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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 55 74
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 50 36 21
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.26% 2.84% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.92% 15.45% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 23 16
10th Percentile - £273 £506
25th Percentile £406 £438 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £559
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.51% -11.66%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £592
90th Percentile £758 £575 £625
England median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%

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 279 233 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.62% 18.36% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 115 123
10th Percentile £345 £333 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £565
90th Percentile £648 £678 £635
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 53 60
10th Percentile £17.12 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £22.81 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +47.67% -25.22%
75th Percentile £73.73 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.00 £79.81 -
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.70 £62.00
% change year-on-year +22.92% -11.77% -4.62%

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 27 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 27 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 +9 28 £550 +37.50% 18
Cambridgeshire -5 11 £475 -10.38% 33
Norfolk - 6 £463 - 2
Bedfordshire 0 3 £525 +6.87% 2
Suffolk - 2 £738 - 3
Essex -19 1 £425 -8.60% 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 (8.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) Azure
2 22 (44.00%) AWS
3 13 (26.00%) GCP
4 9 (18.00%) GitHub
5 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (14.00%) Serverless
7 6 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) VPN
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) SNMP
3 3 (6.00%) DHCP
3 3 (6.00%) Firewall
4 2 (4.00%) Network Security
4 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) MySQL
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) Power BI
4 1 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) GitLab
3 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.00%) Claude Code
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Retail
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Consultant
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) REST
2 6 (12.00%) Kafka
2 6 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (10.00%) eBPF
3 5 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (8.00%) React
5 3 (6.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (6.00%) Node.js
5 3 (6.00%) OAuth
6 2 (4.00%) Celery
6 2 (4.00%) Django
6 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.00%) JWT
6 2 (4.00%) Next.js
6 2 (4.00%) Vue
7 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
7 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (2.00%) gRPC
7 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.00%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (48.00%) DevOps
4 15 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (26.00%) Observability
5 13 (26.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (22.00%) Agile
6 11 (22.00%) SIEM
7 9 (18.00%) AI
8 8 (16.00%) Anomaly Detection
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (14.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (14.00%) Secrets Management
9 7 (14.00%) Use Case
9 7 (14.00%) Zero Trust
10 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.00%) Python
2 12 (24.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (6.00%) Ruby
5 3 (6.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) Groovy
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CCIE
5 1 (2.00%) CCNP
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (14.00%) Docker
3 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) GPFS
5 1 (2.00%) Lustre
5 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (58.00%) Ansible
2 14 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.00%) Grafana
3 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (10.00%) Argo
5 4 (8.00%) Puppet
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.00%) Consul
7 1 (2.00%) Istio
7 1 (2.00%) linkerd
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) Salt
7 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (10.00%) Cribl.io
2 5 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.00%) VMware
4 3 (6.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) NetApp
5 2 (4.00%) Infoblox
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.00%) Genesys
6 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.00%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.00%) Trend Micro
6 1 (2.00%) Wyse