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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,432 1,420 1,382
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.27% 5.12% 4.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.78% 20.41% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 982 993
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.98% -7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £733
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £43.63 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £84.02 £61.63 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.13 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -7.61%

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 9,813 6,959 8,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.08% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,443 4,755 5,537
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 162 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.82 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.39% -14.77% -1.83%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +4 1,279 £550 +2.33% 1,062
North of England +5 508 £500 -2.68% 228
Yorkshire -3 234 £513 -0.24% 70
South East -9 218 £560 +11.89% 238
North West +23 191 £570 +8.57% 115
South West +6 188 £556 +1.09% 130
Midlands -25 125 £488 -9.72% 84
West Midlands -32 102 £512 -7.00% 55
North East 0 95 £425 -16.67% 44
East of England -9 49 £537 +9.34% 49
East Midlands -7 22 £425 -12.82% 29
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
1 113 (4.65%) Confluence
2 100 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 96 (3.95%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.45%) Apache
5 45 (1.85%) Jupyter
6 39 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 27 (1.11%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 5 (0.21%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.082%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.082%) PowerExchange
14 2 (0.082%) Traefik
14 2 (0.082%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.041%) Houdini
4 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.041%) NUKE
4 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.082%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.082%) Endur
2 2 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,385 (56.95%) AWS
2 1,225 (50.37%) Azure
3 667 (27.43%) GitHub
4 477 (19.61%) GCP
5 473 (19.45%) GitHub Actions
6 438 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
7 358 (14.72%) Serverless
8 279 (11.47%) Amazon S3
9 264 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
10 259 (10.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
12 200 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 187 (7.69%) Entra ID
14 166 (6.83%) Azure AKS
15 149 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
16 144 (5.92%) Azure Monitor
17 140 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 128 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
19 126 (5.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 100 (4.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 277 (11.39%) Firewall
2 199 (8.18%) DNS
3 130 (5.35%) VPN
4 115 (4.73%) Network Security
5 88 (3.62%) TCP/IP
6 81 (3.33%) DHCP
7 77 (3.17%) WAN
8 65 (2.67%) BGP
9 48 (1.97%) OSPF
10 46 (1.89%) SD-WAN
11 41 (1.69%) VLAN
12 31 (1.27%) VSAN
12 31 (1.27%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 26 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.03%) SSH
16 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
17 23 (0.95%) SSL
18 17 (0.70%) Internet
18 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (3.21%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
6 74 (3.04%) DynamoDB
6 74 (3.04%) SQL Server
7 73 (3.00%) NoSQL
8 69 (2.84%) MongoDB
8 69 (2.84%) Power BI
9 62 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 61 (2.51%) BigQuery
11 49 (2.01%) MySQL
12 48 (1.97%) Redis
12 48 (1.97%) Relational Database
13 46 (1.89%) Delta Lake
14 43 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
15 41 (1.69%) Metadata
16 36 (1.48%) Big Data
17 35 (1.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 454 (18.67%) GitLab
2 397 (16.32%) Jenkins
3 368 (15.13%) Git
4 142 (5.84%) JIRA
5 45 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.36%) Maven
7 31 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (0.95%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.78%) Snyk
12 17 (0.70%) Selenium
12 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.58%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) JUnit
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 9 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 486 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 360 (14.80%) Public Sector
3 329 (13.53%) Finance
4 144 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (4.07%) Banking
6 73 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (2.10%) Retail
8 35 (1.44%) Military
9 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 20 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 19 (0.78%) Legal
11 19 (0.78%) Publishing
12 18 (0.74%) Law
13 17 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.62%) Local Government
15 14 (0.58%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.53%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 533 (21.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 440 (18.09%) Senior
3 263 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 233 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
5 227 (9.33%) Platform Engineer
6 221 (9.09%) Developer
7 219 (9.00%) AWS Engineer
8 213 (8.76%) Architect
9 205 (8.43%) Lead
10 175 (7.20%) Data Engineer
