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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,138 1,243 1,338
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.98% 5.02% 3.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.69% 31.84% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 876 998
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £43.91 £26.60 £44.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £48.81
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.40 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,672 3,904 4,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.78% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,629 3,344
10th Percentile £320 £305 £290
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 39 92
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.17
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.32 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% +44.72% -44.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £50.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -43.48%

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 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 1,169 £550 +3.33% 327
North of England +22 438 £500 -2.44% 261
Yorkshire +6 219 £500 -4.76% 77
North West +33 162 £525 +5.00% 130
South East -23 155 £525 +5.00% 291
Midlands -17 126 £518 -4.12% 123
South West -6 125 £550 -10.57% 112
West Midlands -10 103 £525 -4.55% 66
North East +3 70 £425 -13.27% 54
East of England -17 46 £513 +2.50% 137
East Midlands -18 22 £450 -10.00% 57
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 99 (4.63%) Confluence
2 93 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 69 (3.23%) Apache
5 34 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 33 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.03%) nginx
8 12 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.51%) SAS
10 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.094%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.094%) Drupal
14 2 (0.094%) Traefik
14 2 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.047%) InDesign
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.094%) Endur
4 2 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.047%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (55.24%) AWS
2 1,039 (48.60%) Azure
3 585 (27.36%) GitHub
4 440 (20.58%) GCP
5 397 (18.57%) GitHub Actions
6 368 (17.21%) Serverless
7 357 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
8 285 (13.33%) Amazon S3
9 265 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 265 (12.39%) AWS Lambda
10 204 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
11 170 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 148 (6.92%) Azure AKS
13 146 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
13 146 (6.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 135 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 127 (5.94%) Entra ID
16 124 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
17 108 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
17 108 (5.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 216 (10.10%) Firewall
2 137 (6.41%) DNS
3 113 (5.29%) VPN
4 102 (4.77%) Network Security
5 75 (3.51%) WAN
6 60 (2.81%) BGP
7 44 (2.06%) SD-WAN
8 42 (1.96%) OSPF
9 35 (1.64%) VXLAN
10 34 (1.59%) TCP/IP
11 28 (1.31%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.12%) BIG-IP
12 24 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 20 (0.94%) SAN
14 18 (0.84%) DHCP
15 17 (0.80%) SSL
15 17 (0.80%) VLAN
16 16 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
17 15 (0.70%) LAN
17 15 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (3.93%) Data Lake
5 79 (3.70%) Power BI
6 65 (3.04%) BigQuery
7 64 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 64 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 60 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
9 58 (2.71%) NoSQL
10 55 (2.57%) DynamoDB
11 52 (2.43%) Delta Lake
12 51 (2.39%) MongoDB
13 40 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 37 (1.73%) Redis
15 35 (1.64%) Relational Database
16 31 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.40%) Big Data
18 29 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
19 28 (1.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 383 (17.91%) GitLab
2 380 (17.77%) Jenkins
3 292 (13.66%) Git
4 139 (6.50%) JIRA
5 45 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.59%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.08%) Maven
9 18 (0.84%) Snyk
10 16 (0.75%) MLflow
10 16 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 13 (0.61%) Gatling
12 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.47%) git-flow
13 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.42%) JUnit
15 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.33%) Mockito
16 7 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 382 (17.87%) Social Skills
2 311 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 236 (11.04%) Finance
4 107 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.16%) Banking
6 61 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.50%) Retail
9 21 (0.98%) Legal
9 21 (0.98%) Military
10 16 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (0.75%) Law
11 15 (0.70%) Publishing
11 15 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.42%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 483 (22.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 350 (16.37%) Senior
3 244 (11.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 219 (10.24%) Architect
5 210 (9.82%) Azure Engineer
6 207 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
7 181 (8.47%) Data Engineer
8 175 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
9 170 (7.95%) Developer
10 166 (7.76%) Lead
11 126 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (5.33%) GCP Engineer
13 104 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
