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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 51 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,699 1,601 2,644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.22% 3.76% 4.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.42% 29.49% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,172 1,968
10th Percentile £400 £406 £450
25th Percentile £450 £465 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £676
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -5.45% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 34
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.25 £41.97
25th Percentile £45.25 £46.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £56.00 £62.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -20.51% +106.62%
75th Percentile £68.13 £74.44 £82.25
90th Percentile £78.70 £74.89 £89.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.83 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% -5.13% +92.59%

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 5,084 5,429 8,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.62% 12.74% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 3,840 6,141
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -5.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 97 184
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.92 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -43.48% +143.95%
75th Percentile £63.66 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.34 £71.25 £84.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £46.09
% change year-on-year +42.50% -13.21% +130.45%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +9 1,346 £525 -4.55% 1,385
London +10 798 £527 -4.27% 774
Work from Home +17 634 £525 -4.55% 782
UK excluding London +15 578 £520 -5.45% 914
North of England +5 169 £500 -1.38% 205
South East -1 113 £500 -13.04% 337
Yorkshire +12 98 £500 +5.26% 68
Scotland +37 97 £500 - 68
South West +16 86 £600 +9.09% 105
Midlands +29 84 £500 -4.76% 94
West Midlands +18 62 £539 -0.46% 62
North West -4 52 £525 -6.67% 111
East of England +32 36 £500 -11.11% 64
East Midlands +14 22 £500 +17.65% 30
North East +9 22 £490 - 28
Wales +5 7 £263 -59.27% 23

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 69 (4.06%) Confluence
2 61 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 50 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 46 (2.71%) Apache
5 31 (1.82%) nginx
6 13 (0.77%) Documentum
6 13 (0.77%) FileNet
7 12 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.71%) WebLogic
8 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.47%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.35%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.35%) IIS
11 6 (0.35%) Mule
12 4 (0.24%) Camunda
12 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
13 3 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Notion
4 2 (0.12%) Trello
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.18%) Endur
1 3 (0.18%) SAP PM
1 3 (0.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.059%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.059%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.059%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 999 (58.80%) AWS
2 664 (39.08%) Azure
3 366 (21.54%) GitHub
4 285 (16.77%) Serverless
5 258 (15.19%) GCP
6 256 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 249 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
8 222 (13.07%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (10.06%) Amazon S3
10 164 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
11 131 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
12 130 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 104 (6.12%) Entra ID
15 103 (6.06%) Azure AKS
16 94 (5.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 89 (5.24%) PaaS
18 82 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
19 80 (4.71%) SaaS
20 74 (4.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 159 (9.36%) Firewall
2 135 (7.95%) DNS
3 96 (5.65%) VPN
4 61 (3.59%) TCP/IP
5 49 (2.88%) Network Security
6 40 (2.35%) HTTP
7 35 (2.06%) DHCP
8 25 (1.47%) WAN
9 24 (1.41%) BGP
10 20 (1.18%) LAN
10 20 (1.18%) OSPF
11 18 (1.06%) NGFW
12 15 (0.88%) HTTPS
12 15 (0.88%) SSH
13 13 (0.77%) Internet
13 13 (0.77%) SSL
14 11 (0.65%) SMTP
15 10 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (0.59%) Junos
16 9 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.42%) Amazon RDS
2 105 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 58 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 57 (3.35%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 50 (2.94%) MySQL
8 48 (2.83%) Big Data
9 46 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 46 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
11 39 (2.30%) DynamoDB
11 39 (2.30%) Power BI
12 38 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
13 34 (2.00%) BigQuery
14 28 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
14 28 (1.65%) Relational Database
15 27 (1.59%) Hadoop
16 26 (1.53%) Oracle Database
17 22 (1.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 350 (20.60%) Jenkins
2 306 (18.01%) GitLab
3 233 (13.71%) Git
4 127 (7.47%) JIRA
5 50 (2.94%) Artifactory
6 48 (2.83%) SonarQube
7 47 (2.77%) Bitbucket
8 38 (2.24%) CircleCI
9 32 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 29 (1.71%) Maven
11 24 (1.41%) Terragrunt
12 21 (1.24%) Selenium
13 17 (1.00%) Cypress.io
14 16 (0.94%) Cucumber
15 15 (0.88%) Gradle
16 14 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
17 13 (0.77%) IntelliJ
17 13 (0.77%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.77%) Vagrant
18 12 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 346 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 261 (15.36%) Finance
3 199 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 111 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (4.83%) Banking
6 30 (1.77%) Telecoms
7 28 (1.65%) Marketing
8 27 (1.59%) Retail
9 23 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 17 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (0.94%) Military
11 16 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 14 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.77%) Law
15 12 (0.71%) Electronics
15 12 (0.71%) Front Office
16 11 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.53%) Legal
18 8 (0.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 439 (25.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 224 (13.18%) Senior
