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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,471 2,908 4,976
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.46% 5.08% 5.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.75% 31.87% 35.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 2,175 3,655
10th Percentile £420 £456 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 27 2
10th Percentile - £39.60 £35.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £65.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £73.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +94.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £74.44 £85.65 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.05 £88.98 £39.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.56% +95.00% -23.81%

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 5,117 9,125 13,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 15.93% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 6,542 10,045
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 204 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.67 £15.69
Median hourly rate £25.77 £54.18 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +143.48% -44.38%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.00 £44.77
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.85 £59.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -13.83%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -15 1,252 £550 -8.33% 782
London -9 762 £566 -9.44% 424
Work from Home -15 553 £550 -8.33% 442
UK excluding London -23 496 £550 -6.38% 457
North of England -17 162 £550 -4.35% 131
South East -12 135 £550 -8.33% 146
North West -15 96 £550 -4.35% 71
South West -29 95 £550 -6.38% 62
Scotland +31 66 £506 -15.63% 18
Yorkshire -17 59 £520 -13.33% 48
Midlands -42 27 £450 -18.18% 56
West Midlands -36 20 £475 -24.00% 39
East of England -32 12 £583 -16.79% 25
Wales +10 7 £645 +7.42% 11
East Midlands -6 7 £450 -35.71% 17
North East -9 7 - - 12
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 -1.54% 10

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 60 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
1 60 (4.08%) Confluence
2 42 (2.86%) nginx
3 36 (2.45%) Apache
4 23 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.43%) OpenStack
6 13 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 7 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
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
2 4 (0.27%) Shopify
3 1 (0.068%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.068%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.068%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 853 (57.99%) AWS
2 558 (37.93%) Azure
3 231 (15.70%) GitHub
4 229 (15.57%) GCP
5 207 (14.07%) Serverless
6 184 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
7 137 (9.31%) AWS Lambda
8 135 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 132 (8.97%) Amazon S3
10 120 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
11 108 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
12 98 (6.66%) Amazon EKS
13 97 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 86 (5.85%) PaaS
15 75 (5.10%) OpenShift
16 74 (5.03%) IaaS
17 68 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 60 (4.08%) SaaS
19 49 (3.33%) Snowflake
20 46 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (8.50%) Firewall
2 71 (4.83%) DNS
3 51 (3.47%) TCP/IP
4 47 (3.20%) Network Security
5 45 (3.06%) VPN
6 24 (1.63%) DHCP
6 24 (1.63%) SAN
7 20 (1.36%) HTTP
8 18 (1.22%) WAN
9 17 (1.16%) VLAN
10 14 (0.95%) LAN
10 14 (0.95%) NAS
11 13 (0.88%) IPsec
11 13 (0.88%) IPv4
11 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (0.82%) Kerberos
12 12 (0.82%) OSPF
13 11 (0.75%) BGP
13 11 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
2 69 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (4.42%) Data Lake
4 59 (4.01%) Big Data
5 56 (3.81%) SQL Server
6 53 (3.60%) MySQL
7 50 (3.40%) BigQuery
8 49 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 47 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
10 46 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 31 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.29%) DynamoDB
15 18 (1.22%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.09%) Apache Arrow
16 16 (1.09%) Dremio
17 12 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 339 (23.05%) Jenkins
2 254 (17.27%) Git
3 226 (15.36%) GitLab
4 105 (7.14%) JIRA
5 58 (3.94%) SonarQube
6 41 (2.79%) Bitbucket
7 37 (2.52%) Selenium
8 30 (2.04%) Artifactory
9 28 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 28 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.84%) Maven
10 27 (1.84%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.50%) CircleCI
12 20 (1.36%) Cypress.io
13 17 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 15 (1.02%) Robot Framework
14 15 (1.02%) Travis CI
15 14 (0.95%) Burp Suite
16 13 (0.88%) JMeter
17 12 (0.82%) Gradle
General
1 250 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 160 (10.88%) Finance
3 134 (9.11%) Public Sector
4 61 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (2.79%) Banking
6 28 (1.90%) Law
7 19 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.02%) Legal
8 15 (1.02%) Retail
8 15 (1.02%) Tech for Good
9 14 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 12 (0.82%) Marketing
11 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (0.61%) Electronics
12 9 (0.61%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.54%) Police
14 7 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 454 (30.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 186 (12.64%) AWS Engineer
3 171 (11.62%) Developer
3 171 (11.62%) Senior
4 160 (10.88%) Architect
5 117 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
6 116 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
