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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 23 20 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.04% 2.88% 1.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.30% 25.64% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 7
10th Percentile £414 £429 £385
25th Percentile £434 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £545 £509 £556
90th Percentile £595 £656 £693
England median daily rate £525 £525 £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 108 78 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.57% 11.22% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 52 77
10th Percentile £199 £308 £205
25th Percentile £381 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £435 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -6.51% -2.11%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £565
90th Percentile £656 £538 £622
England median daily rate £514 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 5
10th Percentile £17.10 - £18.27
25th Percentile £22.44 - £25.38
Median hourly rate £74.00 £21.39 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +245.96% -16.98% +17.30%
75th Percentile - - £26.15
90th Percentile £74.25 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +14.29% +68.00% -42.32%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +3 12 £475 -32.14% 1
Nottinghamshire -20 7 £530 +6.00% 7
Northamptonshire +3 3 £438 -16.67% 1
Leicestershire -11 1 £450 -2.70%
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 10 (43.48%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) Entra ID
4 6 (26.09%) AWS
5 5 (21.74%) Azure AKS
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%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) IaaS
6 3 (13.04%) PaaS
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%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Network Security
2 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) VLAN
3 3 (13.04%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
4 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) 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 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Site Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 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%) ARM Templates
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%) 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
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) CI/CD
1 21 (91.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (78.26%) DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (34.78%) Network Segmentation
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
5 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) RBAC
6 5 (21.74%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 5 (21.74%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
7 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
7 4 (17.39%) Runbook
8 3 (13.04%) SBOM
8 3 (13.04%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Bicep
2 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
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 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.04%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) VMware