3 210 (12.36%) Developer
4 208 (12.24%) Architect
5 193 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
6 131 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
7 127 (7.47%) Lead
8 123 (7.24%) AWS DevOps
9 108 (6.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 106 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 103 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
12 94 (5.53%) Data Engineer
13 70 (4.12%) Python Engineer
13 70 (4.12%) Software Engineer
14 62 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
15 59 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 58 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 55 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
17 55 (3.24%) Network Engineer
17 55 (3.24%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (7.95%) Kafka
2 96 (5.65%) Node.js
3 83 (4.89%) REST
4 81 (4.77%) .NET
5 80 (4.71%) ARM Templates
6 74 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
7 72 (4.24%) React
8 67 (3.94%) OAuth
9 59 (3.47%) Spring
10 53 (3.12%) RESTful
11 51 (3.00%) Spring Boot
12 46 (2.71%) OpenID
13 40 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
14 38 (2.24%) AngularJS
15 37 (2.18%) AWS CDK
15 37 (2.18%) OAuth2
15 37 (2.18%) YAML
16 35 (2.06%) .NET Core
17 32 (1.88%) ADO
17 32 (1.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (12.95%) Cloud Native
2 76 (4.47%) Public Cloud
3 50 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 46 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 44 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 32 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.53%) PKI
9 24 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.24%) Replication
11 18 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.00%) Anti-Spyware
13 15 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.88%) Management Information System
14 13 (0.77%) Clustering
14 13 (0.77%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 373 (21.95%) Linux
2 146 (8.59%) Windows
3 85 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 55 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 43 (2.53%) Unix
6 28 (1.65%) VMS
7 18 (1.06%) CentOS
8 16 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
10 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.53%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.41%) Android
12 7 (0.41%) Rocky
13 6 (0.35%) SUSE
13 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.29%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.29%) Solaris
15 2 (0.12%) Debian
15 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.059%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 990 (58.27%) DevOps
2 936 (55.09%) CI/CD
3 906 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 448 (26.37%) Agile
5 404 (23.78%) Containerisation
6 253 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
7 201 (11.83%) Microservices
8 198 (11.65%) Infrastructure Automation
9 191 (11.24%) Migration
10 181 (10.65%) Configuration Management
11 175 (10.30%) Software Engineering
12 160 (9.42%) Observability
13 150 (8.83%) Test Automation
14 147 (8.65%) Cloud Security
15 146 (8.59%) Platform Engineering
16 140 (8.24%) Mentoring
17 136 (8.00%) High Availability
18 121 (7.12%) Analytics
18 121 (7.12%) Continuous Integration
19 108 (6.36%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 756 (44.50%) Python
2 255 (15.01%) Bash
3 254 (14.95%) Java
3 254 (14.95%) PowerShell
4 241 (14.18%) SQL
5 111 (6.53%) Bicep
6 110 (6.47%) Go
7 106 (6.24%) TypeScript
8 105 (6.18%) C#
9 103 (6.06%) JavaScript
10 43 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.65%) Groovy
12 27 (1.59%) Perl
13 23 (1.35%) Scala
14 18 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.06%) Rust
15 15 (0.88%) PHP
16 12 (0.71%) Ruby
17 11 (0.65%) C++
18 9 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 458 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 378 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.89%) AWS Certification
4 95 (5.59%) Degree
5 68 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 66 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 62 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.71%) CCNP
14 11 (0.65%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
15 10 (0.59%) CISSP
16 8 (0.47%) CCNA
16 8 (0.47%) VCAP
17 7 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.18%) QA
2 51 (3.00%) GDPR
3 42 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 32 (1.88%) PCI DSS
6 29 (1.71%) NIST
7 21 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 17 (1.00%) NCSC
9 13 (0.77%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.77%) SLA
10 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.24%) GRC
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) FedRAMP
16 1 (0.059%) 21 CFR Part 11
16 1 (0.059%) EMIR
System Software
1 503 (29.61%) Docker
2 104 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 48 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.06%) VMware NSX
6 17 (1.00%) vSphere
7 14 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.53%) DFS Replication
10 8 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 6 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 6 (0.35%) Firmware
11 6 (0.35%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.35%) NFS
12 3 (0.18%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.18%) iptables
12 3 (0.18%) Lustre
12 3 (0.18%) Postfix
12 3 (0.18%) Squid
13 2 (0.12%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 785 (46.20%) Kubernetes
2 533 (31.37%) Ansible
3 213 (12.54%) Grafana
4 205 (12.07%) Prometheus
5 107 (6.30%) Puppet
6 71 (4.18%) Progress Chef
7 59 (3.47%) Argo
8 45 (2.65%) Packer
9 39 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.65%) Consul
12 25 (1.47%) Istio
13 24 (1.41%) Podman
14 18 (1.06%) Kibana
14 18 (1.06%) PowerCLI
15 13 (0.77%) Rancher
16 11 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.65%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.65%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 209 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.36%) Google
3 89 (5.24%) VMware
4 77 (4.53%) Splunk
5 73 (4.30%) Databricks
6 68 (4.00%) Oracle
7 58 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 55 (3.24%) Cisco
9 39 (2.30%) SAP
10 35 (2.06%) Palo Alto
11 30 (1.77%) CheckPoint
12 26 (1.53%) Dynatrace
13 24 (1.41%) ServiceNow
14 21 (1.24%) Citrix
15 18 (1.06%) IBM
15 18 (1.06%) Infoblox
16 16 (0.94%) F5
16 16 (0.94%) Fortinet
16 16 (0.94%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.82%) CyberArk