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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 57 40
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,230 1,245 2,464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.03% 3.42% 5.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.39% 28.48% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 933 1,854
10th Percentile £401 £425 £463
25th Percentile £463 £481 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £743 £761
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 21
10th Percentile £25.25 £40.55 £56.88
25th Percentile £26.66 £50.88 £70.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £62.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% -20.51% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £74.44 £88.30
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.66 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -19.09% -27.15% +101.33%

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 3,797 4,372 7,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.51% 12.02% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 3,202 5,432
10th Percentile £311 £258 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £682
90th Percentile £717 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £523 £514 £561
% change year-on-year +1.78% -8.38% -0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 105 176
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £17.72 £23.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.77 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -50.75% +143.33%
75th Percentile £63.40 £48.75 £70.56
90th Percentile £83.58 £71.25 £82.75
UK median hourly rate £26.88 £25.77 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.31% -53.15% +144.44%

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 17 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 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
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 17 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 +12 748 £550 -2.65% 710
North of England +5 142 £525 -4.55% 302
South East +7 90 £500 -9.09% 170
South West +27 89 £615 +11.82% 106
Midlands +52 63 £545 +21.11% 88
North West -16 58 £525 -4.55% 172
Yorkshire +10 57 £525 +0.96% 101
West Midlands +34 46 £563 +18.53% 57
North East +19 30 £523 - 30
East of England +43 28 £500 -14.16% 56
East Midlands +21 17 £500 +11.11% 29
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 83 (6.75%) Apache Spark
2 61 (4.96%) Apache
3 52 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (2.52%) Confluence
5 28 (2.28%) nginx
6 10 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.41%) IIS
11 3 (0.24%) Camunda
11 3 (0.24%) Documentum
11 3 (0.24%) FileNet
11 3 (0.24%) Traefik
12 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.081%) JBoss
13 1 (0.081%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) SAP PM
1 3 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.081%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 697 (56.67%) AWS
2 515 (41.87%) Azure
3 225 (18.29%) Serverless
4 205 (16.67%) GitHub
5 179 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (14.23%) GCP
7 151 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 144 (11.71%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (9.19%) Amazon S3
10 109 (8.86%) GitHub Actions
11 82 (6.67%) OpenShift
12 79 (6.42%) Azure AKS
13 76 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (6.18%) Entra ID
14 73 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
15 70 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
16 69 (5.61%) PaaS
17 62 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 60 (4.88%) dbt
19 58 (4.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 123 (10.00%) Firewall
2 106 (8.62%) DNS
3 79 (6.42%) VPN
4 57 (4.63%) TCP/IP
5 46 (3.74%) Network Security
6 36 (2.93%) HTTP
7 35 (2.85%) WAN
8 32 (2.60%) DHCP
9 20 (1.63%) LAN
9 20 (1.63%) NGFW
10 18 (1.46%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.38%) BGP
12 12 (0.98%) Internet
12 12 (0.98%) SSL
13 9 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (0.65%) MPLS
14 8 (0.65%) OSPF
15 7 (0.57%) Kerberos
16 6 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
2 66 (5.37%) NoSQL
2 66 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
4 53 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 44 (3.58%) Big Data
7 41 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 39 (3.17%) Data Lake
9 38 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 37 (3.01%) Hadoop
11 36 (2.93%) Apache Iceberg
12 35 (2.85%) Power BI
13 28 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (2.28%) BigQuery
14 27 (2.20%) MySQL
15 26 (2.11%) Apache Arrow
15 26 (2.11%) Apache Ignite
15 26 (2.11%) Dremio
16 24 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 232 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 215 (17.48%) GitLab
3 125 (10.16%) Git
4 62 (5.04%) JIRA
5 49 (3.98%) Artifactory
6 33 (2.68%) SonarQube
7 21 (1.71%) Maven
7 21 (1.71%) Selenium
8 19 (1.54%) CircleCI
8 19 (1.54%) Terragrunt
9 18 (1.46%) Bitbucket
10 15 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 11 (0.89%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.65%) Gradle
15 6 (0.49%) Cypress.io
16 5 (0.41%) JMeter
16 5 (0.41%) MLflow
General
1 244 (19.84%) Social Skills
2 214 (17.40%) Finance
3 149 (12.11%) Public Sector
4 76 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (5.37%) Banking
6 32 (2.60%) Front Office
7 27 (2.20%) Marketing
8 22 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 19 (1.54%) Financial Institution
9 19 (1.54%) Retail
10 17 (1.38%) Military
11 14 (1.14%) Law
12 13 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.98%) Electronics
14 8 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.65%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.57%) Legal
16 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 359 (29.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 180 (14.63%) Senior
3 154 (12.52%) AWS Engineer
4 136 (11.06%) Developer
