Terraform Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Terraform
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Terraform skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +30
Contract jobs citing Terraform 13 8 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.67% 1.02% 2.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.85% 8.42% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile £419 £381 £419
25th Percentile £425 £400 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +21.80% -33.29% +10.34%
75th Percentile £570 £578 £700
90th Percentile £678 £706 -
England median daily rate £525 £553 £593
% change year-on-year -4.98% -6.75% -1.25%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 82 95 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.53% 12.13% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 68 67
10th Percentile £271 £303 £213
25th Percentile £360 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.36% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £625
90th Percentile £605 £622 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £18.18
25th Percentile - - £18.86
Median hourly rate £21.39 £13.52 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -32.40% +8.11%
75th Percentile - - £21.88
90th Percentile - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -5.63% -23.81% +119.57%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform in the East Midlands

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the East Midlands

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terraform within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Nottinghamshire -1 4 £569 -24.17% 9
Leicestershire -1 3 £450 +12.50% 1
Derbyshire - 3 £556 - 2
Lincolnshire +5 2 - -
Northamptonshire -16 1 £525 +31.09% 3
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure App Service
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Storage
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Batch
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Keycloak
1 2 (15.38%) YAML
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Incident Response
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Cost Management
6 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (15.38%) GitOps
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) RBAC
6 2 (15.38%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 9001
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Argo
2 2 (15.38%) Istio
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Google