Terraform Contracts

Terraform
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Terraform skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Terraform over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,466 3,086 5,106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.38% 5.20% 5.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.59% 32.26% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 2,312 3,802
10th Percentile £415 £454 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 3
10th Percentile £31.25 £43.02 £36.00
25th Percentile £35.13 £65.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £73.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.86% +82.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £74.44 £80.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.30 £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £75.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -1.40% +58.95% +18.75%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Terraform is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,128 9,565 14,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 16.11% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,899 10,290
10th Percentile £258 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £671
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 211 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.74 £23.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +158.08% -44.30%
75th Percentile £51.44 £70.13 £48.55
90th Percentile £70.88 £81.37 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.25 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.41% +112.50% -9.09%

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the UK

Terraform
Top 17 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 2 May 2024. 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 1,238 £553 -7.92% 657
London -14 743 £575 -8.00% 341
Work from Home -20 561 £563 -6.25% 405
UK excluding London -21 504 £550 -6.38% 332
North of England -23 153 £550 -6.38% 103
South East -13 133 £550 -8.33% 66
South West -15 103 £550 -4.35% 61
North West -15 99 £550 -4.35% 61
Scotland +22 66 £520 -13.33% 16
Yorkshire -21 47 £538 -10.42% 28
Midlands -27 28 £475 -13.64% 43
West Midlands -34 20 £488 -22.00% 28
East of England -20 14 £565 -19.29% 19
Wales +21 13 £647 +7.88% 14
East Midlands -5 8 £450 -35.71% 15
North East -10 7 - - 14
Northern Ireland +7 1 £640 -1.54% 15

