Terraform Contracts in Manchester

Terraform
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 41 82 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.43% 5.41% 7.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.89% 49.10% 42.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 62 106
10th Percentile £450 £426 £463
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £731 £733 £688
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
North West median hourly rate - - £39.60

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 147 167 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.87% 11.01% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 129 245
10th Percentile £225 £323 £376
25th Percentile £413 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £656 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
10th Percentile - £55.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.75 £20.17
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £32.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +143.90% +64.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £102.40 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (4.88%) IIS
1 2 (4.88%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.44%) Documentum
2 1 (2.44%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) Azure
3 10 (24.39%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (24.39%) GitHub
4 9 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (17.07%) GCP
6 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Storage
8 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
8 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.88%) Apigee
9 2 (4.88%) Azure App Service
9 2 (4.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) DHCP
2 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) Calico
3 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.44%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) GitLab
2 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.07%) Git
4 4 (9.76%) Maven
5 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.88%) JIRA
6 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.44%) gulp
6 1 (2.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Military
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Architect
2 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 7 (17.07%) Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Digital Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) Kafka
2 5 (12.20%) Node.js
2 5 (12.20%) OAuth
2 5 (12.20%) React
3 4 (9.76%) ARM Templates
3 4 (9.76%) cloud-init
3 4 (9.76%) OAuth2
3 4 (9.76%) OpenID
3 4 (9.76%) SAML
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
4 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.88%) Playwright
4 2 (4.88%) Puppeteer
4 2 (4.88%) pytest
4 2 (4.88%) RESTful
5 1 (2.44%) Dropwizard
5 1 (2.44%) Mongoose
5 1 (2.44%) PySpark
5 1 (2.44%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.88%) Clustering
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) Linux
2 8 (19.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (14.63%) CentOS
4 5 (12.20%) Unix
5 2 (4.88%) Android
5 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.88%) Windows
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (60.98%) CI/CD
3 22 (53.66%) DevOps
4 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
5 11 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (19.51%) Agile
8 7 (17.07%) Analytics
8 7 (17.07%) Continuous Deployment
8 7 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (17.07%) Digital Twin
8 7 (17.07%) RBAC
8 7 (17.07%) Visualisation
9 6 (14.63%) Microservices
9 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
10 4 (9.76%) Data Security
10 4 (9.76%) ETL
10 4 (9.76%) Load Balancing
10 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Python
2 7 (17.07%) Bash
3 6 (14.63%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) Go
5 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.32%) Bicep
6 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.44%) Perl
8 1 (2.44%) PHP
8 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) COBIT
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.95%) Ansible
3 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
4 6 (14.63%) Grafana
4 6 (14.63%) Istio
5 5 (12.20%) Packer
6 3 (7.32%) Kustomize
6 3 (7.32%) ZABBIX
7 2 (4.88%) Nagios
7 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.44%) Consul
8 1 (2.44%) Graylog
8 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.44%) linkerd
8 1 (2.44%) Puppet
8 1 (2.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) IBM
2 2 (4.88%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) Dell
2 2 (4.88%) Google
2 2 (4.88%) HP
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) PagerDuty
2 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
2 2 (4.88%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) BMC
3 1 (2.44%) Okta
3 1 (2.44%) Remedy
3 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow