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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,288 1,366 1,383
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.00% 3.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.29% 32.52% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,585 943 1,006
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 11
10th Percentile £54.56 £47.65 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.88 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.81% -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 5,976 4,200 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.32% 15.39% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,086 2,787 3,331
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £611 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £518
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.51% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 81
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +85.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £53.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £39.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +52.22% +25.81% -46.09%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +2 1,199 £550 +1.29% 457
North of England +21 494 £500 - 168
Yorkshire +1 231 £500 -2.44% 48
North West +46 199 £554 +5.48% 95
South East -16 186 £546 +9.25% 141
South West -6 148 £550 -8.33% 92
Midlands -16 136 £512 +2.30% 49
West Midlands -18 112 £512 -6.15% 39
North East -1 77 £425 -13.27% 26
East of England -5 52 £549 +9.86% 15
East Midlands -13 22 £488 -2.50% 10
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
1 120 (5.24%) Confluence
2 90 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 75 (3.28%) Apache
5 37 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.22%) nginx
8 13 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.57%) SAS
9 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.087%) Drupal
12 2 (0.087%) Traefik
12 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.044%) InDesign
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 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%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
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 1,298 (56.73%) AWS
2 1,133 (49.52%) Azure
3 612 (26.75%) GitHub
4 462 (20.19%) GCP
5 422 (18.44%) GitHub Actions
6 376 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
7 345 (15.08%) Serverless
8 283 (12.37%) Amazon S3
9 264 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 254 (11.10%) AWS Lambda
11 208 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
12 168 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 153 (6.69%) Entra ID
14 150 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
14 150 (6.56%) Azure AKS
15 137 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 135 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 124 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
18 116 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
19 92 (4.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 257 (11.23%) Firewall
2 185 (8.09%) DNS
3 139 (6.08%) VPN
4 104 (4.55%) Network Security
5 79 (3.45%) WAN
6 72 (3.15%) TCP/IP
7 70 (3.06%) BGP
8 53 (2.32%) DHCP
9 50 (2.19%) OSPF
10 43 (1.88%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.62%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.40%) VLAN
13 28 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (1.01%) BIG-IP
15 20 (0.87%) SSH
16 19 (0.83%) SAN
16 19 (0.83%) SSL
17 17 (0.74%) IPsec
18 16 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 82 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 68 (2.97%) Power BI
7 67 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (2.84%) BigQuery
9 64 (2.80%) NoSQL
10 61 (2.67%) DynamoDB
11 60 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
12 51 (2.23%) MongoDB
13 50 (2.19%) Delta Lake
14 47 (2.05%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 39 (1.70%) Oracle Database
17 33 (1.44%) Redis
18 32 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 30 (1.31%) Metadata
20 29 (1.27%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 410 (17.92%) GitLab
2 383 (16.74%) Jenkins
3 333 (14.55%) Git
4 149 (6.51%) JIRA
5 47 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.22%) Artifactory
8 26 (1.14%) Maven
9 21 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.79%) MLflow
10 18 (0.79%) Snyk
11 13 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.57%) JUnit
12 11 (0.48%) Gatling
13 10 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.44%) MSI
14 9 (0.39%) Mockito
15 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 413 (18.05%) Social Skills
2 340 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 281 (12.28%) Finance
4 130 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.85%) Banking
6 70 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 60 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (1.75%) Retail
9 26 (1.14%) Legal
9 26 (1.14%) Military
10 23 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 20 (0.87%) Publishing
12 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.66%) Law
14 11 (0.48%) Billing
14 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 515 (22.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 401 (17.53%) Senior
3 251 (10.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 222 (9.70%) Architect
5 219 (9.57%) AWS Engineer
6 213 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
7 199 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
8 189 (8.26%) Lead
9 184 (8.04%) Developer
10 172 (7.52%) Data Engineer
11 149 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 109 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 98 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
15 97 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
