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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,190 1,264 1,371
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.04% 5.04% 3.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.75% 31.87% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,523 885 1,019
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 £623 £635 £650
90th Percentile £688 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 10
10th Percentile £45.24 £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 £74.50 £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 5,801 3,966 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.80% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,989 2,664 3,375
10th Percentile £322 £305 £299
25th Percentile £413 £412 £413
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 £516
% change year-on-year - -0.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 39 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £15.83
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +72.13% -43.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.59 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +47.33% +19.05% -45.22%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 1,190 £550 +4.36% 193
North of England +22 452 £500 - 106
Yorkshire +9 226 £500 -3.61% 29
North West +34 168 £525 +2.44% 59
South East -24 163 £550 +10.00% 129
Midlands -20 132 £500 -5.84% 29
South West -15 128 £550 -10.57% 58
West Midlands -11 109 £511 -7.18% 21
North East +4 71 £425 -10.05% 19
East of England -18 47 £525 +6.87% 15
East Midlands -15 22 £450 -10.00% 8
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 (4.52%) Confluence
2 90 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 74 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (3.06%) Apache
5 34 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 33 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.05%) nginx
8 14 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.50%) SAS
10 6 (0.27%) IIS
10 6 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.091%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.091%) Drupal
13 2 (0.091%) Traefik
13 2 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.046%) InDesign
6 1 (0.046%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.27%) Maximo
2 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.18%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.091%) Endur
4 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.046%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.046%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.046%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (56.26%) AWS
2 1,076 (49.13%) Azure
3 584 (26.67%) GitHub
4 459 (20.96%) GCP
5 399 (18.22%) GitHub Actions
6 366 (16.71%) Serverless
7 359 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
8 287 (13.11%) Amazon S3
9 275 (12.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 265 (12.10%) AWS Lambda
11 201 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 148 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.71%) Azure AKS
15 141 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 140 (6.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 137 (6.26%) Entra ID
18 121 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
19 110 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
20 107 (4.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 231 (10.55%) Firewall
2 151 (6.89%) DNS
3 123 (5.62%) VPN
4 102 (4.66%) Network Security
5 83 (3.79%) WAN
6 64 (2.92%) BGP
7 48 (2.19%) SD-WAN
8 44 (2.01%) OSPF
9 42 (1.92%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.60%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 26 (1.19%) BIG-IP
13 25 (1.14%) DHCP
14 21 (0.96%) SAN
14 21 (0.96%) VLAN
15 20 (0.91%) LAN
16 17 (0.78%) SSL
17 16 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
18 14 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
3 87 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
4 80 (3.65%) Data Lake
5 78 (3.56%) Power BI
6 68 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 67 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 62 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
9 61 (2.79%) BigQuery
9 61 (2.79%) NoSQL
10 58 (2.65%) DynamoDB
11 51 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 50 (2.28%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.78%) Redis
13 39 (1.78%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
14 30 (1.37%) Big Data
15 29 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 395 (18.04%) GitLab
2 381 (17.40%) Jenkins
3 291 (13.29%) Git
4 139 (6.35%) JIRA
5 45 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.51%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.05%) Maven
9 18 (0.82%) Snyk
10 17 (0.78%) MLflow
10 17 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.55%) Gatling
12 10 (0.46%) git-flow
12 10 (0.46%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.37%) JUnit
15 7 (0.32%) Mockito
15 7 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 391 (17.85%) Social Skills
2 322 (14.70%) Public Sector
3 248 (11.32%) Finance
4 114 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.06%) Banking
6 66 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 55 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.42%) Retail
9 23 (1.05%) Military
10 22 (1.00%) Legal
11 18 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 15 (0.68%) Law
12 15 (0.68%) Publishing
13 12 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.41%) Billing
16 9 (0.41%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 496 (22.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 360 (16.44%) Senior
3 252 (11.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (10.59%) Architect
5 212 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
6 211 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
7 183 (8.36%) Data Engineer
8 179 (8.17%) Platform Engineer
9 170 (7.76%) Developer
10 169 (7.72%) Lead
