Terraform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Terraform
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 80 59
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 -2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 461 511 928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.61% 2.46% 3.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.47% 21.72% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 378 712
10th Percentile £400 £422 £445
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% -6.38% +6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £675
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £79.13 £55.40 £53.42
25th Percentile £79.77 £56.00 £70.50
Median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -4.56% +64.21%
75th Percentile £81.90 - -
90th Percentile £82.53 £76.28 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £58.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -10.26% -25.00% +95.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +10 147 £525 -4.55% 449
South West +26 89 £615 +13.10% 208
South East +9 88 £519 -5.68% 492
Scotland +14 71 £500 -3.85% 86
Yorkshire +19 60 £525 -2.33% 153
North West -15 59 £525 -4.55% 256
Midlands +43 54 £540 +8.00% 265
West Midlands +30 38 £563 +12.60% 144
North East +20 30 £525 - 41
East of England +42 26 £525 -7.08% 200
East Midlands +17 16 £500 -6.98% 101
Wales -9 3 £586 -9.46% 39
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (4.77%) Confluence
2 19 (4.12%) nginx
3 15 (3.25%) Apache
4 7 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.52%) Traefik
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.43%) Camunda
7 2 (0.43%) IIS
7 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) Documentum
8 1 (0.22%) FileNet
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 270 (58.57%) AWS
2 176 (38.18%) Azure
3 65 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (11.93%) GitHub
5 51 (11.06%) Serverless
6 44 (9.54%) GCP
7 43 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 41 (8.89%) OpenShift
9 30 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (6.07%) Amazon S3
11 26 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (4.77%) Entra ID
13 20 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (4.34%) SaaS
14 19 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (3.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.46%) DNS
2 32 (6.94%) TCP/IP
3 26 (5.64%) Firewall
4 18 (3.90%) DHCP
5 17 (3.69%) HTTP
6 16 (3.47%) Network Security
7 12 (2.60%) VPN
8 10 (2.17%) LAN
8 10 (2.17%) WAN
9 7 (1.52%) SSL
10 6 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.08%) Junos
12 4 (0.87%) BGP
12 4 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.87%) OSPF
12 4 (0.87%) VSAN
13 3 (0.65%) DWDM
13 3 (0.65%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.51%) MongoDB
2 22 (4.77%) MySQL
3 18 (3.90%) NoSQL
3 18 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.60%) DynamoDB
7 11 (2.39%) Big Data
7 11 (2.39%) BigQuery
7 11 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.52%) Power BI
10 6 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.30%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.08%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (21.04%) Jenkins
2 90 (19.52%) GitLab
3 54 (11.71%) Git
4 41 (8.89%) JIRA
5 27 (5.86%) Bitbucket
6 23 (4.99%) SonarQube
7 18 (3.90%) Selenium
8 12 (2.60%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.95%) Maven
9 9 (1.95%) REST Assured
9 9 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.08%) gulp
11 4 (0.87%) JMeter
12 3 (0.65%) Chocolatey
13 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.43%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.43%) TestNG
General
1 86 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 71 (15.40%) Public Sector
3 47 (10.20%) Finance
4 29 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.56%) Banking
6 8 (1.74%) Law
6 8 (1.74%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.52%) Electronics
7 7 (1.52%) Marketing
8 6 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.30%) Legal
9 5 (1.08%) Back Office
9 5 (1.08%) Military
9 5 (1.08%) Police
10 4 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.65%) Retail
12 2 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (28.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (15.62%) Developer
3 61 (13.23%) Senior
4 43 (9.33%) Lead
5 35 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
7 32 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (5.86%) Senior DevOps
9 26 (5.64%) Architect
10 23 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (4.77%) Java Developer
12 21 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
12 21 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 21 (4.56%) Software Engineer
13 20 (4.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 20 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (2.82%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 12 (2.60%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.68%) Kafka
