Terraform Contracts with Work from Home Options

Terraform
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 34 29
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 551 1,450 2,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.72% 5.88% 6.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.76% 35.75% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 1,131 2,188
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £485 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.39% +8.52%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 1
10th Percentile - £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £67.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +92.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -27.15% +101.33% -28.57%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,056 7,087
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.03% 16.46% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 3,003 5,288
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £472 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.44% +9.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 75 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.28 £15.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -24.28%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.25 £64.19
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

Terraform
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Terraform trend for jobs with a WFH option

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Terraform over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing Terraform.

Terraform hourly rate 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 32 (5.81%) Confluence
2 31 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.09%) nginx
4 11 (2.00%) Apache
5 10 (1.81%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 6 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
7 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.73%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.54%) IIS
10 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.18%) Trello
1 1 (0.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 322 (58.44%) AWS
2 233 (42.29%) Azure
3 101 (18.33%) GitHub
4 83 (15.06%) Azure DevOps
5 73 (13.25%) GCP
6 69 (12.52%) Serverless
7 52 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (8.17%) PaaS
11 43 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (7.44%) IaaS
13 35 (6.35%) Amazon S3
14 33 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (5.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (5.08%) SaaS
17 26 (4.72%) Snowflake
18 24 (4.36%) dbt
19 21 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.43%) Firewall
2 31 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 26 (4.72%) DNS
4 16 (2.90%) Network Security
5 15 (2.72%) VPN
6 10 (1.81%) DHCP
7 9 (1.63%) SAN
8 8 (1.45%) HTTP
9 7 (1.27%) Kerberos
9 7 (1.27%) NAS
9 7 (1.27%) VLAN
9 7 (1.27%) WAN
10 6 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.91%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.73%) IPsec
13 3 (0.54%) BGP
13 3 (0.54%) IPv4
13 3 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.54%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
1 34 (6.17%) Data Lake
2 28 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (5.08%) Big Data
2 28 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (4.36%) MySQL
4 21 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 20 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 16 (2.90%) Apache Arrow
6 16 (2.90%) Dremio
7 14 (2.54%) BigQuery
7 14 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 13 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.18%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.81%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.09%) Power BI
11 6 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 122 (22.14%) Jenkins
2 105 (19.06%) Git
3 69 (12.52%) GitLab
4 62 (11.25%) JIRA
5 28 (5.08%) SonarQube
6 23 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 19 (3.45%) Selenium
8 16 (2.90%) TeamCity
9 15 (2.72%) Cucumber
10 11 (2.00%) Artifactory
11 10 (1.81%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.63%) Maven
13 8 (1.45%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.27%) Terragrunt
15 6 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.09%) Travis CI
16 5 (0.91%) Gradle
16 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
17 4 (0.73%) Burp Suite
General
1 110 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 74 (13.43%) Finance
3 71 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 26 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.36%) Law
6 11 (2.00%) Banking
7 8 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.45%) Marketing
7 8 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.45%) Tech for Good
8 7 (1.27%) Police
8 7 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.91%) Electronics
10 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (0.91%) Retail
11 4 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.54%) Front Office
13 2 (0.36%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 189 (34.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (17.24%) AWS Engineer
3 73 (13.25%) Developer
3 73 (13.25%) Senior
4 57 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
5 53 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 50 (9.07%) Architect
7 41 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
7 41 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 34 (6.17%) Lead
9 32 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 31 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