14 95 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 95 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 80 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
15 80 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 76 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 75 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.33%) Kafka
2 108 (5.05%) React
3 107 (5.00%) Node.js
4 105 (4.91%) REST
5 102 (4.77%) .NET
6 100 (4.68%) PySpark
7 83 (3.88%) OAuth
8 73 (3.41%) RESTful
9 72 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
10 67 (3.13%) ARM Templates
11 63 (2.95%) YAML
12 62 (2.90%) Spring
13 60 (2.81%) OpenID
14 59 (2.76%) Spring Boot
15 56 (2.62%) OAuth2
16 53 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
17 44 (2.06%) JSON
18 41 (1.92%) AngularJS
19 40 (1.87%) AWS CDK
20 32 (1.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 509 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 105 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.54%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 64 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 59 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 41 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 34 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 31 (1.45%) Replication
12 28 (1.31%) PKI
13 27 (1.26%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
13 27 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.03%) NHS
16 17 (0.80%) Management Information System
17 15 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 302 (14.13%) Linux
2 162 (7.58%) Windows
3 74 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.68%) VMS
6 26 (1.22%) Unix
7 25 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.61%) CentOS
9 8 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.33%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.094%) Debian
14 2 (0.094%) Solaris
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,466 (68.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,444 (67.54%) CI/CD
3 1,282 (59.96%) DevOps
4 511 (23.90%) Containerisation
5 500 (23.39%) Agile
6 439 (20.53%) Observability
7 406 (18.99%) Platform Engineering
8 308 (14.41%) AI
9 261 (12.21%) Migration
10 250 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
11 248 (11.60%) Analytics
12 230 (10.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 221 (10.34%) Test Automation
14 217 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 215 (10.06%) Software Engineering
16 214 (10.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 212 (9.92%) Cloud Security
18 207 (9.68%) Microservices
19 203 (9.49%) Infrastructure Automation
20 184 (8.61%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 984 (46.02%) Python
2 355 (16.60%) SQL
3 308 (14.41%) Bash
4 296 (13.84%) PowerShell
5 240 (11.23%) Java
6 196 (9.17%) Bicep
7 121 (5.66%) JavaScript
8 109 (5.10%) C#
8 109 (5.10%) TypeScript
9 82 (3.84%) Go
10 49 (2.29%) Scala
11 41 (1.92%) Groovy
12 34 (1.59%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.84%) Ruby
13 18 (0.84%) Rust
14 9 (0.42%) R
15 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.33%) C
16 7 (0.33%) Perl
16 7 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 748 (34.99%) Security Cleared
2 623 (29.14%) SC Cleared
3 145 (6.78%) Azure Certification
4 131 (6.13%) DV Cleared
5 116 (5.43%) AWS Certification
6 77 (3.60%) Degree
7 62 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 44 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 31 (1.45%) CISSP
12 27 (1.26%) CCNP
13 17 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.75%) CCNA
15 15 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.61%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.47%) OCP
18 10 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 59 (2.76%) QA
3 56 (2.62%) GDPR
4 52 (2.43%) NIST
5 49 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.73%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.64%) NCSC
8 34 (1.59%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.56%) SLA
9 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.51%) WCAG
11 10 (0.47%) GRC
12 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.23%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) HL7
16 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 577 (26.99%) Docker
2 93 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 77 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.26%) vSphere
8 23 (1.08%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.89%) Squid
10 11 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.47%) KVM
11 10 (0.47%) NFS
11 10 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.094%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.094%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.094%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 800 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 470 (21.98%) Ansible
3 265 (12.39%) Grafana
4 240 (11.23%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.74%) Argo
6 48 (2.25%) Puppet
7 44 (2.06%) Istio
8 38 (1.78%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.40%) Packer
10 29 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.08%) vCenter Server
12 22 (1.03%) FortiGate
12 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.80%) Kibana
14 14 (0.65%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.56%) Consul
15 12 (0.56%) Podman
15 12 (0.56%) Rancher
16 11 (0.51%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 308 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 209 (9.78%) Google
3 128 (5.99%) Databricks
4 115 (5.38%) Splunk
5 103 (4.82%) VMware
6 85 (3.98%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.51%) Oracle
8 69 (3.23%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.39%) Palo Alto
11 50 (2.34%) Cisco
12 36 (1.68%) F5
13 34 (1.59%) Arista
14 32 (1.50%) OpenAI
15 26 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 25 (1.17%) Zscaler
17 23 (1.08%) Aruba
18 22 (1.03%) IBM
18 22 (1.03%) Pure Storage
19 21 (0.98%) Foundry