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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,523 2,826 4,891
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.53% 5.01% 5.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.18% 31.81% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 2,109 3,568
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £736 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 34 2
10th Percentile £31.25 £41.97 £35.53
25th Percentile £35.13 £62.19 £36.31
Median hourly rate £58.50 £75.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% +100.00% -36.55%
75th Percentile £74.44 £82.25 £39.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £89.49 £40.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.22 £78.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +92.59% -22.86%

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 5,219 8,883 13,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 15.76% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,345 10,012
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 199 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.26
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.75 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.80 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -12.74%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -16 1,307 £550 -8.33% 703
London -10 793 £567 -9.28% 373
Work from Home -15 564 £550 -8.33% 392
UK excluding London -19 510 £550 -6.38% 349
South East -8 158 £575 -4.17% 76
North of England -17 155 £525 -8.70% 104
South West -14 105 £555 -7.50% 66
North West -21 81 £550 - 63
Yorkshire -5 66 £520 -15.10% 35
Scotland +25 57 £500 -16.67% 21
Midlands -24 40 £525 -4.55% 43
West Midlands -32 33 £564 -9.84% 25
East of England -35 12 £583 -16.79% 25
North East -7 8 - - 6
Wales +11 7 £645 +7.42% 9
East Midlands -12 7 £450 -35.71% 18
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 -1.54% 8

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 66 (4.33%) Confluence
2 62 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 36 (2.36%) nginx
4 30 (1.97%) Apache
5 24 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 16 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.72%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.46%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.33%) CMS
11 5 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.26%) IIS
13 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.13%) Traefik
15 1 (0.066%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.46%) NEC Housing
1 7 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.26%) Shopify
3 1 (0.066%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.066%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.066%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 842 (55.29%) AWS
2 591 (38.80%) Azure
3 234 (15.36%) GCP
4 233 (15.30%) GitHub
5 211 (13.85%) Serverless
6 196 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
7 142 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 138 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 137 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
11 111 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
12 99 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 98 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
14 82 (5.38%) PaaS
15 75 (4.92%) OpenShift
16 73 (4.79%) IaaS
17 61 (4.01%) SaaS
17 61 (4.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 52 (3.41%) Snowflake
19 50 (3.28%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (8.60%) Firewall
2 67 (4.40%) DNS
3 50 (3.28%) Network Security
4 49 (3.22%) TCP/IP
4 49 (3.22%) VPN
5 22 (1.44%) DHCP
5 22 (1.44%) SAN
6 19 (1.25%) HTTP
7 18 (1.18%) WAN
8 16 (1.05%) VLAN
9 15 (0.98%) LAN
10 14 (0.92%) Kerberos
11 13 (0.85%) IPsec
11 13 (0.85%) IPv4
11 13 (0.85%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (0.79%) NAS
12 12 (0.79%) OSPF
13 11 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.66%) Data Lake
2 70 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (3.68%) Big Data
5 52 (3.41%) MySQL
5 52 (3.41%) Relational Database
5 52 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 50 (3.28%) BigQuery
7 48 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
8 47 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 45 (2.95%) NoSQL
10 41 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.25%) DynamoDB
13 19 (1.25%) MongoDB
13 19 (1.25%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.18%) Apache Arrow
14 18 (1.18%) Dremio
15 13 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 340 (22.32%) Jenkins
2 261 (17.14%) Git
3 223 (14.64%) GitLab
4 106 (6.96%) JIRA
5 55 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 38 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 36 (2.36%) Selenium
8 32 (2.10%) Artifactory
9 29 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.77%) TeamCity
11 26 (1.71%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.51%) CircleCI
13 20 (1.31%) Cypress.io
13 20 (1.31%) Maven
14 16 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 16 (1.05%) Robot Framework
15 15 (0.98%) Travis CI
16 14 (0.92%) Burp Suite
17 13 (0.85%) JMeter
18 12 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 263 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 164 (10.77%) Finance
3 132 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 67 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (2.76%) Banking
6 27 (1.77%) Law
7 16 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (0.98%) Legal
8 15 (0.98%) Retail
8 15 (0.98%) Tech for Good
9 10 (0.66%) Marketing
10 9 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 9 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.53%) Police
12 7 (0.46%) Back Office
12 7 (0.46%) Electronics
12 7 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 468 (30.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 189 (12.41%) AWS Engineer
3 173 (11.36%) Senior
4 162 (10.64%) Architect
5 159 (10.44%) Developer
6 126 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
