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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,240 1,306 1,382
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.00% 3.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.94% 31.89% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 901 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 11
10th Percentile £45.24 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £54.98 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £74.50 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +12.74% -9.68% -20.51%

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 5,904 4,095 4,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 15.69% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,061 2,727 3,382
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £515
% change year-on-year +0.91% -0.97% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 46 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £48.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% +55.20% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £32.77 £32.50
% change year-on-year +68.60% +0.83% -43.48%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 1,210 £550 +4.36% 420
North of England +25 474 £500 - 135
Yorkshire +4 234 £500 -2.44% 40
North West +43 178 £525 +2.44% 77
South East -16 164 £527 +5.45% 161
Midlands -10 139 £511 -1.54% 55
South West -4 129 £550 -10.57% 110
West Midlands -9 114 £513 -6.82% 37
North East +2 76 £425 -11.46% 20
East of England -9 50 £537 +7.43% 20
East Midlands -12 23 £463 -7.50% 18
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
1 109 (4.87%) Confluence
2 91 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (3.04%) Apache
5 34 (1.52%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.03%) nginx
8 15 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.54%) SAS
10 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.27%) IIS
11 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.089%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.089%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.089%) Drupal
14 2 (0.089%) Traefik
14 2 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.045%) InDesign
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.089%) Endur
2 2 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.045%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.045%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.045%) Maximo
3 1 (0.045%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,264 (56.43%) AWS
2 1,103 (49.24%) Azure
3 600 (26.79%) GitHub
4 467 (20.85%) GCP
5 413 (18.44%) GitHub Actions
6 365 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
7 360 (16.07%) Serverless
8 294 (13.13%) Amazon S3
9 274 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 260 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
11 208 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
12 168 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 151 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.56%) Azure AKS
15 141 (6.29%) Entra ID
16 138 (6.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 138 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
18 111 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
19 103 (4.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 228 (10.18%) Firewall
2 153 (6.83%) DNS
3 120 (5.36%) VPN
4 104 (4.64%) Network Security
5 84 (3.75%) WAN
6 65 (2.90%) BGP
7 47 (2.10%) SD-WAN
8 45 (2.01%) OSPF
9 42 (1.88%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.56%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.16%) BIG-IP
13 25 (1.12%) DHCP
14 21 (0.94%) VLAN
15 20 (0.89%) LAN
15 20 (0.89%) SAN
16 19 (0.85%) SSL
17 16 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
18 14 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.35%) Power BI
6 73 (3.26%) SQL Server
7 68 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.86%) BigQuery
9 62 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (2.77%) NoSQL
10 57 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 53 (2.37%) MongoDB
12 52 (2.32%) Delta Lake
13 42 (1.88%) Relational Database
14 39 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 35 (1.56%) Redis
16 31 (1.38%) Oracle Database
17 30 (1.34%) Big Data
17 30 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (1.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 405 (18.08%) GitLab
2 387 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 310 (13.84%) Git
4 144 (6.43%) JIRA
5 45 (2.01%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.07%) Maven
9 20 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.80%) MLflow
10 18 (0.80%) Snyk
11 12 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.49%) Gatling
13 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.45%) JUnit
13 10 (0.45%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.40%) MSI
15 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
15 8 (0.36%) git-flow
16 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 401 (17.90%) Social Skills
2 330 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 264 (11.79%) Finance
4 117 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (4.06%) Banking
6 69 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.43%) Retail
9 24 (1.07%) Legal
10 23 (1.03%) Military
11 21 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.76%) Publishing
14 15 (0.67%) Law
15 14 (0.63%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.49%) Billing
16 11 (0.49%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.40%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 509 (22.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 368 (16.43%) Senior
3 253 (11.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (10.45%) Architect
5 217 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
6 206 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
7 184 (8.21%) Lead
8 183 (8.17%) Platform Engineer
9 182 (8.13%) Data Engineer
10 179 (7.99%) Developer
11 131 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 111 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
