Terraform Contracts in London

Terraform
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 32 49 36
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 767 744 1,605
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.11% 4.17% 5.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.58% 34.19% 35.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 566 1,182
10th Percentile £405 £425 £475
25th Percentile £475 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £669 £700
90th Percentile £788 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £41.65 - £53.60
25th Percentile £45.25 £46.75 £79.89
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -42.32% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile - - £91.14
England median hourly rate £48.50 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -21.77% -20.51% +41.82%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in London

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in London

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in London

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in London

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +24 113 £545 -0.91% 62
South London -14 9 £550 +7.84% 5
West London +13 7 £565 +7.62% 16
East London +15 4 £418 -22.33% 10
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 67 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 49 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.13%) Apache
4 25 (3.26%) nginx
5 16 (2.09%) Confluence
6 10 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.65%) Traefik
10 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.39%) IIS
12 1 (0.13%) Camunda
12 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 446 (58.15%) AWS
2 317 (41.33%) Azure
3 165 (21.51%) Serverless
4 126 (16.43%) GitHub
5 121 (15.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 117 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
7 113 (14.73%) GCP
8 112 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (11.21%) Amazon S3
10 67 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (8.34%) Amazon ECS
12 61 (7.95%) PaaS
13 59 (7.69%) Azure AKS
13 59 (7.69%) OpenShift
14 54 (7.04%) dbt
15 50 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
16 47 (6.13%) IaaS
17 46 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
17 46 (6.00%) Entra ID
18 37 (4.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (11.21%) Firewall
2 72 (9.39%) DNS
3 60 (7.82%) VPN
4 32 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.13%) WAN
6 22 (2.87%) Network Security
7 18 (2.35%) HTTP
8 16 (2.09%) NGFW
9 15 (1.96%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.69%) DHCP
11 11 (1.43%) BGP
11 11 (1.43%) Internet
12 9 (1.17%) LAN
13 7 (0.91%) MPLS
13 7 (0.91%) SSL
14 5 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.65%) Wireless
15 4 (0.52%) OSPF
15 4 (0.52%) SAN
15 4 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (7.30%) Amazon Athena
2 50 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 39 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 37 (4.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 37 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (4.04%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.65%) Apache Arrow
8 28 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
8 28 (3.65%) Dremio
9 24 (3.13%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.74%) Data Lake
11 19 (2.48%) Big Data
12 18 (2.35%) Hadoop
12 18 (2.35%) Power BI
12 18 (2.35%) Tableau
13 16 (2.09%) Apache Hive
14 15 (1.96%) MongoDB
15 12 (1.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 146 (19.04%) Jenkins
2 130 (16.95%) GitLab
3 73 (9.52%) Git
4 40 (5.22%) Artifactory
5 26 (3.39%) JIRA
6 13 (1.69%) Maven
6 13 (1.69%) Terragrunt
7 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.56%) CircleCI
8 10 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.91%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.65%) JMeter
10 5 (0.65%) Poetry
10 5 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.52%) Gradle
11 4 (0.52%) MLflow
12 3 (0.39%) git-flow
13 2 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 179 (23.34%) Finance
2 138 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 74 (9.65%) Public Sector
4 49 (6.39%) Banking
5 43 (5.61%) Front Office
6 38 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 15 (1.96%) Marketing
8 15 (1.96%) Retail
9 13 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.04%) Military
12 7 (0.91%) Law
13 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Back Office
14 4 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.52%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.39%) Legal
15 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 239 (31.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 138 (17.99%) AWS Engineer
3 122 (15.91%) Senior
4 89 (11.60%) AWS DevOps
5 85 (11.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 83 (10.82%) Data Engineer
7 79 (10.30%) Azure Engineer
8 78 (10.17%) Developer
9 72 (9.39%) Architect
10 63 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (7.56%) Python Engineer
