Terraform Contracts in the West Midlands

Terraform
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 75 55
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 +41
Contract jobs citing Terraform 53 39 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.62% 1.91% 3.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.90% 16.60% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 49
10th Percentile £424 £368 £423
25th Percentile £463 £490 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £665
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% -21.20% +20.91%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £700
90th Percentile £700 £634 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -10.26% -

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 242 235 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.51% 11.53% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 181 211
10th Percentile £210 £275 £313
25th Percentile £349 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.06%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £681
90th Percentile £689 £660 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £23.52 £18.64
25th Percentile - £35.33 £19.24
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +165.64% +25.48%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £43.59
90th Percentile - £71.00 £57.04
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.25 £54.18
% change year-on-year +68.00% -42.32% +147.49%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the West Midlands

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the West Midlands

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the West Midlands

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Birmingham +24 22 £475 -5.00% 34
Worcestershire +12 9 £700 +47.37% 8
Shropshire +8 9 £558 +6.70% 16
Coventry -2 6 £613 +2.08% 7
Herefordshire - 5 £700 - 6
Warwickshire -15 3 £550 -2.40% 7
Solihull +9 2 £450 +30.43% 3
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (15.09%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 29 (54.72%) Azure
2 24 (45.28%) AWS
3 14 (26.42%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (18.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (13.21%) AWS KMS
6 7 (13.21%) GitHub
7 6 (11.32%) GCP
7 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (11.32%) Serverless
8 5 (9.43%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
10 3 (5.66%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Firewall
1 7 (13.21%) SMTP
2 5 (9.43%) DNS
2 5 (9.43%) FTP
2 5 (9.43%) HTTP
2 5 (9.43%) SSH
3 2 (3.77%) IMAP
3 2 (3.77%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.89%) DSL
4 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
3 4 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.55%) Delta Lake
3 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.55%) Power BI
4 3 (5.66%) GIS
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Git
2 12 (22.64%) GitLab
3 11 (20.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (20.75%) JIRA
4 7 (13.21%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.89%) Snyk
5 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.89%) Back Office
3 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Architect
2 5 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Data Architect
3 4 (7.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Developer
4 3 (5.66%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Consultant
5 2 (3.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Senior
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (7.55%) Kafka
1 4 (7.55%) LDAP
2 3 (5.66%) .NET
2 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 3 (5.66%) YAML
3 2 (3.77%) React
3 2 (3.77%) RESTful
4 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Replication
2 5 (9.43%) PKI
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.55%) SCADA
4 3 (5.66%) IoT
4 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.53%) Linux
2 9 (16.98%) Windows
3 8 (15.09%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (13.21%) VMS
5 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) DevOps
2 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 23 (43.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (28.30%) Agile
5 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
6 12 (22.64%) Cloud Security
6 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
7 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (16.98%) Configuration Management
8 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
9 8 (15.09%) DevSecOps
10 7 (13.21%) Change Management
10 7 (13.21%) Software Delivery
11 6 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (9.43%) Analytics
12 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
12 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (9.43%) Identity Access Management
12 5 (9.43%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (41.51%) Python
2 12 (22.64%) SQL
3 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
4 8 (15.09%) Java
5 7 (13.21%) Bash
5 7 (13.21%) Groovy
6 6 (11.32%) Bicep
7 5 (9.43%) Perl
8 3 (5.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.77%) C#
9 2 (3.77%) Go
9 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) Security Cleared
2 26 (49.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.43%) Degree
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) NCSC
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 23 (43.40%) Docker
2 10 (18.87%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.43%) DFS Replication
4 4 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.77%) Dovecot
5 2 (3.77%) Postfix
5 2 (3.77%) Squid
5 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (52.83%) Ansible
2 18 (33.96%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.98%) Grafana
3 9 (16.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.66%) Opsview
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.77%) Nessus
5 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (1.89%) Consul
6 1 (1.89%) Kibana
6 1 (1.89%) logstash
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (1.89%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.43%) Databricks
3 5 (9.43%) VMware
4 4 (7.55%) Broadcom
5 3 (5.66%) Informatica
5 3 (5.66%) PagerDuty
5 3 (5.66%) SAP
5 3 (5.66%) Splunk
6 2 (3.77%) ForgeRock
6 2 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle
7 1 (1.89%) BT
7 1 (1.89%) Foundry
7 1 (1.89%) Google
7 1 (1.89%) IBM
7 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.89%) Qualys
7 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.89%) Veeam