Terraform Contracts

Terraform
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 57 41
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,565 1,476 3,106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.35% 3.39% 5.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.00% 28.68% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,103 2,322
10th Percentile £406 £415 £456
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.27% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 23
10th Percentile £25.50 £31.25 £52.18
25th Percentile £27.13 £35.13 £66.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -25.00% +95.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.44 £84.50
90th Percentile £77.46 £77.50 £88.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.58% -4.56% +64.21%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +21 1,249 £550 -0.90% 1,097
London +20 771 £570 -0.87% 591
Work from Home +23 609 £550 -2.87% 769
UK excluding London +16 465 £538 -2.27% 555
North of England +13 149 £525 -4.55% 227
South West +24 89 £615 +11.82% 78
South East +11 89 £525 -6.67% 94
Scotland +13 71 £500 -3.85% 40
Yorkshire +27 61 £525 -2.33% 59
North West -18 60 £525 -4.55% 152
Midlands +45 54 £551 +10.20% 61
West Midlands +33 39 £575 +15.00% 36
North East +21 30 £525 - 17
East of England +46 27 £525 -7.08% 30
East Midlands +16 15 £500 -6.98% 24
Wales -5 3 £586 -9.46% 11

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 91 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 69 (4.41%) Apache
3 55 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 49 (3.13%) Confluence
5 48 (3.07%) nginx
6 17 (1.09%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.77%) Traefik
8 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.51%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.45%) IIS
11 5 (0.32%) Documentum
11 5 (0.32%) FileNet
12 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
14 2 (0.13%) JBoss
14 2 (0.13%) Mattermost
14 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
15 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.13%) Notion
3 2 (0.13%) Trello
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.064%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.064%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.064%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 936 (59.81%) AWS
2 590 (37.70%) Azure
3 274 (17.51%) Serverless
4 241 (15.40%) GitHub
5 235 (15.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 212 (13.55%) GCP
7 209 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
8 177 (11.31%) AWS Lambda
9 151 (9.65%) Amazon S3
10 127 (8.12%) GitHub Actions
11 109 (6.96%) PaaS
12 105 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
13 103 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
14 102 (6.52%) OpenShift
15 98 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
16 87 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 87 (5.56%) IaaS
17 86 (5.50%) Azure AKS
18 83 (5.30%) SaaS
19 76 (4.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 146 (9.33%) DNS
1 146 (9.33%) Firewall
2 91 (5.81%) TCP/IP
3 84 (5.37%) VPN
4 58 (3.71%) HTTP
5 53 (3.39%) DHCP
6 46 (2.94%) Network Security
7 37 (2.36%) WAN
8 32 (2.04%) BGP
9 24 (1.53%) OSPF
10 22 (1.41%) NGFW
10 22 (1.41%) SSL
11 20 (1.28%) LAN
12 19 (1.21%) HTTPS
13 18 (1.15%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.77%) Internet
15 10 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
16 8 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
17 7 (0.45%) Kerberos
17 7 (0.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (5.11%) NoSQL
2 80 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
5 61 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 57 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 54 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (2.94%) Big Data
9 45 (2.88%) Data Lake
10 44 (2.81%) Hadoop
10 44 (2.81%) MySQL
11 42 (2.68%) DynamoDB
12 40 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
13 29 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 28 (1.79%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (1.79%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (1.79%) Dremio
15 27 (1.73%) Power BI
15 27 (1.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 310 (19.81%) Jenkins
2 286 (18.27%) GitLab
3 158 (10.10%) Git
4 84 (5.37%) JIRA
5 60 (3.83%) Artifactory
6 44 (2.81%) Bitbucket
7 42 (2.68%) SonarQube
8 30 (1.92%) Maven
9 22 (1.41%) Selenium
10 20 (1.28%) CircleCI
10 20 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (1.21%) Terragrunt
12 15 (0.96%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.58%) Gradle
14 9 (0.58%) JMeter
14 9 (0.58%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.45%) gulp
16 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 285 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 251 (16.04%) Finance
3 174 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 90 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (5.43%) Banking
6 43 (2.75%) Front Office
7 26 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 22 (1.41%) Marketing
9 21 (1.34%) Retail
10 19 (1.21%) Military
11 17 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 15 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 15 (0.96%) Law
13 14 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (0.64%) Legal
16 9 (0.58%) Back Office
16 9 (0.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 483 (30.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 227 (14.50%) Senior
3 216 (13.80%) AWS Engineer
4 194 (12.40%) Developer
5 154 (9.84%) Architect
6 142 (9.07%) AWS DevOps
7 137 (8.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 133 (8.50%) Azure Engineer
9 108 (6.90%) Data Engineer
10 106 (6.77%) Lead
11 103 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
12 98 (6.26%) Senior DevOps