7 107 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 105 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 87 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
10 81 (5.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 77 (5.23%) Data Engineer
12 72 (4.89%) Lead
13 65 (4.42%) Site Engineer
14 63 (4.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 62 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 59 (4.01%) Cloud Architect
17 56 (3.81%) Security Engineer
18 55 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
19 47 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (6.25%) Node.js
2 82 (5.57%) REST
3 77 (5.23%) Kafka
4 76 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
5 74 (5.03%) .NET
6 73 (4.96%) YAML
7 69 (4.69%) ARM Templates
8 64 (4.35%) React
9 50 (3.40%) JSON
10 43 (2.92%) RESTful
11 33 (2.24%) Spring Boot
12 32 (2.18%) .NET Core
13 30 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
14 29 (1.97%) AWS CDK
15 28 (1.90%) OAuth
16 24 (1.63%) XML
17 23 (1.56%) SOAP
18 21 (1.43%) Spring
19 19 (1.29%) CSS
19 19 (1.29%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (4.35%) PKI
2 60 (4.08%) Public Cloud
3 59 (4.01%) Cloud Native
4 46 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (2.65%) Clustering
6 36 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 27 (1.84%) Product Ownership
10 26 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 23 (1.56%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.16%) Hedge funds
13 17 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.16%) Replication
14 16 (1.09%) Private Cloud
15 13 (0.88%) IoT
16 12 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 11 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 301 (20.46%) Linux
2 125 (8.50%) Windows
3 52 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 51 (3.47%) Unix
5 35 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (1.16%) CentOS
8 14 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 12 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
10 11 (0.75%) VMS
11 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.41%) Android
12 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.41%) Solaris
13 5 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.20%) Debian
14 3 (0.20%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (60.30%) DevOps
2 643 (43.71%) CI/CD
3 548 (37.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 316 (21.48%) Agile
5 245 (16.66%) Containerisation
6 164 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
7 150 (10.20%) Test Automation
8 144 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
9 140 (9.52%) Microservices
10 133 (9.04%) Configuration Management
11 132 (8.97%) Platform Engineering
12 127 (8.63%) Software Engineering
13 121 (8.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 118 (8.02%) Migration
15 108 (7.34%) Scrum
16 107 (7.27%) DevSecOps
17 93 (6.32%) Cloud Security
18 87 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 84 (5.71%) Analytics
20 77 (5.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 668 (45.41%) Python
2 248 (16.86%) PowerShell
3 225 (15.30%) Java
4 215 (14.62%) Bash
5 175 (11.90%) SQL
6 135 (9.18%) Go
7 109 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 79 (5.37%) C#
9 60 (4.08%) TypeScript
10 46 (3.13%) Shell Script
11 43 (2.92%) Ruby
12 37 (2.52%) Bicep
12 37 (2.52%) C
13 32 (2.18%) Scala
14 22 (1.50%) Groovy
15 21 (1.43%) C++
16 19 (1.29%) PHP
17 18 (1.22%) Perl
18 11 (0.75%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 448 (30.46%) Security Cleared
2 304 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 119 (8.09%) DV Cleared
4 85 (5.78%) Degree
5 59 (4.01%) AWS Certification
6 58 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.95%) CCNP
12 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.75%) CCNA
14 6 (0.41%) OSCP
15 5 (0.34%) CCIE
15 5 (0.34%) CISSP
15 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.27%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.54%) QA
2 32 (2.18%) NIST
3 26 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 19 (1.29%) NCSC
6 14 (0.95%) GDPR
7 12 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.48%) RMADS
9 6 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.20%) SLA
11 3 (0.20%) WCAG
12 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.068%) JSP 440
System Software
1 487 (33.11%) Docker
2 71 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 64 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.56%) vSphere
6 21 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.34%) Firmware
10 4 (0.27%) Ceph
11 3 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.20%) vCloud
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) NFS
12 2 (0.14%) Squid
12 2 (0.14%) Varnish
12 2 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 638 (43.37%) Kubernetes
2 480 (32.63%) Ansible
3 147 (9.99%) Prometheus
4 125 (8.50%) Grafana
5 102 (6.93%) Puppet
6 73 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 42 (2.86%) Packer
8 36 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
9 22 (1.50%) Consul
10 21 (1.43%) Kibana
11 19 (1.29%) Argo
12 18 (1.22%) Podman
13 16 (1.09%) Istio
13 16 (1.09%) Nagios
13 16 (1.09%) Rancher
14 14 (0.95%) logstash
15 13 (0.88%) Graylog
15 13 (0.88%) HP Fortify
16 12 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 163 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.93%) VMware
3 96 (6.53%) Google
4 91 (6.19%) Oracle
5 78 (5.30%) Splunk
6 48 (3.26%) Cisco
7 43 (2.92%) Databricks
7 43 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 29 (1.97%) Dynatrace
9 28 (1.90%) SAP
10 26 (1.77%) Palo Alto
11 23 (1.56%) SolarWinds
12 22 (1.50%) F5
12 22 (1.50%) Salesforce
13 21 (1.43%) New Relic
14 19 (1.29%) Dell
15 17 (1.16%) IBM
16 16 (1.09%) ServiceNow
17 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.95%) CheckPoint