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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,288 1,367 1,381
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.00% 3.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.32% 32.45% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 942 1,005
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 10
10th Percentile £54.74 £47.65 £44.75
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -17.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83.77 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.76 £79.98 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -5.30% -15.38%

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 5,970 4,213 4,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.30% 15.41% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,072 2,800 3,315
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £611 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.74% -5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 53 77
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.43
25th Percentile £35.22 £26.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +83.33% -45.45%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.90 £82.37 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £38.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +56.23% +26.67% -47.83%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +2 1,195 £550 +1.29% 460
North of England +21 496 £500 - 171
Yorkshire +1 230 £500 -1.23% 50
North West +43 202 £558 +8.78% 95
South East -17 188 £550 +10.00% 135
South West -1 150 £550 -8.33% 90
Midlands -14 136 £512 -0.20% 49
West Midlands -19 112 £512 -7.00% 38
North East -3 77 £425 -13.27% 27
East of England -10 52 £549 +9.86% 17
East Midlands -13 22 £488 -2.50% 11
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
1 117 (5.11%) Confluence
2 91 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (3.28%) Apache
5 37 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.01%) nginx
8 13 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.57%) SAS
9 9 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.087%) Drupal
12 2 (0.087%) Traefik
12 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.044%) InDesign
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (56.56%) AWS
2 1,131 (49.43%) Azure
3 612 (26.75%) GitHub
4 459 (20.06%) GCP
5 421 (18.40%) GitHub Actions
6 377 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
7 335 (14.64%) Serverless
8 276 (12.06%) Amazon S3
9 263 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 247 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
11 206 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
12 168 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (6.77%) Entra ID
14 152 (6.64%) Azure AKS
15 144 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
16 132 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 131 (5.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 124 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
19 116 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
20 93 (4.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 252 (11.01%) Firewall
2 180 (7.87%) DNS
3 134 (5.86%) VPN
4 102 (4.46%) Network Security
5 79 (3.45%) WAN
6 70 (3.06%) BGP
7 68 (2.97%) TCP/IP
8 54 (2.36%) DHCP
9 50 (2.19%) OSPF
10 43 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.62%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.40%) VLAN
13 28 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
15 21 (0.92%) SSH
16 19 (0.83%) SAN
16 19 (0.83%) SSL
17 17 (0.74%) IPsec
17 17 (0.74%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 69 (3.02%) Power BI
7 67 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 62 (2.71%) BigQuery
9 62 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 59 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
11 54 (2.36%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.19%) Delta Lake
13 47 (2.05%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
15 39 (1.70%) Oracle Database
16 37 (1.62%) Redis
17 30 (1.31%) Metadata
18 29 (1.27%) Big Data
19 28 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 409 (17.88%) GitLab
2 386 (16.87%) Jenkins
3 335 (14.64%) Git
4 146 (6.38%) JIRA
5 42 (1.84%) SonarQube
6 28 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.18%) Artifactory
8 26 (1.14%) Maven
9 21 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (0.83%) MLflow
11 18 (0.79%) Snyk
12 13 (0.57%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.57%) JUnit
13 11 (0.48%) Gatling
13 11 (0.48%) MSI
14 10 (0.44%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
15 9 (0.39%) Mockito
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 410 (17.92%) Social Skills
2 342 (14.95%) Public Sector
3 283 (12.37%) Finance
4 129 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (3.72%) Banking
6 65 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (1.88%) Retail
9 27 (1.18%) Military
10 25 (1.09%) Legal
11 23 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Publishing
13 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.66%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 518 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 404 (17.66%) Senior
3 250 (10.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 221 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
5 214 (9.35%) Architect
6 212 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
7 200 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
8 190 (8.30%) Lead
9 189 (8.26%) Developer
10 173 (7.56%) Data Engineer
