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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 38 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 94 165 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.51% 5.28% 5.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.31% 30.56% 37.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 129 192
10th Percentile £425 £463 £438
25th Percentile £463 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £639
90th Percentile £673 £690 £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% -7.56%

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 274 540 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.23% 17.27% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 380 465
10th Percentile £213 £325 £250
25th Percentile £375 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £626
90th Percentile £650 £676 £683
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 45 9
10th Percentile £16.67 £16.25 -
25th Percentile - £22.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.93% +50.00% -65.22%
75th Percentile £58.44 £48.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £91.25 £52.13 £54.75
England median hourly rate £25.74 £54.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year -52.49% +151.98% -10.42%

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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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -3 79 £550 -4.35% 48
Cheshire +9 5 £439 -5.14% 7
Lancashire -7 5 £625 -0.99% 2
Merseyside +13 1 £475 -11.63% 2
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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 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.19%) Confluence
4 2 (2.13%) nginx
4 2 (2.13%) Traefik
5 1 (1.06%) Apache
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 69 (73.40%) AWS
2 29 (30.85%) Azure
3 19 (20.21%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (15.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (15.96%) Serverless
5 13 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (10.64%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (8.51%) Snowflake
9 6 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (6.38%) GCP
9 6 (6.38%) GitHub
10 5 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.26%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.19%) IaaS
13 2 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) Network Security
2 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.06%) Firewall
4 1 (1.06%) WAN
4 1 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.15%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.38%) Data Lake
2 6 (6.38%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.32%) MySQL
4 3 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.13%) Redis
6 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.06%) Big Data
6 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (36.17%) GitLab
2 21 (22.34%) Git
3 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.45%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.19%) Burp Suite
6 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.13%) JIRA
6 2 (2.13%) Selenium
7 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.06%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.06%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (14.89%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Finance
4 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.26%) Retail
5 2 (2.13%) Electronics
5 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.13%) Marketing
5 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.06%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (37.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (24.47%) AWS DevOps
3 18 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
4 16 (17.02%) Developer
4 16 (17.02%) Senior
5 15 (15.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Software Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.26%) AWS Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Consultant
11 4 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) Node.js
2 17 (18.09%) RESTful
3 4 (4.26%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.19%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.19%) REST
5 2 (2.13%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.13%) cloud-init
5 2 (2.13%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.13%) HTML
5 2 (2.13%) HTML5
5 2 (2.13%) pytest
5 2 (2.13%) React
5 2 (2.13%) SAML
5 2 (2.13%) Sass
5 2 (2.13%) Vue
5 2 (2.13%) YAML
6 1 (1.06%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.06%) AWS SAM
6 1 (1.06%) Jest
6 1 (1.06%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.13%) Clustering
3 2 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.64%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.19%) Kali Linux
4 2 (2.13%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (2.13%) CentOS
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (67.02%) CI/CD
2 56 (59.57%) DevOps
3 32 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (27.66%) Agile
5 24 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 21 (22.34%) Microservices
7 18 (19.15%) Design Patterns
7 18 (19.15%) Software Engineering
8 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (10.64%) Migration
9 10 (10.64%) Software Delivery
10 8 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (7.45%) Configuration Management
12 6 (6.38%) Cloud Security
12 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (6.38%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (5.32%) Code Quality
13 5 (5.32%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 40 (42.55%) Python
2 19 (20.21%) Bash
3 12 (12.77%) Go
4 10 (10.64%) SQL
5 8 (8.51%) Java
5 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.32%) Ruby
6 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.19%) Bicep
8 2 (2.13%) C
9 1 (1.06%) C#
9 1 (1.06%) C++
9 1 (1.06%) Fortran
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.77%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.19%) OSCP
7 1 (1.06%) CCIE
7 1 (1.06%) CCNA
7 1 (1.06%) CCNP
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.06%) Degree
7 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.19%) ISO 22301
2 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.19%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) NCSC
3 2 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (32.98%) Docker
2 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (36.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (23.40%) Ansible
3 6 (6.38%) HP Fortify
4 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.19%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.13%) Consul
6 2 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (2.13%) Graphite
6 2 (2.13%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.13%) Istio
6 2 (2.13%) linkerd
6 2 (2.13%) Packer
6 2 (2.13%) Podman
6 2 (2.13%) Puppet
6 2 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Splunk
2 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.38%) VMware
4 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.19%) PagerDuty
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.13%) SAP
5 2 (2.13%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.06%) Brocade
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco
6 1 (1.06%) Google
6 1 (1.06%) Juniper
6 1 (1.06%) Teradata
6 1 (1.06%) Tufin
6 1 (1.06%) Zscaler