Terraform Contract Job Trends in England

Terraform
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Terraform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,020 1,243 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.96% 5.10% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.54% 32.84% 28.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 901 927
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £440 £475 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £616 £653 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.38 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £77.33 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -4.55% -27.15%

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,528 3,785 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.58% 15.53% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,615 3,186
10th Percentile £318 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £415 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £696 £736 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 38 116
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £43.09 £24.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.63 £28.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +102.22% +10.62% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.36 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.30 £79.98 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year +113.21% -2.75% -52.61%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Terraform relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Terraform job vacancy trend in England

Terraform
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform

Terraform
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Terraform

Terraform
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Terraform in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Terraform in England

Terraform
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
London 0 1,087 £525 -6.67% 279
North of England +13 383 £500 -4.76% 153
Yorkshire +11 203 £487 -7.19% 40
South East -1 157 £513 +1.18% 167
Midlands -7 142 £525 -3.76% 52
North West +18 141 £547 +4.14% 77
South West -7 124 £550 -10.57% 69
West Midlands -1 115 £525 -8.70% 29
North East -4 47 £475 -9.52% 36
East of England -22 40 £475 -5.00% 38
East Midlands -21 26 £438 -12.50% 23
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 82 (4.06%) Confluence
2 81 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.82%) Apache
4 47 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 21 (1.04%) nginx
7 15 (0.74%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.54%) SAS
9 7 (0.35%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.099%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.099%) Drupal
13 2 (0.099%) Traefik
13 2 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.099%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (52.82%) AWS
2 994 (49.21%) Azure
3 579 (28.66%) GitHub
4 410 (20.30%) GCP
5 382 (18.91%) GitHub Actions
6 349 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
7 347 (17.18%) Serverless
8 313 (15.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 254 (12.57%) Amazon S3
10 248 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
11 198 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
12 147 (7.28%) Azure AKS
13 139 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 137 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
16 132 (6.53%) OpenShift
17 122 (6.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 120 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
19 119 (5.89%) Entra ID
20 116 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 198 (9.80%) Firewall
2 135 (6.68%) DNS
3 114 (5.64%) VPN
4 97 (4.80%) Network Security
5 53 (2.62%) WAN
6 40 (1.98%) BGP
7 35 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.68%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.39%) OSPF
10 23 (1.14%) DHCP
11 21 (1.04%) VXLAN
12 19 (0.94%) LAN
13 18 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
14 17 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
15 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 14 (0.69%) SAN
16 13 (0.64%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.64%) SSL
17 11 (0.54%) OpenVPN
18 10 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (4.11%) Data Lake
4 80 (3.96%) Power BI
5 75 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (3.32%) SQL Server
7 59 (2.92%) BigQuery
8 51 (2.52%) NoSQL
9 50 (2.48%) DynamoDB
10 49 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 49 (2.43%) Delta Lake
11 47 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
13 44 (2.18%) MongoDB
14 35 (1.73%) Redis
15 33 (1.63%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.44%) Big Data
18 28 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
19 24 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 374 (18.51%) Jenkins
2 330 (16.34%) GitLab
3 283 (14.01%) Git
4 115 (5.69%) JIRA
5 45 (2.23%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.44%) Maven
8 25 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.84%) MLflow
11 16 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.74%) Snyk
13 13 (0.64%) Liquibase
14 12 (0.59%) Gatling
15 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.50%) JUnit
16 9 (0.45%) git-flow
16 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
17 8 (0.40%) Gradle
18 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 362 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 280 (13.86%) Public Sector
3 220 (10.89%) Finance
4 96 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.21%) Banking
6 54 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (0.99%) Retail
9 19 (0.94%) Legal
10 15 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.59%) Law
12 11 (0.54%) Military
12 11 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.45%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 436 (21.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 300 (14.85%) Senior
3 231 (11.44%) Architect
4 202 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 199 (9.85%) Azure Engineer
6 185 (9.16%) Developer
7 168 (8.32%) Data Engineer
8 167 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
9 160 (7.92%) Lead
10 145 (7.18%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.54%) GCP Engineer