11 150 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
13 101 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.33%) GCP Engineer
14 99 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
15 95 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 82 (3.58%) Network Engineer
17 80 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 79 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (7.56%) Kafka
2 148 (6.47%) REST
3 110 (4.81%) .NET
4 105 (4.59%) React
5 99 (4.33%) Node.js
6 97 (4.24%) PySpark
7 86 (3.76%) RESTful
8 77 (3.37%) ARM Templates
9 76 (3.32%) OAuth
10 69 (3.02%) YAML
11 61 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 59 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
12 59 (2.58%) Spring
13 56 (2.45%) Spring Boot
14 52 (2.27%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.19%) JSON
16 48 (2.10%) OpenID
17 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
18 35 (1.53%) AWS CDK
19 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 544 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 136 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 121 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 78 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 55 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 40 (1.75%) PKI
10 37 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 36 (1.57%) Replication
12 32 (1.40%) Private Cloud
13 31 (1.35%) AI Agents
13 31 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.27%) NHS
15 27 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 25 (1.09%) Management Information System
17 24 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 385 (16.83%) Linux
2 221 (9.66%) Windows
3 85 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.40%) VMS
6 31 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.22%) Unix
8 17 (0.74%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.087%) Solaris
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,607 (70.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,535 (67.09%) CI/CD
3 1,345 (58.78%) DevOps
4 564 (24.65%) Agile
5 554 (24.21%) Containerisation
6 495 (21.63%) Observability
7 469 (20.50%) Platform Engineering
8 329 (14.38%) AI
9 285 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
10 279 (12.19%) Migration
11 270 (11.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 253 (11.06%) Test Automation
13 251 (10.97%) Analytics
14 250 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 243 (10.62%) Software Engineering
16 241 (10.53%) Cloud Security
17 222 (9.70%) Microservices
18 221 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 220 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
20 206 (9.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,068 (46.68%) Python
2 397 (17.35%) Bash
3 379 (16.56%) PowerShell
4 343 (14.99%) SQL
5 264 (11.54%) Java
6 236 (10.31%) Bicep
7 133 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.29%) TypeScript
9 119 (5.20%) C#
10 82 (3.58%) Go
11 49 (2.14%) Scala
12 48 (2.10%) Groovy
13 32 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.74%) Rust
15 16 (0.70%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 10 (0.44%) R
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 817 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 664 (29.02%) SC Cleared
3 170 (7.43%) DV Cleared
4 150 (6.56%) Azure Certification
5 117 (5.11%) AWS Certification
6 87 (3.80%) Degree
7 64 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 49 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.40%) CCNP
13 30 (1.31%) CISSP
14 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 17 (0.74%) CCNA
15 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) CCIE
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
17 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.06%) QA
3 48 (2.10%) GDPR
4 46 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.70%) NCSC
6 38 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.66%) NIST
7 22 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.79%) WCAG
9 10 (0.44%) SLA
10 9 (0.39%) GRC
11 7 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 612 (26.75%) Docker
2 138 (6.03%) Active Directory
3 99 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 41 (1.79%) Hyper-V
7 40 (1.75%) vSphere
8 39 (1.70%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
10 16 (0.70%) Squid
10 16 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 9 (0.39%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Ceph
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 869 (37.98%) Kubernetes
2 525 (22.95%) Ansible
3 287 (12.54%) Grafana
4 243 (10.62%) Prometheus
5 93 (4.06%) Argo
6 57 (2.49%) Puppet
7 44 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.53%) Packer
9 32 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.35%) Istio
11 29 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 18 (0.79%) Kibana
14 18 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
15 17 (0.74%) Data Guard
15 17 (0.74%) Podman
16 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
17 12 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 377 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 196 (8.57%) Google
3 131 (5.73%) VMware
4 130 (5.68%) Splunk
5 121 (5.29%) Databricks
6 101 (4.41%) Oracle
7 85 (3.72%) Red Hat
8 73 (3.19%) Dynatrace
9 68 (2.97%) Cisco
9 68 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.67%) Palo Alto
11 42 (1.84%) F5
12 35 (1.53%) Arista
13 34 (1.49%) OpenAI
14 30 (1.31%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.31%) Zscaler
15 24 (1.05%) Aruba
15 24 (1.05%) Informatica
16 22 (0.96%) Foundry
16 22 (0.96%) Juniper