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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 46 36 38
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.91% 2.73% 2.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.38% 14.12% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 24
10th Percentile £403 £250 £312
25th Percentile £409 £438 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £483 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -10.23% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £577
90th Percentile £763 £620 £625
England median daily rate £550 £525 £556
% change year-on-year +4.76% -5.58% -3.30%

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 320 255 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.28% 19.32% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 123 124
10th Percentile £341 £330 £298
25th Percentile £413 £425 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +19.05% -16.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £717 £686 £625
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 53 58
10th Percentile £17.12 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £73.00 £63.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.96% +47.67% -33.85%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.40 -
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 25 £550 +25.71% 18
Cambridgeshire -12 14 £475 -11.63% 48
Bedfordshire -8 2 £525 +81.82% 2
Norfolk - 2 £463 - 6
Suffolk - 2 £738 - 8
Essex -16 1 £425 -8.60% 6
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 6 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Azure
2 21 (45.65%) AWS
3 15 (32.61%) GCP
4 8 (17.39%) GitHub
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (10.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (10.87%) Serverless
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.35%) IaaS
8 2 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) VPN
2 5 (10.87%) SNMP
2 5 (10.87%) WAN
3 4 (8.70%) DNS
4 3 (6.52%) BGP
4 3 (6.52%) DHCP
4 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
4 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.35%) Firewall
5 2 (4.35%) Network Security
6 1 (2.17%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.17%) LAN
6 1 (2.17%) MPLS
6 1 (2.17%) OSPF
6 1 (2.17%) SSL
6 1 (2.17%) VLAN
6 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
1 2 (4.35%) MySQL
1 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.35%) Redis
1 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Metadata
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Retail
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Automotive
4 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.17%) Marketing
4 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
2 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Consultant
3 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) SOC Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) GCP DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) Kafka
3 5 (10.87%) eBPF
3 5 (10.87%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (10.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (8.70%) React
5 3 (6.52%) OAuth
6 2 (4.35%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.35%) Celery
6 2 (4.35%) Django
6 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.35%) gRPC
6 2 (4.35%) JWT
6 2 (4.35%) Next.js
6 2 (4.35%) Node.js
6 2 (4.35%) RESTful
6 2 (4.35%) Vue
7 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.22%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Clustering
6 1 (2.17%) CMDB
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Windows
2 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (63.04%) CI/CD
3 21 (45.65%) DevOps
4 15 (32.61%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (30.43%) Observability
5 14 (30.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (23.91%) SIEM
7 10 (21.74%) Agile
7 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (19.57%) AI
8 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
9 8 (17.39%) Anomaly Detection
9 8 (17.39%) Migration
9 8 (17.39%) Secrets Management
9 8 (17.39%) Zero Trust
10 7 (15.22%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (15.22%) Use Case
11 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (13.04%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Bash
3 5 (10.87%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.87%) Search Processing Language
4 2 (4.35%) Perl
4 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Groovy
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) Ruby
5 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) CCIE
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.17%) JNCIS
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.17%) GPFS
4 1 (2.17%) Lustre
4 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.17%) Squid
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (67.39%) Ansible
2 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Grafana
4 5 (10.87%) Argo
4 5 (10.87%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.70%) Puppet
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.17%) Consul
7 1 (2.17%) Istio
7 1 (2.17%) linkerd
7 1 (2.17%) Packer
7 1 (2.17%) Salt
7 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Splunk
2 6 (13.04%) Dynatrace
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) Cribl.io
3 5 (10.87%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Cisco
4 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
4 3 (6.52%) NetApp
4 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.52%) VMware
5 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix
6 1 (2.17%) Genesys
6 1 (2.17%) IBM
6 1 (2.17%) Juniper
6 1 (2.17%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.17%) Trend Micro
6 1 (2.17%) Wyse