Terraform Contracts in the North West

Terraform
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Terraform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Terraform over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Terraform 104 173 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.76% 5.41% 5.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.24% 32.95% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 134 181
10th Percentile £425 £456 £438
25th Percentile £463 £479 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £39.60 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.51% +41.82% -6.78%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

Terraform is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 287 525 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.39% 16.43% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 377 462
10th Percentile £235 £325 £250
25th Percentile £375 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £626
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 45 10
10th Percentile £16.64 £16.85 £16.25
25th Percentile - £22.13 £17.19
Median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.93% +50.00% -56.28%
75th Percentile £59.38 £49.52 £49.14
90th Percentile £93.00 £65.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Manchester -9 82 £550 -4.35% 48
Cheshire +11 10 £475 +2.70% 9
Lancashire -8 6 £613 -2.97% 2
Merseyside +13 1 £475 -11.63% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) nginx
4 2 (1.92%) Traefik
5 1 (0.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 74 (71.15%) AWS
2 30 (28.85%) Azure
3 21 (20.19%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (16.35%) Serverless
5 15 (14.42%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (14.42%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (10.58%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.69%) Snowflake
9 6 (5.77%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (5.77%) GCP
9 6 (5.77%) SaaS
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.81%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (4.81%) GitHub
10 5 (4.81%) IaaS
10 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) Network Security
2 4 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (1.92%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.96%) DMZ
4 1 (0.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.31%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.73%) DynamoDB
4 6 (5.77%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.81%) MySQL
6 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.92%) Redis
8 1 (0.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (32.69%) GitLab
2 21 (20.19%) Git
3 11 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.73%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.88%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.92%) JIRA
6 2 (1.92%) Selenium
7 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.96%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.96%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.58%) Finance
2 11 (10.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.85%) Retail
4 3 (2.88%) Electronics
4 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.88%) Marketing
4 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.96%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (36.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (24.04%) AWS DevOps
3 20 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
3 20 (19.23%) Developer
4 17 (16.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 16 (15.38%) Senior
6 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.27%) Node.js
2 17 (16.35%) RESTful
3 5 (4.81%) Django
3 5 (4.81%) FastAPI
4 4 (3.85%) Flask
5 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.88%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.88%) REST
6 2 (1.92%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.92%) cloud-init
6 2 (1.92%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.92%) HTML
6 2 (1.92%) HTML5
6 2 (1.92%) pytest
6 2 (1.92%) React
6 2 (1.92%) SAML
6 2 (1.92%) Sass
6 2 (1.92%) Vue
6 2 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (2.88%) PKI
2 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.92%) Clustering
3 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Linux
2 7 (6.73%) Windows
3 6 (5.77%) Unix
4 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.88%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.92%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.92%) CentOS
7 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 58 (55.77%) DevOps
3 33 (31.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (25.00%) Agile
5 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
7 22 (21.15%) Microservices
8 19 (18.27%) Design Patterns
9 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (10.58%) Migration
11 9 (8.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (8.65%) Software Delivery
12 8 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
13 7 (6.73%) Configuration Management
13 7 (6.73%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineering
14 6 (5.77%) Cloud Security
14 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 5 (4.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.23%) Python
2 20 (19.23%) Bash
3 12 (11.54%) Go
4 9 (8.65%) SQL
5 8 (7.69%) Java
5 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.81%) Ruby
7 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.92%) Bicep
8 2 (1.92%) C
9 1 (0.96%) C#
9 1 (0.96%) C++
9 1 (0.96%) Fortran
9 1 (0.96%) Scala
9 1 (0.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.88%) OSCP
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CCIE
7 1 (0.96%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) CCNP
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) Degree
7 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.88%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.88%) NIST
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.92%) NCSC
3 2 (1.92%) QA
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (30.77%) Docker
2 5 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 28 (26.92%) Ansible
3 8 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 6 (5.77%) HP Fortify
5 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.88%) Grafana
7 2 (1.92%) Consul
7 2 (1.92%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.92%) Graphite
7 2 (1.92%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.92%) Istio
7 2 (1.92%) linkerd
7 2 (1.92%) Packer
7 2 (1.92%) Podman
7 2 (1.92%) Puppet
7 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Splunk
1 8 (7.69%) VMware
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.88%) PagerDuty
3 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.88%) SAP
4 2 (1.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Oracle
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.92%) Virgin Media
5 1 (0.96%) Brocade
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco
5 1 (0.96%) F5
5 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.96%) Google
5 1 (0.96%) Juniper
5 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.96%) Teradata
5 1 (0.96%) Zscaler