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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 57 42
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,544 1,470 2,897
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.24% 3.45% 5.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.44% 28.73% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 1,099 2,168
10th Percentile £400 £424 £456
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £644 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 26
10th Percentile £25.25 - £45.30
25th Percentile £26.81 £31.25 £66.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -27.15% +101.33%
75th Percentile £63.13 £74.44 £86.97
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.05 £89.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.58% -4.56% +95.00%

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 4,617 5,116 9,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.68% 12.01% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,148 3,690 6,505
10th Percentile £311 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £513 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -8.48% -0.88%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £675
90th Percentile £711 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +1.79% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 112 203
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £22.58
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.77 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -53.15% +150.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.46 £71.25 £82.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% -32.35% +112.50%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
England +18 1,231 £550 - 1,699
London +12 749 £550 -3.00% 968
Work from Home +13 594 £550 - 1,097
UK excluding London +17 474 £525 -4.55% 1,106
North of England +4 142 £525 -4.55% 305
South East +6 90 £500 -9.09% 445
South West +28 89 £615 +11.82% 113
Scotland +15 74 £500 -1.23% 63
Midlands +50 63 £545 +21.11% 88
North West -19 58 £525 -4.55% 176
Yorkshire +13 57 £525 +0.96% 101
West Midlands +31 46 £563 +18.53% 56
North East +17 30 £523 - 31
East of England +41 28 £500 -14.16% 65
East Midlands +22 17 £500 +11.11% 27
Wales +1 5 £556 -13.81% 18

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 87 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 65 (4.21%) Apache
3 53 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 45 (2.91%) Confluence
5 29 (1.88%) nginx
6 16 (1.04%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.65%) Documentum
7 10 (0.65%) FileNet
7 10 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.58%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.45%) IIS
10 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) JBoss
12 3 (0.19%) Traefik
13 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.065%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.065%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Notion
4 2 (0.13%) Trello
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
1 3 (0.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.065%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.065%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 913 (59.13%) AWS
2 610 (39.51%) Azure
3 279 (18.07%) Serverless
4 260 (16.84%) GitHub
5 220 (14.25%) GCP
6 214 (13.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 212 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
8 171 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
9 148 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
10 141 (9.13%) Amazon S3
11 111 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
12 101 (6.54%) PaaS
13 98 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
14 92 (5.96%) OpenShift
15 90 (5.83%) Azure AKS
16 87 (5.63%) IaaS
17 84 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
17 84 (5.44%) SaaS
18 80 (5.18%) Entra ID
19 77 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 155 (10.04%) Firewall
2 140 (9.07%) DNS
3 87 (5.63%) VPN
4 85 (5.51%) TCP/IP
5 60 (3.89%) HTTP
6 53 (3.43%) DHCP
7 51 (3.30%) Network Security
8 36 (2.33%) WAN
9 35 (2.27%) BGP
10 26 (1.68%) OSPF
11 22 (1.42%) NGFW
12 21 (1.36%) HTTPS
13 20 (1.30%) LAN
14 19 (1.23%) SSL
15 18 (1.17%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.78%) Internet
17 9 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
18 8 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
18 8 (0.52%) Kerberos
18 8 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
2 88 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 67 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
6 56 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 55 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 49 (3.17%) Big Data
8 49 (3.17%) Data Lake
9 45 (2.91%) MySQL
10 43 (2.78%) Hadoop
11 41 (2.66%) DynamoDB
12 37 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 36 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
13 36 (2.33%) Power BI
14 30 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.88%) BigQuery
16 28 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
17 26 (1.68%) Apache Arrow
17 26 (1.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 290 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 272 (17.62%) GitLab
3 159 (10.30%) Git
4 86 (5.57%) JIRA
5 57 (3.69%) Artifactory
6 42 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 40 (2.59%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.81%) Maven
9 22 (1.42%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.36%) Selenium
10 21 (1.36%) Terragrunt
11 17 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.97%) Cucumber
13 13 (0.84%) Gradle
14 11 (0.71%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (0.65%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.58%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.45%) gulp
18 6 (0.39%) JMeter
General
1 292 (18.91%) Social Skills
2 242 (15.67%) Finance
3 176 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 90 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (5.05%) Banking
6 32 (2.07%) Front Office
7 27 (1.75%) Marketing
8 22 (1.42%) Financial Institution
8 22 (1.42%) Retail
8 22 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.10%) Military
10 15 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 14 (0.91%) Investment Banking
11 14 (0.91%) Law
11 14 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.78%) Electronics
