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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,030 1,274 1,255
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.11% 5.18% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.84% 33.21% 28.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 926 935
10th Percentile £400 £404 £419
25th Percentile £438 £475 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £559
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.57% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £43.65
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £68.13 £74.44
90th Percentile £83.30 £78.58 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -20.00%

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 5,511 3,836 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.88% 15.61% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,817 2,661 3,203
10th Percentile £320 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 35 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £22.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -48.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.50 £52.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.22 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.94% -11.83% -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 April 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 April 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 April 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 0 1,098 £530 -7.83% 246
North of England +13 391 £500 -4.76% 130
Yorkshire +13 219 £500 -4.76% 23
South East -6 157 £500 -3.61% 115
North West +17 134 £525 +0.02% 73
Midlands -2 133 £525 -4.72% 46
South West -8 123 £550 -10.57% 62
West Midlands -1 106 £531 -7.70% 32
North East -6 45 £475 -9.09% 34
East of England -14 36 £475 -9.95% 40
East Midlands -22 26 £449 -10.30% 14
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 85 (4.19%) Apache Spark
2 83 (4.09%) Confluence
3 62 (3.05%) Apache
4 59 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
5 35 (1.72%) nginx
6 21 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 16 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.30%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.099%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.099%) CMS
12 2 (0.099%) Drupal
12 2 (0.099%) Traefik
12 2 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.099%) Weka
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.049%) Actimize
4 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.049%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,093 (53.84%) AWS
2 972 (47.88%) Azure
3 570 (28.08%) GitHub
4 399 (19.66%) GCP
5 373 (18.37%) Serverless
6 371 (18.28%) GitHub Actions
7 356 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
8 334 (16.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 277 (13.65%) Amazon S3
10 265 (13.05%) AWS Lambda
11 198 (9.75%) Amazon EKS
12 149 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
13 148 (7.29%) Azure AKS
14 145 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
15 141 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 136 (6.70%) OpenShift
17 128 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
18 122 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 120 (5.91%) Entra ID
20 116 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 185 (9.11%) Firewall
2 135 (6.65%) DNS
3 110 (5.42%) VPN
4 99 (4.88%) Network Security
5 43 (2.12%) WAN
6 36 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 34 (1.67%) BGP
8 24 (1.18%) SD-WAN
9 23 (1.13%) DHCP
10 22 (1.08%) OSPF
11 20 (0.99%) LAN
12 19 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
13 15 (0.74%) VXLAN
14 13 (0.64%) SAN
14 13 (0.64%) SSL
15 11 (0.54%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.49%) VLAN
17 9 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
18 8 (0.39%) IPsec
18 8 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
3 85 (4.19%) Data Lake
4 76 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
5 75 (3.69%) Power BI
6 65 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.86%) BigQuery
8 55 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 54 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 54 (2.66%) DynamoDB
10 50 (2.46%) MongoDB
11 49 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (2.27%) Delta Lake
14 36 (1.77%) Relational Database
15 34 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
16 32 (1.58%) Redis
17 30 (1.48%) Tableau
18 29 (1.43%) Big Data
19 28 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 374 (18.42%) Jenkins
2 317 (15.62%) GitLab
3 283 (13.94%) Git
4 120 (5.91%) JIRA
5 47 (2.32%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.28%) Maven
9 19 (0.94%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.89%) MLflow
11 17 (0.84%) Gatling
12 16 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
13 15 (0.74%) Liquibase
14 12 (0.59%) Snyk
15 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.44%) git-flow
16 9 (0.44%) JUnit
16 9 (0.44%) Terragrunt
17 7 (0.34%) Gradle
17 7 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 374 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 292 (14.38%) Public Sector
3 216 (10.64%) Finance
4 104 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.29%) Banking
6 57 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.08%) Retail
9 19 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.84%) Legal
11 13 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.59%) Law
12 12 (0.59%) Military
13 11 (0.54%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.39%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.34%) Publishing
17 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.30%) Front Office
18 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 439 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 285 (14.04%) Senior
3 233 (11.48%) Architect
4 197 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 194 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 186 (9.16%) Developer
7 183 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
8 168 (8.28%) Data Engineer
9 162 (7.98%) Lead
10 158 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
11 111 (5.47%) GCP Engineer
