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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,288 1,337 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.12% 4.96% 3.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.98% 31.90% 29.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 915 1,032
10th Percentile £400 £400 £409
25th Percentile £447 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 11
10th Percentile £51.74 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £56.50 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £94.02 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +19.64% -9.68% -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 6,025 4,191 4,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.47% 15.53% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,147 2,782 3,408
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £515
% change year-on-year +0.98% -0.97% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.47
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.29
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +73.02% -44.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £49.38
90th Percentile £76.50 £78.46 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +50.67% +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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 1,226 £550 +2.33% 402
North of England +22 487 £500 - 176
Yorkshire +6 241 £500 -1.23% 37
North West +42 182 £525 - 116
South East -18 170 £525 +5.00% 148
Midlands -12 144 £525 +2.54% 47
South West -6 139 £550 -10.57% 208
West Midlands -11 119 £525 -3.67% 30
North East +4 79 £425 -11.46% 23
East of England -11 50 £537 +7.43% 16
East Midlands -11 23 £463 -7.50% 17
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
1 115 (5.03%) Confluence
2 94 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (3.23%) Apache
5 36 (1.57%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.09%) nginx
8 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.57%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
14 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.087%) Drupal
14 2 (0.087%) Traefik
14 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.044%) InDesign
6 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,290 (56.38%) AWS
2 1,118 (48.86%) Azure
3 614 (26.84%) GitHub
4 468 (20.45%) GCP
5 423 (18.49%) GitHub Actions
6 375 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
7 361 (15.78%) Serverless
8 300 (13.11%) Amazon S3
9 273 (11.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 262 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
11 212 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 155 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
14 148 (6.47%) Azure AKS
15 147 (6.42%) Entra ID
16 139 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 138 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 122 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
19 115 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
20 102 (4.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 240 (10.49%) Firewall
2 165 (7.21%) DNS
3 126 (5.51%) VPN
4 107 (4.68%) Network Security
5 84 (3.67%) WAN
6 69 (3.02%) BGP
7 51 (2.23%) TCP/IP
8 49 (2.14%) OSPF
9 47 (2.05%) SD-WAN
10 35 (1.53%) VXLAN
11 33 (1.44%) DHCP
12 28 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 27 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
14 26 (1.14%) BIG-IP
15 25 (1.09%) VLAN
16 20 (0.87%) LAN
17 19 (0.83%) SAN
17 19 (0.83%) SSL
18 16 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
19 14 (0.61%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (3.41%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.28%) Power BI
6 72 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 69 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.80%) BigQuery
9 63 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
10 62 (2.71%) NoSQL
11 57 (2.49%) DynamoDB
12 53 (2.32%) MongoDB
13 52 (2.27%) Delta Lake
14 45 (1.97%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 35 (1.53%) Redis
17 34 (1.49%) Oracle Database
18 32 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 30 (1.31%) Big Data
20 29 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 412 (18.01%) GitLab
2 392 (17.13%) Jenkins
3 317 (13.85%) Git
4 150 (6.56%) JIRA
5 45 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.05%) Maven
8 21 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.79%) MLflow
9 18 (0.79%) Snyk
10 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.48%) Gatling
12 10 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.44%) JUnit
12 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.39%) MSI
14 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.35%) git-flow
15 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 417 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 337 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 274 (11.98%) Finance
4 121 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (4.02%) Banking
6 71 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (1.40%) Retail
9 26 (1.14%) Legal
10 24 (1.05%) Military
11 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.74%) Publishing
14 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.66%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 520 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 385 (16.83%) Senior
3 253 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 236 (10.31%) Architect
5 222 (9.70%) AWS Engineer
6 207 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
7 192 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
8 191 (8.35%) Lead
9 187 (8.17%) Data Engineer
10 181 (7.91%) Developer
11 136 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
13 106 (4.63%) GCP Engineer
14 103 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 95 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 93 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
