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 3 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 36 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing Terraform 963 590 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.20% 5.36% 2.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.46% 33.91% 26.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 438 430
10th Percentile £382 £414 £431
25th Percentile £445 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £744
UK median daily rate £516 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -8.76% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 1
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £54.55 £25.56 £46.75
Median hourly rate £66.97 £26.88 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.18% -44.59% -42.32%
75th Percentile £81.50 £27.47 £50.25
90th Percentile £85.10 £38.63 -
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £26.88 £48.50
% change year-on-year +149.18% -44.59% -42.32%

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 2,641 1,740 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.27% 15.80% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,862 1,220 1,546
10th Percentile £313 £320 £223
25th Percentile £413 £437 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -11.09%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £754 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £509
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.54% -11.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 19 68
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.95 £19.05 £16.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £23.13
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +14.59% -54.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £36.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.65 £64.60 £59.13
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £23.13
% change year-on-year +107.55% +14.59% -52.81%

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 3 months to 16 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 3 months to 16 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 3 months to 16 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +3 547 £531 -7.61% 274
North of England +3 179 £482 -8.19% 132
Yorkshire +4 100 £482 -14.31% 43
South East +4 77 £525 -4.55% 158
North West 0 65 £500 -4.76% 73
Midlands -8 62 £525 -4.72% 41
West Midlands -3 56 £525 -21.58% 34
South West -19 50 £544 -11.59% 63
North East -9 16 £463 -15.14% 16
East Midlands -25 6 £438 -12.50% 7
East of England -22 5 £513 +19.53% 13
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 (3.94%) Confluence
2 59 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.86%) Apache
4 45 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.89%) nginx
6 26 (1.40%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.22%) 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%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
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 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Maximo
2 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.054%) Actimize
4 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.054%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.054%) Endur
4 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (55.75%) AWS
2 817 (44.09%) Azure
3 520 (28.06%) GitHub
4 374 (20.18%) GCP
5 346 (18.67%) Serverless
6 330 (17.81%) GitHub Actions
7 313 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
8 312 (16.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 247 (13.33%) Amazon S3
10 223 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
11 179 (9.66%) Amazon EKS
12 153 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
13 148 (7.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (7.50%) OpenShift
15 135 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
16 131 (7.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (6.53%) Azure AKS
17 121 (6.53%) Entra ID
18 117 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
19 93 (5.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 183 (9.88%) Firewall
2 131 (7.07%) DNS
3 108 (5.83%) Network Security
4 105 (5.67%) VPN
5 50 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.32%) WAN
7 30 (1.62%) BGP
8 29 (1.57%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.51%) LAN
10 27 (1.46%) DHCP
11 26 (1.40%) SSL
12 25 (1.35%) OSPF
13 14 (0.76%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
15 12 (0.65%) HTTP
15 12 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.59%) VLAN
17 10 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
17 10 (0.54%) MPLS
17 10 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (6.26%) Amazon RDS
3 73 (3.94%) Data Lake
4 70 (3.78%) Power BI
5 67 (3.62%) NoSQL
6 59 (3.18%) MongoDB
7 51 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
9 44 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (2.21%) DynamoDB
11 39 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 39 (2.10%) SQL Server
12 35 (1.89%) Relational Database
13 33 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (1.78%) Redis
14 28 (1.51%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
17 23 (1.24%) Tableau
18 20 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 404 (21.80%) Jenkins
2 374 (20.18%) GitLab
3 238 (12.84%) Git
4 94 (5.07%) JIRA
5 46 (2.48%) Artifactory
6 36 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 32 (1.73%) Liquibase
8 27 (1.46%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 24 (1.30%) Maven
10 21 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.76%) Gradle
12 13 (0.70%) JUnit
12 13 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 11 (0.59%) MLflow
14 10 (0.54%) Selenium
15 9 (0.49%) Snyk
15 9 (0.49%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.43%) Gatling
17 7 (0.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 412 (22.23%) Social Skills
2 295 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 201 (10.85%) Finance
4 104 (5.61%) Banking
5 94 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (0.92%) Military
10 17 (0.92%) Retail
11 11 (0.59%) Law
12 10 (0.54%) Marketing