16 96 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 94 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 80 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 80 (3.50%) Network Engineer
19 79 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.39%) Kafka
2 142 (6.21%) REST
3 109 (4.76%) .NET
4 104 (4.55%) React
5 100 (4.37%) Node.js
6 95 (4.15%) PySpark
7 81 (3.54%) RESTful
8 78 (3.41%) OAuth
9 75 (3.28%) ARM Templates
10 68 (2.97%) YAML
11 61 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
12 59 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (2.45%) Spring
14 55 (2.40%) OpenID
15 53 (2.32%) Spring Boot
16 52 (2.27%) OAuth2
17 49 (2.14%) JSON
18 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
19 35 (1.53%) AWS CDK
20 33 (1.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 539 (23.56%) Cloud Native
2 134 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 118 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
4 96 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 79 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 69 (3.02%) Public Cloud
7 55 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.70%) PKI
10 38 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 36 (1.57%) Replication
12 31 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (1.35%) Private Cloud
13 29 (1.27%) NHS
14 27 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 25 (1.09%) Management Information System
16 24 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 383 (16.74%) Linux
2 218 (9.53%) Windows
3 85 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 66 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.40%) VMS
6 31 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.22%) Unix
8 17 (0.74%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) 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 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.087%) Solaris
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,600 (69.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,530 (66.87%) CI/CD
3 1,344 (58.74%) DevOps
4 560 (24.48%) Agile
5 550 (24.04%) Containerisation
6 490 (21.42%) Observability
7 468 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
8 329 (14.38%) AI
9 288 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (12.24%) Migration
11 268 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 251 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 250 (10.93%) Analytics
14 249 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
15 246 (10.75%) Software Engineering
16 245 (10.71%) Cloud Security
17 223 (9.75%) Infrastructure Automation
18 222 (9.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 219 (9.57%) Microservices
20 204 (8.92%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,069 (46.72%) Python
2 396 (17.31%) Bash
3 376 (16.43%) PowerShell
4 346 (15.12%) SQL
5 261 (11.41%) Java
6 233 (10.18%) Bicep
7 132 (5.77%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.29%) TypeScript
9 117 (5.11%) C#
10 84 (3.67%) Go
11 49 (2.14%) Scala
12 48 (2.10%) Groovy
13 32 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.74%) Rust
15 16 (0.70%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 10 (0.44%) R
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 819 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 667 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 170 (7.43%) DV Cleared
4 148 (6.47%) Azure Certification
5 118 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 87 (3.80%) Degree
7 64 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 49 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.40%) CCNP
13 30 (1.31%) CISSP
14 18 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.74%) CCNA
16 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (0.44%) CCIE
18 10 (0.44%) OCP
18 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (5.42%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.06%) QA
3 48 (2.10%) GDPR
4 45 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.70%) NIST
6 38 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.66%) NCSC
7 23 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.74%) WCAG
9 10 (0.44%) SLA
10 9 (0.39%) GRC
11 7 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 613 (26.79%) Docker
2 136 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 98 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 40 (1.75%) Hyper-V
7 39 (1.70%) vSphere
8 38 (1.66%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.92%) Squid
10 19 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
11 16 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.48%) NFS
13 8 (0.35%) KVM
14 5 (0.22%) Firmware
15 4 (0.17%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
17 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
17 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 872 (38.11%) Kubernetes
2 522 (22.81%) Ansible
3 292 (12.76%) Grafana
4 247 (10.80%) Prometheus
5 93 (4.06%) Argo
6 57 (2.49%) Puppet
7 44 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.53%) Packer
9 31 (1.35%) Istio
9 31 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (1.05%) FortiGate
13 18 (0.79%) Kibana
13 18 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
14 17 (0.74%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.74%) Podman
15 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
16 12 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 375 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 201 (8.78%) Google
3 130 (5.68%) VMware
4 129 (5.64%) Splunk
5 121 (5.29%) Databricks
6 101 (4.41%) Oracle
7 89 (3.89%) Red Hat
8 77 (3.37%) Dynatrace
9 68 (2.97%) Cisco
9 68 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.67%) Palo Alto
11 42 (1.84%) F5
12 35 (1.53%) Arista
13 34 (1.49%) OpenAI
14 30 (1.31%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.31%) Zscaler
15 24 (1.05%) Aruba
15 24 (1.05%) Informatica
16 22 (0.96%) Foundry
16 22 (0.96%) Juniper