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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 49 37 32
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.02% 2.83% 2.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.85% 14.80% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 19
10th Percentile £406 £261 £385
25th Percentile £409 £438 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -10.68% -10.20%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £581
90th Percentile £763 £616 £625
England median daily rate £550 £525 £561
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.46% -4.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 330 250 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.60% 19.11% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 118 118
10th Percentile £345 £338 £295
25th Percentile £412 £425 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +17.65% -18.03%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £571
90th Percentile £725 £691 £629
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 53 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.88 £63.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% +47.67% -28.33%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.40 -
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +2 25 £550 +25.71% 18
Cambridgeshire -6 14 £475 -9.52% 44
Norfolk - 5 £463 - 4
Bedfordshire -5 2 £525 +6.87%
Suffolk - 2 £738 - 2
Essex -14 1 £425 -8.60% 6
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 6 (12.24%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 24 (48.98%) AWS
3 14 (28.57%) GCP
4 8 (16.33%) GitHub
4 8 (16.33%) Serverless
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (10.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.08%) CloudFront
10 2 (4.08%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) VPN
2 5 (10.20%) SNMP
2 5 (10.20%) WAN
3 4 (8.16%) DNS
4 3 (6.12%) BGP
4 3 (6.12%) DHCP
4 3 (6.12%) SD-WAN
4 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.08%) Firewall
5 2 (4.08%) Network Security
6 1 (2.04%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.04%) LAN
6 1 (2.04%) MPLS
6 1 (2.04%) OSPF
6 1 (2.04%) SSL
6 1 (2.04%) VLAN
6 1 (2.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.16%) MySQL
1 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
2 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.08%) Redis
2 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 2 (4.08%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Retail
3 2 (4.08%) Banking
3 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.04%) Marketing
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Senior
2 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (12.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Architect
4 4 (8.16%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) GCP DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Designer
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) REST
2 7 (14.29%) Kafka
3 6 (12.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (10.20%) eBPF
4 5 (10.20%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (8.16%) AWS CDK
5 4 (8.16%) React
6 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.12%) Node.js
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth
7 2 (4.08%) Celery
7 2 (4.08%) Django
7 2 (4.08%) gRPC
7 2 (4.08%) JWT
7 2 (4.08%) Next.js
7 2 (4.08%) RESTful
7 2 (4.08%) Vue
8 1 (2.04%) Apache Avro
8 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.04%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Clustering
6 1 (2.04%) CMDB
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.04%) PKI
6 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (79.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (61.22%) CI/CD
3 22 (44.90%) DevOps
4 15 (30.61%) Observability
5 14 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (22.45%) Agile
6 11 (22.45%) SIEM
7 9 (18.37%) AI
7 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
8 8 (16.33%) Anomaly Detection
8 8 (16.33%) Secrets Management
8 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (16.33%) Zero Trust
9 7 (14.29%) Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (14.29%) Use Case
10 6 (12.24%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (12.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Bash
3 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.20%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (10.20%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (6.12%) Ruby
5 3 (6.12%) SQL
6 2 (4.08%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) Perl
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
5 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) CCIE
7 1 (2.04%) CCNP
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.04%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) GDPR
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.04%) GPFS
5 1 (2.04%) Lustre
5 1 (2.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (63.27%) Ansible
2 13 (26.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.29%) Grafana
4 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.20%) Argo
6 4 (8.16%) Puppet
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.04%) Consul
8 1 (2.04%) Istio
8 1 (2.04%) linkerd
8 1 (2.04%) Packer
8 1 (2.04%) Salt
8 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Splunk
2 6 (12.24%) Dynatrace
3 5 (10.20%) Cribl.io
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) Google
5 3 (6.12%) Cisco
5 3 (6.12%) Infoblox
5 3 (6.12%) NetApp
5 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.12%) VMware
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle
6 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.04%) Citrix
7 1 (2.04%) Genesys
7 1 (2.04%) IBM
7 1 (2.04%) Juniper
7 1 (2.04%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.04%) Wyse