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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,002 1,291 1,275
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.17% 5.30% 3.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.96% 33.58% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 928 958
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.90% -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 8
10th Percentile £40.73 £25.38 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £52.94
Median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.75 £68.13 £69.61
90th Percentile £83.90 £78.58 £75.36
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -23.08%

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 5,568 3,844 4,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.37% 15.78% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,842 2,650 3,277
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 39 124
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £32.52 £22.32 £17.74
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £50.06
90th Percentile £76.73 £77.74 £68.44
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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +1 1,069 £525 -8.70% 284
North of England +10 398 £500 -4.76% 148
Yorkshire +14 219 £500 -4.76% 48
South East -1 159 £500 -9.09% 143
Midlands -5 146 £525 -2.51% 36
North West +12 143 £525 +0.05% 72
West Midlands +1 120 £525 -6.75% 25
South West -10 119 £550 -10.57% 82
North East -7 41 £471 -10.38% 29
East Midlands -21 25 £447 -8.31% 11
East of England -30 25 £475 -10.38% 40
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 80 (4.00%) Confluence
2 77 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 65 (3.25%) Apache
4 52 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.65%) nginx
6 20 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.25%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.100%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.100%) Drupal
11 2 (0.100%) WordPress
12 1 (0.050%) FileNet
12 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,084 (54.15%) AWS
2 941 (47.00%) Azure
3 564 (28.17%) GitHub
4 405 (20.23%) GCP
5 389 (19.43%) Serverless
6 363 (18.13%) GitHub Actions
7 346 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
8 341 (17.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 271 (13.54%) Amazon S3
10 265 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (7.74%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (7.24%) OpenShift
14 143 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 140 (6.99%) Azure AKS
16 139 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
17 128 (6.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 127 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
19 124 (6.19%) Entra ID
20 109 (5.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 194 (9.69%) Firewall
2 145 (7.24%) DNS
3 113 (5.64%) VPN
4 99 (4.95%) Network Security
5 42 (2.10%) WAN
6 35 (1.75%) BGP
6 35 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 28 (1.40%) DHCP
8 26 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.20%) LAN
9 24 (1.20%) OSPF
10 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
11 17 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
12 13 (0.65%) VLAN
13 12 (0.60%) SAN
14 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
14 11 (0.55%) SSL
15 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
15 10 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
16 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (4.40%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.75%) Power BI
5 70 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
6 60 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 57 (2.85%) SQL Server
8 55 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 53 (2.65%) DynamoDB
10 52 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
11 49 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 48 (2.40%) MongoDB
13 43 (2.15%) Delta Lake
14 34 (1.70%) Relational Database
15 31 (1.55%) Redis
16 29 (1.45%) Tableau
17 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
18 25 (1.25%) Metadata
19 23 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 400 (19.98%) Jenkins
2 339 (16.93%) GitLab
3 276 (13.79%) Git
4 103 (5.14%) JIRA
5 48 (2.40%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.20%) Liquibase
8 24 (1.20%) Maven
9 19 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.65%) Gatling
13 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.50%) JUnit
13 10 (0.50%) Snyk
13 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
14 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 8 (0.40%) Selenium
16 7 (0.35%) JMeter
General
1 389 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 300 (14.99%) Public Sector
3 226 (11.29%) Finance
4 104 (5.19%) Banking
5 99 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.00%) Retail
10 18 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (0.65%) Legal
13 11 (0.55%) Military
14 10 (0.50%) Law
15 8 (0.40%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.35%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
17 6 (0.30%) Games
17 6 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 419 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 266 (13.29%) Senior
3 238 (11.89%) Architect
4 195 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
5 193 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 184 (9.19%) AWS Engineer
7 171 (8.54%) Developer
8 169 (8.44%) Platform Engineer
9 168 (8.39%) Lead
10 153 (7.64%) Data Engineer
11 115 (5.74%) GCP Engineer
12 103 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 102 (5.09%) AWS DevOps
14 91 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 91 (4.55%) Software Engineer
