Terraform Contracts in England

Terraform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 60 40
Rank change year-on-year +21 -20 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,241 1,246 2,625
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.10% 3.35% 5.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.84% 28.38% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 925 1,973
10th Percentile £405 £425 £463
25th Percentile £475 £486 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £656 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 20
10th Percentile £25.38 £40.55 £55.15
25th Percentile £26.97 £50.88 £69.56
Median hourly rate £48.50 £62.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.77% -20.51% +41.82%
75th Percentile £61.25 £74.44 £86.57
90th Percentile £77.33 £75.66 £88.30
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £58.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -10.26% -25.00% +95.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in England

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in England.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in England

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in England.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in England

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +17 767 £565 -1.74% 761
North of England +10 147 £525 -4.55% 239
South West +26 89 £615 +13.10% 90
South East +9 88 £519 -5.68% 268
Yorkshire +19 60 £525 -2.33% 61
North West -15 59 £525 -4.55% 164
Midlands +43 54 £540 +8.00% 71
West Midlands +30 38 £563 +12.60% 41
North East +20 30 £525 - 15
East of England +42 26 £525 -7.08% 44
East Midlands +17 16 £500 -6.98% 23
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 87 (7.01%) Apache Spark
2 64 (5.16%) Apache
3 54 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 45 (3.63%) nginx
5 32 (2.58%) Confluence
6 12 (0.97%) Traefik
7 10 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.64%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.40%) IIS
11 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.24%) Camunda
13 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.081%) Documentum
14 1 (0.081%) FileNet
14 1 (0.081%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 719 (57.94%) AWS
2 494 (39.81%) Azure
3 223 (17.97%) Serverless
4 189 (15.23%) GitHub
5 176 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
6 174 (14.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 166 (13.38%) GCP
8 150 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (9.99%) Amazon S3
10 97 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
11 93 (7.49%) OpenShift
12 88 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (6.37%) PaaS
14 77 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
15 76 (6.12%) Azure AKS
16 73 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 72 (5.80%) Entra ID
18 69 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
19 59 (4.75%) dbt
19 59 (4.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (9.51%) Firewall
2 114 (9.19%) DNS
3 78 (6.29%) VPN
4 65 (5.24%) TCP/IP
5 43 (3.46%) Network Security
6 36 (2.90%) WAN
7 34 (2.74%) HTTP
8 32 (2.58%) DHCP
9 20 (1.61%) LAN
9 20 (1.61%) NGFW
10 18 (1.45%) SD-WAN
11 16 (1.29%) BGP
12 15 (1.21%) SSL
13 11 (0.89%) Internet
14 10 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
15 8 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
15 8 (0.64%) OSPF
16 7 (0.56%) MPLS
17 6 (0.48%) DWDM
17 6 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
2 65 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
4 60 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 49 (3.95%) MongoDB
6 47 (3.79%) SQL Server
7 45 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 41 (3.30%) Big Data
9 39 (3.14%) Apache Iceberg
10 38 (3.06%) DynamoDB
10 38 (3.06%) Hadoop
11 35 (2.82%) Data Lake
12 28 (2.26%) Apache Arrow
12 28 (2.26%) Apache Ignite
12 28 (2.26%) Dremio
13 26 (2.10%) Power BI
14 25 (2.01%) MySQL
15 23 (1.85%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 248 (19.98%) Jenkins
2 230 (18.53%) GitLab
3 125 (10.07%) Git
4 59 (4.75%) JIRA
5 54 (4.35%) Artifactory
6 33 (2.66%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.93%) Maven
8 21 (1.69%) Selenium
9 19 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.37%) CircleCI
10 17 (1.37%) Terragrunt
11 14 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.73%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.73%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.64%) JMeter
15 6 (0.48%) Gradle
16 5 (0.40%) gulp
16 5 (0.40%) Poetry
General
1 233 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 223 (17.97%) Finance
3 148 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 76 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (5.56%) Banking
6 43 (3.46%) Front Office
7 22 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 22 (1.77%) Marketing
8 19 (1.53%) Retail
9 18 (1.45%) Military
10 17 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.21%) Law
12 13 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.73%) Electronics
14 9 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.56%) Legal
17 6 (0.48%) Back Office
17 6 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 380 (30.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (15.31%) Senior
3 177 (14.26%) AWS Engineer
4 135 (10.88%) Developer
5 117 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
5 117 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
6 112 (9.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 109 (8.78%) Architect
8 97 (7.82%) Data Engineer
9 89 (7.17%) Lead
10 87 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 71 (5.72%) Senior DevOps
12 68 (5.48%) Python Engineer
13 67 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
