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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 40 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,129 1,218 1,343
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.99% 4.97% 3.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.71% 31.50% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,476 859 1,001
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £691 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £43.91 £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 £73.00 £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% -22.52%

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 5,645 3,867 4,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.24% 15.77% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,874 2,614 3,366
10th Percentile £319 £308 £288
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £515 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -1.44% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £702 £700
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 38 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £15.49
25th Percentile £31.25 £22.36 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £42.25 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +37.40% -41.01%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £53.81
90th Percentile £74.80 £80.89 £71.53
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +46.67% +15.38% -40.91%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +2 1,166 £543 +0.05% 199
North of England +26 427 £500 -2.44% 105
Yorkshire +9 216 £500 -4.76% 26
South East -24 161 £513 +2.50% 131
North West +37 158 £527 +5.33% 61
Midlands -22 127 £511 -6.33% 29
South West -3 123 £550 -10.57% 54
West Midlands -16 103 £525 -4.55% 20
North East 0 66 £450 -8.16% 18
East of England -11 46 £513 +2.50% 20
East Midlands -18 23 £449 -10.30% 9
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 95 (4.46%) Confluence
2 89 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 70 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (3.01%) Apache
5 33 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 30 (1.41%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.03%) nginx
8 11 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.52%) SAS
9 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.28%) IIS
10 6 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.094%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.094%) Drupal
13 2 (0.094%) Traefik
13 2 (0.094%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.047%) InDesign
6 1 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.28%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.094%) Endur
4 2 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.047%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.047%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,169 (54.91%) AWS
2 1,035 (48.61%) Azure
3 595 (27.95%) GitHub
4 439 (20.62%) GCP
5 408 (19.16%) GitHub Actions
6 372 (17.47%) Serverless
7 356 (16.72%) Azure DevOps
8 285 (13.39%) Amazon S3
9 274 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 269 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
11 206 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
12 172 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 146 (6.86%) Azure AKS
14 145 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
15 143 (6.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 135 (6.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 126 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
18 124 (5.82%) Entra ID
19 107 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
20 106 (4.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 217 (10.19%) Firewall
2 140 (6.58%) DNS
3 112 (5.26%) VPN
4 98 (4.60%) Network Security
5 76 (3.57%) WAN
6 58 (2.72%) BGP
7 45 (2.11%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.93%) OSPF
9 36 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.64%) VXLAN
11 29 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
13 23 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.89%) SAN
15 18 (0.85%) DHCP
16 17 (0.80%) SSL
17 16 (0.75%) LAN
17 16 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
17 16 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (3.95%) Data Lake
5 77 (3.62%) Power BI
6 67 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 64 (3.01%) BigQuery
8 63 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 56 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 56 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 55 (2.58%) NoSQL
11 53 (2.49%) MongoDB
12 52 (2.44%) Delta Lake
13 40 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 40 (1.88%) Redis
14 34 (1.60%) Relational Database
15 31 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
16 30 (1.41%) Big Data
17 29 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
18 26 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 380 (17.85%) GitLab
2 377 (17.71%) Jenkins
3 285 (13.39%) Git
4 136 (6.39%) JIRA
5 43 (2.02%) SonarQube
6 38 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.13%) Maven
9 18 (0.85%) Snyk
10 16 (0.75%) MLflow
11 15 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.56%) Gatling
13 11 (0.52%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.47%) git-flow
14 10 (0.47%) Liquibase
15 8 (0.38%) JUnit
15 8 (0.38%) Terragrunt
16 6 (0.28%) Jaeger
16 6 (0.28%) Mockito
General
1 385 (18.08%) Social Skills
2 303 (14.23%) Public Sector
3 232 (10.90%) Finance
4 105 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (4.04%) Banking
6 60 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (1.32%) Retail
9 21 (0.99%) Legal
10 20 (0.94%) Military
11 18 (0.85%) Law
12 16 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (0.70%) Publishing
14 13 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.52%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.42%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.33%) Billing
18 7 (0.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 482 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 348 (16.35%) Senior
3 238 (11.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 215 (10.10%) Architect
5 211 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