15 86 (4.30%) Site Engineer
16 84 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 78 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 67 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 58 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (9.59%) Kafka
2 130 (6.49%) Node.js
3 124 (6.19%) REST
4 108 (5.39%) React
5 98 (4.90%) .NET
6 88 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
7 81 (4.05%) RESTful
8 79 (3.95%) ARM Templates
9 75 (3.75%) PySpark
10 68 (3.40%) OAuth
11 63 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
12 62 (3.10%) Spring
13 57 (2.85%) YAML
14 55 (2.75%) Spring Boot
15 53 (2.65%) AngularJS
16 44 (2.20%) OpenID
17 40 (2.00%) AWS CDK
18 36 (1.80%) OAuth2
19 35 (1.75%) JSON
20 30 (1.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 379 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 62 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (1.55%) NHS
9 28 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 27 (1.35%) PKI
11 26 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.00%) Replication
12 20 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 16 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 16 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (0.70%) Clustering
15 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 352 (17.58%) Linux
2 151 (7.54%) Windows
3 52 (2.60%) VMS
4 42 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.65%) Unix
6 14 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.40%) CentOS
8 6 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.100%) Debian
11 2 (0.100%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.100%) zOS
12 1 (0.050%) AIX
12 1 (0.050%) Android
12 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.050%) Rocky
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,356 (67.73%) CI/CD
2 1,283 (64.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,209 (60.39%) DevOps
4 514 (25.67%) Containerisation
5 444 (22.18%) Agile
6 389 (19.43%) Observability
7 317 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
8 272 (13.59%) Migration
9 266 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (12.84%) Analytics
11 233 (11.64%) AI
11 233 (11.64%) Microservices
12 224 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 215 (10.74%) Software Engineering
14 212 (10.59%) Infrastructure Automation
15 197 (9.84%) Test Automation
16 188 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 185 (9.24%) Cloud Security
18 178 (8.89%) DevSecOps
19 168 (8.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 954 (47.65%) Python
2 315 (15.73%) SQL
3 302 (15.08%) Bash
4 275 (13.74%) PowerShell
5 220 (10.99%) Java
6 176 (8.79%) Bicep
7 115 (5.74%) Go
8 114 (5.69%) JavaScript
9 113 (5.64%) TypeScript
10 109 (5.44%) C#
11 47 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.80%) Scala
13 35 (1.75%) Ruby
14 29 (1.45%) Groovy
15 15 (0.75%) Rust
16 9 (0.45%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 712 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 589 (29.42%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.64%) Azure Certification
4 124 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 114 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.80%) Degree
7 74 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 54 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 30 (1.50%) CCNP
13 29 (1.45%) CISSP
14 17 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.80%) CCIE
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.75%) CISM
17 14 (0.70%) OCP
18 12 (0.60%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.90%) GDPR
3 68 (3.40%) QA
4 62 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (2.85%) NIST
6 46 (2.30%) NCSC
7 36 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 9 (0.45%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.25%) HL7
13 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 581 (29.02%) Docker
2 98 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 82 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (2.20%) vSphere
6 39 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 37 (1.85%) VMware NSX
8 34 (1.70%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.50%) Squid
10 7 (0.35%) KVM
11 6 (0.30%) NFS
12 5 (0.25%) Firmware
12 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.20%) Lustre
13 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.15%) GPFS
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.100%) Ceph
15 2 (0.100%) HDFS
15 2 (0.100%) iptables
Systems Management
1 821 (41.01%) Kubernetes
2 498 (24.88%) Ansible
3 283 (14.14%) Grafana
4 250 (12.49%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.05%) Argo
6 48 (2.40%) Istio
7 41 (2.05%) Puppet
8 39 (1.95%) Progress Chef
9 38 (1.90%) Packer
10 31 (1.55%) vCenter Server
11 30 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.05%) Consul
13 17 (0.85%) Kibana
14 16 (0.80%) Rancher
15 15 (0.75%) FortiGate
15 15 (0.75%) Podman
16 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
18 9 (0.45%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 313 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.24%) Google
3 154 (7.69%) Databricks
4 129 (6.44%) Splunk
5 120 (5.99%) VMware
6 93 (4.65%) Red Hat
7 58 (2.90%) Oracle
8 45 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 45 (2.25%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.95%) Cisco
10 33 (1.65%) Pure Storage
11 27 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.25%) IBM
13 24 (1.20%) F5
14 23 (1.15%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.95%) SolarWinds
16 18 (0.90%) Atlassian
17 17 (0.85%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.80%) Citrix
18 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty