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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,518 1,469 1,415
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.38% 5.22% 4.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.25% 20.47% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 1,011 990
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 9
10th Percentile £58.69 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.88 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.84 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%

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 9,971 7,176 7,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.51% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,559 4,849 5,151
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £447 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £54.37 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +6 1,358 £550 +3.53% 1,285
North of England -4 508 £500 - 335
South East +5 226 £575 +15.00% 231
Yorkshire -12 225 £500 - 101
North West +16 194 £560 +21.08% 180
South West +6 194 £550 - 149
Midlands -41 118 £477 -11.17% 99
North East -5 98 £425 -18.27% 54
West Midlands -45 92 £506 -7.11% 56
East of England -24 40 £550 +15.79% 85
East Midlands -5 25 £409 -13.95% 43
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
1 110 (4.37%) Confluence
2 105 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 97 (3.85%) Apache
5 50 (1.99%) Jupyter
6 42 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 37 (1.47%) nginx
8 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.52%) SAS
10 10 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.28%) CMS
11 7 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.079%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.079%) PowerExchange
14 2 (0.079%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.079%) Endur
2 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.040%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,421 (56.43%) AWS
2 1,249 (49.60%) Azure
3 685 (27.20%) GitHub
4 529 (21.01%) GCP
5 477 (18.94%) GitHub Actions
6 452 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
7 349 (13.86%) Serverless
8 290 (11.52%) Amazon S3
9 260 (10.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 255 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
11 252 (10.01%) Amazon EKS
12 247 (9.81%) Entra ID
13 214 (8.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 179 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
15 177 (7.03%) Azure AKS
16 162 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
17 154 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 142 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
19 139 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 114 (4.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 286 (11.36%) Firewall
2 213 (8.46%) DNS
3 141 (5.60%) Network Security
4 139 (5.52%) VPN
5 98 (3.89%) TCP/IP
6 92 (3.65%) DHCP
7 76 (3.02%) WAN
8 68 (2.70%) BGP
9 48 (1.91%) OSPF
10 47 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 44 (1.75%) VLAN
12 32 (1.27%) VSAN
13 29 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.15%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.07%) SSH
14 27 (1.07%) SSL
15 25 (0.99%) BIG-IP
16 23 (0.91%) Internet
17 17 (0.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
3 90 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 80 (3.18%) SQL Server
6 78 (3.10%) MongoDB
7 74 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 70 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 70 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 67 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
9 67 (2.66%) Power BI
10 62 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 56 (2.22%) Redis
12 54 (2.14%) Metadata
12 54 (2.14%) Relational Database
13 52 (2.07%) MySQL
14 48 (1.91%) Delta Lake
15 47 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
16 41 (1.63%) Big Data
17 36 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 492 (19.54%) GitLab
2 416 (16.52%) Jenkins
3 400 (15.89%) Git
4 130 (5.16%) JIRA
5 40 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 35 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 34 (1.35%) Maven
8 30 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 27 (1.07%) Claude Code
10 23 (0.91%) Selenium
11 22 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 19 (0.75%) Snyk
13 16 (0.64%) Cypress.io
13 16 (0.64%) Terragrunt
14 15 (0.60%) JUnit
15 14 (0.56%) Cucumber
16 12 (0.48%) MLflow
16 12 (0.48%) MSI
17 10 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 9 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 537 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 377 (14.97%) Finance
3 362 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 173 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (5.12%) Banking
6 70 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (1.83%) Retail
8 45 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (1.43%) Military
10 27 (1.07%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.79%) Legal
11 20 (0.79%) Publishing
12 18 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.71%) Law
12 18 (0.71%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.68%) Local Government
14 16 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.64%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.60%) Police
16 13 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 562 (22.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 462 (18.35%) Senior
3 274 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 246 (9.77%) Azure Engineer
5 235 (9.33%) Platform Engineer
6 231 (9.17%) Architect
7 230 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
8 224 (8.90%) Developer
9 197 (7.82%) Lead
10 178 (7.07%) Data Engineer
11 168 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 116 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
13 110 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
13 110 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 104 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 103 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 101 (4.01%) Security Engineer
