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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 56 82
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 22 30 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.32% 2.72% 1.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.97% 27.78% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 17
10th Percentile £448 £296 £400
25th Percentile £463 £315 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £321 £550
Median % change year-on-year +71.14% -41.57% -10.20%
75th Percentile £609 £500 £613
90th Percentile £638 £585 £665
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -8.16%
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 £58.94 £60.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -1.78% -20.00% -0.99%

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 147 108 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.81% 9.78% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 55 91
10th Percentile £210 £231 £258
25th Percentile £356 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £500 £644
90th Percentile £638 £590 £738
England median daily rate £506 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% +0.95% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 23
10th Percentile £19.32 £31.00 -
25th Percentile - £38.13 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +150.00% -67.35%
75th Percentile £23.71 £59.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £24.09 £65.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +19.95%

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 January 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 January 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 0 15 £550 +10.00% 25
Hertfordshire -18 4 £563 +2.27% 26
Suffolk +4 1 - - 20
Bedfordshire -7 1 - - 20
Norfolk -25 1 £475 - 21
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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 3 (13.64%) Slack
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) Google Workspace
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.55%) Route 53
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.09%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) InfiniBand
4 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) JMeter
4 1 (4.55%) Locust
4 1 (4.55%) Newman
4 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) TestCafe
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.55%) JWT
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) NETCONF
2 1 (4.55%) RESTCONF
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Taurus
2 1 (4.55%) WCF
2 1 (4.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) VMS
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Dashboard Development
5 7 (31.82%) Migration
5 7 (31.82%) RBAC
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (27.27%) Observability
7 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
8 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
8 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
10 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
10 2 (9.09%) Cost Management
10 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
10 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
10 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) C++
4 1 (4.55%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Korn
4 1 (4.55%) Perl
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby
4 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCIE
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) CCNP
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SANS
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) GPFS
3 1 (4.55%) Lustre
3 1 (4.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 5 (22.73%) Grafana
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.55%) Consul
6 1 (4.55%) Istio
6 1 (4.55%) Nagios
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Salt
6 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Dynatrace
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) VMware
4 2 (9.09%) Citrix
4 2 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Wyse
5 1 (4.55%) Clearswift
5 1 (4.55%) CloudEndure
5 1 (4.55%) Cribl.io
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) SaltStack