Terraform Contracts in the Thames Valley

Terraform
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 98 66
Rank change year-on-year +40 -32 +11
Contract jobs citing Terraform 47 43 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.20% 1.65% 2.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.68% 14.10% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 60
10th Percentile £376 £513 £487
25th Percentile £415 £538 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +16.07%
75th Percentile £522 £659 £715
90th Percentile £675 £710 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £58.75

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 305 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.45% 11.69% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 232 248
10th Percentile £250 £206 £300
25th Percentile £400 £312 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.79% +0.80%
75th Percentile £569 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £534
% change year-on-year +3.95% -9.88% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £19.81 £45.50
25th Percentile - £25.22 £58.91
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -43.01% +62.87%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £75.56
90th Percentile - £56.88 £81.98
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £43.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -44.22% -26.81% +173.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire +39 39 £500 -21.57% 46
Buckinghamshire +19 8 £421 -26.87% 20
Terraform
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.38%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (76.60%) Azure
2 26 (55.32%) AWS
3 18 (38.30%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (29.79%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (23.40%) GitHub
6 8 (17.02%) Azure AKS
7 7 (14.89%) Entra ID
8 6 (12.77%) Azure API Management
8 6 (12.77%) SaaS
9 5 (10.64%) Serverless
10 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (8.51%) Azure Storage
10 4 (8.51%) PaaS
11 3 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (6.38%) Azure App Service
11 3 (6.38%) Azure Table
11 3 (6.38%) GCP
11 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
11 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) HTTP
3 1 (2.13%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (10.64%) Big Data
1 5 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) SSDT
3 2 (4.26%) DocumentDB
3 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 13 (27.66%) JIRA
3 12 (25.53%) GitLab
4 9 (19.15%) Cucumber
4 9 (19.15%) REST Assured
4 9 (19.15%) Selenium
4 9 (19.15%) SonarQube
5 8 (17.02%) Git
6 2 (4.26%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Law
4 7 (14.89%) Finance
5 4 (8.51%) Police
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (19.15%) Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Java Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Consultant
8 2 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.91%) REST
2 14 (29.79%) ARM Templates
3 10 (21.28%) .NET
4 9 (19.15%) Java EE
5 7 (14.89%) .NET Core
6 6 (12.77%) .NET Framework
6 6 (12.77%) OAuth
7 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (6.38%) ADO
8 3 (6.38%) Entity Framework
8 3 (6.38%) Web Services
8 3 (6.38%) YAML
9 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.26%) NHibernate
9 2 (4.26%) Node.js
9 2 (4.26%) OpenJDK
9 2 (4.26%) React
9 2 (4.26%) RESTful
9 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
1 9 (19.15%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) VMS
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (85.11%) DevOps
2 28 (59.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (46.81%) Containerisation
4 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
5 20 (42.55%) Configuration Management
6 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (29.79%) Software Engineering
8 11 (23.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
9 10 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (21.28%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (19.15%) Agile
10 9 (19.15%) Identity Management
10 9 (19.15%) Software Architecture
11 8 (17.02%) Open Source
12 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (12.77%) RBAC
14 5 (10.64%) Customer-Centricity
14 5 (10.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) PowerShell
2 18 (38.30%) Python
3 11 (23.40%) Java
4 10 (21.28%) C#
4 10 (21.28%) SQL
5 9 (19.15%) Bicep
6 5 (10.64%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.26%) Korn
7 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) HL7
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) XenApp
3 1 (2.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (46.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (42.55%) Ansible
3 9 (19.15%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (19.15%) Podman
4 5 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.51%) Grafana
6 3 (6.38%) Puppet
6 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Databricks
3 3 (6.38%) Google
3 3 (6.38%) UiPath
4 2 (4.26%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.13%) Citrix
5 1 (2.13%) New Relic
5 1 (2.13%) VMware