Terraform Contracts in the South East

Terraform
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 80 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 130 218 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.36% 3.75% 3.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.47% 26.91% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 173 185
10th Percentile £425 £475 £444
25th Percentile £463 £513 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £656
90th Percentile £688 £749 £728
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £58.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.82% +46.67%
England median hourly rate £62.00 £78.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.51% +41.82% -6.78%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 704 810 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.76% 13.94% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 593 776
10th Percentile £208 £308 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +8.60% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.27 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.72 £47.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -10.42%
75th Percentile £49.06 £74.03 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.31 £68.00
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the South East 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
Hampshire +3 56 £450 -18.18% 27
Thames Valley -31 49 £600 -4.00% 21
Berkshire -17 35 £625 -3.85% 14
West Sussex -11 12 £538 -22.99% 2
Buckinghamshire -2 10 £583 -0.85% 5
Surrey -11 5 £650 +8.33% 13
Oxfordshire +3 4 £600 - 2
Kent - 4 £638 -
East Sussex -3 3 £530 -32.91% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.85%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) nginx
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.54%) Apache
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.77%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (39.23%) Azure
2 48 (36.92%) AWS
3 19 (14.62%) GitHub
4 15 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.00%) GCP
6 12 (9.23%) OpenShift
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.85%) Datadog
9 5 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.85%) IaaS
10 4 (3.08%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.08%) Route 53
10 4 (3.08%) Serverless
10 4 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.77%) Firewall
2 7 (5.38%) DNS
3 6 (4.62%) VPN
4 4 (3.08%) SNA
4 4 (3.08%) VSAN
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (2.31%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.54%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.54%) SAN
6 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.77%) DHCP
7 1 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.77%) HTTP
7 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.31%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.31%) Metadata
5 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.31%) MySQL
5 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.77%) Big Data
7 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (23.08%) GitLab
2 23 (17.69%) Jenkins
3 19 (14.62%) JIRA
4 16 (12.31%) Git
5 15 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (10.77%) Robot Framework
6 14 (10.77%) Selenium
7 13 (10.00%) Cucumber
8 12 (9.23%) REST Assured
8 12 (9.23%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.77%) Appium
10 1 (0.77%) MSI
10 1 (0.77%) MSTest
10 1 (0.77%) NUnit
10 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.77%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.92%) Finance
3 9 (6.92%) Law
4 8 (6.15%) Police
5 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Legal
7 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (13.85%) Security Engineer
3 17 (13.08%) Architect
4 16 (12.31%) Senior
5 12 (9.23%) Security Architect
6 11 (8.46%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Database Specialist
8 8 (6.15%) Developer
9 7 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Lead
10 6 (4.62%) Platform Specialist
11 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) ARM Templates
2 14 (10.77%) REST
3 13 (10.00%) Java EE
4 9 (6.92%) YAML
5 7 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.85%) .NET
7 4 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.31%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.31%) Kafka
8 3 (2.31%) Node.js
8 3 (2.31%) Spring
8 3 (2.31%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.54%) Django
9 2 (1.54%) HornetQ
9 2 (1.54%) JSON
9 2 (1.54%) LDAP
9 2 (1.54%) VCL
10 1 (0.77%) Flask
10 1 (0.77%) Pandas
10 1 (0.77%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.85%) PKI
2 12 (9.23%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.92%) Clustering
4 8 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.15%) Replication
5 7 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.77%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Linux
2 20 (15.38%) Windows
3 18 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 14 (10.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.54%) Debian
7 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.77%) Unix
7 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.31%) DevOps
2 46 (35.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 32 (24.62%) Agile
5 29 (22.31%) Containerisation
6 25 (19.23%) CI/CD
7 24 (18.46%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (14.62%) Configuration Management
8 19 (14.62%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (12.31%) High Availability
10 13 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 13 (10.00%) Migration
10 13 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (10.00%) Software Architecture
10 13 (10.00%) Task Automation
11 12 (9.23%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (9.23%) Scrum
11 12 (9.23%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.46%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.15%) Python
2 49 (37.69%) PowerShell
3 20 (15.38%) Bash
3 20 (15.38%) Java
4 14 (10.77%) SQL
5 7 (5.38%) C++
6 4 (3.08%) C
6 4 (3.08%) Go
6 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.31%) Perl
7 3 (2.31%) Ruby
8 2 (1.54%) C#
8 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.54%) Scala
9 1 (0.77%) Bicep
9 1 (0.77%) Groovy
9 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (59.23%) Security Cleared
2 43 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.62%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) Degree
5 3 (2.31%) CCNP
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.77%) CCIE
7 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) RMADS
2 4 (3.08%) SLA
3 2 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.77%) NCSC
4 1 (0.77%) NIST
4 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (29.23%) Docker
2 25 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 11 (8.46%) vSphere
5 8 (6.15%) VMware NSX
6 6 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.54%) Ceph
8 2 (1.54%) Varnish
8 2 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (63.85%) Ansible
2 47 (36.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.77%) Podman
4 12 (9.23%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (6.92%) Rancher
6 8 (6.15%) Progress Chef
6 8 (6.15%) Puppet
7 7 (5.38%) Istio
7 7 (5.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (3.85%) Nagios
8 5 (3.85%) vRealize
9 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.31%) Grafana
10 3 (2.31%) Netcool
10 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.31%) VxRail
11 2 (1.54%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.54%) Kibana
11 2 (1.54%) Nessus
11 2 (1.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (25.38%) VMware
2 19 (14.62%) Red Hat
3 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 12 (9.23%) SolarWinds
5 8 (6.15%) Google
5 8 (6.15%) Oracle
6 6 (4.62%) Cisco
7 5 (3.85%) Splunk
8 4 (3.08%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.31%) Dell
9 3 (2.31%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.31%) IBM
9 3 (2.31%) Infoblox
9 3 (2.31%) New Relic
9 3 (2.31%) Nokia
10 2 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.54%) Sun
11 1 (0.77%) EMC
11 1 (0.77%) Veritas