6 203 (9.53%) AWS Engineer
7 180 (8.45%) Data Engineer
8 171 (8.03%) Developer
9 169 (7.94%) Lead
10 167 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
11 127 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 115 (5.40%) GCP Engineer
13 102 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
14 94 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 87 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 82 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 80 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 75 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 69 (3.24%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (8.50%) Kafka
2 108 (5.07%) React
3 107 (5.03%) Node.js
4 104 (4.88%) .NET
5 102 (4.79%) REST
6 98 (4.60%) PySpark
7 81 (3.80%) OAuth
8 73 (3.43%) OpenTelemetry
9 69 (3.24%) RESTful
10 66 (3.10%) ARM Templates
11 63 (2.96%) YAML
12 61 (2.87%) Spring
13 58 (2.72%) OpenID
13 58 (2.72%) Spring Boot
14 54 (2.54%) OAuth2
15 53 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
16 44 (2.07%) JSON
17 43 (2.02%) AWS CDK
18 42 (1.97%) AngularJS
19 31 (1.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 497 (23.34%) Cloud Native
2 117 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 99 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 94 (4.42%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 63 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 54 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 39 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 30 (1.41%) Replication
12 28 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.27%) PKI
14 26 (1.22%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.03%) NHS
17 15 (0.70%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 304 (14.28%) Linux
2 161 (7.56%) Windows
3 73 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 36 (1.69%) VMS
6 27 (1.27%) Unix
7 26 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.66%) CentOS
9 8 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
9 8 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.33%) CoreOS
11 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.094%) Debian
14 2 (0.094%) Rocky
14 2 (0.094%) Solaris
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,458 (68.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,440 (67.64%) CI/CD
3 1,285 (60.36%) DevOps
4 503 (23.63%) Containerisation
5 488 (22.92%) Agile
6 444 (20.85%) Observability
7 395 (18.55%) Platform Engineering
8 306 (14.37%) AI
9 264 (12.40%) Migration
10 251 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
11 245 (11.51%) Analytics
12 239 (11.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 219 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 217 (10.19%) Test Automation
15 212 (9.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 211 (9.91%) Software Engineering
17 210 (9.86%) Cloud Security
18 202 (9.49%) Microservices
19 201 (9.44%) Infrastructure Automation
20 185 (8.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 973 (45.70%) Python
2 354 (16.63%) SQL
3 306 (14.37%) Bash
4 296 (13.90%) PowerShell
5 242 (11.37%) Java
6 189 (8.88%) Bicep
7 119 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 110 (5.17%) C#
9 107 (5.03%) TypeScript
10 83 (3.90%) Go
11 50 (2.35%) Scala
12 40 (1.88%) Groovy
13 36 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.85%) Ruby
15 17 (0.80%) Rust
16 8 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) R
17 7 (0.33%) C
17 7 (0.33%) Perl
17 7 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 746 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 620 (29.12%) SC Cleared
3 144 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 132 (6.20%) DV Cleared
5 112 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 78 (3.66%) Degree
7 65 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.32%) CISSP
13 27 (1.27%) CCNP
14 17 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.75%) CCNA
16 14 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.56%) Master's Degree
18 11 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
19 10 (0.47%) OCP
19 10 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 61 (2.87%) QA
3 56 (2.63%) GDPR
4 52 (2.44%) NIST
5 47 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 31 (1.46%) NCSC
9 14 (0.66%) SLA
10 12 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.47%) GRC
12 9 (0.42%) WCAG
13 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.23%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.19%) SEPA
17 3 (0.14%) HL7
17 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 567 (26.63%) Docker
2 90 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.32%) vSphere
8 23 (1.08%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.89%) Squid
10 11 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.47%) KVM
11 10 (0.47%) NFS
12 9 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.23%) Firmware
14 3 (0.14%) Ceph
14 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.14%) Postfix
15 2 (0.094%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.094%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.094%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 797 (37.44%) Kubernetes
2 477 (22.40%) Ansible
3 268 (12.59%) Grafana
4 239 (11.23%) Prometheus
5 85 (3.99%) Argo
6 49 (2.30%) Puppet
7 46 (2.16%) Istio
8 37 (1.74%) Progress Chef
9 30 (1.41%) Packer
10 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 21 (0.99%) FortiGate
12 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.85%) Kibana
14 14 (0.66%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.56%) Consul
15 12 (0.56%) Podman
15 12 (0.56%) Rancher
16 11 (0.52%) HAProxy
16 11 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 307 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 207 (9.72%) Google
3 125 (5.87%) Databricks
4 119 (5.59%) Splunk
5 107 (5.03%) VMware
6 88 (4.13%) Red Hat
7 79 (3.71%) Oracle
8 67 (3.15%) Dynatrace
9 58 (2.72%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.35%) Cisco
11 48 (2.25%) Palo Alto
12 35 (1.64%) F5
13 33 (1.55%) Arista
14 32 (1.50%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.17%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.13%) Zscaler
17 23 (1.08%) Aruba
18 22 (1.03%) IBM
18 22 (1.03%) Pure Storage
19 18 (0.85%) Foundry