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 58 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.27%) Confluence
3 41 (2.80%) Apache
4 32 (2.18%) nginx
5 21 (1.43%) OpenStack
6 16 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.41%) NServiceBus
11 5 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
11 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) CMS
13 3 (0.20%) IIS
14 2 (0.14%) Traefik
15 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.068%) Trello
4 1 (0.068%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) NEC Housing
1 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.068%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.068%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.068%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 832 (56.75%) AWS
2 580 (39.56%) Azure
3 225 (15.35%) GitHub
4 218 (14.87%) GCP
5 210 (14.32%) Serverless
6 204 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
7 143 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
8 129 (8.80%) Amazon EC2
9 125 (8.53%) Amazon S3
10 120 (8.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 102 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
12 90 (6.14%) PaaS
13 89 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 85 (5.80%) IaaS
15 74 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 72 (4.91%) OpenShift
17 65 (4.43%) SaaS
18 42 (2.86%) Azure AKS
18 42 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 125 (8.53%) Firewall
2 71 (4.84%) DNS
3 52 (3.55%) TCP/IP
4 51 (3.48%) Network Security
5 47 (3.21%) VPN
6 27 (1.84%) SAN
7 26 (1.77%) DHCP
8 19 (1.30%) VLAN
8 19 (1.30%) WAN
9 17 (1.16%) HTTP
10 16 (1.09%) LAN
10 16 (1.09%) NAS
11 13 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (0.89%) IPsec
11 13 (0.89%) Kerberos
11 13 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (0.82%) IPv4
12 12 (0.82%) OSPF
13 11 (0.75%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (3.89%) Data Lake
3 57 (3.89%) MySQL
3 57 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 54 (3.68%) NoSQL
5 53 (3.62%) Big Data
6 46 (3.14%) Relational Database
7 43 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 43 (2.93%) BigQuery
8 37 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
8 37 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 37 (2.52%) MongoDB
9 33 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.50%) DynamoDB
12 21 (1.43%) RDBMS
13 16 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.82%) Apache Arrow
14 12 (0.82%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 324 (22.10%) Jenkins
2 243 (16.58%) Git
3 227 (15.48%) GitLab
4 96 (6.55%) JIRA
5 58 (3.96%) SonarQube
6 38 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 37 (2.52%) Selenium
8 32 (2.18%) Maven
8 32 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.77%) TeamCity
11 25 (1.71%) Artifactory
12 21 (1.43%) CircleCI
13 20 (1.36%) Cypress.io
14 15 (1.02%) Gradle
14 15 (1.02%) Robot Framework
15 14 (0.95%) Burp Suite
16 13 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 13 (0.89%) JMeter
16 13 (0.89%) Travis CI
General
1 246 (16.78%) Social Skills
2 162 (11.05%) Finance
3 142 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 57 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (2.52%) Banking
6 31 (2.11%) Law
7 22 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 20 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (1.30%) Marketing
10 18 (1.23%) Electronics
10 18 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 17 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.09%) Legal
12 16 (1.09%) Retail
12 16 (1.09%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.55%) Police
16 7 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 439 (29.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 184 (12.55%) Developer
3 176 (12.01%) AWS Engineer
4 168 (11.46%) Senior
5 144 (9.82%) Architect
6 127 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
7 119 (8.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 114 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
9 102 (6.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 89 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
11 83 (5.66%) Lead
12 78 (5.32%) Data Engineer
13 73 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 68 (4.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 65 (4.43%) Cloud Architect
16 61 (4.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 57 (3.89%) Site Engineer
18 54 (3.68%) Security Engineer
19 53 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 52 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.07%) Node.js
2 82 (5.59%) REST
3 79 (5.39%) YAML
4 74 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
5 72 (4.91%) .NET
5 72 (4.91%) Kafka
6 70 (4.77%) ARM Templates
7 61 (4.16%) React
8 48 (3.27%) JSON
9 45 (3.07%) RESTful
10 39 (2.66%) .NET Core
11 30 (2.05%) AWS CDK
12 27 (1.84%) OAuth
12 27 (1.84%) RabbitMQ
13 25 (1.71%) Spring Boot
14 24 (1.64%) GraphQL
14 24 (1.64%) Lambda Expressions
15 23 (1.57%) SOAP
16 21 (1.43%) Spring
16 21 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (4.50%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.23%) Public Cloud
3 61 (4.16%) PKI
4 44 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.52%) Clustering
7 33 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
8 32 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
9 30 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.50%) Product Ownership
12 19 (1.30%) Replication
13 18 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 17 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.89%) Hedge funds
16 13 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (0.82%) IoT
17 12 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 290 (19.78%) Linux
2 130 (8.87%) Windows
3 54 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.55%) Unix
5 36 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.30%) CentOS
7 18 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (0.75%) VMS
10 8 (0.55%) Solaris
11 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
12 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.27%) Android
13 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.20%) Debian
14 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
14 3 (0.20%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (58.94%) DevOps
2 646 (44.07%) CI/CD
3 557 (37.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 322 (21.96%) Agile
5 231 (15.76%) Containerisation
6 152 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (10.37%) Test Automation
7 145 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
8 136 (9.28%) Microservices
9 132 (9.00%) Software Engineering
10 131 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
11 130 (8.87%) Configuration Management
12 124 (8.46%) Migration
13 120 (8.19%) Scrum
14 111 (7.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 98 (6.68%) DevSecOps
15 98 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 97 (6.62%) Cloud Security
17 80 (5.46%) SDLC
18 79 (5.39%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 643 (43.86%) Python
2 252 (17.19%) PowerShell
3 212 (14.46%) Bash
4 208 (14.19%) Java
5 172 (11.73%) SQL
6 127 (8.66%) Go
7 102 (6.96%) JavaScript
8 83 (5.66%) C#
9 54 (3.68%) TypeScript
10 47 (3.21%) Shell Script
11 40 (2.73%) Ruby
12 34 (2.32%) Bicep
13 32 (2.18%) Scala
14 28 (1.91%) C
15 25 (1.71%) Groovy
16 20 (1.36%) PHP
17 18 (1.23%) Perl
18 13 (0.89%) C++
18 13 (0.89%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 445 (30.35%) Security Cleared
2 311 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.64%) DV Cleared
4 83 (5.66%) Degree
5 61 (4.16%) AWS Certification
6 53 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (3.34%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (0.95%) CCNP
11 11 (0.75%) CCNA
12 6 (0.41%) CISSP
12 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.41%) OSCP
13 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.34%) CCIE
14 4 (0.27%) SANS
15 2 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (3.34%) QA
2 32 (2.18%) NIST
3 30 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.36%) NCSC
5 19 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.09%) GDPR
7 12 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.48%) RMADS
10 5 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.27%) SLA
11 4 (0.27%) WCAG
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.068%) JSP 440
System Software
1 459 (31.31%) Docker
2 70 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 66 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 24 (1.64%) vSphere
7 19 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) Firmware
9 4 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.27%) Ceph
9 4 (0.27%) KVM
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.20%) vCloud
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.14%) Lustre
11 2 (0.14%) NFS
11 2 (0.14%) Squid
11 2 (0.14%) Varnish
11 2 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 611 (41.68%) Kubernetes
2 489 (33.36%) Ansible
3 139 (9.48%) Prometheus
4 123 (8.39%) Grafana
5 108 (7.37%) Puppet
6 80 (5.46%) Progress Chef
7 35 (2.39%) Packer
8 33 (2.25%) Docker Swarm
9 18 (1.23%) Argo
9 18 (1.23%) Kibana
9 18 (1.23%) Nagios
10 17 (1.16%) Podman
11 16 (1.09%) Consul
11 16 (1.09%) Istio
12 14 (0.95%) Graylog
12 14 (0.95%) Rancher
13 13 (0.89%) HP Fortify
13 13 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (0.89%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 167 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 110 (7.50%) VMware
3 91 (6.21%) Google
3 91 (6.21%) Oracle
4 73 (4.98%) Splunk
5 52 (3.55%) Cisco
6 43 (2.93%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.80%) Databricks
8 37 (2.52%) SAP
9 30 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.05%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.84%) SolarWinds
11 26 (1.77%) Dell
12 23 (1.57%) ServiceNow
13 21 (1.43%) F5
13 21 (1.43%) New Relic
14 20 (1.36%) Salesforce
15 18 (1.23%) IBM
16 16 (1.09%) CyberArk
17 14 (0.95%) CheckPoint