Terraform Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Terraform
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 57 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 38 36 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.73% 2.57% 2.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 26.09% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 34
10th Percentile £250 £311 £416
25th Percentile £438 £319 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -11.56%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £669
90th Percentile £620 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -24.32% -3.31% +1.03%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 171 138 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.28% 9.86% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 83 145
10th Percentile £200 £240 £273
25th Percentile £367 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £665 £581 £716
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 22
10th Percentile £21.29 £32.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £33.23 £35.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -32.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £51.25
% change year-on-year -5.99% -29.43% +109.57%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Terraform job vacancy trend in the East of England

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in the East of England

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cambridgeshire +7 23 £550 +10.00% 5
Hertfordshire -8 6 £438 -27.08% 11
Bedfordshire -10 6 £289 -47.50% 4
Suffolk +4 1 - - 3
Essex -6 1 £465 +46.92% 2
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 4
Terraform
England

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) Azure
3 9 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (18.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (18.42%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (13.16%) Slack
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 3 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) Firewall
2 6 (15.79%) DNS
3 5 (13.16%) VPN
4 2 (5.26%) BGP
4 2 (5.26%) OSPF
4 2 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.26%) VLAN
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.63%) Network Security
5 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.63%) VoIP
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) JIRA
3 4 (10.53%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
4 3 (7.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.63%) JMeter
5 1 (2.63%) Locust
5 1 (2.63%) Newman
5 1 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.63%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.63%) Selenium
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) TestCafe
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
2 1 (2.63%) Marketing
2 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Consultant
2 6 (15.79%) Administrator
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Network Administrator
6 2 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Performance Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) React
3 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.63%) Django
3 1 (2.63%) JSR 170
3 1 (2.63%) JWT
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.63%) Next.js
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.63%) OSGi
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) RESTCONF
3 1 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
3 1 (2.63%) Taurus
3 1 (2.63%) WCF
3 1 (2.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Onboarding
2 6 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.63%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.63%) CentOS
4 1 (2.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) DevOps
2 22 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
4 11 (28.95%) Migration
5 9 (23.68%) Dashboard Development
5 9 (23.68%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (23.68%) RBAC
6 8 (21.05%) Observability
7 6 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 6 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.16%) Task Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (10.53%) AI
9 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.53%) High Availability
9 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) Bash
3 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.53%) Perl
5 2 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) C++
6 1 (2.63%) Korn
6 1 (2.63%) Ruby
6 1 (2.63%) SQL
6 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) VCAP
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) SANS
4 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) CCNP
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.63%) GPFS
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) Lustre
4 1 (2.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Ansible
2 16 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (18.42%) Puppet
5 6 (15.79%) Grafana
5 6 (15.79%) Progress Chef
5 6 (15.79%) Salt
6 2 (5.26%) Nagios
7 1 (2.63%) Consul
7 1 (2.63%) Istio
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Dynatrace
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.79%) IBM
3 6 (15.79%) VMware
4 4 (10.53%) Citrix
4 4 (10.53%) Google
4 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.26%) Clearswift
6 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.26%) Huawei
7 1 (2.63%) Adobe
7 1 (2.63%) CloudEndure
7 1 (2.63%) Databricks
7 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle
7 1 (2.63%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.63%) Vertica
7 1 (2.63%) Wyse