Terraform Contracts in the North of England

Terraform
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 54 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 133 157 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.98% 3.32% 5.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.24% 29.96% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 110 225
10th Percentile £377 £411 £475
25th Percentile £450 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £574 £609 £688
90th Percentile £630 £650 £725
England median daily rate £530 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £66.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -20.45% -15.38% -

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 598 524 820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.89% 11.09% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 362 577
10th Percentile £263 £236 £318
25th Percentile £375 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -12.84% +5.83%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £627 £645 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -1.90% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 47
10th Percentile £62.54 £17.26 £16.25
25th Percentile - £17.72 £21.69
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.84 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.35% +44.12% +62.50%
75th Percentile £84.88 £58.44 £46.59
90th Percentile £89.15 £91.25 £52.13
England median hourly rate £38.75 £28.75 £52.93
% change year-on-year +34.78% -45.68% +146.16%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the North of England

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the North of England

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the North of England

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the North of England

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Yorkshire +2 61 £525 +0.96% 591
North West -9 56 £500 -9.09% 787
North East +9 19 £500 - 172
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (3.01%) nginx
1 4 (3.01%) WebSphere
1 4 (3.01%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (2.26%) Apache
2 3 (2.26%) Documentum
2 3 (2.26%) FileNet
2 3 (2.26%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (69.17%) AWS
2 35 (26.32%) Azure
3 25 (18.80%) GCP
4 23 (17.29%) GitHub
5 22 (16.54%) Serverless
6 20 (15.04%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (9.02%) Amazon S3
8 12 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.52%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (7.52%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.26%) Kong
12 6 (4.51%) AWS KMS
13 5 (3.76%) npm
13 5 (3.76%) PaaS
13 5 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.77%) DNS
2 10 (7.52%) Firewall
3 8 (6.02%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.02%) VPN
4 6 (4.51%) Network Security
5 5 (3.76%) WAN
6 4 (3.01%) Calico
6 4 (3.01%) LAN
6 4 (3.01%) SSL
7 3 (2.26%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.26%) DHCP
7 3 (2.26%) DWDM
8 2 (1.50%) SAN
9 1 (0.75%) HTTP
9 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.75%) SSH
9 1 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.02%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.52%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.77%) MySQL
4 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.76%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.50%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (27.07%) Jenkins
2 34 (25.56%) GitLab
3 23 (17.29%) Git
4 10 (7.52%) Maven
5 8 (6.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (5.26%) Artifactory
7 6 (4.51%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.76%) gulp
8 5 (3.76%) JIRA
8 5 (3.76%) Selenium
9 4 (3.01%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.50%) TestNG
12 1 (0.75%) Babel
12 1 (0.75%) JMeter
12 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.75%) Subversion
12 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 25 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.05%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.27%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Banking
5 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.50%) Legal
6 2 (1.50%) Military
7 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Electronics
7 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Retail
7 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (33.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (16.54%) Senior
3 19 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) Developer
4 18 (13.53%) AWS DevOps
5 17 (12.78%) Architect
6 16 (12.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 16 (12.03%) Lead
7 11 (8.27%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.28%) Kafka
2 14 (10.53%) .NET
3 12 (9.02%) Node.js
3 12 (9.02%) React
4 9 (6.77%) ARM Templates
4 9 (6.77%) OAuth
5 6 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.76%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.76%) Apache CXF
6 5 (3.76%) Dropwizard
6 5 (3.76%) Express.js
6 5 (3.76%) JAX-RS
6 5 (3.76%) MEAN Stack
6 5 (3.76%) MERN Stack
6 5 (3.76%) Mongoose
6 5 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.76%) RESTful
6 5 (3.76%) Sequelize
6 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.50%) Clustering
5 2 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.50%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) NHS
5 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.75%) Replication
6 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.05%) Linux
2 7 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.01%) Android
4 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.26%) CentOS
6 2 (1.50%) Unix
6 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.75%) AIX
7 1 (0.75%) Solaris
7 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.89%) DevOps
2 67 (50.38%) CI/CD
3 54 (40.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (25.56%) Agile
5 26 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (18.80%) Microservices
7 24 (18.05%) Containerisation
8 18 (13.53%) Analytics
9 14 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (9.02%) Configuration Management
11 12 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (9.02%) Event-Driven
12 11 (8.27%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (7.52%) Continuous Deployment
13 10 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (6.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (6.77%) Observability
14 9 (6.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.36%) Python
2 28 (21.05%) SQL
3 19 (14.29%) Java
4 18 (13.53%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.53%) Bash
6 13 (9.77%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.02%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.51%) C#
10 5 (3.76%) Scala
11 3 (2.26%) Bicep
11 3 (2.26%) Perl
11 3 (2.26%) Rust
12 2 (1.50%) Go
12 2 (1.50%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.75%) Groovy
13 1 (0.75%) Korn
13 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) CCNA
7 2 (1.50%) CCNP
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.50%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.50%) JNCIS
7 2 (1.50%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.75%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.01%) NIST
2 3 (2.26%) GDPR
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.26%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.50%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) COBIT
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (25.56%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (38.35%) Kubernetes
2 37 (27.82%) Ansible
3 14 (10.53%) Grafana
3 14 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.26%) Istio
4 7 (5.26%) Puppet
5 5 (3.76%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.01%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.26%) Kibana
7 3 (2.26%) Nagios
8 2 (1.50%) Packer
8 2 (1.50%) vRealize
8 2 (1.50%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.75%) Graylog
Vendors
1 13 (9.77%) Databricks
2 12 (9.02%) Google
3 9 (6.77%) Splunk
4 8 (6.02%) Cisco
5 7 (5.26%) IBM
6 6 (4.51%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.51%) VMware
7 4 (3.01%) HP
7 4 (3.01%) Oracle
7 4 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.26%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.26%) Arista
8 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.26%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.50%) 3PAR
9 2 (1.50%) Brio
9 2 (1.50%) Brocade
9 2 (1.50%) Dell
9 2 (1.50%) EMC
9 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds