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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,332 1,404 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.13% 5.09% 4.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.83% 32.72% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 972 984
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £702 £735
UK median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 11
10th Percentile £56.40 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £59.07 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £67.84 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -10.71% -4.11%

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 6,006 4,291 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.54% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,093 2,859 3,231
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -2.88% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £520
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.98 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.23 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% +56.77% -33.18%
75th Percentile £70.69 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +68.36% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +2 1,213 £550 - 836
North of England +13 499 £500 -2.44% 266
Yorkshire -5 228 £500 -2.44% 71
North West +41 204 £571 +8.76% 161
South East -13 201 £555 +11.00% 176
South West +4 161 £550 -8.33% 151
Midlands -22 136 £512 -0.20% 66
West Midlands -20 113 £511 -6.33% 48
North East -4 81 £425 -18.27% 35
East of England -2 51 £513 +7.89% 30
East Midlands -9 21 £500 +2.56% 18
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
1 121 (5.19%) Confluence
2 88 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 86 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 80 (3.43%) Apache
5 37 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.03%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.086%) Apache Superset
12 2 (0.086%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.086%) Traefik
13 1 (0.043%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) 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 (0.086%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.043%) Houdini
5 1 (0.043%) InDesign
5 1 (0.043%) NUKE
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.086%) Endur
2 2 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,319 (56.56%) AWS
2 1,170 (50.17%) Azure
3 640 (27.44%) GitHub
4 466 (19.98%) GCP
5 443 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
6 415 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
7 339 (14.54%) Serverless
8 272 (11.66%) Amazon S3
9 260 (11.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 249 (10.68%) AWS Lambda
11 210 (9.01%) Amazon EKS
12 174 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 162 (6.95%) Entra ID
14 157 (6.73%) Azure AKS
15 142 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
16 134 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 129 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
18 126 (5.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 120 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
20 91 (3.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 265 (11.36%) Firewall
2 191 (8.19%) DNS
3 135 (5.79%) VPN
4 103 (4.42%) Network Security
5 80 (3.43%) WAN
6 78 (3.34%) TCP/IP
7 70 (3.00%) BGP
8 67 (2.87%) DHCP
9 49 (2.10%) OSPF
10 44 (1.89%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.59%) VXLAN
12 33 (1.42%) VLAN
13 28 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 26 (1.11%) VSAN
15 23 (0.99%) BIG-IP
15 23 (0.99%) SSL
16 21 (0.90%) SSH
17 17 (0.73%) Internet
17 17 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
3 83 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
4 71 (3.04%) SQL Server
5 68 (2.92%) Data Lake
5 68 (2.92%) NoSQL
6 67 (2.87%) Power BI
7 64 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 63 (2.70%) BigQuery
9 61 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 55 (2.36%) MongoDB
11 50 (2.14%) Delta Lake
12 47 (2.02%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (1.63%) Redis
15 37 (1.59%) Oracle Database
16 31 (1.33%) Metadata
17 29 (1.24%) MySQL
18 28 (1.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 414 (17.75%) GitLab
2 381 (16.34%) Jenkins
3 344 (14.75%) Git
4 151 (6.48%) JIRA
5 44 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.24%) Maven
8 26 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.73%) MLflow
10 17 (0.73%) Snyk
11 16 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 14 (0.60%) Claude Code
13 13 (0.56%) MSI
14 11 (0.47%) Gatling
14 11 (0.47%) JUnit
14 11 (0.47%) Terragrunt
15 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
16 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
16 9 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 419 (17.97%) Social Skills
2 343 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 288 (12.35%) Finance
4 136 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (3.90%) Banking
6 63 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (2.02%) Retail
9 26 (1.11%) Military
10 25 (1.07%) Legal
11 23 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 22 (0.94%) Publishing
13 19 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.64%) Law
16 12 (0.51%) Billing
16 12 (0.51%) Local Government
16 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 504 (21.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 415 (17.80%) Senior
3 265 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 221 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
5 220 (9.43%) Architect
6 214 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
7 212 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
8 208 (8.92%) Developer
9 203 (8.70%) Lead
10 170 (7.29%) Data Engineer
11 159 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 100 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
14 98 (4.20%) GCP Engineer
