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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 39 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -13
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,086 1,214 1,344
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.94% 4.96% 3.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.37% 31.45% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 860 999
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £439 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £726 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 10
10th Percentile £40.22 £26.60 £44.75
25th Percentile £52.90 £33.38 £48.81
Median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.42 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.40 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -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 5,582 3,860 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,621 3,369
10th Percentile £318 £308 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.91% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -1.07% -0.29% -6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 37 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +33.33% -43.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £52.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £37.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% +17.19% -44.35%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 1,139 £543 +0.60% 267
North of England +24 423 £500 -2.44% 132
Yorkshire +6 216 £500 -4.76% 34
South East -21 158 £513 +2.50% 140
North West +28 156 £525 +5.03% 74
Midlands -23 127 £511 -5.46% 28
South West -2 116 £550 -10.57% 58
West Midlands -14 103 £525 -4.63% 19
North East +5 63 £450 -8.16% 24
East of England -16 43 £475 -5.00% 29
East Midlands -23 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 92 (4.41%) Confluence
2 89 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 68 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 63 (3.02%) Apache
5 33 (1.58%) SharePoint
6 28 (1.34%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.05%) nginx
8 11 (0.53%) SAS
9 10 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.14%) CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.096%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.096%) Drupal
14 2 (0.096%) Traefik
14 2 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) InDesign
6 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.096%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.096%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.048%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.048%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,144 (54.84%) AWS
2 1,016 (48.71%) Azure
3 584 (28.00%) GitHub
4 435 (20.85%) GCP
5 397 (19.03%) GitHub Actions
6 363 (17.40%) Serverless
7 351 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
8 277 (13.28%) Amazon S3
9 271 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 263 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
11 203 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
12 165 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 141 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
14 140 (6.71%) Azure AKS
15 139 (6.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 133 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 124 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
18 123 (5.90%) Entra ID
19 103 (4.94%) Power Platform
20 102 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 214 (10.26%) Firewall
2 137 (6.57%) DNS
3 112 (5.37%) VPN
4 98 (4.70%) Network Security
5 71 (3.40%) WAN
6 54 (2.59%) BGP
7 45 (2.16%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.97%) OSPF
9 36 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.68%) VXLAN
11 29 (1.39%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.15%) BIG-IP
13 23 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.91%) SAN
15 18 (0.86%) DHCP
16 16 (0.77%) LAN
16 16 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
16 16 (0.77%) SSL
16 16 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (4.36%) Amazon Athena
3 86 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (4.07%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.60%) Power BI
6 65 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 64 (3.07%) BigQuery
8 59 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 54 (2.59%) DynamoDB
9 54 (2.59%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 52 (2.49%) Delta Lake
10 52 (2.49%) MongoDB
11 41 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 37 (1.77%) Redis
13 30 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (1.44%) Relational Database
14 29 (1.39%) Big Data
15 28 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 373 (17.88%) Jenkins
2 368 (17.64%) GitLab
3 275 (13.18%) Git
4 131 (6.28%) JIRA
5 41 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 39 (1.87%) Artifactory
7 26 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.15%) Maven
9 17 (0.81%) Snyk
10 15 (0.72%) MLflow
10 15 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
11 12 (0.58%) Gatling
12 11 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.48%) git-flow
13 10 (0.48%) Liquibase
14 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.38%) Terragrunt
15 7 (0.34%) Gradle
15 7 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 376 (18.02%) Social Skills
2 295 (14.14%) Public Sector
3 225 (10.79%) Finance
4 103 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (4.22%) Banking
6 58 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.25%) Retail
9 21 (1.01%) Legal
10 19 (0.91%) Military
11 17 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (0.81%) Law
12 14 (0.67%) Publishing
13 12 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.48%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.43%) Health Technology
17 7 (0.34%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 474 (22.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 334 (16.01%) Senior
3 237 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 212 (10.16%) Architect
5 210 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
6 202 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