13 106 (4.73%) GCP Engineer
14 102 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 93 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 86 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
17 82 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 74 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 68 (3.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.68%) Kafka
2 117 (5.22%) REST
3 113 (5.04%) .NET
4 102 (4.55%) PySpark
5 99 (4.42%) Node.js
6 96 (4.29%) React
7 84 (3.75%) OAuth
8 77 (3.44%) RESTful
9 65 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 64 (2.86%) YAML
11 62 (2.77%) ARM Templates
12 58 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 58 (2.59%) OpenID
13 56 (2.50%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.50%) Spring
14 52 (2.32%) Spring Boot
15 44 (1.96%) JSON
16 40 (1.79%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.61%) AngularJS
18 33 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 534 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 117 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 68 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 46 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 40 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 33 (1.47%) Replication
11 31 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 28 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.25%) PKI
12 28 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.21%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.16%) NHS
15 20 (0.89%) Management Information System
16 18 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 340 (15.18%) Linux
2 190 (8.48%) Windows
3 76 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 55 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.43%) VMS
6 28 (1.25%) Unix
7 26 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.58%) CentOS
9 10 (0.45%) AIX
10 9 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.089%) Debian
15 2 (0.089%) Rocky
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,542 (68.84%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,504 (67.14%) CI/CD
3 1,323 (59.06%) DevOps
4 533 (23.79%) Containerisation
5 529 (23.62%) Agile
6 461 (20.58%) Observability
7 437 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
8 309 (13.79%) AI
9 275 (12.28%) Migration
10 269 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
11 247 (11.03%) Analytics
12 237 (10.58%) Test Automation
13 231 (10.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 228 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 227 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 222 (9.91%) Cloud Security
16 222 (9.91%) Software Engineering
17 214 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
17 214 (9.55%) Microservices
18 192 (8.57%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (46.16%) Python
2 352 (15.71%) SQL
3 345 (15.40%) Bash
4 326 (14.55%) PowerShell
5 255 (11.38%) Java
6 212 (9.46%) Bicep
7 125 (5.58%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.31%) C#
9 114 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.71%) Go
11 49 (2.19%) Scala
12 47 (2.10%) Groovy
13 34 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.80%) Ruby
15 17 (0.76%) Rust
16 11 (0.49%) C
17 9 (0.40%) R
18 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 784 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 652 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.21%) DV Cleared
4 135 (6.03%) Azure Certification
5 112 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 87 (3.88%) Degree
7 64 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.29%) CCNP
13 26 (1.16%) CISSP
14 17 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.71%) CCNA
16 15 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.49%) CCIE
18 11 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 10 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 58 (2.59%) QA
3 55 (2.46%) GDPR
4 43 (1.92%) NIST
5 42 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.56%) NCSC
8 31 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.63%) WCAG
10 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.49%) SLA
12 10 (0.45%) GRC
13 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.18%) HL7
15 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.13%) PSD2
16 2 (0.089%) SEPA
System Software
1 601 (26.83%) Docker
2 109 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 80 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.29%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 27 (1.21%) vSphere
8 21 (0.94%) Squid
9 14 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
9 14 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.49%) NFS
11 9 (0.40%) KVM
12 5 (0.22%) Firmware
13 3 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.13%) Postfix
14 2 (0.089%) GPFS
14 2 (0.089%) Lustre
14 2 (0.089%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 838 (37.41%) Kubernetes
2 492 (21.96%) Ansible
3 282 (12.59%) Grafana
4 246 (10.98%) Prometheus
5 85 (3.79%) Argo
6 53 (2.37%) Puppet
7 39 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.56%) Istio
9 32 (1.43%) Packer
10 27 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 18 (0.80%) Kibana
14 15 (0.67%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.58%) Consul
15 13 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
15 13 (0.58%) Podman
16 12 (0.54%) Data Guard
16 12 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 341 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 209 (9.33%) Google
3 129 (5.76%) Databricks
4 124 (5.54%) Splunk
5 108 (4.82%) VMware
6 92 (4.11%) Oracle
7 81 (3.62%) Red Hat
8 74 (3.30%) Dynatrace
9 63 (2.81%) ServiceNow
10 55 (2.46%) Cisco
10 55 (2.46%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.74%) F5
12 34 (1.52%) Arista
12 34 (1.52%) OpenAI
13 29 (1.29%) Zscaler
14 25 (1.12%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.07%) Foundry
16 23 (1.03%) Aruba
17 22 (0.98%) Informatica
18 21 (0.94%) Pure Storage