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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 42 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,380 1,374 1,371
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 4.98% 4.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.24% 20.07% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,651 951 989
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 11
10th Percentile £56.65 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.37 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £79.31 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,820 6,845 8,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.80% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,713 5,613
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 162 213
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.88 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.91 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -12.00%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +5 1,233 £550 - 376
North of England +12 504 £500 -3.85% 160
Yorkshire -5 227 £510 -0.49% 45
South East +2 214 £560 +11.94% 155
North West +37 198 £575 +9.52% 87
South West +7 181 £553 -5.47% 87
Midlands -14 131 £500 -4.76% 46
West Midlands -24 106 £519 -3.67% 28
North East -4 93 £425 -18.27% 29
East of England -2 52 £525 +6.87% 21
East Midlands -8 24 £463 -5.13% 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
1 116 (4.87%) Confluence
2 94 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 93 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (3.28%) Apache
5 43 (1.81%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 22 (0.92%) nginx
8 13 (0.55%) SAS
9 12 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.34%) IIS
10 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
15 1 (0.042%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.042%) Traefik
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,363 (57.27%) AWS
2 1,203 (50.55%) Azure
3 658 (27.65%) GitHub
4 471 (19.79%) GCP
5 461 (19.37%) GitHub Actions
6 436 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
7 352 (14.79%) Serverless
8 273 (11.47%) Amazon S3
9 264 (11.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 258 (10.84%) AWS Lambda
11 220 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
12 188 (7.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 172 (7.23%) Entra ID
14 168 (7.06%) Azure AKS
15 147 (6.18%) Amazon EC2
16 139 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
17 135 (5.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 124 (5.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 119 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
20 91 (3.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 276 (11.60%) Firewall
2 204 (8.57%) DNS
3 134 (5.63%) VPN
4 110 (4.62%) Network Security
5 87 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.32%) WAN
7 78 (3.28%) DHCP
8 68 (2.86%) BGP
9 47 (1.97%) OSPF
10 45 (1.89%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.60%) VLAN
12 36 (1.51%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.34%) VSAN
14 29 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.05%) SSL
17 24 (1.01%) BIG-IP
18 23 (0.97%) SSH
19 18 (0.76%) Internet
19 18 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 79 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 68 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 67 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 66 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 66 (2.77%) MongoDB
8 66 (2.77%) Power BI
9 59 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 59 (2.48%) BigQuery
10 49 (2.06%) Delta Lake
11 46 (1.93%) Redis
12 45 (1.89%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.72%) MySQL
14 40 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 38 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
16 37 (1.55%) Oracle Database
17 36 (1.51%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 435 (18.28%) GitLab
2 389 (16.34%) Jenkins
3 354 (14.87%) Git
4 147 (6.18%) JIRA
5 44 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 30 (1.26%) Maven
7 24 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 22 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (0.71%) Claude Code
9 17 (0.71%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.71%) Snyk
10 15 (0.63%) MLflow
10 15 (0.63%) Terragrunt
11 13 (0.55%) MSI
11 13 (0.55%) Selenium
12 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
12 11 (0.46%) Gatling
12 11 (0.46%) JUnit
13 8 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 448 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 352 (14.79%) Public Sector
3 311 (13.07%) Finance
4 139 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.87%) Banking
6 67 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.06%) Retail
9 26 (1.09%) Military
10 22 (0.92%) Legal
11 21 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.88%) Publishing
12 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.63%) Law
14 14 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.55%) Local Government
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
17 11 (0.46%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 509 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 427 (17.94%) Senior
3 268 (11.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 226 (9.50%) Azure Engineer
5 223 (9.37%) Platform Engineer
6 218 (9.16%) Architect
7 213 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (8.95%) Developer
8 204 (8.57%) Lead
9 165 (6.93%) Data Engineer
10 162 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 103 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
