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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,718 1,448 1,614
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.59% 4.64% 4.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.70% 32.63% 29.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 991 1,243
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -7.02%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £658
90th Percentile £706 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 20
10th Percentile £46.20 £26.63 £60.00
25th Percentile £57.13 £46.25 £70.03
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -15.07% +1.53%
75th Percentile £83.00 £74.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £87.20 £76.89 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.77
% change year-on-year -3.85% -14.21% +20.26%

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 4,951 4,438 5,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.10% 14.22% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,847 3,947
10th Percentile £310 £313 £307
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £730 £744
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 60 159
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.05 £17.74
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.08 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -26.65% +79.34%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.63 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.32 £27.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -44.90% +87.09%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +3 893 £525 -12.50% 314
North of England +1 347 £515 +3.00% 104
Yorkshire +3 203 £513 +16.48% 31
Midlands +17 134 £540 -4.00% 64
South West +19 127 £555 -3.48% 87
South East -8 127 £500 -14.53% 233
West Midlands +5 116 £550 -2.22% 34
North West -17 98 £525 -4.55% 57
North East +11 49 £488 -11.36% 16
East of England -14 35 £475 -9.52% 23
East Midlands +3 18 £450 -21.77% 28
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 84 (4.89%) Confluence
2 56 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (2.50%) nginx
4 42 (2.44%) Apache
5 39 (2.27%) Apache Spark
6 23 (1.34%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) SAS
10 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 2 (0.12%) Mule
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (0.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Endur
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.058%) Actimize
4 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.058%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (60.36%) AWS
2 678 (39.46%) Azure
3 468 (27.24%) GitHub
4 313 (18.22%) GCP
5 296 (17.23%) GitHub Actions
6 289 (16.82%) Serverless
7 280 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 255 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
9 234 (13.62%) Amazon S3
10 180 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
11 164 (9.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 159 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
13 139 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
14 125 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 117 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
16 102 (5.94%) Entra ID
17 100 (5.82%) Azure AKS
18 94 (5.47%) OpenShift
19 90 (5.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 76 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 173 (10.07%) Firewall
2 135 (7.86%) DNS
3 87 (5.06%) VPN
4 74 (4.31%) Network Security
5 57 (3.32%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.21%) SSL
7 35 (2.04%) HTTP
8 33 (1.92%) WAN
9 31 (1.80%) DHCP
10 25 (1.46%) BGP
10 25 (1.46%) LAN
10 25 (1.46%) SSH
11 24 (1.40%) SMTP
12 23 (1.34%) SD-WAN
13 22 (1.28%) FTP
14 21 (1.22%) OSPF
15 14 (0.81%) MPLS
16 13 (0.76%) VXLAN
17 12 (0.70%) IMAP
17 12 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (5.01%) NoSQL
4 65 (3.78%) MongoDB
5 49 (2.85%) Data Lake
5 49 (2.85%) DynamoDB
6 38 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
6 38 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 38 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 35 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 33 (1.92%) Power BI
10 31 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (1.75%) Redis
12 26 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.40%) MySQL
13 24 (1.40%) SQL Server
14 15 (0.87%) Big Data
14 15 (0.87%) Tableau
15 14 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 411 (23.92%) Jenkins
2 356 (20.72%) GitLab
3 254 (14.78%) Git
4 122 (7.10%) JIRA
5 55 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 39 (2.27%) Artifactory
7 37 (2.15%) Liquibase
8 36 (2.10%) CircleCI
9 32 (1.86%) Maven
10 28 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (1.46%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.40%) Gradle
13 23 (1.34%) Vagrant
14 18 (1.05%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.76%) Selenium
15 13 (0.76%) Snyk
16 11 (0.64%) JUnit
17 10 (0.58%) MLflow
17 10 (0.58%) TeamCity
18 8 (0.47%) Robot Framework
General
1 419 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 282 (16.41%) Public Sector
3 223 (12.98%) Finance
4 115 (6.69%) Banking
5 92 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 27 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (1.22%) Military
10 21 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.16%) Retail
12 13 (0.76%) Marketing
13 12 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.52%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.52%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.52%) Publishing
15 8 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 402 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 230 (13.39%) Senior
3 221 (12.86%) AWS Engineer
4 197 (11.47%) Architect
5 166 (9.66%) Developer
6 158 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
7 142 (8.27%) Lead
8 134 (7.80%) AWS DevOps
9 125 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 117 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