12 110 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 109 (5.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 92 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
15 86 (4.26%) Site Engineer
16 82 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 73 (3.61%) Software Engineer
18 67 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 66 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
20 65 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.81%) Kafka
2 120 (5.94%) Node.js
3 103 (5.10%) .NET
4 102 (5.05%) React
4 102 (5.05%) REST
5 79 (3.91%) PySpark
6 73 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
7 71 (3.51%) Spring
8 70 (3.47%) ARM Templates
9 68 (3.37%) RESTful
10 67 (3.32%) OAuth
11 66 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
12 63 (3.12%) Spring Boot
13 56 (2.77%) YAML
14 53 (2.62%) AngularJS
15 50 (2.48%) OpenID
16 42 (2.08%) OAuth2
17 40 (1.98%) AWS CDK
18 36 (1.78%) JSON
19 28 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 417 (20.64%) Cloud Native
2 102 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 79 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 73 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 40 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 32 (1.58%) PKI
10 31 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.34%) Replication
12 27 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.24%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (1.04%) AI Agents
16 19 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (0.94%) NHS
17 16 (0.79%) Clustering
18 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 318 (15.74%) Linux
2 155 (7.67%) Windows
3 46 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 44 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (2.18%) VMS
5 27 (1.34%) Unix
6 15 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.54%) CentOS
8 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
8 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.099%) Debian
11 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.099%) Rocky
11 2 (0.099%) zOS
12 1 (0.050%) AIX
12 1 (0.050%) Android
12 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,361 (67.38%) CI/CD
2 1,326 (65.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,207 (59.75%) DevOps
4 503 (24.90%) Containerisation
5 448 (22.18%) Agile
6 405 (20.05%) Observability
7 326 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
8 273 (13.51%) Migration
9 256 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
10 247 (12.23%) Analytics
11 246 (12.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 241 (11.93%) AI
13 213 (10.54%) Microservices
14 209 (10.35%) Software Engineering
15 207 (10.25%) Test Automation
16 205 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 187 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
18 186 (9.21%) Cloud Security
19 182 (9.01%) DevSecOps
20 181 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 919 (45.50%) Python
2 332 (16.44%) SQL
3 290 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 288 (14.26%) Bash
5 239 (11.83%) Java
6 181 (8.96%) Bicep
7 126 (6.24%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.64%) C#
8 114 (5.64%) TypeScript
9 87 (4.31%) Go
10 51 (2.52%) Scala
11 40 (1.98%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.68%) Groovy
13 31 (1.53%) Ruby
14 14 (0.69%) Rust
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.40%) R
16 7 (0.35%) C
17 6 (0.30%) Perl
17 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 719 (35.59%) Security Cleared
2 599 (29.65%) SC Cleared
3 142 (7.03%) Azure Certification
4 117 (5.79%) DV Cleared
5 106 (5.25%) AWS Certification
6 75 (3.71%) Degree
7 62 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 57 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.39%) CCNP
13 24 (1.19%) CISSP
14 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.69%) CCNA
16 14 (0.69%) OCP
17 13 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
18 12 (0.59%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 64 (3.17%) GDPR
3 63 (3.12%) QA
4 50 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.43%) NIST
6 35 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.68%) NCSC
8 19 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 12 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.54%) GRC
12 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.20%) SEPA
17 3 (0.15%) HL7
17 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
17 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 544 (26.93%) Docker
2 94 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 77 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.93%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.34%) vSphere
8 23 (1.14%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.54%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
10 8 (0.40%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) Lustre
11 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) GPFS
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.099%) Ceph
13 2 (0.099%) Corosync
13 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 801 (39.65%) Kubernetes
2 494 (24.46%) Ansible
3 274 (13.56%) Grafana
4 235 (11.63%) Prometheus
5 84 (4.16%) Argo
6 49 (2.43%) Puppet
7 46 (2.28%) Istio
8 35 (1.73%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.49%) Packer
10 24 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.14%) Kibana
11 23 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.84%) Rancher
14 16 (0.79%) Consul
15 11 (0.54%) linkerd
15 11 (0.54%) Podman
16 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
16 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 321 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.11%) Google
3 131 (6.49%) Databricks
4 121 (5.99%) Splunk
5 114 (5.64%) VMware
6 83 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 69 (3.42%) Oracle
8 60 (2.97%) Dynatrace
9 53 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 43 (2.13%) Cisco
11 34 (1.68%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.34%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.14%) F5
15 22 (1.09%) IBM
16 21 (1.04%) Arista
16 21 (1.04%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.89%) Zscaler
18 16 (0.79%) Atlassian
18 16 (0.79%) Citrix