12 106 (5.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 105 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
14 98 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 92 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 87 (4.29%) Site Engineer
17 81 (3.99%) Software Engineer
18 73 (3.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 70 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 64 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (9.11%) Kafka
2 128 (6.31%) Node.js
3 113 (5.57%) React
4 109 (5.37%) .NET
5 104 (5.12%) REST
6 79 (3.89%) PySpark
7 74 (3.65%) ARM Templates
8 71 (3.50%) OAuth
9 70 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 70 (3.45%) RESTful
10 67 (3.30%) Spring
11 66 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (2.96%) Spring Boot
13 53 (2.61%) AngularJS
13 53 (2.61%) YAML
14 50 (2.46%) OpenID
15 40 (1.97%) OAuth2
16 39 (1.92%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.77%) JSON
18 33 (1.63%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 403 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 99 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 97 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 68 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 52 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 40 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.67%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.48%) NHS
11 28 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.38%) PKI
12 26 (1.28%) Replication
12 26 (1.28%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 20 (0.99%) AI Agents
15 18 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (0.79%) Clustering
17 14 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 336 (16.55%) Linux
2 148 (7.29%) Windows
3 47 (2.32%) VMS
4 45 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.12%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.67%) Unix
7 15 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.44%) CentOS
9 7 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.099%) Debian
10 2 (0.099%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.099%) zOS
11 1 (0.049%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) Android
11 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.049%) Rocky
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,349 (66.45%) CI/CD
2 1,307 (64.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,195 (58.87%) DevOps
4 493 (24.29%) Containerisation
5 453 (22.32%) Agile
6 395 (19.46%) Observability
7 327 (16.11%) Platform Engineering
8 274 (13.50%) Migration
9 268 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (12.66%) Analytics
11 238 (11.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 236 (11.63%) AI
13 223 (10.99%) Microservices
14 215 (10.59%) Software Engineering
15 206 (10.15%) Test Automation
16 198 (9.75%) Infrastructure Automation
17 197 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 185 (9.11%) Cloud Security
19 182 (8.97%) DevSecOps
20 167 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 943 (46.45%) Python
2 334 (16.45%) SQL
3 287 (14.14%) Bash
4 277 (13.65%) PowerShell
5 235 (11.58%) Java
6 180 (8.87%) Bicep
7 125 (6.16%) JavaScript
8 120 (5.91%) C#
9 116 (5.71%) TypeScript
10 94 (4.63%) Go
11 49 (2.41%) Scala
12 44 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.72%) Ruby
14 32 (1.58%) Groovy
15 14 (0.69%) Rust
16 8 (0.39%) C
17 7 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.34%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 725 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 611 (30.10%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.85%) Azure Certification
4 118 (5.81%) AWS Certification
5 115 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 78 (3.84%) Degree
7 66 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 51 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.43%) CCNP
13 26 (1.28%) CISSP
14 18 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
16 14 (0.69%) OCP
17 13 (0.64%) CCIE
17 13 (0.64%) CCNA
17 13 (0.64%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.55%) GDPR
3 64 (3.15%) QA
4 55 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (2.66%) NIST
6 38 (1.87%) NCSC
7 34 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.64%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.54%) GRC
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.39%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.25%) HL7
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.099%) PSD2
15 2 (0.099%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 566 (27.88%) Docker
2 92 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.43%) vSphere
8 26 (1.28%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.54%) Squid
10 8 (0.39%) KVM
11 7 (0.34%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) Lustre
13 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.15%) Ceph
16 2 (0.099%) Corosync
16 2 (0.099%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 807 (39.75%) Kubernetes
2 490 (24.14%) Ansible
3 273 (13.45%) Grafana
4 238 (11.72%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.99%) Argo
6 49 (2.41%) Istio
7 45 (2.22%) Puppet
8 38 (1.87%) Packer
9 36 (1.77%) Progress Chef
10 29 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
11 25 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.13%) Consul
12 23 (1.13%) Kibana
13 18 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.89%) Rancher
14 17 (0.84%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.59%) Podman
16 11 (0.54%) linkerd
17 9 (0.44%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 327 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 183 (9.01%) Google
3 143 (7.04%) Databricks
4 123 (6.06%) Splunk
5 110 (5.42%) VMware
6 88 (4.33%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.91%) Oracle
8 54 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 46 (2.27%) Dynatrace
10 44 (2.17%) Cisco
11 27 (1.33%) Pure Storage
12 26 (1.28%) Fortinet
13 24 (1.18%) IBM
14 23 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 19 (0.94%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.94%) OpenAI
16 17 (0.84%) F5
16 17 (0.84%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.79%) Citrix
17 16 (0.79%) PagerDuty