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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 42 40
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,460 2,905 5,003
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.43% 5.07% 5.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.65% 31.86% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 2,173 3,676
10th Percentile £419 £456 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.11%
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 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
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 £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -16 1,242 £550 -8.33% 785
London -11 769 £565 -9.60% 417
Work from Home -16 552 £550 -8.33% 461
UK excluding London -29 478 £550 -6.38% 477
North of England -22 146 £530 -7.83% 130
South East -16 136 £550 -8.33% 156
South West -30 93 £550 -6.38% 62
North West -24 80 £550 -4.35% 68
Scotland +32 65 £513 -14.58% 21
Yorkshire -16 59 £520 -13.33% 50
Midlands -46 27 £450 -18.18% 63
West Midlands -38 20 £475 -24.00% 44
East of England -32 12 £583 -16.79% 29
Wales +11 7 £645 +7.42% 9
East Midlands -7 7 £450 -35.71% 19
North East -11 7 - - 12
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 -1.54% 9

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 62 (4.25%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (4.11%) Confluence
3 42 (2.88%) nginx
4 36 (2.47%) Apache
5 23 (1.58%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.44%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.48%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.41%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.27%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.27%) CMS
14 3 (0.21%) IIS
15 2 (0.14%) Traefik
16 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
1 836 (57.26%) AWS
2 559 (38.29%) Azure
3 233 (15.96%) GCP
4 232 (15.89%) GitHub
5 206 (14.11%) Serverless
6 183 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 136 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
8 134 (9.18%) Amazon S3
9 119 (8.15%) Amazon EC2
10 110 (7.53%) GitHub Actions
11 98 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 98 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (5.75%) PaaS
13 75 (5.14%) OpenShift
14 72 (4.93%) IaaS
15 66 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 60 (4.11%) SaaS
17 51 (3.49%) Snowflake
18 46 (3.15%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (8.56%) Firewall
2 71 (4.86%) DNS
3 51 (3.49%) TCP/IP
4 47 (3.22%) Network Security
5 45 (3.08%) VPN
6 24 (1.64%) DHCP
6 24 (1.64%) SAN
7 20 (1.37%) HTTP
8 18 (1.23%) WAN
9 17 (1.16%) VLAN
10 14 (0.96%) LAN
10 14 (0.96%) NAS
11 13 (0.89%) IPsec
11 13 (0.89%) IPv4
11 13 (0.89%) Kerberos
11 13 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
12 12 (0.82%) OSPF
13 11 (0.75%) BGP
13 11 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
1 69 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (4.66%) Data Lake
3 61 (4.18%) Big Data
4 56 (3.84%) SQL Server
5 52 (3.56%) MySQL
6 50 (3.42%) BigQuery
7 49 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 48 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
9 47 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (3.15%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 35 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.37%) DynamoDB
14 20 (1.37%) MongoDB
15 18 (1.23%) Apache Arrow
15 18 (1.23%) Dremio
15 18 (1.23%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 340 (23.29%) Jenkins
2 255 (17.47%) Git
3 213 (14.59%) GitLab
4 105 (7.19%) JIRA
5 58 (3.97%) SonarQube
6 41 (2.81%) Bitbucket
7 37 (2.53%) Selenium
8 30 (2.05%) Artifactory
9 28 (1.92%) Cucumber
9 28 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.85%) Maven
10 27 (1.85%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.51%) CircleCI
12 20 (1.37%) Cypress.io
13 17 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 15 (1.03%) Robot Framework
14 15 (1.03%) Travis CI
15 14 (0.96%) Burp Suite
16 13 (0.89%) JMeter
17 12 (0.82%) Gradle
General
1 256 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 159 (10.89%) Finance
3 126 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 61 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (2.95%) Banking
6 28 (1.92%) Law
7 19 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.03%) Legal
8 15 (1.03%) Retail
8 15 (1.03%) Tech for Good
9 12 (0.82%) Telecoms
10 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 10 (0.68%) Marketing
11 9 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.55%) Police
13 7 (0.48%) Back Office
13 7 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 455 (31.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 189 (12.95%) AWS Engineer
3 166 (11.37%) Senior
4 163 (11.16%) Developer
5 157 (10.75%) Architect
6 117 (8.01%) AWS DevOps
6 117 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
7 107 (7.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 106 (7.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 87 (5.96%) Platform Engineer
10 83 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 78 (5.34%) Data Engineer
12 70 (4.79%) Lead
13 67 (4.59%) Site Engineer
14 62 (4.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 62 (4.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 58 (3.97%) Security Engineer
