Terraform Contracts in the Thames Valley

Terraform
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Terraform skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Terraform over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 83 62
Rank change year-on-year +30 -21 +23
Contract jobs citing Terraform 52 55 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.44% 2.07% 3.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.88% 18.90% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 70
10th Percentile £368 £495 £506
25th Percentile £415 £538 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £655
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -8.40% +21.58%
75th Percentile £501 £650 £713
90th Percentile £660 £725 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £58.75

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

Terraform falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 209 291 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.83% 10.95% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 213 243
10th Percentile £250 £213 £328
25th Percentile £400 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £675
90th Percentile £663 £650 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £20.20 £36.50
25th Percentile - £26.50 £52.69
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.08 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.25% -49.88% +66.04%
75th Percentile - £39.75 £75.69
90th Percentile - £45.15 £83.82
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £37.33 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.22% -36.28% +172.51%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Terraform in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Terraform in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
Berkshire +28 41 £500 -20.00% 52
Buckinghamshire +13 11 £421 -26.87% 18
Terraform
South East

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (76.92%) Azure
2 29 (55.77%) AWS
3 19 (36.54%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (28.85%) GitHub
5 12 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (17.31%) Azure AKS
7 6 (11.54%) SaaS
7 6 (11.54%) Serverless
8 5 (9.62%) Azure Storage
8 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
8 5 (9.62%) PaaS
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (7.69%) GCP
9 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.77%) Azure API Management
10 3 (5.77%) Azure App Service
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Table
10 3 (5.77%) Power Automate
10 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.92%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (9.62%) Big Data
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.77%) Power BI
4 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.85%) DocumentDB
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.92%) Metadata
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) Parquet
6 1 (1.92%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.92%) GitLab
3 13 (25.00%) JIRA
4 9 (17.31%) Cucumber
4 9 (17.31%) REST Assured
4 9 (17.31%) Selenium
4 9 (17.31%) SonarQube
5 8 (15.38%) Git
6 2 (3.85%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 8 (15.38%) Law
5 4 (7.69%) Police
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Developer
3 7 (13.46%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) .NET Developer
6 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.85%) ARM Templates
1 15 (28.85%) REST
2 10 (19.23%) .NET
3 9 (17.31%) Java EE
4 7 (13.46%) .NET Core
5 6 (11.54%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.62%) AngularJS
6 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (7.69%) ADO
7 4 (7.69%) OAuth
8 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.77%) Web Services
9 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.85%) JSON
9 2 (3.85%) Kafka
9 2 (3.85%) NHibernate
9 2 (3.85%) Node.js
9 2 (3.85%) OpenID
9 2 (3.85%) RESTful
9 2 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (9.62%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (82.69%) DevOps
2 33 (63.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
4 20 (38.46%) Configuration Management
5 19 (36.54%) Containerisation
6 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
8 12 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
10 10 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (17.31%) Agile
11 9 (17.31%) Software Architecture
12 8 (15.38%) Open Source
13 7 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (11.54%) High Availability
14 6 (11.54%) Identity Management
14 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (11.54%) Observability
14 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) Python
2 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
3 11 (21.15%) Java
3 11 (21.15%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) Bicep
4 10 (19.23%) C#
5 5 (9.62%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) Korn
6 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) HL7
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) XenApp
3 1 (1.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Kubernetes
2 21 (40.38%) Ansible
3 9 (17.31%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (17.31%) Podman
4 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.62%) Grafana
6 3 (5.77%) Puppet
7 2 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Databricks
3 3 (5.77%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) Ab Initio
4 2 (3.85%) UiPath
5 1 (1.92%) Citrix
5 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.92%) New Relic
5 1 (1.92%) VMware
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