12 48 (6.26%) Lead
13 43 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
14 41 (5.35%) Senior DevOps
15 39 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.65%) Network Engineer
17 27 (3.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 25 (3.26%) Azure Architect
18 25 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (13.69%) Kafka
2 39 (5.08%) PySpark
3 36 (4.69%) J2EE
4 33 (4.30%) ARM Templates
5 32 (4.17%) Node.js
6 31 (4.04%) Spring
7 30 (3.91%) React
8 28 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
9 23 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 23 (3.00%) REST
10 22 (2.87%) .NET
11 20 (2.61%) OAuth
11 20 (2.61%) Spring Boot
12 16 (2.09%) ADO
12 16 (2.09%) AWS CDK
12 16 (2.09%) OpenID
13 15 (1.96%) NumPy
13 15 (1.96%) OAuth2
13 15 (1.96%) Pandas
13 15 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 29 (3.78%) Public Cloud
3 20 (2.61%) Data Centre
4 19 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.09%) Anti-Spyware
7 15 (1.96%) Hedge funds
8 14 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.69%) PKI
10 12 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.56%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.17%) Replication
12 7 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.65%) Educational Technology
13 5 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 148 (19.30%) Linux
2 50 (6.52%) Windows
3 38 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (3.13%) Unix
5 22 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.43%) CentOS
7 8 (1.04%) VMS
8 7 (0.91%) Rocky
9 3 (0.39%) Android
9 3 (0.39%) SUSE
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.26%) Debian
10 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (62.45%) DevOps
2 426 (55.54%) CI/CD
3 383 (49.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 180 (23.47%) Agile
5 154 (20.08%) Containerisation
6 140 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 98 (12.78%) Infrastructure Automation
9 94 (12.26%) Microservices
10 92 (11.99%) Migration
11 86 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 78 (10.17%) Cloud Security
13 76 (9.91%) Configuration Management
14 72 (9.39%) High Availability
15 71 (9.26%) Data Engineering
16 64 (8.34%) Analytics
17 61 (7.95%) Platform Engineering
18 57 (7.43%) Continuous Integration
18 57 (7.43%) Observability
19 51 (6.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 403 (52.54%) Python
2 137 (17.86%) Java
3 105 (13.69%) SQL
4 96 (12.52%) PowerShell
5 95 (12.39%) Bash
6 81 (10.56%) Go
7 53 (6.91%) C#
8 46 (6.00%) JavaScript
9 45 (5.87%) Bicep
10 37 (4.82%) TypeScript
11 18 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.69%) Groovy
13 11 (1.43%) Scala
14 9 (1.17%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.17%) Ruby
15 8 (1.04%) Perl
16 7 (0.91%) Rust
17 5 (0.65%) PHP
18 4 (0.52%) C++
19 3 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 146 (19.04%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.13%) AWS Certification
4 45 (5.87%) Degree
5 21 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.65%) CCNP
13 4 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.52%) RHCSA
14 3 (0.39%) CCNA
14 3 (0.39%) JNCIA
14 3 (0.39%) OCP
14 3 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.39%) QA
2 18 (2.35%) GDPR
3 16 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 15 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.30%) NCSC
5 10 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (1.17%) NIST
6 9 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.39%) EMIR
8 3 (0.39%) MiFID
8 3 (0.39%) SLA
9 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 244 (31.81%) Docker
2 30 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.52%) Lustre
6 2 (0.26%) Ceph
6 2 (0.26%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (0.26%) iptables
6 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.13%) RACF
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 386 (50.33%) Kubernetes
2 199 (25.95%) Ansible
3 67 (8.74%) Grafana
4 62 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.74%) Puppet
6 28 (3.65%) Progress Chef
7 22 (2.87%) Argo
8 17 (2.22%) Istio
8 17 (2.22%) Packer
9 16 (2.09%) Rancher
10 13 (1.69%) FortiGate
11 11 (1.43%) Podman
11 11 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.17%) Consul
14 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.78%) HAProxy
16 5 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
16 5 (0.65%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 87 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.74%) Google
3 35 (4.56%) Splunk
4 32 (4.17%) Databricks
5 31 (4.04%) Red Hat
6 27 (3.52%) CheckPoint
6 27 (3.52%) Cisco
7 26 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 23 (3.00%) VMware
9 21 (2.74%) Infoblox
10 17 (2.22%) Fortinet
10 17 (2.22%) Oracle
11 14 (1.83%) Cloudera
12 13 (1.69%) F5
13 9 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.17%) Okta
13 9 (1.17%) SolarWinds
14 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.04%) SAP
15 6 (0.78%) Citrix