13 89 (5.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 77 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
15 75 (4.79%) Python Engineer
16 65 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 61 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 58 (3.71%) Software Engineer
19 56 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
20 47 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.67%) Kafka
2 81 (5.18%) Spring
3 76 (4.86%) Node.js
4 74 (4.73%) React
4 74 (4.73%) Spring Boot
5 67 (4.28%) ARM Templates
6 64 (4.09%) REST
7 60 (3.83%) .NET
8 56 (3.58%) Elastic Stack
9 51 (3.26%) PySpark
10 49 (3.13%) OAuth
11 37 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
11 37 (2.36%) YAML
12 36 (2.30%) J2EE
13 33 (2.11%) OpenID
14 32 (2.04%) AngularJS
14 32 (2.04%) RESTful
15 27 (1.73%) AWS CDK
15 27 (1.73%) Keycloak
16 26 (1.66%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 162 (10.35%) Cloud Native
2 68 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 41 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.04%) PKI
6 26 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 23 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 22 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.02%) Anti-Spyware
12 15 (0.96%) Hedge funds
12 15 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (0.89%) Management Information System
14 13 (0.83%) Replication
14 13 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (0.70%) Security Posture
17 9 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 364 (23.26%) Linux
2 132 (8.43%) Windows
3 126 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 69 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 65 (4.15%) Unix
6 43 (2.75%) CentOS
7 19 (1.21%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.70%) VMS
10 8 (0.51%) Rocky
11 7 (0.45%) SUSE
12 6 (0.38%) Android
12 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.13%) Debian
15 2 (0.13%) Solaris
15 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.064%) AIX
16 1 (0.064%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (57.38%) DevOps
2 817 (52.20%) CI/CD
3 728 (46.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (23.83%) Agile
5 330 (21.09%) Containerisation
6 248 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (12.08%) Software Engineering
8 186 (11.88%) Microservices
9 156 (9.97%) Infrastructure Automation
10 146 (9.33%) Migration
11 143 (9.14%) Configuration Management
12 139 (8.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 131 (8.37%) Cloud Security
14 127 (8.12%) Continuous Integration
15 126 (8.05%) Test Automation
16 121 (7.73%) Observability
17 118 (7.54%) Analytics
18 114 (7.28%) Platform Engineering
19 112 (7.16%) High Availability
20 103 (6.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 725 (46.33%) Python
2 265 (16.93%) Java
3 218 (13.93%) PowerShell
4 214 (13.67%) Bash
5 195 (12.46%) SQL
6 124 (7.92%) Go
7 109 (6.96%) JavaScript
8 91 (5.81%) C#
9 90 (5.75%) Bicep
10 76 (4.86%) TypeScript
11 40 (2.56%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.21%) Scala
13 17 (1.09%) Perl
14 15 (0.96%) PHP
15 13 (0.83%) Groovy
15 13 (0.83%) Ruby
15 13 (0.83%) Rust
16 12 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.45%) R
18 6 (0.38%) C++
Qualifications
1 429 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 351 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 86 (5.50%) AWS Certification
4 83 (5.30%) Degree
5 70 (4.47%) DV Cleared
6 46 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 37 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 12 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.64%) CCNP
14 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.58%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.51%) CISSP
15 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (0.38%) OCP
17 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.75%) QA
2 29 (1.85%) NCSC
3 27 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.60%) GDPR
5 22 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.83%) NIST
6 13 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.58%) SLA
10 7 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.19%) EMIR
12 3 (0.19%) MiFID
13 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.13%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.064%) PMO
System Software
1 456 (29.14%) Docker
2 68 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 34 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.21%) vSphere
7 15 (0.96%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 6 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.26%) Lustre
10 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.19%) NFS
11 3 (0.19%) RACF
11 3 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.13%) Ceph
12 2 (0.13%) FreeRADIUS
12 2 (0.13%) iptables
12 2 (0.13%) XenApp
13 1 (0.064%) HDFS
13 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 719 (45.94%) Kubernetes
2 478 (30.54%) Ansible
3 162 (10.35%) Grafana
4 146 (9.33%) Prometheus
5 90 (5.75%) Puppet
6 63 (4.03%) Progress Chef
7 58 (3.71%) Packer
8 52 (3.32%) Argo
9 34 (2.17%) Istio
10 29 (1.85%) Consul
11 26 (1.66%) Rancher
12 24 (1.53%) FortiGate
12 24 (1.53%) ZABBIX
13 23 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
14 22 (1.41%) Podman
15 17 (1.09%) HAProxy
16 16 (1.02%) Kibana
16 16 (1.02%) linkerd
16 16 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
17 15 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 159 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.90%) VMware
3 82 (5.24%) Google
4 77 (4.92%) Splunk
5 72 (4.60%) Red Hat
6 70 (4.47%) Databricks
7 64 (4.09%) Cisco
8 48 (3.07%) Palo Alto
9 45 (2.88%) CheckPoint
10 40 (2.56%) Oracle
11 34 (2.17%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.98%) SAP
13 23 (1.47%) Dynatrace
14 22 (1.41%) Infoblox
15 19 (1.21%) F5
15 19 (1.21%) Okta
16 17 (1.09%) Citrix
17 14 (0.89%) Cloudera
17 14 (0.89%) IBM
17 14 (0.89%) ServiceNow