16 57 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
16 57 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
17 47 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.62%) REST
2 78 (5.34%) Node.js
3 77 (5.27%) Kafka
4 76 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
5 73 (5.00%) YAML
6 72 (4.93%) .NET
7 69 (4.73%) ARM Templates
8 64 (4.38%) React
9 50 (3.42%) JSON
10 33 (2.26%) Spring Boot
11 30 (2.05%) .NET Core
11 30 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (1.99%) AWS CDK
13 28 (1.92%) OAuth
13 28 (1.92%) RESTful
14 24 (1.64%) XML
15 23 (1.58%) SOAP
16 21 (1.44%) Spring
17 19 (1.30%) CSS
17 19 (1.30%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.45%) PKI
2 62 (4.25%) Public Cloud
3 59 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 46 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (2.81%) Clustering
6 36 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 29 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 26 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 19 (1.30%) Hedge funds
13 17 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.16%) Replication
14 16 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 13 (0.89%) IoT
16 12 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 11 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 301 (20.62%) Linux
2 124 (8.49%) Windows
3 52 (3.56%) Unix
3 52 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.16%) CentOS
7 14 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
9 11 (0.75%) VMS
10 7 (0.48%) Kali Linux
11 6 (0.41%) Android
11 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.41%) Solaris
12 5 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.21%) Debian
13 3 (0.21%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 891 (61.03%) DevOps
2 633 (43.36%) CI/CD
3 555 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 308 (21.10%) Agile
5 250 (17.12%) Containerisation
6 164 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
7 150 (10.27%) Test Automation
8 143 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
9 134 (9.18%) Platform Engineering
10 133 (9.11%) Configuration Management
11 127 (8.70%) Microservices
12 123 (8.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 120 (8.22%) Migration
14 117 (8.01%) Software Engineering
15 109 (7.47%) Scrum
16 107 (7.33%) DevSecOps
17 95 (6.51%) Cloud Security
18 87 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 85 (5.82%) Analytics
20 79 (5.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 677 (46.37%) Python
2 251 (17.19%) PowerShell
3 221 (15.14%) Java
4 217 (14.86%) Bash
5 176 (12.05%) SQL
6 137 (9.38%) Go
7 111 (7.60%) JavaScript
8 79 (5.41%) C#
9 60 (4.11%) TypeScript
10 46 (3.15%) Shell Script
11 43 (2.95%) Ruby
12 37 (2.53%) Bicep
12 37 (2.53%) C
13 32 (2.19%) Scala
14 22 (1.51%) Groovy
15 21 (1.44%) C++
16 18 (1.23%) Perl
16 18 (1.23%) PHP
17 12 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 440 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 299 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 120 (8.22%) DV Cleared
4 86 (5.89%) Degree
5 59 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 44 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.96%) CCNP
12 13 (0.89%) 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%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.27%) SANS
17 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.56%) QA
2 32 (2.19%) NIST
3 26 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 19 (1.30%) NCSC
6 14 (0.96%) GDPR
7 13 (0.89%) 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 (0.21%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.21%) SLA
11 3 (0.21%) 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
1 488 (33.42%) Docker
2 73 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 64 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.58%) vSphere
6 21 (1.44%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.30%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.34%) Firmware
10 4 (0.27%) Ceph
11 3 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.21%) KVM
11 3 (0.21%) vCloud
11 3 (0.21%) 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
1 639 (43.77%) Kubernetes
2 483 (33.08%) Ansible
3 152 (10.41%) Prometheus
4 128 (8.77%) Grafana
5 102 (6.99%) Puppet
6 73 (5.00%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.95%) Packer
8 36 (2.47%) Docker Swarm
9 22 (1.51%) Consul
10 21 (1.44%) Kibana
11 19 (1.30%) Argo
11 19 (1.30%) Podman
12 16 (1.10%) Istio
12 16 (1.10%) Nagios
12 16 (1.10%) Rancher
13 14 (0.96%) logstash
14 13 (0.89%) Graylog
14 13 (0.89%) HP Fortify
15 12 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 162 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.99%) VMware
3 97 (6.64%) Google
4 91 (6.23%) Oracle
5 78 (5.34%) Splunk
6 48 (3.29%) Cisco
7 44 (3.01%) Databricks
7 44 (3.01%) Red Hat
8 29 (1.99%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 26 (1.78%) SAP
10 23 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 23 (1.58%) SolarWinds
11 22 (1.51%) F5
12 21 (1.44%) New Relic
13 19 (1.30%) Dell
14 17 (1.16%) IBM
15 16 (1.10%) ServiceNow
16 15 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.96%) CheckPoint