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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,365 1,382 1,363
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.19% 5.00% 4.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.06% 32.39% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,630 955 981
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £633 £626 £650
90th Percentile £714 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 11
10th Percentile £56.60 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.19 £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 £81.46 £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 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 6,055 4,267 4,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.29% 15.43% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,114 2,841 3,205
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 60 65
10th Percentile £20.73 £18.87 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £24.18
Median hourly rate £66.83 £53.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% +42.67% -24.59%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.80 £67.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.96 £74.26
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.39 £36.17
% change year-on-year +83.61% -4.92% -35.71%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +3 1,234 £550 +0.92% 1,243
North of England +10 503 £500 -3.85% 282
Yorkshire -6 230 £500 -2.44% 73
South East -1 207 £560 +12.00% 214
North West +40 200 £575 +9.52% 164
South West +2 171 £550 -8.33% 153
Midlands -19 129 £526 -0.94% 85
West Midlands -17 107 £525 -3.67% 46
North East -5 87 £425 -18.27% 46
East of England -5 52 £525 +9.66% 52
East Midlands -11 20 £500 +2.56% 39
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
1 118 (4.99%) Confluence
2 91 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 80 (3.38%) Apache
5 41 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.97%) nginx
8 13 (0.55%) SAS
9 12 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.34%) IIS
10 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.085%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.085%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.085%) Traefik
14 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.042%) Apache Synapse
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 (0.085%) 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 (0.085%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.085%) Endur
2 2 (0.085%) 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 1,349 (57.04%) AWS
2 1,188 (50.23%) Azure
3 652 (27.57%) GitHub
4 471 (19.92%) GCP
5 457 (19.32%) GitHub Actions
6 422 (17.84%) Azure DevOps
7 346 (14.63%) Serverless
8 275 (11.63%) Amazon S3
9 267 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 255 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
11 213 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
12 186 (7.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 170 (7.19%) Entra ID
14 160 (6.77%) Azure AKS
15 146 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (5.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 133 (5.62%) Azure Monitor
18 126 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 122 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (3.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 272 (11.50%) Firewall
2 200 (8.46%) DNS
3 133 (5.62%) VPN
4 106 (4.48%) Network Security
5 84 (3.55%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.34%) WAN
7 75 (3.17%) DHCP
8 67 (2.83%) BGP
9 47 (1.99%) OSPF
10 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.56%) VLAN
12 36 (1.52%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (1.14%) VSAN
15 26 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.06%) SSL
17 24 (1.01%) BIG-IP
18 22 (0.93%) SSH
19 18 (0.76%) Internet
20 16 (0.68%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
3 82 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
4 80 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 72 (3.04%) Data Lake
6 70 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 66 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
8 64 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 64 (2.71%) Power BI
9 62 (2.62%) MongoDB
10 61 (2.58%) BigQuery
11 59 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (2.03%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.95%) Redis
13 46 (1.95%) Relational Database
14 42 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 38 (1.61%) MySQL
16 37 (1.56%) Oracle Database
17 36 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
18 33 (1.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 427 (18.05%) GitLab
2 393 (16.62%) Jenkins
3 348 (14.71%) Git
4 149 (6.30%) JIRA
5 43 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.31%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.27%) Maven
8 26 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.76%) Snyk
11 17 (0.72%) MLflow
12 16 (0.68%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.55%) MSI
13 13 (0.55%) Terragrunt
14 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.47%) Gatling
14 11 (0.47%) JUnit
15 10 (0.42%) Selenium
16 8 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 442 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 350 (14.80%) Public Sector
3 301 (12.73%) Finance
4 140 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (3.76%) Banking
6 61 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.07%) Retail
9 26 (1.10%) Military
10 22 (0.93%) Legal
10 22 (0.93%) Publishing
11 21 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 15 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (0.63%) Law
13 13 (0.55%) Local Government
14 12 (0.51%) Billing
14 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 508 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 423 (17.89%) Senior
3 271 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 221 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