12 98 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
13 96 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 94 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 92 (3.87%) GCP Engineer
16 90 (3.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 84 (3.53%) Network Engineer
18 77 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (7.48%) Kafka
2 163 (6.85%) REST
3 122 (5.13%) .NET
4 114 (4.79%) React
5 94 (3.95%) Node.js
6 92 (3.87%) ARM Templates
7 90 (3.78%) RESTful
8 89 (3.74%) PySpark
9 80 (3.36%) YAML
10 77 (3.24%) OAuth
11 59 (2.48%) Spring
12 56 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.31%) Spring Boot
14 51 (2.14%) OAuth2
15 49 (2.06%) JSON
15 49 (2.06%) OpenID
15 49 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
16 43 (1.81%) HTML
17 38 (1.60%) AngularJS
18 37 (1.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 560 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 154 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.16%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 82 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 68 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 54 (2.27%) PKI
9 50 (2.10%) Replication
10 48 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (1.89%) AI Agents
13 43 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.47%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.43%) NHS
17 30 (1.26%) Management Information System
18 26 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 424 (17.82%) Linux
2 249 (10.46%) Windows
3 85 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 84 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 33 (1.39%) VMS
7 30 (1.26%) Unix
8 19 (0.80%) AIX
9 15 (0.63%) CentOS
10 12 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.084%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,721 (72.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,602 (67.31%) CI/CD
3 1,380 (57.98%) DevOps
4 591 (24.83%) Agile
5 576 (24.20%) Containerisation
6 553 (23.24%) Observability
7 532 (22.35%) Platform Engineering
8 371 (15.59%) AI
9 309 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 290 (12.18%) Test Automation
11 289 (12.14%) Migration
12 288 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
13 287 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 267 (11.22%) Cloud Security
15 263 (11.05%) Analytics
15 263 (11.05%) Software Engineering
16 252 (10.59%) DevSecOps
17 246 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
18 236 (9.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 233 (9.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,130 (47.48%) Python
2 460 (19.33%) PowerShell
3 442 (18.57%) Bash
4 367 (15.42%) SQL
5 273 (11.47%) Java
6 267 (11.22%) Bicep
7 142 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 136 (5.71%) C#
9 124 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 73 (3.07%) Go
11 51 (2.14%) Scala
12 48 (2.02%) Groovy
13 37 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.59%) Rust
15 12 (0.50%) Perl
15 12 (0.50%) R
16 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.46%) Ruby
17 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 867 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 703 (29.54%) SC Cleared
3 190 (7.98%) DV Cleared
4 161 (6.76%) Azure Certification
5 136 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 94 (3.95%) Degree
7 64 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.85%) CISSP
10 44 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.34%) CCNP
13 20 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 18 (0.76%) VCAP
16 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.59%) CCNA
17 14 (0.59%) CISM
18 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 80 (3.36%) QA
3 51 (2.14%) GDPR
4 49 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.02%) NIST
6 47 (1.97%) NCSC
7 21 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 21 (0.88%) WCAG
8 13 (0.55%) SLA
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.34%) GRC
10 6 (0.25%) HL7
11 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.21%) PSD2
11 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 642 (26.97%) Docker
2 154 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 119 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 48 (2.02%) vSphere
7 46 (1.93%) Hyper-V
8 45 (1.89%) VMware NSX
9 28 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
10 21 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.59%) Squid
12 10 (0.42%) KVM
13 9 (0.38%) NFS
14 8 (0.34%) Firmware
15 6 (0.25%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 937 (39.37%) Kubernetes
2 569 (23.91%) Ansible
3 293 (12.31%) Grafana
4 245 (10.29%) Prometheus
5 87 (3.66%) Argo
6 62 (2.61%) Puppet
7 51 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.64%) Packer
9 35 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.39%) Istio
11 30 (1.26%) vCenter Server
12 24 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) Kibana
14 19 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.76%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.67%) Podman
17 15 (0.63%) VxRail
18 14 (0.59%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 429 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.61%) Google
3 155 (6.51%) VMware
4 138 (5.80%) Databricks
5 135 (5.67%) Splunk
6 104 (4.37%) Oracle
7 81 (3.40%) Dynatrace
8 77 (3.24%) Red Hat
9 75 (3.15%) ServiceNow
10 72 (3.03%) Cisco
11 60 (2.52%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.85%) F5
13 34 (1.43%) Arista
13 34 (1.43%) OpenAI
14 32 (1.34%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.26%) Informatica
15 30 (1.26%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.01%) Foundry
17 22 (0.92%) Aruba