5 124 (10.08%) Architect
6 119 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
7 110 (8.94%) AWS DevOps
8 101 (8.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 100 (8.13%) Data Engineer
10 94 (7.64%) Lead
11 86 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
12 74 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
13 57 (4.63%) Python Engineer
13 57 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
14 54 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 50 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.82%) Software Engineer
17 44 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 43 (3.50%) Network Engineer
19 36 (2.93%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (10.33%) Kafka
2 65 (5.28%) Node.js
3 61 (4.96%) .NET
4 59 (4.80%) ARM Templates
5 52 (4.23%) React
6 50 (4.07%) REST
7 47 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
7 47 (3.82%) PySpark
8 45 (3.66%) Spring
9 38 (3.09%) OAuth
10 37 (3.01%) OpenTelemetry
11 35 (2.85%) Spring Boot
12 31 (2.52%) J2EE
13 28 (2.28%) RESTful
14 24 (1.95%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.95%) YAML
15 23 (1.87%) ADO
15 23 (1.87%) OpenID
16 21 (1.71%) AWS CDK
16 21 (1.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.15%) Public Cloud
3 38 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 31 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.03%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.71%) PKI
7 20 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 18 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.30%) Anti-Spyware
11 15 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.14%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.06%) Hedge funds
14 12 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
16 10 (0.81%) Replication
17 9 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
18 8 (0.65%) Security Posture
19 7 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 264 (21.46%) Linux
2 107 (8.70%) Windows
3 84 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 61 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.68%) Unix
6 22 (1.79%) CentOS
7 12 (0.98%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.73%) VMS
9 8 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.49%) Rocky
11 5 (0.41%) 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%) Solaris
14 1 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.081%) Debian
14 1 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 719 (58.46%) DevOps
2 647 (52.60%) CI/CD
3 586 (47.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 304 (24.72%) Agile
5 275 (22.36%) Containerisation
6 206 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (12.44%) Software Engineering
8 143 (11.63%) Microservices
9 140 (11.38%) Infrastructure Automation
10 131 (10.65%) Migration
11 128 (10.41%) Configuration Management
12 109 (8.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 107 (8.70%) Analytics
14 101 (8.21%) Observability
14 101 (8.21%) Platform Engineering
15 99 (8.05%) Continuous Integration
16 98 (7.97%) Cloud Security
16 98 (7.97%) High Availability
17 97 (7.89%) Data Engineering
18 94 (7.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 592 (48.13%) Python
2 202 (16.42%) PowerShell
3 192 (15.61%) Java
4 179 (14.55%) SQL
5 177 (14.39%) Bash
6 88 (7.15%) Go
7 77 (6.26%) C#
8 74 (6.02%) JavaScript
9 73 (5.93%) Bicep
10 57 (4.63%) TypeScript
11 29 (2.36%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.63%) Scala
13 16 (1.30%) Groovy
14 15 (1.22%) Perl
15 11 (0.89%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.81%) Rust
17 9 (0.73%) Ruby
18 5 (0.41%) C++
18 5 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 350 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 285 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 68 (5.53%) Degree
4 63 (5.12%) AWS Certification
5 58 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
10 10 (0.81%) CCNP
11 8 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.65%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
13 5 (0.41%) CCNA
13 5 (0.41%) CISSP
13 5 (0.41%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (2.85%) QA
2 33 (2.68%) GDPR
3 30 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 23 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 17 (1.38%) NCSC
7 16 (1.30%) NIST
8 11 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.81%) SLA
10 9 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.16%) EMIR
13 2 (0.16%) MiFID
14 1 (0.081%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 1 (0.081%) COBIT
14 1 (0.081%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.081%) GxP
14 1 (0.081%) HL7
System Software
1 362 (29.43%) Docker
2 51 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 46 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.73%) vSphere
8 4 (0.33%) Lustre
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
1 570 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 400 (32.52%) Ansible
3 120 (9.76%) Grafana
4 105 (8.54%) Prometheus
5 81 (6.59%) Puppet
6 45 (3.66%) Progress Chef
7 33 (2.68%) Argo
8 30 (2.44%) Packer
9 21 (1.71%) Podman
10 20 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (1.54%) FortiGate
12 18 (1.46%) Istio
12 18 (1.46%) Rancher
13 15 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.98%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.89%) Consul
15 11 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.73%) Kibana
16 9 (0.73%) Kustomize
17 8 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 156 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.34%) VMware
3 76 (6.18%) Google
4 64 (5.20%) Databricks
5 58 (4.72%) Red Hat
6 45 (3.66%) Splunk
7 44 (3.58%) Cisco
8 30 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 29 (2.36%) Oracle
10 27 (2.20%) CheckPoint
11 21 (1.71%) Infoblox
11 21 (1.71%) SAP
12 17 (1.38%) F5
12 17 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.22%) Citrix
14 14 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.14%) SolarWinds
15 12 (0.98%) IBM
15 12 (0.98%) Salesforce
16 11 (0.89%) Cloudera