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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 47 35
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 743 762 1,498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.98% 4.36% 5.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.22% 34.79% 35.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 580 1,110
10th Percentile £401 £425 £475
25th Percentile £463 £500 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -9.44% +0.40%
75th Percentile £675 £652 £700
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile £41.65 - £59.30
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 - - £91.25
England median hourly rate £36.00 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -41.94% -20.51% -

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 1,944 2,190 4,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.65% 12.53% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,586 3,076
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £425 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £661 £650 £713
90th Percentile £775 £750 £798
England median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 44
10th Percentile £26.45 £18.45 £22.90
25th Percentile £27.73 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.59 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% -61.88% +169.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £84.32
90th Percentile £63.25 £69.98 £90.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.77 £52.32
% change year-on-year +8.67% -50.75% +143.33%

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 19 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 19 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 +19 115 £525 -4.55% 122
South London -18 10 £523 +2.45% 11
West London +7 5 £775 +38.39% 18
East London +18 4 £418 -22.33% 20
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 59 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (5.52%) Apache
4 19 (2.56%) nginx
5 16 (2.15%) Confluence
6 10 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 8 (1.08%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.81%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) IIS
10 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.27%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 416 (55.99%) AWS
2 331 (44.55%) Azure
3 153 (20.59%) Serverless
4 132 (17.77%) GitHub
5 117 (15.75%) GCP
6 111 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (13.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 101 (13.59%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (9.69%) Amazon S3
10 69 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (8.08%) Azure AKS
12 55 (7.40%) Entra ID
13 52 (7.00%) dbt
14 51 (6.86%) PaaS
15 50 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
15 50 (6.73%) OpenShift
16 49 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
17 43 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
17 43 (5.79%) IaaS
18 36 (4.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (12.25%) Firewall
2 66 (8.88%) DNS
3 61 (8.21%) VPN
4 29 (3.90%) TCP/IP
5 24 (3.23%) WAN
6 22 (2.96%) Network Security
7 20 (2.69%) HTTP
8 16 (2.15%) NGFW
9 15 (2.02%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.75%) DHCP
11 12 (1.62%) BGP
11 12 (1.62%) Internet
12 9 (1.21%) LAN
13 8 (1.08%) MPLS
14 5 (0.67%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.67%) SSL
14 5 (0.67%) Wireless
15 4 (0.54%) SNMP
15 4 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.46%) Amazon Athena
2 44 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
3 39 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (4.31%) Apache Iceberg
6 28 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.23%) Apache Arrow
7 24 (3.23%) Apache Ignite
7 24 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 24 (3.23%) Dremio
8 23 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.96%) Power BI
10 21 (2.83%) Big Data
10 21 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.29%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.29%) Hadoop
12 15 (2.02%) Apache Hive
12 15 (2.02%) Tableau
13 13 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 135 (18.17%) Jenkins
2 119 (16.02%) GitLab
3 69 (9.29%) Git
4 35 (4.71%) Artifactory
5 27 (3.63%) JIRA
6 14 (1.88%) Terragrunt
7 13 (1.75%) CircleCI
8 12 (1.62%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.35%) Maven
10 9 (1.21%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.94%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.81%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.81%) Gradle
12 6 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.67%) MLflow
13 5 (0.67%) Poetry
14 4 (0.54%) git-flow
14 4 (0.54%) JMeter
15 2 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 166 (22.34%) Finance
2 137 (18.44%) Social Skills
3 75 (10.09%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.06%) Banking
5 36 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.04%) Front Office
7 18 (2.42%) Marketing
8 17 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.15%) Retail
10 13 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.08%) Military
13 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.81%) Law
15 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.40%) Electronics
16 3 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.40%) Legal
16 3 (0.40%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 218 (29.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 117 (15.75%) Senior
3 110 (14.80%) AWS Engineer
4 82 (11.04%) Architect
4 82 (11.04%) Azure Engineer
4 82 (11.04%) Data Engineer
5 79 (10.63%) AWS DevOps
6 75 (10.09%) Developer
