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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 41 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,637 1,435 1,671
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.48% 4.65% 4.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.94% 32.58% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 978 1,278
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £666
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 24
10th Percentile £41.10 £57.50 £60.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £62.47
Median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.93% -3.31% +1.53%
75th Percentile £62.81 £74.72 £78.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £77.50 £79.40
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -19.93% -1.33% +19.05%

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 4,823 4,405 5,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.14% 14.26% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,231 2,834 4,111
10th Percentile £309 £313 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £658
90th Percentile £693 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 54 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.83 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% -22.96% +90.59%
75th Percentile £64.88 £64.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.83 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -38.10% +104.20%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +3 854 £525 -12.50% 851
North of England +3 330 £514 +2.75% 227
Yorkshire +4 193 £515 +14.44% 50
Midlands +3 129 £540 -3.05% 73
South West +20 120 £553 -3.91% 108
South East -5 120 £500 -14.09% 237
West Midlands -1 111 £550 -1.74% 45
North West -18 93 £500 -9.09% 156
North East +11 46 £508 -2.31% 21
East of England -16 34 £475 -9.52% 40
East Midlands -1 18 £450 +12.36% 28
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 91 (5.56%) Confluence
2 55 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (2.99%) nginx
4 38 (2.32%) Apache
5 34 (2.08%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.37%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
8 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.18%) WordPress
11 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.12%) Documentum
Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.24%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
5 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Endur
2 3 (0.18%) Maximo
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.061%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 992 (60.60%) AWS
2 650 (39.71%) Azure
3 437 (26.70%) GitHub
4 305 (18.63%) GCP
5 269 (16.43%) GitHub Actions
6 265 (16.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 262 (16.00%) Serverless
8 244 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
9 217 (13.26%) Amazon S3
10 159 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
11 155 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 148 (9.04%) Amazon EC2
13 123 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
14 122 (7.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 102 (6.23%) Entra ID
16 98 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
17 87 (5.31%) Azure AKS
18 84 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 82 (5.01%) OpenShift
20 72 (4.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (10.26%) Firewall
2 131 (8.00%) DNS
3 85 (5.19%) VPN
4 68 (4.15%) Network Security
5 54 (3.30%) TCP/IP
6 42 (2.57%) SSL
7 38 (2.32%) HTTP
8 31 (1.89%) WAN
9 27 (1.65%) BGP
10 26 (1.59%) DHCP
10 26 (1.59%) SSH
11 25 (1.53%) SMTP
12 24 (1.47%) LAN
13 23 (1.41%) FTP
13 23 (1.41%) OSPF
14 22 (1.34%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.86%) MPLS
15 14 (0.86%) VXLAN
16 12 (0.73%) IMAP
16 12 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (7.15%) Amazon RDS
3 87 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 64 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 47 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 44 (2.69%) Data Lake
7 38 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
9 36 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 32 (1.95%) Power BI
11 31 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 29 (1.77%) Redis
13 25 (1.53%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.41%) MySQL
14 23 (1.41%) SQL Server
15 14 (0.86%) Tableau
16 13 (0.79%) Big Data
16 13 (0.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 390 (23.82%) Jenkins
2 334 (20.40%) GitLab
3 249 (15.21%) Git
4 127 (7.76%) JIRA
5 57 (3.48%) SonarQube
6 39 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 36 (2.20%) Liquibase
8 33 (2.02%) CircleCI
9 31 (1.89%) Maven
9 31 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 24 (1.47%) Bitbucket
10 24 (1.47%) Vagrant
11 23 (1.41%) Gradle
12 18 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 13 (0.79%) Selenium
13 13 (0.79%) Snyk
14 11 (0.67%) JUnit
15 10 (0.61%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.55%) Robot Framework
17 8 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 404 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 266 (16.25%) Public Sector
3 217 (13.26%) Finance
4 114 (6.96%) Banking
5 90 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 25 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (1.34%) Retail
9 21 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.28%) Military
10 18 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 14 (0.86%) Marketing
12 12 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.55%) Publishing
14 8 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 386 (23.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 220 (13.44%) AWS Engineer
3 212 (12.95%) Senior
4 191 (11.67%) Architect
5 154 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
6 145 (8.86%) Developer
7 140 (8.55%) Lead
8 135 (8.25%) AWS DevOps
9 121 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 113 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
11 111 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 87 (5.31%) Data Engineer
