Terraform Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Terraform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 54 33
Rank change year-on-year +22 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 607 562 1,559
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.13% 3.66% 6.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.57% 34.12% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 431 1,201
10th Percentile £408 £413 £450
25th Percentile £475 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +2.13%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £675
90th Percentile £838 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 13
10th Percentile £25.25 £49.33 £41.88
25th Percentile £25.88 £53.19 £66.00
Median hourly rate £27.25 £61.75 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.87% -13.03% +102.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.69 £88.30
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.78 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £58.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -10.26% -25.00% +95.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Terraform
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Terraform trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Terraform.

Terraform daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Terraform over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Terraform daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Terraform.

Terraform hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Terraform over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Terraform hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 47 (7.74%) Apache Spark
2 40 (6.59%) Apache
3 35 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.97%) nginx
5 16 (2.64%) Confluence
6 13 (2.14%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.82%) Traefik
8 4 (0.66%) IIS
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.33%) Camunda
10 2 (0.33%) Documentum
10 2 (0.33%) FileNet
10 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.16%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Notion
3 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 372 (61.29%) AWS
2 233 (38.39%) Azure
3 120 (19.77%) Serverless
4 118 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 98 (16.14%) GitHub
6 88 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (12.03%) GCP
9 66 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (8.90%) Amazon S3
11 53 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
12 52 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
13 43 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (7.08%) OpenShift
14 41 (6.75%) PaaS
15 39 (6.43%) dbt
16 37 (6.10%) Azure AKS
16 37 (6.10%) SaaS
17 35 (5.77%) IaaS
18 34 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.70%) DNS
2 62 (10.21%) Firewall
3 51 (8.40%) TCP/IP
4 39 (6.43%) HTTP
5 33 (5.44%) VPN
6 26 (4.28%) DHCP
7 25 (4.12%) BGP
8 20 (3.29%) OSPF
9 19 (3.13%) HTTPS
10 16 (2.64%) Network Security
11 12 (1.98%) SSL
12 11 (1.81%) NGFW
13 10 (1.65%) WAN
14 9 (1.48%) Internet
15 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.82%) SD-WAN
16 4 (0.66%) IPsec
16 4 (0.66%) MPLS
16 4 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
16 4 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (5.60%) Apache Iceberg
4 33 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
5 30 (4.94%) NoSQL
6 28 (4.61%) Apache Arrow
6 28 (4.61%) Apache Ignite
6 28 (4.61%) Dremio
7 25 (4.12%) MongoDB
8 23 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.46%) Hadoop
10 20 (3.29%) SQL Server
11 19 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (2.80%) Big Data
12 17 (2.80%) Data Lake
13 16 (2.64%) MySQL
14 13 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (1.65%) DynamoDB
16 10 (1.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 124 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 116 (19.11%) GitLab
3 66 (10.87%) Git
4 37 (6.10%) Artifactory
5 32 (5.27%) JIRA
6 19 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 13 (2.14%) Maven
8 12 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.48%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.32%) Selenium
10 8 (1.32%) Terragrunt
11 7 (1.15%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.82%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.66%) JMeter
13 4 (0.66%) NUnit
13 4 (0.66%) Poetry
14 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 105 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 95 (15.65%) Finance
3 64 (10.54%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.10%) Front Office
6 33 (5.44%) Banking
7 6 (0.99%) Financial Institution
7 6 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 6 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (0.99%) Police
7 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
8 5 (0.82%) Law
9 4 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.66%) Marketing
9 4 (0.66%) Retail
10 3 (0.49%) Electronics
10 3 (0.49%) Games
10 3 (0.49%) Legal
10 3 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 221 (36.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 100 (16.47%) AWS Engineer
3 94 (15.49%) Senior
4 86 (14.17%) AWS DevOps
5 83 (13.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 72 (11.86%) Architect
7 67 (11.04%) Developer
8 64 (10.54%) Senior DevOps
9 59 (9.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 55 (9.06%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (8.90%) Python Engineer