11 161 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 102 (4.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 102 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
13 101 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
14 99 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 98 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 94 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
18 83 (3.41%) Network Engineer
19 81 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (7.69%) Kafka
2 163 (6.70%) REST
3 124 (5.10%) .NET
4 112 (4.61%) React
5 105 (4.32%) ARM Templates
6 94 (3.87%) PySpark
6 94 (3.87%) RESTful
7 93 (3.82%) Node.js
8 84 (3.45%) OAuth
9 79 (3.25%) YAML
10 59 (2.43%) Spring
11 58 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
12 57 (2.34%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.30%) Spring Boot
14 55 (2.26%) OpenID
15 51 (2.10%) JSON
16 46 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
17 42 (1.73%) HTML
18 39 (1.60%) AWS CDK
19 37 (1.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 576 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 148 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (4.15%) Data Centre
5 94 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 85 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 76 (3.13%) Security Posture
8 74 (3.04%) Public Cloud
9 53 (2.18%) AI Agents
9 53 (2.18%) PKI
10 52 (2.14%) Replication
11 48 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 48 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 43 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
14 39 (1.60%) Private Cloud
15 35 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
16 33 (1.36%) NHS
17 32 (1.32%) Management Information System
18 28 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 439 (18.05%) Linux
2 246 (10.12%) Windows
3 88 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.64%) Unix
6 37 (1.52%) Ubuntu
7 32 (1.32%) VMS
8 19 (0.78%) AIX
9 16 (0.66%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.082%) Android
16 2 (0.082%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.082%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,788 (73.52%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,654 (68.01%) CI/CD
3 1,404 (57.73%) DevOps
4 613 (25.21%) Agile
5 605 (24.88%) Containerisation
6 603 (24.79%) Observability
7 561 (23.07%) Platform Engineering
8 408 (16.78%) AI
9 326 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 301 (12.38%) Migration
10 301 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
10 301 (12.38%) Software Engineering
11 294 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 294 (12.09%) Test Automation
12 288 (11.84%) DevSecOps
13 281 (11.55%) Cloud Security
14 270 (11.10%) Infrastructure Automation
15 266 (10.94%) Analytics
16 246 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 244 (10.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,180 (48.52%) Python
2 471 (19.37%) PowerShell
3 457 (18.79%) Bash
4 372 (15.30%) SQL
5 283 (11.64%) Bicep
6 282 (11.60%) Java
7 143 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 135 (5.55%) C#
9 126 (5.18%) TypeScript
10 78 (3.21%) Go
11 52 (2.14%) Scala
12 51 (2.10%) Groovy
13 44 (1.81%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.58%) Perl
16 10 (0.41%) C
16 10 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.41%) R
16 10 (0.41%) Ruby
16 10 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 885 (36.39%) Security Cleared
2 717 (29.48%) SC Cleared
3 198 (8.14%) DV Cleared
4 169 (6.95%) Azure Certification
5 147 (6.04%) AWS Certification
6 104 (4.28%) Degree
7 61 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (2.01%) CISSP
12 44 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.19%) CCNP
14 20 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 17 (0.70%) CISM
17 16 (0.66%) VCAP
18 14 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 12 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (5.43%) Data Quality
2 90 (3.70%) QA
3 56 (2.30%) NIST
4 54 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.10%) NCSC
6 45 (1.85%) GDPR
7 24 (0.99%) WCAG
8 18 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.45%) SLA
10 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.25%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.21%) HL7
13 5 (0.21%) SEPA
14 4 (0.16%) GRC
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 682 (28.04%) Docker
2 163 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 118 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 48 (1.97%) vSphere
7 47 (1.93%) Hyper-V
8 42 (1.73%) VMware NSX
9 33 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 980 (40.30%) Kubernetes
2 591 (24.30%) Ansible
3 304 (12.50%) Grafana
4 244 (10.03%) Prometheus
5 85 (3.50%) Argo
6 63 (2.59%) Puppet
7 54 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.64%) Packer
10 31 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 29 (1.19%) Istio
12 25 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.90%) Kustomize
14 19 (0.78%) Kibana
14 19 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
15 18 (0.74%) Data Guard
16 17 (0.70%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.62%) Kubeflow
17 15 (0.62%) Podman
17 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 456 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.31%) Google
3 158 (6.50%) VMware
4 140 (5.76%) Databricks
5 136 (5.59%) Splunk
6 105 (4.32%) Oracle
7 84 (3.45%) Dynatrace
8 82 (3.37%) Cisco
9 76 (3.13%) Red Hat
10 73 (3.00%) ServiceNow
11 63 (2.59%) Palo Alto
12 41 (1.69%) F5
13 38 (1.56%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.40%) Arista
15 33 (1.36%) Zscaler
16 31 (1.27%) Fortinet
17 30 (1.23%) Informatica
18 24 (0.99%) CyberArk
18 24 (0.99%) Foundry
19 22 (0.90%) Aruba