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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 52 97
Rank change year-on-year -34 +45 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 23 29 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.17% 2.97% 0.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.97% 27.10% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 12
10th Percentile £406 £315 -
25th Percentile £425 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -10.00% -23.21%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £641
90th Percentile £680 £706 £710
England median daily rate £525 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.89% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +25.85% -21.77% -22.50%

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 144 107 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.35% 10.97% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 71 73
10th Percentile £213 £230 £205
25th Percentile £356 £315 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £550 £613
90th Percentile £638 £600 £713
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 19
10th Percentile £18.83 £30.25 -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.26% +176.47% -9.48%
75th Percentile - £58.25 £21.88
90th Percentile - £64.55 £49.15
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -45.45%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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
Cambridgeshire -3 9 £494 -10.23% 6
Hertfordshire -22 9 £531 -3.41% 15
Norfolk -22 4 £475 - 8
Suffolk -1 1 - - 4
Bedfordshire -10 1 - - 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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Direct Connect
3 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) Serverless
3 4 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.04%) Route 53
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
5 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) VPN
3 4 (17.39%) DNS
4 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
5 2 (8.70%) DHCP
6 1 (4.35%) BGP
6 1 (4.35%) InfiniBand
6 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
6 1 (4.35%) LAN
6 1 (4.35%) Network Security
6 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (4.35%) SSL
6 1 (4.35%) VoIP
6 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) GitLab
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) JMeter
4 1 (4.35%) Locust
4 1 (4.35%) Newman
4 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Snyk
4 1 (4.35%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Principal Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Development Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
3 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) LDAP
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) Taurus
3 1 (4.35%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.35%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.70%) VMS
5 1 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.04%) Zero Trust
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
6 1 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.70%) CCIE
3 2 (8.70%) CCNP
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) GPFS
3 1 (4.35%) Lustre
3 1 (4.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 1 (4.35%) Consul
5 1 (4.35%) Grafana
5 1 (4.35%) Nagios
5 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.35%) Salt
5 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 2 (8.70%) Citrix
3 2 (8.70%) Wyse
4 1 (4.35%) CloudEndure
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) TOWER Software