7 72 (9.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 61 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 50 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
10 46 (6.19%) Lead
10 46 (6.19%) Python Engineer
11 33 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
12 32 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.04%) Azure Architect
13 30 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 29 (3.90%) Network Engineer
15 26 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (12.11%) Kafka
2 36 (4.85%) ARM Templates
2 36 (4.85%) PySpark
3 32 (4.31%) Node.js
4 29 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
4 29 (3.90%) J2EE
5 28 (3.77%) Spring
6 26 (3.50%) React
7 25 (3.36%) REST
8 23 (3.10%) .NET
8 23 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (2.69%) OAuth
10 18 (2.42%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.29%) ADO
12 16 (2.15%) NumPy
12 16 (2.15%) OpenID
12 16 (2.15%) Pandas
12 16 (2.15%) RESTful
13 15 (2.02%) OAuth2
14 14 (1.88%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 32 (4.31%) Public Cloud
3 22 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (2.69%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.15%) Anti-Spyware
5 16 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.75%) Hedge funds
7 13 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.35%) PKI
11 8 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.81%) Replication
14 5 (0.67%) Reinsurance
15 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 141 (18.98%) Linux
2 47 (6.33%) Windows
3 29 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (2.96%) Unix
4 22 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.08%) VMS
6 7 (0.94%) CentOS
7 6 (0.81%) Rocky
8 3 (0.40%) Android
8 3 (0.40%) SUSE
8 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (62.31%) DevOps
2 408 (54.91%) CI/CD
3 379 (51.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (23.42%) Agile
5 146 (19.65%) Containerisation
6 127 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (13.32%) Infrastructure Automation
8 91 (12.25%) Microservices
8 91 (12.25%) Migration
9 85 (11.44%) Software Engineering
10 78 (10.50%) Configuration Management
11 76 (10.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 75 (10.09%) High Availability
13 73 (9.83%) Cloud Security
13 73 (9.83%) Data Engineering
14 63 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
15 62 (8.34%) Analytics
16 58 (7.81%) Continuous Integration
17 56 (7.54%) Observability
18 54 (7.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 378 (50.87%) Python
2 119 (16.02%) Java
3 104 (14.00%) SQL
4 103 (13.86%) PowerShell
5 95 (12.79%) Bash
6 71 (9.56%) Go
7 49 (6.59%) Bicep
8 48 (6.46%) C#
9 38 (5.11%) JavaScript
10 34 (4.58%) TypeScript
11 19 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 15 (2.02%) Groovy
13 11 (1.48%) Scala
14 10 (1.35%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.08%) Ruby
16 7 (0.94%) Perl
16 7 (0.94%) Rust
17 4 (0.54%) C++
17 4 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 146 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 136 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 43 (5.79%) Degree
5 25 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.67%) CCNP
10 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.40%) CCNA
12 3 (0.40%) JNCIA
12 3 (0.40%) OCP
12 3 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.40%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.63%) QA
2 21 (2.83%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.83%) GDPR
3 15 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.48%) NIST
4 11 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.08%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.94%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.94%) NCSC
8 3 (0.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) MiFID
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%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 228 (30.69%) Docker
2 33 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.40%) Lustre
5 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.27%) Ceph
6 2 (0.27%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (0.27%) iptables
6 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.27%) 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%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 369 (49.66%) Kubernetes
2 199 (26.78%) Ansible
3 65 (8.75%) Grafana
4 60 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 47 (6.33%) Puppet
6 28 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 20 (2.69%) Argo
8 15 (2.02%) Rancher
9 13 (1.75%) FortiGate
9 13 (1.75%) Packer
10 11 (1.48%) Istio
10 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (1.48%) Podman
10 11 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.94%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.67%) Consul
12 5 (0.67%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.54%) Cilium
13 4 (0.54%) Nagios
14 3 (0.40%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 96 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.59%) Google
3 31 (4.17%) Splunk
4 30 (4.04%) Databricks
5 27 (3.63%) CheckPoint
6 26 (3.50%) Palo Alto
7 25 (3.36%) Cisco
7 25 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 21 (2.83%) Infoblox
8 21 (2.83%) VMware
9 17 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 17 (2.29%) Oracle
10 11 (1.48%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.21%) F5
11 9 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.21%) SAP
12 8 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.08%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.94%) Okta
14 6 (0.81%) Citrix