2 38 (8.24%) Spring Boot
3 36 (7.81%) Spring
4 28 (6.07%) Node.js
4 28 (6.07%) React
4 28 (6.07%) REST
5 27 (5.86%) .NET
6 25 (5.42%) ARM Templates
7 20 (4.34%) AngularJS
8 19 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (3.69%) cloud-init
10 16 (3.47%) YAML
11 14 (3.04%) OAuth
12 12 (2.60%) Keycloak
13 10 (2.17%) pytest
14 9 (1.95%) Express.js
14 9 (1.95%) Java EE
14 9 (1.95%) Loki
14 9 (1.95%) PySpark
15 8 (1.74%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.86%) Public Cloud
2 22 (4.77%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (3.04%) PKI
5 10 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.87%) Replication
9 4 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.65%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.65%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (0.43%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.43%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (31.02%) Linux
2 61 (13.23%) Windows
3 49 (10.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (8.03%) Windows Server
5 30 (6.51%) CentOS
6 28 (6.07%) Unix
7 14 (3.04%) Ubuntu
8 10 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.43%) Android
10 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.43%) VMS
10 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.22%) AIX
11 1 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (51.41%) DevOps
2 224 (48.59%) CI/CD
3 194 (42.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (24.30%) Agile
5 103 (22.34%) Containerisation
6 78 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (12.58%) Software Engineering
8 50 (10.85%) Configuration Management
9 48 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
10 46 (9.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (9.33%) Test Automation
12 41 (8.89%) Microservices
13 39 (8.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 36 (7.81%) Observability
15 33 (7.16%) Infrastructure Automation
16 32 (6.94%) Service Management
17 31 (6.72%) Analytics
17 31 (6.72%) Technical Leadership
18 30 (6.51%) Migration
19 29 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 207 (44.90%) Python
2 89 (19.31%) Java
3 88 (19.09%) PowerShell
4 77 (16.70%) Bash
5 56 (12.15%) SQL
6 36 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 33 (7.16%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.86%) C#
9 24 (5.21%) Go
10 20 (4.34%) Shell Script
11 15 (3.25%) Bicep
12 8 (1.74%) Perl
12 8 (1.74%) Scala
13 5 (1.08%) VB
14 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.43%) PHP
15 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.22%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (40.13%) Security Cleared
2 126 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.50%) DV Cleared
4 28 (6.07%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.56%) Degree
6 15 (3.25%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.08%) CCNP
11 5 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.65%) CISSP
13 3 (0.65%) VCAP
14 2 (0.43%) CCNA
14 2 (0.43%) CISM
14 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.43%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.90%) NCSC
2 9 (1.95%) QA
3 6 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.30%) SLA
4 5 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.08%) GDPR
5 4 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) NIST
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (25.60%) Docker
2 47 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.47%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.39%) vSphere
5 9 (1.95%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 8 (1.74%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.22%) Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) NFS
10 1 (0.22%) Samba
10 1 (0.22%) XenApp
10 1 (0.22%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 190 (41.21%) Kubernetes
2 186 (40.35%) Ansible
3 60 (13.02%) Prometheus
4 59 (12.80%) Grafana
5 31 (6.72%) Puppet
6 26 (5.64%) Packer
7 17 (3.69%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.04%) Istio
9 12 (2.60%) Consul
9 12 (2.60%) vCenter Server
9 12 (2.60%) ZABBIX
10 11 (2.39%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (2.39%) HAProxy
10 11 (2.39%) Podman
11 10 (2.17%) linkerd
11 10 (2.17%) Rancher
12 9 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (1.74%) Nessus
14 7 (1.52%) FortiGate
15 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (14.75%) VMware
2 48 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 35 (7.59%) Red Hat
4 31 (6.72%) Splunk
5 25 (5.42%) Databricks
6 21 (4.56%) Google
7 18 (3.90%) Cisco
8 14 (3.04%) Oracle
9 10 (2.17%) Citrix
10 9 (1.95%) IBM
10 9 (1.95%) Okta
11 8 (1.74%) SAP
11 8 (1.74%) Veritas
12 7 (1.52%) Apple
12 7 (1.52%) Broadcom
12 7 (1.52%) Dell
12 7 (1.52%) ESET
12 7 (1.52%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.30%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.30%) PagerDuty