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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,213 1,272 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.06% 4.99% 3.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.77% 31.78% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 879 1,014
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £635 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 11
10th Percentile £45.24 £26.83 £46.25
25th Percentile £54.98 £36.31 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -25.00% -10.26%
75th Percentile £74.50 £66.55 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -15.32% -20.51%

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 5,859 4,002 4,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.39% 15.69% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,018 2,674 3,353
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 40 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.68 £20.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +68.00% -42.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.30 £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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +1 1,197 £550 +0.46% 263
North of England +30 465 £500 - 108
Yorkshire +8 231 £500 -2.44% 32
North West +39 173 £525 +5.00% 59
South East -22 164 £546 +9.25% 142
Midlands -13 136 £500 -4.76% 37
South West -5 125 £550 -10.39% 63
West Midlands -9 112 £512 -7.00% 28
North East +5 75 £425 -10.05% 18
East of England -14 49 £525 +5.00% 17
East Midlands -13 23 £463 -7.50% 9
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 (4.47%) Confluence
2 92 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
4 68 (3.07%) Apache
5 34 (1.54%) Jupyter
6 31 (1.40%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.04%) nginx
8 14 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.54%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.27%) IIS
11 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) CMS
14 2 (0.090%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.090%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.090%) Drupal
14 2 (0.090%) Traefik
14 2 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.045%) InDesign
6 1 (0.045%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.23%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.14%) Maximo
2 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.090%) Endur
3 2 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.045%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.045%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.045%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (56.53%) AWS
2 1,085 (49.03%) Azure
3 587 (26.53%) GitHub
4 465 (21.01%) GCP
5 400 (18.08%) GitHub Actions
6 368 (16.63%) Serverless
7 363 (16.40%) Azure DevOps
8 289 (13.06%) Amazon S3
9 275 (12.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 264 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
11 201 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 150 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
14 148 (6.69%) Azure AKS
15 140 (6.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 140 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 138 (6.24%) Entra ID
17 121 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
18 110 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
19 105 (4.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 228 (10.30%) Firewall
2 153 (6.91%) DNS
3 122 (5.51%) VPN
4 101 (4.56%) Network Security
5 83 (3.75%) WAN
6 65 (2.94%) BGP
7 47 (2.12%) SD-WAN
8 45 (2.03%) OSPF
9 42 (1.90%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.58%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.17%) BIG-IP
13 25 (1.13%) DHCP
14 21 (0.95%) VLAN
15 20 (0.90%) LAN
15 20 (0.90%) SAN
16 18 (0.81%) SSL
17 16 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
18 14 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
3 87 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.48%) Power BI
6 70 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 68 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 64 (2.89%) BigQuery
10 63 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
11 60 (2.71%) DynamoDB
12 52 (2.35%) MongoDB
13 50 (2.26%) Delta Lake
14 42 (1.90%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (1.72%) Redis
17 30 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
17 30 (1.36%) Big Data
17 30 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
18 28 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 401 (18.12%) GitLab
2 383 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 303 (13.69%) Git
4 140 (6.33%) JIRA
5 45 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.04%) Maven
9 20 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.81%) Snyk
11 17 (0.77%) MLflow
12 12 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.54%) Gatling
13 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.45%) JUnit
13 10 (0.45%) Liquibase
14 9 (0.41%) git-flow
15 8 (0.36%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.32%) Mockito
16 7 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 390 (17.62%) Social Skills
2 322 (14.55%) Public Sector
3 255 (11.52%) Finance
4 113 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (4.07%) Banking
6 68 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.45%) Retail
9 23 (1.04%) Legal
9 23 (1.04%) Military
10 20 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 19 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (0.72%) Publishing
13 15 (0.68%) Law
14 14 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.50%) Billing
15 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.41%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.41%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 502 (22.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 363 (16.40%) Senior
3 248 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 236 (10.66%) Architect
5 217 (9.81%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.44%) Azure Engineer
7 183 (8.27%) Data Engineer
8 182 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
9 180 (8.13%) Developer
10 170 (7.68%) Lead
11 130 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (4.97%) AWS DevOps
13 108 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
