Terraform Contracts in the North West

Terraform
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 50 36
Rank change year-on-year -17 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 58 94 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.96% 3.51% 5.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.46% 34.31% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 72 130
10th Percentile £407 £425 £462
25th Percentile £456 £463 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £656 £673 £689
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
England median hourly rate £48.50 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -21.77% -20.51% +41.82%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 298 274 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.22% 10.23% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 200 377
10th Percentile £250 £213 £325
25th Percentile £380 £375 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £545 £600 £625
90th Percentile £646 £650 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 45
10th Percentile £49.40 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £61.25 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £63.40 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +257.79% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £84.50 £58.44 £49.40
90th Percentile £84.95 £91.25 £59.85
England median hourly rate £27.75 £25.74 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.82% -53.20% +155.81%

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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 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 11 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
Manchester -18 41 £525 -4.55% 154
Cheshire -4 8 £384 -12.48% 26
Merseyside +5 5 £625 +31.58% 8
Lancashire -1 3 £575 -8.00% 51
Terraform
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 3 (5.17%) Apache
1 3 (5.17%) nginx
1 3 (5.17%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.45%) IIS
2 2 (3.45%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.72%) Documentum
3 1 (1.72%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (63.79%) AWS
2 19 (32.76%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (18.97%) GCP
3 11 (18.97%) GitHub
4 10 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (10.34%) Serverless
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.17%) Apigee
10 3 (5.17%) AWS KMS
10 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
10 3 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) DNS
2 4 (6.90%) Firewall
3 3 (5.17%) DHCP
4 2 (3.45%) Calico
4 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (1.72%) HTTP
5 1 (1.72%) Network Security
5 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) MongoDB
2 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.45%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (37.93%) GitLab
2 20 (34.48%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.79%) Git
4 4 (6.90%) Maven
5 3 (5.17%) CircleCI
5 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.17%) JIRA
6 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.72%) gulp
6 1 (1.72%) Selenium
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Finance
5 2 (3.45%) Legal
5 2 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) Architect
2 10 (17.24%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Lead
4 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Change and Release Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Change Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Release Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Kafka
2 9 (15.52%) OAuth
3 7 (12.07%) .NET
4 6 (10.34%) Node.js
4 6 (10.34%) React
5 5 (8.62%) ARM Templates
6 4 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.90%) OAuth2
6 4 (6.90%) OpenID
6 4 (6.90%) SAML
7 3 (5.17%) cloud-init
7 3 (5.17%) GraphQL
7 3 (5.17%) Playwright
7 3 (5.17%) Puppeteer
7 3 (5.17%) RESTful
8 2 (3.45%) ADO
8 2 (3.45%) pytest
9 1 (1.72%) Apache CXF
9 1 (1.72%) Hibernate
9 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.45%) Clustering
2 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) PKI
3 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.21%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.62%) CentOS
4 4 (6.90%) Unix
4 4 (6.90%) Windows
4 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.45%) Android
5 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 34 (58.62%) DevOps
2 34 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (31.03%) Containerisation
4 15 (25.86%) Microservices
5 14 (24.14%) Agile
6 11 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
8 8 (13.79%) Analytics
8 8 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (12.07%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (12.07%) Digital Twin
9 7 (12.07%) Observability
9 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (12.07%) RBAC
9 7 (12.07%) Visualisation
10 6 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven
10 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.21%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) Java
2 10 (17.24%) SQL
3 8 (13.79%) Bash
4 7 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.90%) Go
7 3 (5.17%) Bicep
7 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.72%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.72%) COBIT
2 1 (1.72%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (32.76%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.14%) Ansible
3 12 (20.69%) Grafana
4 11 (18.97%) Prometheus
5 6 (10.34%) Istio
6 4 (6.90%) Packer
7 3 (5.17%) Kibana
7 3 (5.17%) Kustomize
7 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
7 3 (5.17%) ZABBIX
8 2 (3.45%) Nagios
9 1 (1.72%) Consul
9 1 (1.72%) Graylog
9 1 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.72%) linkerd
9 1 (1.72%) Puppet
9 1 (1.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Splunk
2 4 (6.90%) IBM
3 3 (5.17%) AppDynamics
3 3 (5.17%) Google
3 3 (5.17%) PagerDuty
3 3 (5.17%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Dell
4 2 (3.45%) HP
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.72%) BMC
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Okta
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) Remedy
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow