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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 59 55
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 12 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.42% 0.92% 1.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.81% 8.97% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 14
10th Percentile £416 £378 £381
25th Percentile £425 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -17.95% -13.33%
75th Percentile £497 £401 £625
90th Percentile £519 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -4.63% -4.26% -4.17%

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 81 78 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.55% 10.25% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 51 70
10th Percentile £270 £300 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £449 £455
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -1.41% -8.92%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £561
90th Percentile £538 £538 £653
England median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 £13.52 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -23.70% -4.22%
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.84% +119.57%

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
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 October 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
Leicestershire -3 3 £450 +12.50% 3
Nottinghamshire -6 3 £500 -33.33% 6
Derbyshire - 3 £413 - 1
Lincolnshire - 2 - - 1
Northamptonshire -10 1 £525 +31.09% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) Azure App Service
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (25.00%) GitOps
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Argo
2 2 (16.67%) Istio
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Google