5 219 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
6 217 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (9.01%) Architect
8 207 (8.75%) Developer
9 203 (8.58%) Lead
10 163 (6.89%) Data Engineer
11 160 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 106 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
13 101 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
14 99 (4.19%) GCP Engineer
15 98 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 97 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 97 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 85 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.51%) Network Engineer
19 75 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.27%) Kafka
2 161 (6.81%) REST
3 117 (4.95%) .NET
4 111 (4.69%) React
5 94 (3.97%) Node.js
6 89 (3.76%) RESTful
7 86 (3.64%) PySpark
8 83 (3.51%) ARM Templates
9 77 (3.26%) OAuth
10 74 (3.13%) YAML
11 57 (2.41%) Spring
12 56 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
13 53 (2.24%) Spring Boot
14 51 (2.16%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
16 49 (2.07%) JSON
16 49 (2.07%) OpenID
17 42 (1.78%) HTML
18 39 (1.65%) AngularJS
19 36 (1.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 561 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 148 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.06%) Data Centre
5 85 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.92%) Security Posture
8 68 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 50 (2.11%) PKI
10 49 (2.07%) Replication
11 43 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
11 43 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.78%) AI Agents
12 42 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 33 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 33 (1.40%) NHS
13 33 (1.40%) Private Cloud
14 28 (1.18%) Management Information System
15 24 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 419 (17.72%) Linux
2 243 (10.27%) Windows
3 86 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 80 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.31%) Unix
6 31 (1.31%) VMS
7 19 (0.80%) AIX
8 13 (0.55%) CentOS
9 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.085%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,691 (71.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,584 (66.98%) CI/CD
3 1,383 (58.48%) DevOps
4 575 (24.31%) Agile
5 565 (23.89%) Containerisation
6 539 (22.79%) Observability
7 517 (21.86%) Platform Engineering
8 366 (15.48%) AI
9 300 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 287 (12.14%) Migration
10 287 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
11 284 (12.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 278 (11.75%) Test Automation
13 266 (11.25%) Cloud Security
14 261 (11.04%) Software Engineering
15 258 (10.91%) Analytics
16 240 (10.15%) Infrastructure Automation
17 236 (9.98%) DevSecOps
18 231 (9.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 225 (9.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (47.57%) Python
2 441 (18.65%) PowerShell
3 436 (18.44%) Bash
4 361 (15.26%) SQL
5 272 (11.50%) Java
6 258 (10.91%) Bicep
7 142 (6.00%) JavaScript
8 130 (5.50%) C#
9 126 (5.33%) TypeScript
10 74 (3.13%) Go
11 49 (2.07%) Scala
12 48 (2.03%) Groovy
13 34 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.68%) Rust
15 13 (0.55%) Ruby
16 12 (0.51%) Perl
16 12 (0.51%) R
17 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.38%) C
18 9 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 865 (36.58%) Security Cleared
2 700 (29.60%) SC Cleared
3 183 (7.74%) DV Cleared
4 159 (6.72%) Azure Certification
5 133 (5.62%) AWS Certification
6 91 (3.85%) Degree
7 65 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.65%) CISSP
12 38 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.27%) CCNP
14 19 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.59%) CCNA
17 14 (0.59%) VCAP
18 12 (0.51%) CISM
19 10 (0.42%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.30%) QA
3 50 (2.11%) GDPR
4 46 (1.95%) NCSC
4 46 (1.95%) NIST
5 45 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.89%) WCAG
8 20 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.42%) SLA
10 8 (0.34%) GRC
11 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.25%) HL7
13 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.21%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 641 (27.10%) Docker
2 150 (6.34%) Active Directory
3 113 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.90%) Hyper-V
7 43 (1.82%) vSphere
8 41 (1.73%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
9 21 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.59%) Squid
11 10 (0.42%) KVM
12 9 (0.38%) NFS
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
14 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 914 (38.65%) Kubernetes
2 558 (23.59%) Ansible
3 286 (12.09%) Grafana
4 245 (10.36%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.72%) Argo
6 62 (2.62%) Puppet
7 48 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.65%) Packer
9 36 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.40%) Istio
11 25 (1.06%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
15 18 (0.76%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.76%) Kibana
15 18 (0.76%) Kustomize
16 16 (0.68%) Podman
17 14 (0.59%) SCCM
17 14 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 417 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.84%) Google
3 152 (6.43%) VMware
4 130 (5.50%) Splunk
5 124 (5.24%) Databricks
6 104 (4.40%) Oracle
7 80 (3.38%) Red Hat
8 79 (3.34%) Dynatrace
9 75 (3.17%) ServiceNow
10 68 (2.88%) Cisco
11 59 (2.49%) Palo Alto
12 44 (1.86%) F5
13 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.40%) Arista
15 31 (1.31%) Fortinet
16 30 (1.27%) Zscaler
17 28 (1.18%) Informatica
18 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
19 23 (0.97%) Foundry
20 22 (0.93%) Aruba