11 128 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (4.93%) GCP Engineer
13 106 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
14 97 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 96 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 84 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
16 84 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 80 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 77 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (7.99%) Kafka
2 109 (4.98%) REST
3 106 (4.84%) .NET
4 102 (4.66%) PySpark
5 101 (4.61%) React
6 98 (4.47%) Node.js
7 88 (4.02%) OAuth
8 76 (3.47%) RESTful
9 67 (3.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 64 (2.92%) ARM Templates
11 63 (2.88%) OpenID
12 61 (2.79%) YAML
13 58 (2.65%) OAuth2
14 57 (2.60%) Spring
15 54 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
15 54 (2.47%) Spring Boot
16 43 (1.96%) JSON
17 40 (1.83%) AWS CDK
18 35 (1.60%) AngularJS
19 31 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 523 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 122 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 68 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 64 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 43 (1.96%) Security Posture
9 37 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 32 (1.46%) Replication
12 30 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 29 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
14 28 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.23%) AI Agents
15 27 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 27 (1.23%) PKI
16 24 (1.10%) NHS
17 19 (0.87%) Management Information System
18 17 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 325 (14.84%) Linux
2 180 (8.22%) Windows
3 76 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.46%) VMS
6 27 (1.23%) Unix
7 26 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.59%) CentOS
9 9 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.32%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.23%) AIX
12 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.091%) Debian
14 2 (0.091%) Rocky
14 2 (0.091%) Solaris
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,496 (68.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,464 (66.85%) CI/CD
3 1,299 (59.32%) DevOps
4 515 (23.52%) Agile
5 511 (23.33%) Containerisation
6 437 (19.95%) Observability
7 420 (19.18%) Platform Engineering
8 310 (14.16%) AI
9 267 (12.19%) Migration
10 260 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
11 245 (11.19%) Analytics
12 231 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 226 (10.32%) Test Automation
14 224 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 223 (10.18%) Cloud Security
16 218 (9.95%) Software Engineering
17 216 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 208 (9.50%) Infrastructure Automation
19 207 (9.45%) Microservices
20 184 (8.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,013 (46.26%) Python
2 352 (16.07%) SQL
3 323 (14.75%) Bash
4 311 (14.20%) PowerShell
5 248 (11.32%) Java
6 202 (9.22%) Bicep
7 123 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.21%) C#
9 108 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.79%) Go
11 47 (2.15%) Scala
12 45 (2.05%) Groovy
13 33 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.82%) Rust
15 17 (0.78%) Ruby
16 10 (0.46%) C
17 9 (0.41%) R
18 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.32%) Perl
19 7 (0.32%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 774 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 643 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 143 (6.53%) Azure Certification
4 139 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 114 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.84%) Degree
7 61 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 45 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 30 (1.37%) CISSP
12 28 (1.28%) CCNP
13 17 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.73%) CCNA
15 15 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.64%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.50%) CCIE
17 11 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.74%) QA
3 54 (2.47%) GDPR
4 51 (2.33%) NIST
5 49 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 37 (1.69%) NCSC
7 34 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.50%) SLA
9 11 (0.50%) WCAG
10 10 (0.46%) GRC
11 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.27%) NIST 800
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)
System Software
1 576 (26.30%) Docker
2 103 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 27 (1.23%) vSphere
8 26 (1.19%) VMware NSX
9 18 (0.82%) Squid
10 12 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.46%) KVM
11 10 (0.46%) NFS
11 10 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.091%) Corosync
14 2 (0.091%) Lustre
14 2 (0.091%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 818 (37.35%) Kubernetes
2 478 (21.83%) Ansible
3 268 (12.24%) Grafana
4 241 (11.00%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.33%) Argo
6 50 (2.28%) Puppet
7 39 (1.78%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.69%) Istio
9 31 (1.42%) Packer
10 28 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.82%) Kibana
14 14 (0.64%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.59%) Podman
16 12 (0.55%) Consul
16 12 (0.55%) Rancher
17 11 (0.50%) HAProxy
18 10 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 326 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 215 (9.82%) Google
3 127 (5.80%) Databricks
4 118 (5.39%) Splunk
5 105 (4.79%) VMware
6 86 (3.93%) Red Hat
7 79 (3.61%) Oracle
8 74 (3.38%) Dynatrace
9 60 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 55 (2.51%) Cisco
11 54 (2.47%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.78%) F5
13 34 (1.55%) Arista
13 34 (1.55%) OpenAI
14 28 (1.28%) Zscaler
15 26 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.05%) Aruba
16 23 (1.05%) Foundry
17 22 (1.00%) Pure Storage
18 21 (0.96%) IBM