11 111 (6.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 91 (5.30%) Software Engineer
13 89 (5.18%) Data Engineer
14 81 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 74 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 68 (3.96%) GCP Engineer
17 57 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
18 55 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 54 (3.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 52 (3.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (8.96%) Kafka
2 110 (6.40%) Node.js
3 107 (6.23%) REST
4 104 (6.05%) RESTful
5 99 (5.76%) Elastic Stack
5 99 (5.76%) React
6 74 (4.31%) .NET
7 69 (4.02%) ARM Templates
8 56 (3.26%) OAuth
9 54 (3.14%) Spring Boot
9 54 (3.14%) YAML
10 49 (2.85%) Spring
11 43 (2.50%) AngularJS
12 42 (2.44%) AWS CDK
13 34 (1.98%) OAuth2
14 33 (1.92%) Keycloak
15 32 (1.86%) OpenID
16 28 (1.63%) FastAPI
17 27 (1.57%) .NET Core
17 27 (1.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 292 (17.00%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.25%) Public Cloud
4 66 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 57 (3.32%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.33%) Replication
7 39 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 38 (2.21%) NHS
8 38 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 32 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 29 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (1.34%) PKI
13 18 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.87%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (0.70%) Management Information System
18 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 346 (20.14%) Linux
2 145 (8.44%) Windows
3 57 (3.32%) Unix
4 49 (2.85%) VMS
5 45 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (2.44%) Windows Server
7 28 (1.63%) Amazon Linux
8 21 (1.22%) CentOS
9 20 (1.16%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.47%) Solaris
10 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.058%) Debian
14 1 (0.058%) MVS
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,131 (65.83%) CI/CD
2 1,089 (63.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,067 (62.11%) DevOps
4 466 (27.12%) Containerisation
5 421 (24.51%) Agile
6 257 (14.96%) Microservices
7 256 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
8 246 (14.32%) Observability
9 233 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
10 232 (13.50%) Infrastructure Automation
11 221 (12.86%) Migration
12 204 (11.87%) Software Engineering
13 177 (10.30%) Test Automation
14 162 (9.43%) Cloud Security
15 159 (9.25%) DevSecOps
16 157 (9.14%) Mentoring
17 155 (9.02%) High Availability
18 146 (8.50%) AI
19 142 (8.27%) Analytics
20 136 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 864 (50.29%) Python
2 292 (17.00%) Bash
3 237 (13.80%) Java
3 237 (13.80%) PowerShell
4 226 (13.15%) SQL
5 159 (9.25%) Go
6 108 (6.29%) TypeScript
7 107 (6.23%) Bicep
7 107 (6.23%) JavaScript
8 82 (4.77%) C#
9 49 (2.85%) Shell Script
10 42 (2.44%) Groovy
11 27 (1.57%) Perl
12 18 (1.05%) Ruby
13 14 (0.81%) C++
13 14 (0.81%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.76%) PHP
14 13 (0.76%) Scala
15 10 (0.58%) C
16 7 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 583 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 485 (28.23%) SC Cleared
3 125 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 110 (6.40%) Degree
5 93 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 93 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 71 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.85%) Master's Degree
8 45 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (1.22%) CISSP
13 20 (1.16%) CCIE
14 18 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (1.05%) CCNP
15 12 (0.70%) JNCIE
16 10 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 8 (0.47%) CISM
17 8 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (3.90%) GDPR
2 64 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (2.97%) NIST
4 48 (2.79%) QA
5 39 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.27%) NCSC
6 18 (1.05%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.05%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.52%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.35%) SLA
10 5 (0.29%) GRC
10 5 (0.29%) HL7
10 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.23%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 596 (34.69%) Docker
2 116 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 80 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 33 (1.92%) vSphere
6 22 (1.28%) DFS Replication
7 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 13 (0.76%) Squid
10 12 (0.70%) Dovecot
10 12 (0.70%) Postfix
11 11 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.41%) KVM
13 5 (0.29%) NFS
14 4 (0.23%) Lustre
14 4 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.17%) GPFS
15 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.12%) iptables
Systems Management
1 726 (42.26%) Kubernetes
2 502 (29.22%) Ansible
3 290 (16.88%) Grafana
4 263 (15.31%) Prometheus
5 65 (3.78%) Puppet
6 62 (3.61%) Argo
7 55 (3.20%) Packer
8 39 (2.27%) Progress Chef
9 37 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
10 32 (1.86%) Istio
11 24 (1.40%) Consul
12 22 (1.28%) vCenter Server
13 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 17 (0.99%) Podman
15 16 (0.93%) Nessus
15 16 (0.93%) Proxmox
16 14 (0.81%) Kibana
17 13 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
18 10 (0.58%) Rancher
19 9 (0.52%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 219 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.51%) Google
3 121 (7.04%) Splunk
4 106 (6.17%) VMware
5 95 (5.53%) Databricks
6 66 (3.84%) F5
7 62 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 49 (2.85%) Palo Alto
9 45 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 44 (2.56%) Dynatrace
11 39 (2.27%) Cisco
12 35 (2.04%) Oracle
13 34 (1.98%) CheckPoint
14 23 (1.34%) OpenAI
15 22 (1.28%) IBM
16 21 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.22%) Juniper
17 16 (0.93%) Dell
18 15 (0.87%) Pure Storage
19 14 (0.81%) Zscaler