Terraform Contracts in the UK excluding London

Terraform
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 78 59 57
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 510 859 1,203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.45% 3.75% 3.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.47% 25.37% 28.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 650 878
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £461 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £675 £716 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 1
10th Percentile £55.50 £59.60 -
25th Percentile £58.25 £70.50 £40.25
Median hourly rate £72.22 £78.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +92.59% -22.86%
75th Percentile £74.86 - £40.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £87.60 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £75.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year -22.52% +100.00% -36.55%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,375 3,386 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.39% 14.78% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,436 2,983
10th Percentile £213 £281 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 121 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.23 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -12.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £26.88
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in the UK excluding London

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
South East -8 158 £575 -4.17% 73
North of England -17 155 £525 -8.70% 108
South West -14 105 £555 -7.50% 67
North West -21 81 £550 - 65
Yorkshire -5 66 £520 -15.10% 35
Scotland +25 57 £500 -16.67% 22
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 - - 8
Wales +11 7 £645 +7.42% 8
East Midlands -12 7 £450 -35.71% 18
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 -1.54% 10
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (6.67%) Confluence
2 17 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.35%) nginx
4 11 (2.16%) Apache
4 11 (2.16%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.78%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.39%) CMS
9 2 (0.39%) Traefik
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 281 (55.10%) AWS
2 199 (39.02%) Azure
3 60 (11.76%) GCP
4 55 (10.78%) GitHub
5 54 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (9.80%) Serverless
7 46 (9.02%) Amazon S3
7 46 (9.02%) OpenShift
8 42 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (3.53%) PaaS
13 18 (3.53%) Snowflake
14 17 (3.33%) IaaS
15 16 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.39%) Firewall
2 28 (5.49%) DNS
3 27 (5.29%) VPN
4 25 (4.90%) TCP/IP
5 21 (4.12%) Network Security
6 9 (1.76%) HTTP
6 9 (1.76%) SAN
7 6 (1.18%) AMQP
7 6 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.98%) WAN
9 4 (0.78%) 5G
9 4 (0.78%) Diameter Protocol
9 4 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.78%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.78%) IPsec
9 4 (0.78%) LTE
9 4 (0.78%) NAS
9 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.08%) MySQL
2 27 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 21 (4.12%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (3.53%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.14%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.55%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.35%) Big Data
10 12 (2.35%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.96%) InfluxDB
12 9 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.76%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.57%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.18%) RDBMS
15 5 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.98%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 117 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 97 (19.02%) GitLab
3 85 (16.67%) Git
4 52 (10.20%) JIRA
5 33 (6.47%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.31%) Selenium
7 21 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (3.53%) Cucumber
9 16 (3.14%) Robot Framework
10 15 (2.94%) Artifactory
10 15 (2.94%) Bitbucket
11 12 (2.35%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (1.96%) CircleCI
12 10 (1.96%) Travis CI
13 9 (1.76%) Burp Suite
14 8 (1.57%) Maven
15 7 (1.37%) Gradle
16 5 (0.98%) AppScan
16 5 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 42 (8.24%) Public Sector
3 38 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.29%) Finance
5 12 (2.35%) Legal
6 10 (1.96%) Banking
7 9 (1.76%) Law
8 8 (1.57%) Police
9 6 (1.18%) Retail
10 5 (0.98%) Back Office
10 5 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.59%) Aviation
12 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.59%) Marketing
12 3 (0.59%) Tech for Good
12 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.39%) Electronics
13 2 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (31.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (11.18%) Architect
3 50 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
4 46 (9.02%) Senior
5 42 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
7 37 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 36 (7.06%) Security Engineer
9 33 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 32 (6.27%) Developer