17 89 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 82 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 75 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 71 (3.10%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (7.56%) Kafka
2 121 (5.29%) REST
3 114 (4.98%) .NET
4 104 (4.55%) PySpark
5 99 (4.33%) Node.js
6 97 (4.24%) React
7 84 (3.67%) OAuth
8 78 (3.41%) RESTful
9 67 (2.93%) YAML
10 66 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 63 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
12 62 (2.71%) ARM Templates
13 59 (2.58%) OpenID
14 57 (2.49%) OAuth2
14 57 (2.49%) Spring
15 53 (2.32%) Spring Boot
16 45 (1.97%) JSON
17 40 (1.75%) AWS CDK
18 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
19 33 (1.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 543 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
3 118 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 100 (4.37%) Data Centre
5 80 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 70 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 68 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 47 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 42 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 35 (1.53%) Replication
12 34 (1.49%) Private Cloud
13 33 (1.44%) PKI
14 32 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
15 30 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.27%) NHS
17 28 (1.22%) AI Agents
18 27 (1.18%) Virtual Team
19 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
20 19 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 357 (15.60%) Linux
2 199 (8.70%) Windows
3 76 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 55 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.31%) VMS
6 29 (1.27%) Unix
7 26 (1.14%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.57%) CentOS
9 12 (0.52%) AIX
10 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.087%) Debian
15 2 (0.087%) Rocky
15 2 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,581 (69.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,538 (67.22%) CI/CD
3 1,349 (58.96%) DevOps
4 550 (24.04%) Containerisation
5 542 (23.69%) Agile
6 474 (20.72%) Observability
7 455 (19.89%) Platform Engineering
8 313 (13.68%) AI
9 280 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 276 (12.06%) Migration
11 253 (11.06%) Analytics
12 239 (10.45%) Test Automation
13 238 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 235 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 231 (10.10%) Cloud Security
16 230 (10.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 230 (10.05%) Software Engineering
17 219 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
18 216 (9.44%) Microservices
19 200 (8.74%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (46.33%) Python
2 360 (15.73%) Bash
3 359 (15.69%) SQL
4 342 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 259 (11.32%) Java
6 214 (9.35%) Bicep
7 124 (5.42%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.20%) C#
9 114 (4.98%) TypeScript
10 87 (3.80%) Go
11 51 (2.23%) Scala
12 48 (2.10%) Groovy
13 34 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.79%) Ruby
15 16 (0.70%) Rust
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 9 (0.39%) R
18 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.35%) Perl
19 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 810 (35.40%) Security Cleared
2 667 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 153 (6.69%) DV Cleared
4 138 (6.03%) Azure Certification
5 113 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.76%) Degree
7 66 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 38 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.27%) CCNP
12 26 (1.14%) CISSP
13 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.70%) CCNA
15 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.61%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 11 (0.48%) CCIE
19 10 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.55%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.62%) QA
3 55 (2.40%) GDPR
4 43 (1.88%) NIST
5 42 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.66%) NCSC
8 31 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.61%) WCAG
10 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.48%) SLA
12 10 (0.44%) GRC
13 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.22%) HL7
15 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.13%) PSD2
17 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 616 (26.92%) Docker
2 118 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 89 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 34 (1.49%) VMware NSX
6 34 (1.49%) vSphere
7 21 (0.92%) Squid
8 16 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
9 15 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.48%) NFS
11 8 (0.35%) KVM
12 5 (0.22%) Firmware
13 3 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.13%) Postfix
14 2 (0.087%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.087%) Corosync
14 2 (0.087%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 860 (37.59%) Kubernetes
2 507 (22.16%) Ansible
3 290 (12.67%) Grafana
4 253 (11.06%) Prometheus
5 88 (3.85%) Argo
6 55 (2.40%) Puppet
7 41 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.53%) Istio
8 35 (1.53%) Packer
9 29 (1.27%) vCenter Server
10 27 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.87%) Kibana
14 17 (0.74%) Kustomize
15 15 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
16 14 (0.61%) Data Guard
17 13 (0.57%) Consul
17 13 (0.57%) Podman
18 12 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 349 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.96%) Google
3 130 (5.68%) Databricks
3 130 (5.68%) Splunk
4 119 (5.20%) VMware
5 95 (4.15%) Oracle
6 81 (3.54%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 66 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 59 (2.58%) Cisco
10 56 (2.45%) Palo Alto
11 40 (1.75%) F5
12 34 (1.49%) Arista
12 34 (1.49%) OpenAI
13 30 (1.31%) Zscaler
14 26 (1.14%) Fortinet
15 23 (1.01%) Aruba
15 23 (1.01%) Foundry
15 23 (1.01%) Informatica
16 20 (0.87%) Pure Storage