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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,880 1,341 1,319
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.44% 5.19% 3.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.34% 34.57% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 936 1,003
10th Percentile £400 £406 £431
25th Percentile £449 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £62.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £67.36 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -

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 5,319 3,879 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.38% 15.03% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,676 2,529 3,367
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 42 150
10th Percentile £17.38 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.01 £20.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +101.92% -38.14% -16.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.19 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -4.78%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 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
London +1 1,005 £525 -12.50% 255
North of England -2 370 £500 -4.76% 124
Yorkshire 0 201 £500 -4.76% 41
South East +5 145 £500 -13.04% 152
Midlands +16 142 £537 +7.45% 41
South West 0 128 £550 -10.39% 60
North West -7 126 £490 -6.67% 65
West Midlands +15 123 £540 -2.00% 34
North East -3 46 £475 -12.84% 18
East of England -35 22 £550 +30.95% 12
East Midlands -14 18 £428 -12.31% 7
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 73 (3.88%) Confluence
2 60 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 54 (2.87%) Apache
4 48 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.91%) nginx
6 26 (1.38%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,046 (55.64%) AWS
2 827 (43.99%) Azure
3 528 (28.09%) GitHub
4 380 (20.21%) GCP
5 351 (18.67%) Serverless
6 333 (17.71%) GitHub Actions
7 316 (16.81%) Azure DevOps
8 314 (16.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 251 (13.35%) Amazon S3
10 225 (11.97%) AWS Lambda
11 181 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
13 151 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 140 (7.45%) OpenShift
15 139 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
16 134 (7.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 123 (6.54%) Azure AKS
18 121 (6.44%) Entra ID
19 119 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
20 96 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 184 (9.79%) Firewall
2 133 (7.07%) DNS
3 109 (5.80%) Network Security
4 106 (5.64%) VPN
5 51 (2.71%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.29%) WAN
7 30 (1.60%) BGP
8 29 (1.54%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.49%) DHCP
9 28 (1.49%) LAN
10 26 (1.38%) SSL
11 25 (1.33%) OSPF
12 14 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
12 14 (0.74%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.64%) HTTP
13 12 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
14 11 (0.59%) VLAN
15 10 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.53%) MPLS
15 10 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
3 76 (4.04%) Data Lake
4 70 (3.72%) Power BI
5 67 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 60 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 53 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
8 52 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 41 (2.18%) DynamoDB
12 40 (2.13%) SQL Server
13 36 (1.91%) Relational Database
14 34 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
14 34 (1.81%) Redis
15 30 (1.60%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
17 25 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
18 23 (1.22%) Tableau
19 20 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 410 (21.81%) Jenkins
2 377 (20.05%) GitLab
3 242 (12.87%) Git
4 94 (5.00%) JIRA
5 46 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 36 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.70%) Liquibase
8 28 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.28%) CircleCI
9 24 (1.28%) Maven
10 21 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.74%) Gradle
12 13 (0.69%) JUnit
12 13 (0.69%) Terragrunt
13 12 (0.64%) MLflow
14 10 (0.53%) Selenium
15 9 (0.48%) Snyk
15 9 (0.48%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.43%) Gatling
16 8 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 417 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 300 (15.96%) Public Sector
3 202 (10.74%) Finance
4 102 (5.43%) Banking
5 97 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (0.90%) Military
10 17 (0.90%) Retail
11 11 (0.59%) Law
12 10 (0.53%) Marketing
13 9 (0.48%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.37%) Legal
15 6 (0.32%) Billing
15 6 (0.32%) Games
15 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 445 (23.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 244 (12.98%) Senior
3 208 (11.06%) Architect
4 202 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
5 171 (9.10%) Azure Engineer
6 161 (8.56%) Lead
7 160 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 160 (8.51%) Developer
8 153 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
9 140 (7.45%) Data Engineer
10 115 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
11 102 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 99 (5.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 92 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