13 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (0.65%) Legal
14 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 458 (29.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 213 (13.80%) Senior
3 194 (12.56%) Developer
4 191 (12.37%) AWS Engineer
5 163 (10.56%) Architect
6 133 (8.61%) AWS DevOps
6 133 (8.61%) Azure Engineer
7 124 (8.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 110 (7.12%) Data Engineer
9 106 (6.87%) Lead
10 102 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 83 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
12 80 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
13 77 (4.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 65 (4.21%) Python Engineer
15 60 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 60 (3.89%) Software Engineer
16 58 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 55 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
18 45 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (9.33%) Kafka
2 83 (5.38%) Node.js
3 70 (4.53%) ARM Templates
4 69 (4.47%) React
4 69 (4.47%) Spring
5 67 (4.34%) .NET
6 65 (4.21%) REST
7 59 (3.82%) Spring Boot
8 58 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
9 51 (3.30%) OAuth
10 50 (3.24%) PySpark
11 39 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
12 36 (2.33%) RESTful
13 34 (2.20%) OpenID
13 34 (2.20%) YAML
14 32 (2.07%) AngularJS
15 31 (2.01%) J2EE
16 27 (1.75%) AWS CDK
16 27 (1.75%) OAuth2
17 24 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 173 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 65 (4.21%) Public Cloud
3 40 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 27 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 25 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (1.49%) PKI
8 20 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.04%) Anti-Spyware
11 16 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (0.91%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.84%) Hedge funds
13 13 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
14 11 (0.71%) Replication
15 10 (0.65%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 333 (21.57%) Linux
2 130 (8.42%) Windows
3 104 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 67 (4.34%) Windows Server
5 51 (3.30%) Unix
6 24 (1.55%) CentOS
7 14 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.71%) VMS
9 10 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.45%) Rocky
10 7 (0.45%) SUSE
11 5 (0.32%) Android
11 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.13%) Solaris
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.065%) AIX
13 1 (0.065%) Debian
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (57.12%) DevOps
2 807 (52.27%) CI/CD
3 735 (47.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 373 (24.16%) Agile
5 337 (21.83%) Containerisation
6 233 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 183 (11.85%) Microservices
8 178 (11.53%) Software Engineering
9 161 (10.43%) Infrastructure Automation
10 144 (9.33%) Configuration Management
11 143 (9.26%) Migration
12 129 (8.35%) Test Automation
13 128 (8.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 122 (7.90%) Observability
15 120 (7.77%) Continuous Integration
16 119 (7.71%) Analytics
17 117 (7.58%) High Availability
18 116 (7.51%) Cloud Security
18 116 (7.51%) Platform Engineering
19 103 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 710 (45.98%) Python
2 248 (16.06%) Java
3 228 (14.77%) PowerShell
4 216 (13.99%) Bash
5 207 (13.41%) SQL
6 105 (6.80%) Go
7 104 (6.74%) Bicep
8 100 (6.48%) JavaScript
9 91 (5.89%) C#
10 80 (5.18%) TypeScript
11 40 (2.59%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.30%) Scala
13 17 (1.10%) Groovy
13 17 (1.10%) Rust
14 16 (1.04%) Perl
15 12 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 12 (0.78%) Ruby
16 8 (0.52%) PHP
17 7 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 6 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 412 (26.68%) Security Cleared
2 338 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.51%) Degree
4 83 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 63 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 49 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 13 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.65%) CCNP
12 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.52%) CISSP
13 8 (0.52%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.39%) OCP
15 6 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.91%) QA
2 34 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.14%) GDPR
4 25 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.17%) NCSC
7 17 (1.10%) NIST
8 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.65%) SLA
11 9 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.13%) EMIR
14 2 (0.13%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.13%) MiFID
15 1 (0.065%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 1 (0.065%) COBIT
15 1 (0.065%) HL7
System Software
1 446 (28.89%) Docker
2 61 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 58 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.84%) vSphere
7 10 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 7 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.26%) Lustre
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 (0.065%) HDFS
13 1 (0.065%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 693 (44.88%) Kubernetes
2 486 (31.48%) Ansible
3 154 (9.97%) Grafana
4 139 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 91 (5.89%) Puppet
6 61 (3.95%) Progress Chef
7 49 (3.17%) Argo
8 37 (2.40%) Packer
9 24 (1.55%) FortiGate
9 24 (1.55%) Podman
9 24 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (1.30%) Istio
12 18 (1.17%) Rancher
13 15 (0.97%) Consul
13 15 (0.97%) Kibana
14 14 (0.91%) PowerCLI
15 13 (0.84%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.65%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 175 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 99 (6.41%) VMware
3 86 (5.57%) Google
4 72 (4.66%) Databricks
5 65 (4.21%) Splunk
6 63 (4.08%) Cisco
7 61 (3.95%) Red Hat
8 49 (3.17%) Oracle
9 48 (3.11%) Palo Alto
10 45 (2.91%) CheckPoint
11 37 (2.40%) SAP
12 36 (2.33%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.42%) Dynatrace
14 21 (1.36%) Infoblox
15 17 (1.10%) Citrix
15 17 (1.10%) F5
16 15 (0.97%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.91%) SolarWinds
18 13 (0.84%) Salesforce
19 12 (0.78%) IBM