11 30 (5.44%) Senior DevOps
12 25 (4.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 24 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 23 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 23 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.81%) Site Engineer
16 18 (3.27%) Consultant
17 17 (3.09%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.80%) ARM Templates
2 37 (6.72%) REST
3 30 (5.44%) YAML
4 28 (5.08%) .NET
5 27 (4.90%) Node.js
6 24 (4.36%) JSON
7 23 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (3.27%) React
9 16 (2.90%) gRPC
9 16 (2.90%) Kafka
9 16 (2.90%) Protocol Buffers
10 12 (2.18%) AWS CDK
11 11 (2.00%) LDAP
11 11 (2.00%) RESTful
11 11 (2.00%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.00%) XML
12 10 (1.81%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.81%) Azure Blueprints
12 10 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.90%) Clustering
2 24 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
3 19 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 18 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.09%) Hedge funds
6 15 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.00%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.63%) PKI
10 9 (1.63%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.27%) Replication
12 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.91%) Tandem
13 4 (0.73%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 3 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 97 (17.60%) Linux
2 47 (8.53%) Windows
3 17 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.90%) Unix
5 10 (1.81%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (1.09%) CentOS
7 6 (1.09%) Solaris
8 5 (0.91%) Android
8 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.73%) VMS
10 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.36%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.36%) Windows 2000
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.36%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (68.78%) DevOps
2 232 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 212 (38.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (20.33%) Agile
5 93 (16.88%) Containerisation
6 77 (13.97%) Test Automation
7 66 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
9 53 (9.62%) Configuration Management
10 49 (8.89%) Software Engineering
11 47 (8.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 46 (8.35%) Microservices
13 44 (7.99%) Platform Engineering
14 42 (7.62%) Migration
15 41 (7.44%) DevSecOps
16 38 (6.90%) High Availability
16 38 (6.90%) Mentoring
17 32 (5.81%) Deployment Automation
18 30 (5.44%) Infrastructure Automation
18 30 (5.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 236 (42.83%) Python
2 93 (16.88%) Java
3 81 (14.70%) PowerShell
4 75 (13.61%) Bash
5 60 (10.89%) Go
6 57 (10.34%) SQL
7 53 (9.62%) JavaScript
8 35 (6.35%) C#
9 25 (4.54%) TypeScript
10 23 (4.17%) Bicep
11 19 (3.45%) C
12 17 (3.09%) Ruby
13 14 (2.54%) C++
14 13 (2.36%) PHP
15 11 (2.00%) Scala
16 8 (1.45%) Groovy
16 8 (1.45%) Perl
16 8 (1.45%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.73%) Rust
18 3 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (28.86%) Security Cleared
2 126 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.54%) Degree
4 20 (3.63%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 19 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.36%) SANS
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) CCNA
11 1 (0.18%) CCNP
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.18%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (2.72%) QA
2 14 (2.54%) NIST
3 13 (2.36%) GDPR
4 12 (2.18%) NCSC
5 10 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.54%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.36%) SLA
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.36%) WCAG
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 196 (35.57%) Docker
2 24 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.00%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.81%) vSphere
8 7 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.54%) Firmware
9 3 (0.54%) vCloud
10 2 (0.36%) Ceph
10 2 (0.36%) Squid
10 2 (0.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.18%) Lustre
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 245 (44.46%) Kubernetes
2 170 (30.85%) Ansible
3 57 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 45 (8.17%) Grafana
5 41 (7.44%) Puppet
6 35 (6.35%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.54%) Kibana
7 14 (2.54%) Packer
8 12 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (1.81%) Podman
10 8 (1.45%) Consul
10 8 (1.45%) logstash
11 7 (1.27%) Argo
12 6 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (1.09%) Netcool
12 6 (1.09%) Tivoli
12 6 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 5 (0.91%) Nagios
14 4 (0.73%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 61 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.53%) VMware
3 33 (5.99%) Splunk
4 32 (5.81%) Oracle
5 24 (4.36%) Google
6 19 (3.45%) Cisco
6 19 (3.45%) Databricks
7 14 (2.54%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.18%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.00%) SAP
10 10 (1.81%) IBM
11 9 (1.63%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.63%) Dell
11 9 (1.63%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.63%) HP
12 8 (1.45%) CyberArk
12 8 (1.45%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.27%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.09%) New Relic
14 6 (1.09%) Qualys