17 100 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 85 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
19 84 (3.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (8.02%) REST
2 198 (7.86%) Kafka
3 116 (4.61%) .NET
4 113 (4.49%) ARM Templates
5 112 (4.45%) OAuth
6 110 (4.37%) React
7 103 (4.09%) RESTful
8 90 (3.57%) PySpark
9 84 (3.34%) Node.js
10 79 (3.14%) YAML
11 77 (3.06%) OpenID
12 71 (2.82%) Spring
13 70 (2.78%) OAuth2
13 70 (2.78%) Spring Boot
14 59 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
15 52 (2.07%) JSON
16 47 (1.87%) AWS CDK
17 45 (1.79%) FastAPI
18 44 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
18 44 (1.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 591 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 156 (6.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 117 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 109 (4.33%) Onboarding
5 108 (4.29%) Data Centre
6 92 (3.65%) Security Posture
7 85 (3.38%) Product Ownership
8 82 (3.26%) Public Cloud
9 61 (2.42%) PKI
10 59 (2.34%) AI Agents
10 59 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 58 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 53 (2.10%) Replication
13 50 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
15 42 (1.67%) Management Information System
16 39 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
16 39 (1.55%) Private Cloud
17 32 (1.27%) NHS
18 27 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 473 (18.78%) Linux
2 269 (10.68%) Windows
3 97 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 89 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (1.67%) Unix
6 41 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.19%) VMS
8 19 (0.75%) AIX
8 19 (0.75%) CentOS
9 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.36%) macOS
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.079%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.079%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,866 (74.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,746 (69.34%) CI/CD
3 1,485 (58.98%) DevOps
4 660 (26.21%) Observability
5 615 (24.42%) Containerisation
6 607 (24.11%) Platform Engineering
7 596 (23.67%) Agile
8 449 (17.83%) AI
9 365 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 346 (13.74%) Migration
11 334 (13.26%) Cloud Security
12 327 (12.99%) Test Automation
13 325 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 315 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
15 313 (12.43%) Software Engineering
16 302 (11.99%) DevSecOps
17 297 (11.80%) Analytics
18 294 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
19 293 (11.64%) Infrastructure Automation
20 276 (10.96%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,260 (50.04%) Python
2 507 (20.14%) PowerShell
3 488 (19.38%) Bash
4 401 (15.93%) SQL
5 309 (12.27%) Bicep
6 293 (11.64%) Java
7 149 (5.92%) JavaScript
8 133 (5.28%) TypeScript
9 130 (5.16%) C#
10 103 (4.09%) Go
11 60 (2.38%) Groovy
12 52 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 42 (1.67%) Scala
14 19 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.60%) Perl
16 14 (0.56%) C
17 10 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 911 (36.18%) Security Cleared
2 718 (28.51%) SC Cleared
3 212 (8.42%) DV Cleared
4 175 (6.95%) AWS Certification
5 171 (6.79%) Azure Certification
6 114 (4.53%) Degree
7 72 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 62 (2.46%) CISSP
10 51 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 40 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.11%) CCNP
14 24 (0.95%) CISM
15 22 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 18 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 15 (0.60%) VCAP
19 14 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 14 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 100 (3.97%) QA
3 61 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (2.10%) NIST
5 52 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 49 (1.95%) GDPR
6 49 (1.95%) NCSC
7 24 (0.95%) WCAG
8 19 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 10 (0.40%) SLA
11 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.24%) PSD2
12 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.20%) HL7
12 5 (0.20%) SEPA
13 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 725 (28.79%) Docker
2 190 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 113 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (1.99%) vSphere
6 38 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 38 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 38 (1.51%) VMware NSX
7 36 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
9 14 (0.56%) Squid
10 8 (0.32%) KVM
11 6 (0.24%) Ceph
11 6 (0.24%) NFS
12 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
12 5 (0.20%) Postfix
13 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.16%) Firmware
13 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,050 (41.70%) Kubernetes
2 612 (24.31%) Ansible
3 318 (12.63%) Grafana
4 247 (9.81%) Prometheus
5 83 (3.30%) Argo
6 60 (2.38%) Puppet
7 56 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 54 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.59%) Packer
10 34 (1.35%) Istio
11 31 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (1.11%) vCenter Server
13 26 (1.03%) Kibana
14 23 (0.91%) Kustomize
15 21 (0.83%) Kubeflow
16 20 (0.79%) SCCM
17 18 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
18 17 (0.68%) Data Guard
19 14 (0.56%) VxRail
20 13 (0.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 502 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 249 (9.89%) Google
3 155 (6.16%) VMware
4 151 (6.00%) Databricks
5 143 (5.68%) Splunk
6 106 (4.21%) Oracle
7 103 (4.09%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.18%) Cisco
9 75 (2.98%) ServiceNow
10 69 (2.74%) Red Hat
11 66 (2.62%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.55%) F5
14 34 (1.35%) Arista
15 33 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 29 (1.15%) CyberArk
16 29 (1.15%) Informatica
17 27 (1.07%) Foundry
17 27 (1.07%) Okta
18 26 (1.03%) CrowdStrike