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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,367 1,382 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.18% 5.02% 4.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.23% 20.21% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,649 959 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £459 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £717 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 11
10th Percentile £56.70 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.56 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £77.15 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -10.26%

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 9,769 6,838 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.82% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,701 5,588
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 164 190
10th Percentile £29.26 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.59 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +5 1,231 £550 +2.33% 627
North of England +12 501 £505 -2.88% 201
Yorkshire -4 226 £513 - 59
South East -2 208 £560 +11.89% 122
North West +31 197 £575 +9.52% 111
South West +4 180 £556 -4.96% 131
Midlands -22 128 £494 -8.05% 74
West Midlands -20 105 £512 -6.15% 40
North East -5 92 £425 -18.27% 32
East of England -8 51 £525 +5.00% 27
East Midlands -8 22 £425 -15.00% 34
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
1 117 (4.94%) Confluence
2 94 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 78 (3.30%) Apache
5 43 (1.82%) Jupyter
6 28 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.97%) nginx
8 12 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 12 (0.51%) SAS
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
9 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.084%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.042%) FactoryTalk
14 1 (0.042%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,353 (57.16%) AWS
2 1,191 (50.32%) Azure
3 656 (27.71%) GitHub
4 463 (19.56%) GitHub Actions
5 462 (19.52%) GCP
6 438 (18.50%) Azure DevOps
7 358 (15.12%) Serverless
8 277 (11.70%) Amazon S3
9 264 (11.15%) AWS Lambda
10 261 (11.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
12 190 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 171 (7.22%) Entra ID
14 169 (7.14%) Azure AKS
15 146 (6.17%) Amazon EC2
16 139 (5.87%) Azure Monitor
17 137 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 121 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
19 119 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 92 (3.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 273 (11.53%) Firewall
2 201 (8.49%) DNS
3 130 (5.49%) VPN
4 110 (4.65%) Network Security
5 85 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 79 (3.34%) DHCP
7 78 (3.30%) WAN
8 67 (2.83%) BGP
9 47 (1.99%) OSPF
10 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.61%) VLAN
12 36 (1.52%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.35%) VSAN
14 29 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 26 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (1.06%) SSH
17 24 (1.01%) BIG-IP
17 24 (1.01%) SSL
18 18 (0.76%) Internet
19 16 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
3 77 (3.25%) SQL Server
4 70 (2.96%) NoSQL
5 69 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (2.92%) Power BI
6 68 (2.87%) Data Lake
6 68 (2.87%) DynamoDB
7 67 (2.83%) MongoDB
8 60 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 58 (2.45%) BigQuery
10 48 (2.03%) Delta Lake
11 45 (1.90%) Redis
12 44 (1.86%) Relational Database
13 41 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 41 (1.73%) MySQL
14 39 (1.65%) Oracle Database
15 37 (1.56%) Metadata
16 35 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 434 (18.34%) GitLab
2 385 (16.27%) Jenkins
3 351 (14.83%) Git
4 148 (6.25%) JIRA
5 43 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 29 (1.23%) Maven
7 23 (0.97%) Artifactory
8 22 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 17 (0.72%) Snyk
11 16 (0.68%) MLflow
12 15 (0.63%) Terragrunt
13 14 (0.59%) Selenium
14 13 (0.55%) MSI
15 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.46%) JUnit
16 10 (0.42%) Gatling
17 8 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 455 (19.22%) Social Skills
2 355 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 310 (13.10%) Finance
4 139 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.89%) Banking
6 68 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 58 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.07%) Retail
9 27 (1.14%) Military
10 22 (0.93%) Legal
11 21 (0.89%) Aerospace
11 21 (0.89%) Publishing
12 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 15 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.63%) Law
14 13 (0.55%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.55%) Local Government
15 12 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 516 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 423 (17.87%) Senior
3 262 (11.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 228 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
5 225 (9.51%) Platform Engineer
6 216 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
6 216 (9.13%) Developer
7 213 (9.00%) Architect
8 203 (8.58%) Lead
9 166 (7.01%) Data Engineer
10 161 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 104 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
12 99 (4.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 98 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
14 95 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 94 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 92 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 87 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