7 118 (7.75%) AWS DevOps
8 114 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 109 (7.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 97 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
11 82 (5.38%) Data Engineer
12 81 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 76 (4.99%) Lead
14 67 (4.40%) Site Engineer
15 66 (4.33%) Security Engineer
16 65 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 64 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
18 59 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 56 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
20 50 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.24%) YAML
2 81 (5.32%) Kafka
3 77 (5.06%) REST
4 76 (4.99%) Node.js
5 75 (4.92%) .NET
5 75 (4.92%) ARM Templates
6 68 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
7 61 (4.01%) React
8 49 (3.22%) JSON
9 38 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 32 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
11 28 (1.84%) .NET Core
11 28 (1.84%) OAuth
11 28 (1.84%) RESTful
12 25 (1.64%) AWS CDK
13 24 (1.58%) SOAP
13 24 (1.58%) XML
14 20 (1.31%) Spring
15 18 (1.18%) GraphQL
15 18 (1.18%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.60%) PKI
2 60 (3.94%) Cloud Native
3 59 (3.87%) Public Cloud
4 47 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
5 40 (2.63%) Clustering
6 35 (2.30%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 24 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 23 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.25%) Hedge funds
12 17 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.12%) Replication
13 14 (0.92%) IoT
13 14 (0.92%) Private Cloud
13 14 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 317 (20.81%) Linux
2 136 (8.93%) Windows
3 55 (3.61%) Unix
4 54 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (0.79%) CentOS
8 11 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (0.59%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.46%) Android
10 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.46%) Kali Linux
10 7 (0.46%) VMS
11 5 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
11 5 (0.33%) Solaris
12 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.20%) Windows 2000
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 931 (61.13%) DevOps
2 638 (41.89%) CI/CD
3 601 (39.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 315 (20.68%) Agile
5 267 (17.53%) Containerisation
6 175 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (9.65%) Configuration Management
8 146 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
9 145 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 144 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
11 127 (8.34%) Microservices
12 125 (8.21%) Migration
13 121 (7.94%) Software Engineering
14 119 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 113 (7.42%) DevSecOps
16 109 (7.16%) Scrum
17 100 (6.57%) Cloud Security
18 94 (6.17%) Infrastructure Automation
19 93 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 90 (5.91%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 691 (45.37%) Python
2 283 (18.58%) PowerShell
3 228 (14.97%) Java
4 212 (13.92%) Bash
5 175 (11.49%) SQL
6 135 (8.86%) Go
7 107 (7.03%) JavaScript
8 80 (5.25%) C#
9 59 (3.87%) TypeScript
10 47 (3.09%) Shell Script
11 44 (2.89%) C
11 44 (2.89%) Ruby
12 42 (2.76%) Bicep
13 32 (2.10%) Scala
14 29 (1.90%) C++
15 20 (1.31%) Groovy
16 18 (1.18%) PHP
17 16 (1.05%) Perl
18 12 (0.79%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 471 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 323 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 125 (8.21%) DV Cleared
4 92 (6.04%) Degree
5 61 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 60 (3.94%) AWS Certification
7 52 (3.41%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 18 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (0.98%) CCNP
12 11 (0.72%) CCNA
13 6 (0.39%) CCIE
13 6 (0.39%) CISSP
13 6 (0.39%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.39%) OSCP
14 4 (0.26%) SANS
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.41%) QA
2 33 (2.17%) NIST
3 27 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 18 (1.18%) NCSC
6 15 (0.98%) GDPR
7 14 (0.92%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.46%) RMADS
10 5 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.13%) SLA
13 2 (0.13%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.066%) GRC
14 1 (0.066%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 505 (33.16%) Docker
2 82 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 80 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.51%) vSphere
6 22 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.25%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.33%) Firmware
10 4 (0.26%) Ceph
11 3 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.20%) KVM
11 3 (0.20%) vCloud
12 2 (0.13%) NFS
12 2 (0.13%) Squid
12 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.066%) XenApp
13 1 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 666 (43.73%) Kubernetes
2 505 (33.16%) Ansible
3 151 (9.91%) Prometheus
4 129 (8.47%) Grafana
5 114 (7.49%) Puppet
6 85 (5.58%) Progress Chef
7 39 (2.56%) Packer
8 37 (2.43%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (1.38%) Argo
9 21 (1.38%) Kibana
9 21 (1.38%) Podman
10 18 (1.18%) Istio
10 18 (1.18%) Salt
11 17 (1.12%) Consul
11 17 (1.12%) Rancher
12 16 (1.05%) Nagios
13 14 (0.92%) logstash
14 13 (0.85%) Graylog
14 13 (0.85%) HP Fortify
15 12 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.94%) VMware
3 105 (6.89%) Google
4 91 (5.98%) Oracle
5 81 (5.32%) Splunk
6 59 (3.87%) Red Hat
7 51 (3.35%) Cisco
7 51 (3.35%) Databricks
8 30 (1.97%) Dynatrace
9 27 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.71%) SAP
11 24 (1.58%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.51%) F5
12 23 (1.51%) SolarWinds
13 21 (1.38%) New Relic
14 18 (1.18%) Dell
15 17 (1.12%) Atlassian
15 17 (1.12%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.98%) IBM
16 15 (0.98%) SaltStack