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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 56 91
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 -14
Contract jobs citing Terraform 22 32 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.26% 3.03% 1.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.84% 28.57% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 16
10th Percentile - £303 £400
25th Percentile £463 £317 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -22.73% -10.20%
75th Percentile £628 £575 £616
90th Percentile £669 £630 £669
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
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 £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%

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 159 112 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.11% 10.61% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 59 86
10th Percentile £197 £231 £238
25th Percentile £300 £293 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £513 £622
90th Percentile £638 £600 £738
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 23
10th Percentile - £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 £21.90 £59.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £23.86 £65.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £40.16
% change year-on-year +82.49% -34.01% -19.39%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +1 14 £550 +10.00% 3
Hertfordshire -12 6 £650 +18.18% 6
Suffolk +2 1 - -
Norfolk -24 1 £475 - 1
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 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
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
6 2 (9.09%) Slack
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) Route 53
7 1 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
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%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) InfiniBand
4 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
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%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JMeter
3 1 (4.55%) Locust
3 1 (4.55%) Newman
3 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) Snyk
3 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.55%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 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%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.55%) JWT
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Taurus
2 1 (4.55%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
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%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) 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 18 (81.82%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 6 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (27.27%) Migration
5 6 (27.27%) RBAC
6 5 (22.73%) Observability
7 4 (18.18%) AI
8 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
9 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
9 2 (9.09%) Cost Management
9 2 (9.09%) Generative AI
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Korn
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) CCIE
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) SANS
1 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
2 2 (9.09%) 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 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Grafana
3 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
4 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.55%) Consul
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Nagios
5 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) Salt
5 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Dynatrace
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Citrix
3 2 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Wyse
4 1 (4.55%) Clearswift
4 1 (4.55%) CloudEndure
4 1 (4.55%) Cribl.io
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) New Relic
4 1 (4.55%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.55%) Splunk