18 83 (3.51%) Network Engineer
19 74 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (7.48%) Kafka
2 159 (6.72%) REST
3 120 (5.07%) .NET
4 112 (4.73%) React
5 95 (4.01%) Node.js
6 94 (3.97%) ARM Templates
7 90 (3.80%) PySpark
8 87 (3.68%) RESTful
9 79 (3.34%) OAuth
10 78 (3.30%) YAML
11 59 (2.49%) Spring
12 55 (2.32%) Spring Boot
13 54 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
14 51 (2.15%) OAuth2
15 49 (2.07%) JSON
15 49 (2.07%) OpenID
16 46 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
17 43 (1.82%) HTML
18 38 (1.61%) CSS
19 36 (1.52%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 553 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 146 (6.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 111 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.14%) Data Centre
5 83 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 81 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 65 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.24%) PKI
10 50 (2.11%) Replication
11 48 (2.03%) AI Agents
12 46 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
12 46 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
13 44 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
14 38 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.48%) Private Cloud
16 34 (1.44%) NHS
17 32 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
18 30 (1.27%) Management Information System
19 25 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 415 (17.53%) Linux
2 244 (10.31%) Windows
3 86 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 80 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 32 (1.35%) VMS
7 31 (1.31%) Unix
8 19 (0.80%) AIX
9 15 (0.63%) CentOS
10 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.084%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,724 (72.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,597 (67.47%) CI/CD
3 1,376 (58.13%) DevOps
4 590 (24.93%) Agile
5 580 (24.50%) Containerisation
6 561 (23.70%) Observability
7 537 (22.69%) Platform Engineering
8 374 (15.80%) AI
9 312 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 289 (12.21%) Test Automation
11 288 (12.17%) Migration
12 286 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
13 285 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 268 (11.32%) Software Engineering
15 267 (11.28%) Cloud Security
16 256 (10.82%) Analytics
16 256 (10.82%) DevSecOps
17 252 (10.65%) Infrastructure Automation
18 237 (10.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 231 (9.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,128 (47.66%) Python
2 454 (19.18%) PowerShell
3 438 (18.50%) Bash
4 364 (15.38%) SQL
5 272 (11.49%) Bicep
5 272 (11.49%) Java
6 140 (5.91%) JavaScript
7 136 (5.75%) C#
8 122 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 71 (3.00%) Go
10 51 (2.15%) Groovy
10 51 (2.15%) Scala
11 40 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.55%) Perl
13 11 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.46%) R
13 11 (0.46%) Ruby
13 11 (0.46%) Rust
14 10 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 857 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 698 (29.49%) SC Cleared
3 185 (7.82%) DV Cleared
4 166 (7.01%) Azure Certification
5 139 (5.87%) AWS Certification
6 95 (4.01%) Degree
7 61 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 43 (1.82%) CISSP
12 38 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (1.35%) CCNP
14 20 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 18 (0.76%) VCAP
16 17 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.59%) CISM
18 13 (0.55%) CCNA
19 11 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 83 (3.51%) QA
3 50 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 49 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (2.07%) NIST
5 48 (2.03%) GDPR
6 47 (1.99%) NCSC
7 22 (0.93%) WCAG
8 18 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.55%) SLA
10 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.25%) GRC
11 6 (0.25%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) PSD2
12 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 646 (27.29%) Docker
2 151 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 46 (1.94%) vSphere
7 45 (1.90%) VMware NSX
8 29 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
9 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
10 15 (0.63%) Squid
11 9 (0.38%) KVM
12 8 (0.34%) Firmware
13 7 (0.30%) NFS
14 6 (0.25%) Ceph
15 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
15 5 (0.21%) Postfix
16 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 925 (39.08%) Kubernetes
2 562 (23.74%) Ansible
3 290 (12.25%) Grafana
4 242 (10.22%) Prometheus
5 87 (3.68%) Argo
6 62 (2.62%) Puppet
7 50 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.61%) Packer
9 35 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.31%) Istio
11 29 (1.23%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.80%) Kibana
14 19 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 17 (0.72%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.63%) Podman
16 15 (0.63%) VxRail
17 14 (0.59%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 427 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 196 (8.28%) Google
3 151 (6.38%) VMware
4 137 (5.79%) Databricks
4 137 (5.79%) Splunk
5 107 (4.52%) Oracle
6 77 (3.25%) Dynatrace
7 75 (3.17%) ServiceNow
8 72 (3.04%) Cisco
9 71 (3.00%) Red Hat
10 60 (2.53%) Palo Alto
11 43 (1.82%) F5
12 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.44%) Arista
14 32 (1.35%) Informatica
15 31 (1.31%) Fortinet
15 31 (1.31%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.01%) Foundry
17 22 (0.93%) Aruba