14 62 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 50 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 44 (3.55%) Software Engineer
18 43 (3.46%) Network Engineer
19 39 (3.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (11.68%) Kafka
2 61 (4.92%) Node.js
3 57 (4.59%) ARM Templates
4 56 (4.51%) React
5 53 (4.27%) .NET
6 50 (4.03%) REST
6 50 (4.03%) Spring
7 48 (3.87%) PySpark
8 46 (3.71%) Elastic Stack
9 40 (3.22%) Spring Boot
10 36 (2.90%) J2EE
10 36 (2.90%) OAuth
11 35 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 27 (2.18%) YAML
13 24 (1.93%) AngularJS
13 24 (1.93%) RESTful
14 22 (1.77%) AWS CDK
14 22 (1.77%) cloud-init
14 22 (1.77%) OpenID
15 21 (1.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.54%) Cloud Native
2 53 (4.27%) Public Cloud
3 39 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 33 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.42%) PKI
6 22 (1.77%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 19 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.29%) Anti-Spyware
11 15 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.13%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.05%) Replication
14 12 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (0.73%) Security Posture
17 8 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 287 (23.13%) Linux
2 110 (8.86%) Windows
3 103 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 63 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 46 (3.71%) Unix
6 40 (3.22%) CentOS
7 17 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.73%) VMS
10 7 (0.56%) Rocky
11 5 (0.40%) Android
12 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.24%) SUSE
12 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.16%) Debian
13 2 (0.16%) Solaris
14 1 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.081%) VyOS
14 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (59.07%) DevOps
2 658 (53.02%) CI/CD
3 582 (46.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 306 (24.66%) Agile
5 268 (21.60%) Containerisation
6 215 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (13.05%) Software Engineering
8 143 (11.52%) Microservices
9 135 (10.88%) Infrastructure Automation
10 134 (10.80%) Migration
11 126 (10.15%) Configuration Management
12 120 (9.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 108 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
14 106 (8.54%) Cloud Security
15 104 (8.38%) Observability
16 103 (8.30%) Analytics
17 97 (7.82%) Platform Engineering
18 94 (7.57%) Data Engineering
18 94 (7.57%) High Availability
19 92 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 608 (48.99%) Python
2 206 (16.60%) Java
3 193 (15.55%) PowerShell
4 180 (14.50%) Bash
5 167 (13.46%) SQL
6 105 (8.46%) Go
7 80 (6.45%) JavaScript
8 78 (6.29%) C#
9 60 (4.83%) Bicep
10 56 (4.51%) TypeScript
11 25 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.53%) Scala
13 16 (1.29%) Perl
14 13 (1.05%) Groovy
15 10 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.81%) Ruby
16 8 (0.64%) Rust
17 7 (0.56%) PHP
18 5 (0.40%) C++
18 5 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 358 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 290 (23.37%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.48%) Degree
4 67 (5.40%) AWS Certification
5 63 (5.08%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.98%) Azure Certification
7 36 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (0.81%) CCNP
12 9 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
14 5 (0.40%) CCNA
14 5 (0.40%) CISSP
14 5 (0.40%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.74%) QA
2 28 (2.26%) NCSC
3 25 (2.01%) GDPR
4 22 (1.77%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.97%) NIST
8 10 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.73%) SLA
10 7 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.24%) EMIR
12 3 (0.24%) MiFID
13 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.081%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.081%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.081%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.081%) PMO
System Software
1 371 (29.90%) Docker
2 53 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.46%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.37%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.05%) vSphere
7 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.32%) Lustre
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.16%) Ceph
10 2 (0.16%) FreeRADIUS
10 2 (0.16%) iptables
10 2 (0.16%) RACF
10 2 (0.16%) XenApp
11 1 (0.081%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.081%) NFS
11 1 (0.081%) Samba
11 1 (0.081%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 588 (47.38%) Kubernetes
2 393 (31.67%) Ansible
3 127 (10.23%) Grafana
4 112 (9.02%) Prometheus
5 77 (6.20%) Puppet
6 45 (3.63%) Packer
6 45 (3.63%) Progress Chef
7 35 (2.82%) Argo
8 31 (2.50%) Istio
9 26 (2.10%) Rancher
10 23 (1.85%) Consul
10 23 (1.85%) ZABBIX
11 20 (1.61%) Podman
12 19 (1.53%) FortiGate
13 16 (1.29%) HAProxy
14 15 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
14 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (1.13%) linkerd
15 14 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
16 13 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 141 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.77%) VMware
3 69 (5.56%) Google
4 68 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 61 (4.92%) Databricks
6 54 (4.35%) Splunk
7 47 (3.79%) Cisco
8 30 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 27 (2.18%) CheckPoint
10 25 (2.01%) Oracle
11 22 (1.77%) Infoblox
12 21 (1.69%) F5
13 18 (1.45%) Okta
14 17 (1.37%) Fortinet
15 16 (1.29%) SAP
16 15 (1.21%) Citrix
16 15 (1.21%) SolarWinds
17 14 (1.13%) Cloudera
18 13 (1.05%) Apple
18 13 (1.05%) Dynatrace