12 51 (8.40%) Data Engineer
13 41 (6.75%) Lead
14 31 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
15 30 (4.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 30 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
15 30 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
16 28 (4.61%) Technical Architect
17 26 (4.28%) AWS Architect
18 20 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (11.86%) Kafka
2 34 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
2 34 (5.60%) PySpark
3 33 (5.44%) REST
4 31 (5.11%) J2EE
5 29 (4.78%) React
6 28 (4.61%) .NET
7 27 (4.45%) Node.js
8 26 (4.28%) ARM Templates
9 25 (4.12%) OAuth
10 23 (3.79%) Spring
11 22 (3.62%) Spring Boot
12 19 (3.13%) OpenID
13 16 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
14 15 (2.47%) AngularJS
14 15 (2.47%) Keycloak
14 15 (2.47%) YAML
15 14 (2.31%) AWS CDK
16 13 (2.14%) OAuth2
17 12 (1.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.85%) Cloud Native
2 16 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (2.64%) Public Cloud
3 14 (2.31%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (1.65%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.65%) PKI
6 9 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.15%) Anti-Spyware
7 7 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.99%) Private Cloud
9 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.82%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.66%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.66%) Replication
10 4 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 143 (23.56%) Linux
2 44 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 44 (7.25%) Windows
3 28 (4.61%) Unix
4 21 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.14%) CentOS
6 4 (0.66%) SUSE
6 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.66%) VMS
6 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.33%) Solaris
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) AIX
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (60.63%) DevOps
2 325 (53.54%) CI/CD
3 283 (46.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 175 (28.83%) Agile
5 124 (20.43%) Containerisation
6 95 (15.65%) Software Engineering
7 76 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
8 72 (11.86%) Microservices
9 70 (11.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 65 (10.71%) Migration
11 60 (9.88%) Infrastructure Automation
11 60 (9.88%) Test Automation
12 55 (9.06%) Configuration Management
13 51 (8.40%) Observability
13 51 (8.40%) Platform Engineering
14 45 (7.41%) Analytics
15 44 (7.25%) Open Source
16 43 (7.08%) Data Engineering
17 41 (6.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 267 (43.99%) Python
2 96 (15.82%) Bash
3 92 (15.16%) Java
4 82 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 60 (9.88%) SQL
6 59 (9.72%) Go
7 46 (7.58%) JavaScript
8 44 (7.25%) Bicep
9 37 (6.10%) C#
10 29 (4.78%) TypeScript
11 15 (2.47%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.32%) PHP
13 7 (1.15%) Ruby
14 6 (0.99%) Perl
15 5 (0.82%) Groovy
16 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.49%) R
16 3 (0.49%) Rust
17 2 (0.33%) C++
17 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (25.54%) Security Cleared
2 145 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.60%) Degree
4 29 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 23 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.64%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.82%) CISSP
9 5 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.66%) OCP
11 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.49%) CCNA
11 3 (0.49%) CCNP
11 3 (0.49%) CISM
11 3 (0.49%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.97%) QA
2 10 (1.65%) NCSC
3 9 (1.48%) GDPR
4 8 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.49%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.16%) FedRAMP
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 204 (33.61%) Docker
2 19 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.82%) vSphere
5 4 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.49%) RACF
6 3 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (0.49%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.33%) Ceph
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.16%) Samba
8 1 (0.16%) XenApp
8 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 291 (47.94%) Kubernetes
2 176 (29.00%) Ansible
3 70 (11.53%) Grafana
4 61 (10.05%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.26%) Progress Chef
5 38 (6.26%) Puppet
6 26 (4.28%) Argo
7 25 (4.12%) Packer
8 13 (2.14%) Consul
9 11 (1.81%) FortiGate
9 11 (1.81%) Istio
9 11 (1.81%) ZABBIX
10 10 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.48%) Rancher
12 8 (1.32%) linkerd
13 7 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.82%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.82%) Nagios
14 5 (0.82%) Podman
Vendors
1 52 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.94%) Cisco
2 30 (4.94%) Palo Alto
2 30 (4.94%) Splunk
2 30 (4.94%) VMware
3 27 (4.45%) CheckPoint
4 26 (4.28%) Red Hat
5 24 (3.95%) Fortinet
6 19 (3.13%) Databricks
7 16 (2.64%) SAP
8 15 (2.47%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.31%) Google
10 12 (1.98%) Oracle
11 9 (1.48%) Okta
12 8 (1.32%) Infoblox
13 5 (0.82%) Apple
13 5 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.82%) Broadcom
13 5 (0.82%) ESET
13 5 (0.82%) F5