13 92 (4.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 82 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 76 (4.04%) Site Engineer
16 74 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 65 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
17 65 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (10.11%) Kafka
2 119 (6.33%) Node.js
2 119 (6.33%) REST
3 102 (5.43%) React
4 97 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
5 86 (4.57%) RESTful
6 85 (4.52%) ARM Templates
7 79 (4.20%) .NET
8 67 (3.56%) OAuth
9 62 (3.30%) PySpark
9 62 (3.30%) Spring
10 58 (3.09%) Spring Boot
11 51 (2.71%) YAML
12 46 (2.45%) OpenTelemetry
13 44 (2.34%) AngularJS
14 43 (2.29%) OpenID
15 37 (1.97%) OAuth2
16 32 (1.70%) AWS CDK
17 29 (1.54%) SAML
18 28 (1.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 324 (17.23%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.46%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.76%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.54%) NHS
10 28 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 27 (1.44%) PKI
12 25 (1.33%) Replication
13 22 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 22 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.74%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.69%) Clustering
17 11 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 361 (19.20%) Linux
2 154 (8.19%) Windows
3 49 (2.61%) Unix
3 49 (2.61%) VMS
4 44 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 39 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.74%) CentOS
8 10 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.053%) Rocky
12 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,286 (68.40%) CI/CD
2 1,191 (63.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,188 (63.19%) DevOps
4 498 (26.49%) Containerisation
5 398 (21.17%) Agile
6 340 (18.09%) Observability
7 266 (14.15%) Platform Engineering
8 264 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
9 261 (13.88%) Migration
10 240 (12.77%) Microservices
11 226 (12.02%) Infrastructure Automation
12 221 (11.76%) Analytics
13 215 (11.44%) Software Engineering
14 204 (10.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 200 (10.64%) AI
16 187 (9.95%) DevSecOps
17 182 (9.68%) Cloud Security
18 181 (9.63%) Test Automation
19 171 (9.10%) Mentoring
20 163 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 929 (49.41%) Python
2 297 (15.80%) Bash
3 273 (14.52%) SQL
4 246 (13.09%) PowerShell
5 210 (11.17%) Java
6 150 (7.98%) Bicep
7 131 (6.97%) Go
8 128 (6.81%) JavaScript
9 100 (5.32%) TypeScript
10 91 (4.84%) C#
11 57 (3.03%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.54%) Groovy
13 27 (1.44%) Ruby
14 22 (1.17%) Scala
15 14 (0.74%) Rust
16 10 (0.53%) C
17 8 (0.43%) PHP
18 7 (0.37%) C++
19 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
20 5 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 671 (35.69%) Security Cleared
2 556 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 117 (6.22%) Azure Certification
5 114 (6.06%) Degree
6 112 (5.96%) DV Cleared
7 79 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.71%) Master's Degree
10 42 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.65%) CISSP
14 24 (1.28%) CCNP
15 18 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.90%) CISM
17 16 (0.85%) CCIE
18 11 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.99%) GDPR
3 60 (3.19%) QA
4 59 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (2.87%) NIST
6 50 (2.66%) NCSC
7 30 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.06%) SOC 2
9 17 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 10 (0.53%) SLA
11 9 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.43%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 591 (31.44%) Docker
2 100 (5.32%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (2.07%) vSphere
6 34 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 33 (1.76%) Hyper-V
8 19 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.69%) Squid
10 8 (0.43%) KVM
10 8 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
12 5 (0.27%) Lustre
12 5 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
13 4 (0.21%) Postfix
14 3 (0.16%) NFS
14 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 796 (42.34%) Kubernetes
2 519 (27.61%) Ansible
3 287 (15.27%) Grafana
4 250 (13.30%) Prometheus
5 71 (3.78%) Argo
6 44 (2.34%) Istio
7 42 (2.23%) Puppet
8 37 (1.97%) Packer
8 37 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.81%) Progress Chef
10 27 (1.44%) vCenter Server
11 20 (1.06%) Consul
12 19 (1.01%) Kibana
13 18 (0.96%) Podman
14 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (0.64%) logstash
16 11 (0.59%) FortiGate
17 10 (0.53%) Nessus
17 10 (0.53%) Rancher
18 9 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 274 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 158 (8.40%) Google
3 134 (7.13%) Databricks
4 126 (6.70%) Splunk
5 115 (6.12%) VMware
6 76 (4.04%) Red Hat
7 48 (2.55%) Oracle
8 47 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.23%) Palo Alto
10 41 (2.18%) F5
10 41 (2.18%) ServiceNow
11 40 (2.13%) Cisco
12 32 (1.70%) IBM
13 28 (1.49%) CheckPoint
14 27 (1.44%) Pure Storage
15 22 (1.17%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.06%) Atlassian
16 20 (1.06%) OpenAI
17 19 (1.01%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.90%) Citrix