Terraform Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Terraform
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 4.04% - 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.33% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £228 - -
25th Percentile £293 - £635
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - £640
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.54%
75th Percentile £491 - £645
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -22.52%

All Systems Management Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 15 18 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.58% 9.63% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 2
10th Percentile £339 £164 £244
25th Percentile £402 £200 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £275 £420
Median % change year-on-year +72.73% -34.52% +90.91%
75th Percentile £491 £446 £534
90th Percentile £541 £544 £601
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +91.30% -4.17% -47.83%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Terraform job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in Northern Ireland

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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
County Antrim - 7 £446 - 17
County Armagh - 1 - -
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Junior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Google