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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 95
Rank change year-on-year -21 +40 -21
Contract jobs citing Terraform 34 23 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.61% 2.47% 0.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 23.23% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 10
10th Percentile - £320 £400
25th Percentile £406 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -7.08% -19.29%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £672
90th Percentile £698 £630 £713
England median daily rate £525 £556 £560
% change year-on-year -5.49% -0.80% -6.67%

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 153 99 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.23% 10.65% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 65 59
10th Percentile £213 £228 £184
25th Percentile £406 £325 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +3.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £589
90th Percentile £638 £600 £690
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 16
10th Percentile £18.83 £30.25 -
25th Percentile - £36.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.26% +235.71% -25.45%
75th Percentile - £58.25 £20.19
90th Percentile - £64.55 £44.16
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -50.43%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -4 20 £413 -37.74% 15
Cambridgeshire +1 9 £475 -10.38% 10
Norfolk -24 5 £525 - 7
Bedfordshire -11 1 - - 3
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 (2.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
3 10 (29.41%) GCP
4 8 (23.53%) GitHub
5 7 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
8 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) Serverless
8 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (8.82%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (8.82%) Google Workspace
10 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
10 2 (5.88%) Route 53
10 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (2.94%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) VPN
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
3 4 (11.76%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.82%) DHCP
5 2 (5.88%) WAN
6 1 (2.94%) BGP
6 1 (2.94%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) Network Security
6 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.88%) Data Vault
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Snyk
General
1 3 (8.82%) Finance
1 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) OAuth
3 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.94%) OpenID
3 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) Private Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) PKI
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Clustering
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) VMS
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (52.94%) DevOps
3 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
4 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (26.47%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (26.47%) Zero Trust
6 7 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (17.65%) Secrets Management
7 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) Agile
8 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
8 5 (14.71%) GitOps
9 4 (11.76%) AI
9 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security
9 4 (11.76%) Runbook
10 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
10 3 (8.82%) Cost Optimisation
10 3 (8.82%) Generative AI
10 3 (8.82%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
3 5 (14.71%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Java
4 3 (8.82%) Ruby
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) CCIE
2 2 (5.88%) CCNP
2 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 3 (8.82%) Docker
5 1 (2.94%) GPFS
5 1 (2.94%) Lustre
5 1 (2.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Ansible
2 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.71%) Argo
4 4 (11.76%) vCenter Server
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.88%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Consul
7 1 (2.94%) Grafana
7 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.94%) Salt
7 1 (2.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
1 7 (20.59%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) Citrix
3 3 (8.82%) Wyse
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Confluent
5 1 (2.94%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.94%) NetApp
5 1 (2.94%) New Relic
5 1 (2.94%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) TOWER Software