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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 38 55
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 23 17 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.08% 3.05% 1.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.18% 28.33% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 7
10th Percentile £409 £454 £385
25th Percentile £422 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +11.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £545 £528 £688
90th Percentile £595 £672 £743
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 114 60 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.30% 10.75% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 40 68
10th Percentile £163 £204 £163
25th Percentile £230 £350 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £440 £499
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -11.92% +11.51%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £621
90th Percentile £656 £537 £673
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £15.98 - -
25th Percentile £17.52 - £25.38
Median hourly rate £74.00 £21.39 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +245.96% -16.98% +15.13%
75th Percentile - - £26.15
90th Percentile £74.25 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £27.75 £25.74
% change year-on-year +107.21% +7.82% -53.20%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Terraform job vacancy trend 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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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
Derbyshire -2 11 - - 1
Nottinghamshire -20 6 £530 +6.00% 11
Leicestershire -7 3 £418 -12.11% 1
Northamptonshire -17 3 £438 -16.67% 5
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Entra ID
4 6 (26.09%) AWS
5 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) IaaS
5 4 (17.39%) PaaS
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
6 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Batch
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
7 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Network Security
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
3 4 (17.39%) VLAN
4 3 (13.04%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Chocolatey
3 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (39.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth2
1 3 (13.04%) OpenID
1 3 (13.04%) SAML
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) YAML
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) CentOS
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (91.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (86.96%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (21.74%) RBAC
8 5 (21.74%) Runbook
9 4 (17.39%) Analytics
9 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
9 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
9 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
9 4 (17.39%) Migration
9 4 (17.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 4 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
10 3 (13.04%) Data Security
10 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (21.74%) Bicep
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) GRC
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
1 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
1 3 (13.04%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.04%) Splunk
4 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.35%) Databricks
5 1 (4.35%) F5
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat