Terraform Contracts in the South West

Terraform
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 61 35
Rank change year-on-year +30 -26 +23
Contract jobs citing Terraform 92 98 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.53% 3.09% 5.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.16% 24.44% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 63 155
10th Percentile £463 £463 £400
25th Percentile £525 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £672 £625 £675
90th Percentile £726 £688 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £79.13 £60.95 £70.50
25th Percentile £79.77 £68.38 £74.25
Median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -4.56% -
75th Percentile £81.90 £75.21 -
90th Percentile £82.53 £76.58 £82.80
England median hourly rate £44.50 £62.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% -20.51% +41.82%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 401 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.34% 12.65% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 312 482
10th Percentile £265 £205 £328
25th Percentile £430 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £583 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £524 £575
% change year-on-year +0.24% -8.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 19
10th Percentile £31.15 - £53.75
25th Percentile £56.13 - £60.25
Median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.88% -45.21% +265.00%
75th Percentile £79.77 £72.85 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £76.28 £88.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £25.74 £54.18
% change year-on-year +8.79% -52.49% +151.98%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the South West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Gloucestershire +5 29 £615 +9.33% 47
Bristol +15 25 £575 +9.52% 45
Wiltshire +37 20 £600 +20.00% 13
Dorset +11 10 £525 +31.25% 4
Somerset +6 3 £625 +31.58% 8
Devon +13 1 - - 7
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (5.43%) Apache
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (61.96%) AWS
2 39 (42.39%) Azure
3 21 (22.83%) OpenShift
4 12 (13.04%) Serverless
5 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.52%) GCP
8 6 (6.52%) GitHub
9 4 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.26%) SaaS
11 2 (2.17%) Azure App Service
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.17%) Azure Storage
11 2 (2.17%) Datadog
11 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.83%) DNS
2 17 (18.48%) TCP/IP
3 16 (17.39%) DHCP
3 16 (17.39%) HTTP
4 8 (8.70%) Firewall
5 2 (2.17%) VPN
6 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) MongoDB
1 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.43%) RDBMS
2 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.17%) Big Data
5 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) Git
2 11 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.52%) JIRA
4 5 (5.43%) GitLab
5 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.09%) Selenium
7 1 (1.09%) Snyk
7 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.96%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Finance
4 5 (5.43%) Electronics
4 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.43%) Marketing
4 5 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Developer
3 12 (13.04%) Lead
4 9 (9.78%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Senior
7 5 (5.43%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.35%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Administrator
8 4 (4.35%) Architect
8 4 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead .NET Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (4.35%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.78%) Node.js
2 7 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.61%) React
2 7 (7.61%) Spring
2 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.43%) .NET
4 3 (3.26%) .NET Core
4 3 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (3.26%) REST
4 3 (3.26%) YAML
5 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.17%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.17%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.17%) RESTful
5 2 (2.17%) Swagger
6 1 (1.09%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.09%) JPA
6 1 (1.09%) Kafka
6 1 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (43.48%) Linux
2 31 (33.70%) Windows
3 19 (20.65%) Windows Server
4 15 (16.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.09%) CentOS
5 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.30%) DevOps
2 37 (40.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (39.13%) Containerisation
4 35 (38.04%) CI/CD
5 21 (22.83%) Agile
6 15 (16.30%) Service Management
7 14 (15.22%) Software Engineering
8 11 (11.96%) Configuration Management
8 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (8.70%) GitOps
11 8 (8.70%) Incident Management
11 8 (8.70%) NsoIT
11 8 (8.70%) Project Delivery
12 7 (7.61%) DevSecOps
12 7 (7.61%) High Availability
12 7 (7.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (47.83%) Python
2 31 (33.70%) PowerShell
3 22 (23.91%) Bash
3 22 (23.91%) Java
4 13 (14.13%) SQL
5 5 (5.43%) C#
5 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.35%) Perl
7 2 (2.17%) Bicep
7 2 (2.17%) Go
7 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.09%) Groovy
8 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 62 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.04%) DV Cleared
2 35 (38.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (3.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Degree
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.09%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.09%) MCSA
6 1 (1.09%) MCSE
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) OCA
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.09%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) NCSC
2 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 39 (42.39%) Docker
2 18 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (16.30%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.09%) NFS
5 1 (1.09%) Samba
Systems Management
1 52 (56.52%) Ansible
2 48 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.48%) Puppet
4 12 (13.04%) Grafana
4 12 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.09%) Kibana
6 1 (1.09%) logstash
6 1 (1.09%) Nagios
6 1 (1.09%) Nessus
6 1 (1.09%) Packer
6 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.09%) SELinux
6 1 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (32.61%) VMware
2 19 (20.65%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.43%) MuleSoft
4 5 (5.43%) SAP
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle
5 4 (4.35%) SnapLogic
6 2 (2.17%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco
6 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.09%) Splunk
7 1 (1.09%) Veeam