14 101 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 96 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 84 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
17 83 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 80 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 76 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.12%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (7.95%) Kafka
2 114 (5.15%) REST
3 112 (5.06%) .NET
4 102 (4.61%) PySpark
5 101 (4.56%) React
6 100 (4.52%) Node.js
7 88 (3.98%) OAuth
8 78 (3.52%) RESTful
9 69 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
10 64 (2.89%) ARM Templates
11 63 (2.85%) OpenID
12 61 (2.76%) YAML
13 59 (2.67%) OAuth2
13 59 (2.67%) Spring
14 56 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
14 56 (2.53%) Spring Boot
15 44 (1.99%) JSON
16 40 (1.81%) AWS CDK
17 38 (1.72%) AngularJS
18 32 (1.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 530 (23.95%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
2 118 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 97 (4.38%) Data Centre
4 80 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 68 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 65 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 43 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 38 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.45%) Private Cloud
9 32 (1.45%) Replication
10 31 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
12 28 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.27%) PKI
13 26 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.13%) NHS
15 20 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 18 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 331 (14.96%) Linux
2 182 (8.22%) Windows
3 76 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.49%) VMS
6 28 (1.27%) Unix
7 26 (1.17%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.59%) CentOS
9 9 (0.41%) AIX
9 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.32%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.090%) Rocky
14 2 (0.090%) Solaris
14 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,516 (68.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,485 (67.10%) CI/CD
3 1,310 (59.20%) DevOps
4 523 (23.63%) Containerisation
5 520 (23.50%) Agile
6 444 (20.06%) Observability
7 428 (19.34%) Platform Engineering
8 312 (14.10%) AI
9 268 (12.11%) Migration
10 263 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
11 247 (11.16%) Analytics
12 231 (10.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 231 (10.44%) Test Automation
13 223 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 221 (9.99%) Cloud Security
14 221 (9.99%) Software Engineering
15 217 (9.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 215 (9.72%) Microservices
17 210 (9.49%) Infrastructure Automation
18 187 (8.45%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (46.27%) Python
2 356 (16.09%) SQL
3 330 (14.91%) Bash
4 314 (14.19%) PowerShell
5 254 (11.48%) Java
6 205 (9.26%) Bicep
7 124 (5.60%) JavaScript
8 117 (5.29%) C#
9 112 (5.06%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.75%) Go
11 49 (2.21%) Scala
12 46 (2.08%) Groovy
13 34 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.81%) Ruby
15 17 (0.77%) Rust
16 10 (0.45%) C
17 9 (0.41%) R
18 8 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.32%) Perl
19 7 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 772 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 642 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.28%) Azure Certification
4 138 (6.24%) DV Cleared
5 113 (5.11%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.89%) Degree
7 62 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.31%) CCNP
13 27 (1.22%) CISSP
14 17 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.72%) CCNA
16 15 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.50%) CCIE
18 11 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 10 (0.45%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 62 (2.80%) QA
3 54 (2.44%) GDPR
4 48 (2.17%) NIST
5 46 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.72%) Accessibility
7 35 (1.58%) NCSC
8 34 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 12 (0.54%) WCAG
10 11 (0.50%) SLA
11 10 (0.45%) GRC
12 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.18%) HL7
13 4 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.18%) PSD2
14 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 589 (26.62%) Docker
2 103 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 77 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.31%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.22%) vSphere
8 26 (1.17%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.95%) Squid
10 13 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
11 11 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
12 10 (0.45%) NFS
13 9 (0.41%) KVM
14 5 (0.23%) Firmware
15 3 (0.14%) Ceph
15 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.14%) Postfix
16 2 (0.090%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.090%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.090%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 828 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 483 (21.83%) Ansible
3 268 (12.11%) Grafana
4 240 (10.85%) Prometheus
5 74 (3.34%) Argo
6 50 (2.26%) Puppet
7 39 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.63%) Istio
9 31 (1.40%) Packer
10 28 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.08%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.04%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.81%) Kibana
14 14 (0.63%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.59%) Consul
15 13 (0.59%) Podman
16 12 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
16 12 (0.54%) Rancher
17 11 (0.50%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 327 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 211 (9.53%) Google
3 129 (5.83%) Databricks
4 119 (5.38%) Splunk
5 105 (4.74%) VMware
6 83 (3.75%) Red Hat
7 82 (3.71%) Oracle
8 73 (3.30%) Dynatrace
9 61 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 55 (2.49%) Cisco
10 55 (2.49%) Palo Alto
11 39 (1.76%) F5
12 34 (1.54%) Arista
12 34 (1.54%) OpenAI
13 28 (1.27%) Zscaler
14 26 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 23 (1.04%) Aruba
16 22 (0.99%) Foundry
17 21 (0.95%) Informatica
17 21 (0.95%) Pure Storage