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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 55 81
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 52 38 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.37% 3.01% 1.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.96% 23.46% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 16
10th Percentile - £276 £513
25th Percentile £406 £395 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -15.56% -10.89%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £625
90th Percentile £758 £550 £669
England median daily rate £541 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.10% -4.55% -8.33%

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 186 162 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.49% 12.85% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 102 78
10th Percentile £163 £226 £210
25th Percentile £403 £428 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -5.14% +8.05%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £575
90th Percentile £610 £649 £608
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £17.73 £53.74 £20.90
25th Percentile £19.74 £61.06 £26.75
Median hourly rate £20.09 £66.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.79% +90.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £67.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £55.15 - £45.60
England median hourly rate £65.45 £54.75 £36.83
% change year-on-year +19.54% +48.65% -28.13%

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 7 August 2026.

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 7 August 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
Hertfordshire +11 29 £550 +37.50% 14
Cambridgeshire -5 12 £475 -2.56% 11
Norfolk - 6 £463 - 1
Bedfordshire -3 3 £525 +6.87% 1
Suffolk - 2 £738 - 3
Essex -20 1 £425 +8.97% 2
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 (7.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) Azure
2 23 (44.23%) AWS
3 14 (26.92%) GCP
4 10 (19.23%) GitHub
5 9 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.46%) Serverless
7 6 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (11.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.77%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.77%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) VPN
2 5 (9.62%) DNS
2 5 (9.62%) Firewall
2 5 (9.62%) SNMP
3 3 (5.77%) DHCP
3 3 (5.77%) WAN
4 2 (3.85%) Network Security
4 2 (3.85%) SSL
4 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.92%) BGP
5 1 (1.92%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.92%) LAN
5 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) MySQL
1 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.85%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.85%) Redis
3 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 6 (11.54%) GitLab
3 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Retail
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (17.31%) Senior
2 6 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Consultant
3 5 (9.62%) Network Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Architect
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) GCP DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) REST
2 6 (11.54%) Kafka
2 6 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (9.62%) eBPF
3 5 (9.62%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (7.69%) React
5 3 (5.77%) AWS CDK
5 3 (5.77%) Node.js
5 3 (5.77%) OAuth
6 2 (3.85%) Celery
6 2 (3.85%) Django
6 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.85%) JWT
6 2 (3.85%) Next.js
6 2 (3.85%) Vue
7 1 (1.92%) Apache Avro
7 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.92%) gRPC
7 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.92%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 19 (36.54%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Private Cloud
3 4 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.85%) Clustering
4 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.92%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 4 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
3 25 (48.08%) DevOps
4 15 (28.85%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (26.92%) Observability
6 13 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (21.15%) Agile
7 11 (21.15%) SIEM
8 9 (17.31%) AI
9 8 (15.38%) Anomaly Detection
9 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (13.46%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (13.46%) Secrets Management
10 7 (13.46%) Use Case
10 7 (13.46%) Zero Trust
11 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (11.54%) Roadmaps
11 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) Python
2 12 (23.08%) Bash
3 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.62%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (9.62%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (7.69%) SQL
6 3 (5.77%) Ruby
7 2 (3.85%) Java
7 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) C#
8 1 (1.92%) C++
8 1 (1.92%) Groovy
8 1 (1.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) DV Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) CCIE
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) GDPR
1 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
1 8 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) GPFS
4 1 (1.92%) Lustre
4 1 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.92%) Squid
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (57.69%) Ansible
2 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.54%) Grafana
3 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.62%) Argo
5 4 (7.69%) Puppet
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.92%) Consul
7 1 (1.92%) Istio
7 1 (1.92%) linkerd
7 1 (1.92%) Packer
7 1 (1.92%) Salt
7 1 (1.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Splunk
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.62%) Cribl.io
3 5 (9.62%) Dynatrace
3 5 (9.62%) VMware
4 4 (7.69%) Google
4 4 (7.69%) NetApp
5 2 (3.85%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix
6 1 (1.92%) Confluent
6 1 (1.92%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.92%) Genesys
6 1 (1.92%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.92%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.92%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.92%) Wyse