12 87 (5.31%) Software Engineer
13 74 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 71 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 63 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
16 56 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
17 53 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 50 (3.05%) Python Engineer
19 47 (2.87%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (8.43%) Kafka
2 102 (6.23%) REST
3 96 (5.86%) Node.js
3 96 (5.86%) RESTful
4 93 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
4 93 (5.68%) React
5 71 (4.34%) ARM Templates
6 70 (4.28%) .NET
7 55 (3.36%) OAuth
8 53 (3.24%) YAML
9 46 (2.81%) Spring Boot
10 39 (2.38%) AWS CDK
10 39 (2.38%) Spring
11 35 (2.14%) AngularJS
12 33 (2.02%) OAuth2
13 32 (1.95%) OpenID
14 31 (1.89%) Keycloak
15 28 (1.71%) PySpark
16 27 (1.65%) FastAPI
16 27 (1.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 275 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (4.34%) Public Cloud
4 61 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 53 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.44%) Replication
7 38 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 35 (2.14%) NHS
9 32 (1.95%) Product Ownership
10 29 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.71%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.59%) Security Posture
13 20 (1.22%) PKI
14 19 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.79%) AI Agents
17 13 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
17 13 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
18 12 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 328 (20.04%) Linux
2 140 (8.55%) Windows
3 57 (3.48%) Unix
4 44 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (2.69%) VMS
5 41 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (1.34%) CentOS
8 19 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.49%) Solaris
11 4 (0.24%) Android
11 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.12%) zOS
13 1 (0.061%) Debian
13 1 (0.061%) MVS
13 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,052 (64.26%) CI/CD
2 1,029 (62.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,020 (62.31%) DevOps
4 423 (25.84%) Containerisation
5 415 (25.35%) Agile
6 240 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (14.11%) Microservices
8 225 (13.74%) Observability
9 221 (13.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 217 (13.26%) Platform Engineering
11 209 (12.77%) Migration
12 186 (11.36%) Software Engineering
13 162 (9.90%) Test Automation
14 158 (9.65%) Cloud Security
15 149 (9.10%) DevSecOps
15 149 (9.10%) Mentoring
16 146 (8.92%) High Availability
17 138 (8.43%) AI
18 130 (7.94%) Analytics
19 125 (7.64%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 816 (49.85%) Python
2 281 (17.17%) Bash
3 236 (14.42%) PowerShell
4 219 (13.38%) Java
5 217 (13.26%) SQL
6 152 (9.29%) Go
7 99 (6.05%) Bicep
8 98 (5.99%) JavaScript
9 95 (5.80%) TypeScript
10 74 (4.52%) C#
11 48 (2.93%) Shell Script
12 43 (2.63%) Groovy
13 28 (1.71%) Perl
14 15 (0.92%) C++
15 14 (0.86%) PHP
16 12 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.73%) Ruby
17 11 (0.67%) Scala
18 10 (0.61%) C
19 9 (0.55%) Korn
Qualifications
1 554 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 461 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 117 (7.15%) AWS Certification
4 106 (6.48%) Degree
5 94 (5.74%) Azure Certification
6 84 (5.13%) DV Cleared
7 67 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.87%) Master's Degree
9 39 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.22%) CISSP
13 18 (1.10%) CCIE
14 17 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.04%) CCNP
15 16 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.73%) JNCIE
17 8 (0.49%) CISM
18 7 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.97%) GDPR
2 62 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (3.12%) NIST
4 40 (2.44%) QA
5 38 (2.32%) Data Quality
6 36 (2.20%) NCSC
7 19 (1.16%) SOC 2
8 17 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.67%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.43%) SLA
11 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.31%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.24%) GRC
13 4 (0.24%) HL7
13 4 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.18%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.18%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 567 (34.64%) Docker
2 116 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 76 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.02%) VMware NSX
4 33 (2.02%) vSphere
5 27 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.41%) DFS Replication
7 15 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.79%) Squid
9 12 (0.73%) Dovecot
9 12 (0.73%) Postfix
10 11 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.61%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.37%) KVM
13 4 (0.24%) NFS
14 3 (0.18%) GPFS
14 3 (0.18%) Lustre
14 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.061%) iptables
Systems Management
1 692 (42.27%) Kubernetes
2 477 (29.14%) Ansible
3 272 (16.62%) Grafana
4 253 (15.46%) Prometheus
5 63 (3.85%) Puppet
6 59 (3.60%) Argo
6 59 (3.60%) Packer
7 40 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.83%) Istio
10 29 (1.77%) Consul
11 23 (1.41%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.98%) Podman
13 16 (0.98%) Proxmox
14 15 (0.92%) Nessus
15 14 (0.86%) Kibana
16 13 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.55%) PowerCLI
17 9 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 204 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.45%) Google
3 120 (7.33%) Splunk
4 100 (6.11%) VMware
5 89 (5.44%) Databricks
6 67 (4.09%) F5
7 58 (3.54%) Red Hat
8 48 (2.93%) Palo Alto
9 46 (2.81%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.50%) Dynatrace
11 39 (2.38%) Cisco
12 33 (2.02%) CheckPoint
13 32 (1.95%) Oracle
14 24 (1.47%) IBM
15 21 (1.28%) Fortinet
15 21 (1.28%) Juniper
16 20 (1.22%) OpenAI
17 14 (0.86%) Citrix
17 14 (0.86%) Zscaler
18 12 (0.73%) Dell