%) Cilium
8 2 (1.83%) Kibana
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.83%) Packer
9 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.92%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.92%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.92%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (14.68%) Google
2 15 (13.76%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.26%) CheckPoint
3 9 (8.26%) Palo Alto
4 8 (7.34%) Infoblox
5 5 (4.59%) Splunk
6 4 (3.67%) Databricks
7 3 (2.75%) Oracle
8 2 (1.83%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.92%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.92%) Confluent
9 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.92%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.92%) Okta
9 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.92%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.92%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.92%) VMware