11 31 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
12 26 (5.10%) Site Engineer
13 22 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
13 22 (4.31%) Lead
14 20 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.53%) Data Engineer
17 17 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.80%) YAML
2 35 (6.86%) REST
3 32 (6.27%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (5.10%) ARM Templates
5 23 (4.51%) JSON
5 23 (4.51%) Kafka
6 20 (3.92%) .NET
7 17 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (2.75%) Node.js
8 14 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.55%) Java EE
10 10 (1.96%) J2EE
11 9 (1.76%) XML
12 8 (1.57%) .NET Core
12 8 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (1.37%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.37%) React
14 6 (1.18%) .NET Framework
14 6 (1.18%) AngularJS
14 6 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.39%) PKI
2 24 (4.71%) Public Cloud
3 23 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.16%) Clustering
6 11 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.76%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.57%) Replication
9 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 5 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.98%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.78%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.78%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 135 (26.47%) Linux
2 72 (14.12%) Windows
3 31 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (5.29%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.92%) Unix
6 15 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.96%) CentOS
8 6 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.98%) VMS
10 4 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.59%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.59%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.59%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.20%) Debian
13 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (61.76%) DevOps
2 202 (39.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 201 (39.41%) CI/CD
4 119 (23.33%) Agile
5 110 (21.57%) Containerisation
6 74 (14.51%) Configuration Management
7 70 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (13.14%) Continuous Integration
9 62 (12.16%) Test Automation
10 51 (10.00%) Migration
10 51 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 41 (8.04%) Infrastructure Automation
12 40 (7.84%) Scrum
13 37 (7.25%) Software Engineering
14 36 (7.06%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 31 (6.08%) Task Automation
16 30 (5.88%) High Availability
16 30 (5.88%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 254 (49.80%) Python
2 144 (28.24%) PowerShell
3 94 (18.43%) Bash
4 93 (18.24%) Java
5 61 (11.96%) SQL
6 40 (7.84%) Go
7 32 (6.27%) C
8 26 (5.10%) Shell Script
9 22 (4.31%) JavaScript
10 21 (4.12%) Scala
11 19 (3.73%) Ruby
12 17 (3.33%) C++
12 17 (3.33%) Groovy
13 15 (2.94%) Bicep
14 14 (2.75%) C#
15 10 (1.96%) TypeScript
16 7 (1.37%) Perl
17 6 (1.18%) PHP
18 4 (0.78%) ActionScript
19 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 202 (39.61%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.22%) SC Cleared
3 85 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 21 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.73%) Degree
6 13 (2.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.78%) CCNA
9 4 (0.78%) CCNP
9 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.59%) OSCP
11 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.39%) CCIE
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.88%) QA
2 10 (1.96%) NIST
3 9 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.37%) RMADS
6 6 (1.18%) GDPR
6 6 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
9 2 (0.39%) SLA
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
System Software
1 180 (35.29%) Docker
2 54 (10.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 25 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (3.33%) vSphere
6 14 (2.75%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.39%) Ceph
10 2 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.20%) Varnish
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 260 (50.98%) Ansible
2 221 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 67 (13.14%) Prometheus
4 65 (12.75%) Grafana
5 49 (9.61%) Progress Chef
6 47 (9.22%) Puppet
7 33 (6.47%) Docker Swarm
8 16 (3.14%) Podman
8 16 (3.14%) Rancher
9 13 (2.55%) Istio
9 13 (2.55%) Kibana
9 13 (2.55%) Salt
10 11 (2.16%) HP Fortify
10 11 (2.16%) Nagios
11 10 (1.96%) Graylog
12 9 (1.76%) logstash
13 8 (1.57%) Packer
14 7 (1.37%) Nessus
14 7 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 6 (1.18%) Argo
Vendors
1 71 (13.92%) VMware
2 52 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.24%) Red Hat
4 38 (7.45%) Splunk
5 27 (5.29%) Google
5 27 (5.29%) Oracle
6 21 (4.12%) Databricks
7 20 (3.92%) Cisco
8 13 (2.55%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.35%) F5
9 12 (2.35%) SolarWinds
10 11 (2.16%) SaltStack
11 10 (1.96%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.37%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.37%) PagerDuty
14 6 (1.18%) Checkmarx
14 6 (1.18%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.18%) Juniper
14 6 (1.18%) Zscaler