7 177 (8.49%) Data Engineer
8 167 (8.01%) Developer
9 165 (7.91%) Lead
10 164 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
11 123 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.42%) GCP Engineer
13 101 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 84 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 80 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 78 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
18 74 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 74 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.44%) Kafka
2 105 (5.03%) Node.js
3 104 (4.99%) React
4 102 (4.89%) .NET
5 98 (4.70%) REST
6 94 (4.51%) PySpark
7 76 (3.64%) OAuth
8 72 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
9 67 (3.21%) RESTful
10 66 (3.16%) ARM Templates
11 62 (2.97%) Spring
12 61 (2.92%) YAML
13 59 (2.83%) Spring Boot
14 56 (2.68%) OpenID
15 52 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
16 51 (2.44%) OAuth2
17 43 (2.06%) AWS CDK
18 42 (2.01%) AngularJS
18 42 (2.01%) JSON
19 29 (1.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 489 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 116 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 96 (4.60%) Data Centre
4 94 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 78 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 59 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 49 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.53%) Private Cloud
11 30 (1.44%) Replication
12 28 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 27 (1.29%) PKI
14 26 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.05%) NHS
17 15 (0.72%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 295 (14.14%) Linux
2 155 (7.43%) Windows
3 68 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.82%) VMS
6 26 (1.25%) Unix
7 23 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.62%) CentOS
9 8 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.096%) AIX
14 2 (0.096%) Debian
14 2 (0.096%) Rocky
14 2 (0.096%) Solaris
14 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,425 (68.31%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,414 (67.79%) CI/CD
3 1,265 (60.64%) DevOps
4 486 (23.30%) Containerisation
5 476 (22.82%) Agile
6 435 (20.85%) Observability
7 386 (18.50%) Platform Engineering
8 292 (14.00%) AI
9 256 (12.27%) Migration
10 243 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
11 240 (11.51%) Analytics
12 234 (11.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 215 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 209 (10.02%) Test Automation
15 208 (9.97%) Software Engineering
16 205 (9.83%) Cloud Security
17 204 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 198 (9.49%) Microservices
19 196 (9.40%) Infrastructure Automation
20 183 (8.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 949 (45.49%) Python
2 347 (16.63%) SQL
3 299 (14.33%) Bash
4 292 (14.00%) PowerShell
5 240 (11.51%) Java
6 188 (9.01%) Bicep
7 117 (5.61%) JavaScript
8 108 (5.18%) C#
9 106 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 80 (3.84%) Go
11 50 (2.40%) Scala
12 40 (1.92%) Groovy
13 34 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.86%) Ruby
15 15 (0.72%) Rust
16 10 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.38%) R
18 7 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.34%) Perl
18 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 733 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 608 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 144 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 130 (6.23%) DV Cleared
5 108 (5.18%) AWS Certification
6 78 (3.74%) Degree
7 64 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
10 39 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 36 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (1.29%) CCNP
12 27 (1.29%) CISSP
13 17 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.77%) CCNA
15 12 (0.58%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 11 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.48%) OCP
17 10 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (5.70%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.88%) QA
3 57 (2.73%) GDPR
4 50 (2.40%) NIST
5 46 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 31 (1.49%) NCSC
8 14 (0.67%) SLA
9 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.48%) GRC
11 9 (0.43%) WCAG
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) HL7
16 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 554 (26.56%) Docker
2 88 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (1.39%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.34%) vSphere
8 23 (1.10%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.91%) Squid
10 11 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.48%) KVM
11 10 (0.48%) NFS
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.24%) Firmware
14 3 (0.14%) Ceph
14 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.14%) Postfix
15 2 (0.096%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.096%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.096%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 783 (37.54%) Kubernetes
2 468 (22.44%) Ansible
3 260 (12.46%) Grafana
4 232 (11.12%) Prometheus
5 83 (3.98%) Argo
6 46 (2.21%) Puppet
7 45 (2.16%) Istio
8 37 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 29 (1.39%) Packer
10 28 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.81%) Kibana
14 13 (0.62%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.58%) Consul
15 12 (0.58%) Rancher
16 11 (0.53%) HAProxy
16 11 (0.53%) Podman
17 10 (0.48%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 298 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 206 (9.88%) Google
3 124 (5.94%) Databricks
4 116 (5.56%) Splunk
5 106 (5.08%) VMware
6 87 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 77 (3.69%) Oracle
8 63 (3.02%) Dynatrace
9 54 (2.59%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.40%) Cisco
11 48 (2.30%) Palo Alto
12 35 (1.68%) F5
13 33 (1.58%) Arista
14 30 (1.44%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.20%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.10%) Aruba
17 22 (1.05%) IBM
17 22 (1.05%) Pure Storage
18 20 (0.96%) Zscaler
19 17 (0.81%) Foundry