13 8 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.38%) Games
14 7 (0.38%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.38%) Legal
15 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 441 (23.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 240 (12.95%) Senior
3 208 (11.23%) Architect
4 198 (10.69%) AWS Engineer
5 171 (9.23%) Azure Engineer
6 160 (8.63%) Lead
7 159 (8.58%) Developer
8 155 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 152 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
10 136 (7.34%) Data Engineer
11 115 (6.21%) AWS DevOps
12 100 (5.40%) Software Engineer
13 99 (5.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 91 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 87 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
16 81 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 75 (4.05%) Site Engineer
18 72 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 65 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
19 65 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (10.20%) Kafka
2 118 (6.37%) Node.js
2 118 (6.37%) REST
3 101 (5.45%) React
4 98 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
5 85 (4.59%) ARM Templates
5 85 (4.59%) RESTful
6 79 (4.26%) .NET
7 66 (3.56%) OAuth
8 62 (3.35%) Spring
9 61 (3.29%) PySpark
10 58 (3.13%) Spring Boot
11 51 (2.75%) YAML
12 45 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
13 43 (2.32%) AngularJS
14 42 (2.27%) OpenID
15 36 (1.94%) OAuth2
16 31 (1.67%) AWS CDK
17 28 (1.51%) JSON
17 28 (1.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 320 (17.27%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (3.78%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 35 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.78%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.57%) NHS
10 27 (1.46%) PKI
10 27 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.35%) Replication
12 22 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.70%) Clustering
17 11 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 359 (19.37%) Linux
2 154 (8.31%) Windows
3 49 (2.64%) Unix
3 49 (2.64%) VMS
4 44 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 38 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.76%) CentOS
8 10 (0.54%) 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 (0.054%) Rocky
12 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,268 (68.43%) CI/CD
2 1,179 (63.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,170 (63.14%) DevOps
4 495 (26.71%) Containerisation
5 394 (21.26%) Agile
6 335 (18.08%) Observability
7 263 (14.19%) Platform Engineering
8 260 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
9 259 (13.98%) Migration
10 241 (13.01%) Microservices
11 226 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
12 217 (11.71%) Analytics
13 210 (11.33%) Software Engineering
14 203 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 195 (10.52%) AI
16 185 (9.98%) DevSecOps
17 180 (9.71%) Test Automation
18 179 (9.66%) Cloud Security
19 170 (9.17%) Mentoring
20 158 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 916 (49.43%) Python
2 295 (15.92%) Bash
3 267 (14.41%) SQL
4 245 (13.22%) PowerShell
5 207 (11.17%) Java
6 150 (8.09%) Bicep
7 130 (7.02%) Go
8 122 (6.58%) JavaScript
9 97 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 90 (4.86%) C#
11 56 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 28 (1.51%) Groovy
13 27 (1.46%) Ruby
14 20 (1.08%) Scala
15 12 (0.65%) Rust
16 10 (0.54%) C
17 7 (0.38%) C++
17 7 (0.38%) PHP
18 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 660 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 549 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 116 (6.26%) Azure Certification
5 113 (6.10%) Degree
6 110 (5.94%) DV Cleared
7 78 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.75%) Master's Degree
10 42 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.67%) CISSP
14 24 (1.30%) CCNP
15 18 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.92%) CISM
17 16 (0.86%) CCIE
18 11 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
19 10 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.05%) GDPR
2 72 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (3.18%) QA
4 54 (2.91%) NIST
5 50 (2.70%) NCSC
6 30 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 16 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.54%) NIST 800
9 10 (0.54%) SLA
10 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.22%) HL7
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 585 (31.57%) Docker
2 99 (5.34%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (2.05%) vSphere
6 33 (1.78%) Hyper-V
6 33 (1.78%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.70%) Squid
9 8 (0.43%) KVM
9 8 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
11 5 (0.27%) Lustre
11 5 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Dovecot
12 4 (0.22%) GPFS
12 4 (0.22%) Postfix
13 3 (0.16%) NFS
13 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 788 (42.53%) Kubernetes
2 515 (27.79%) Ansible
3 286 (15.43%) Grafana
4 248 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 71 (3.83%) Argo
6 42 (2.27%) Puppet
7 41 (2.21%) Istio
8 37 (2.00%) Packer
9 36 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (1.83%) Progress Chef
11 26 (1.40%) vCenter Server
12 20 (1.08%) Consul
13 19 (1.03%) Kibana
14 18 (0.97%) Podman
15 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
16 12 (0.65%) logstash
17 11 (0.59%) FortiGate
18 10 (0.54%) Nessus
18 10 (0.54%) Rancher
19 9 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 272 (14.68%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.42%) Google
3 132 (7.12%) Databricks
4 125 (6.75%) Splunk
5 113 (6.10%) VMware
6 75 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 48 (2.59%) Oracle
8 46 (2.48%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.27%) Palo Alto
10 41 (2.21%) F5
10 41 (2.21%) ServiceNow
11 40 (2.16%) Cisco
12 32 (1.73%) IBM
13 28 (1.51%) CheckPoint
14 26 (1.40%) Pure Storage
15 22 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.08%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.03%) OpenAI
17 19 (1.03%) SolarWinds
18 16 (0.86%) Zscaler