15 96 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 94 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 82 (3.52%) Network Engineer
19 75 (3.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.25%) Kafka
2 159 (6.82%) REST
3 116 (4.97%) .NET
4 109 (4.67%) React
5 102 (4.37%) Node.js
6 90 (3.86%) PySpark
6 90 (3.86%) RESTful
7 80 (3.43%) ARM Templates
8 74 (3.17%) OAuth
9 72 (3.09%) YAML
10 56 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
11 55 (2.36%) Spring
12 53 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
13 51 (2.19%) Spring Boot
14 50 (2.14%) OAuth2
14 50 (2.14%) OpenID
15 49 (2.10%) JSON
16 42 (1.80%) HTML
17 38 (1.63%) AngularJS
18 36 (1.54%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 555 (23.80%) Cloud Native
2 146 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 119 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
4 101 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 82 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 70 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 60 (2.57%) Security Posture
9 49 (2.10%) PKI
10 44 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 41 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (1.63%) Replication
13 35 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 33 (1.42%) Private Cloud
15 31 (1.33%) NHS
16 30 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
17 27 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
18 26 (1.11%) Management Information System
19 23 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 401 (17.20%) Linux
2 235 (10.08%) Windows
3 84 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 77 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.33%) VMS
7 29 (1.24%) Unix
8 19 (0.81%) AIX
9 12 (0.51%) CentOS
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.086%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,653 (70.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,552 (66.55%) CI/CD
3 1,360 (58.32%) DevOps
4 571 (24.49%) Agile
5 561 (24.06%) Containerisation
6 521 (22.34%) Observability
7 501 (21.48%) Platform Engineering
8 344 (14.75%) AI
9 291 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
10 285 (12.22%) Migration
11 284 (12.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 281 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 270 (11.58%) Test Automation
14 263 (11.28%) Cloud Security
15 257 (11.02%) Analytics
16 245 (10.51%) Software Engineering
17 233 (9.99%) Infrastructure Automation
18 226 (9.69%) DevSecOps
19 224 (9.61%) Microservices
20 222 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (47.17%) Python
2 418 (17.92%) Bash
3 414 (17.75%) PowerShell
4 349 (14.97%) SQL
5 269 (11.54%) Java
6 254 (10.89%) Bicep
7 143 (6.13%) JavaScript
8 128 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 125 (5.36%) C#
10 71 (3.04%) Go
11 48 (2.06%) Scala
12 47 (2.02%) Groovy
13 33 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.73%) Rust
15 14 (0.60%) Ruby
16 12 (0.51%) R
17 11 (0.47%) C
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.34%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 844 (36.19%) Security Cleared
2 686 (29.42%) SC Cleared
3 180 (7.72%) DV Cleared
4 156 (6.69%) Azure Certification
5 124 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 88 (3.77%) Degree
7 63 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 35 (1.50%) CISSP
13 32 (1.37%) CCNP
14 20 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (0.69%) CCNA
17 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 13 (0.56%) VCAP
19 10 (0.43%) CCIE
19 10 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.17%) QA
3 49 (2.10%) GDPR
4 48 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 44 (1.89%) NCSC
6 40 (1.72%) NIST
7 39 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.90%) WCAG
9 19 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.34%) GRC
10 8 (0.34%) SLA
11 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.26%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) PSD2
12 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.17%) SEPA
14 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.086%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 632 (27.10%) Docker
2 147 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 108 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.97%) vSphere
7 44 (1.89%) Hyper-V
8 43 (1.84%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
10 20 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.69%) Squid
12 11 (0.47%) NFS
13 9 (0.39%) KVM
14 6 (0.26%) Firmware
15 5 (0.21%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
17 2 (0.086%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.086%) OpenSSH
17 2 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 890 (38.16%) Kubernetes
2 545 (23.37%) Ansible
3 283 (12.14%) Grafana
4 237 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 93 (3.99%) Argo
6 59 (2.53%) Puppet
7 45 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.59%) Packer
9 33 (1.42%) Istio
9 33 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (1.20%) vCenter Server
11 21 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 20 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
13 19 (0.81%) Data Guard
14 17 (0.73%) Podman
15 16 (0.69%) Kibana
15 16 (0.69%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.56%) SCCM
16 13 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 398 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 207 (8.88%) Google
3 149 (6.39%) VMware
4 129 (5.53%) Splunk
5 121 (5.19%) Databricks
6 101 (4.33%) Oracle
7 81 (3.47%) Dynatrace
7 81 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 74 (3.17%) ServiceNow
9 68 (2.92%) Cisco
10 61 (2.62%) Palo Alto
11 42 (1.80%) F5
12 35 (1.50%) Arista
12 35 (1.50%) OpenAI
13 31 (1.33%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.29%) Zscaler
15 26 (1.11%) Informatica
16 24 (1.03%) Aruba
16 24 (1.03%) Foundry
17 23 (0.99%) Juniper