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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 44 57
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 24 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.39% 2.05% 1.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.09% 19.67% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 7
10th Percentile £407 £393 £425
25th Percentile £409 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £744
90th Percentile £613 - £750
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%

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 92 61 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.15% 10.41% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 36 59
10th Percentile £195 £185 £163
25th Percentile £213 £325 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -7.81% +4.71%
75th Percentile £478 £500 £606
90th Percentile £613 £544 £750
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £14.35 - £15.34
25th Percentile £15.57 - £16.24
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.29%
75th Percentile £18.64 - £21.93
90th Percentile £22.03 - £24.46
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +1 9 £413 -
Leicestershire -2 8 £418 -3.19% 1
Nottinghamshire -8 4 £600 +20.00% 5
Northamptonshire -21 3 £438 +9.24%
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 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
5 5 (20.83%) GitHub
5 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (16.67%) IaaS
6 4 (16.67%) PaaS
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (12.50%) AWS
7 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (12.50%) Azure Functions
7 3 (12.50%) GCP
7 3 (12.50%) Serverless
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) dbt
8 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Network Security
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Chocolatey
2 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Migration Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 3 (12.50%) OpenID
1 3 (12.50%) SAML
2 2 (8.33%) ADO
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (29.17%) Runbook
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (20.83%) RBAC
7 4 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 3 (12.50%) Application Security
8 3 (12.50%) Cost Management
8 3 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 3 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 3 (12.50%) Observability
8 3 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Bicep
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
1 3 (12.50%) GRC
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (12.50%) NIST
1 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (12.50%) SOC 2
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) F5