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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,390 1,381 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.24% 5.07% 4.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.52% 20.32% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 960 981
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £46.68 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £84.02 £67.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -5.30% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,748 6,796 8,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.97% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,417 4,663 5,509
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 163 178
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.83
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -14.19% +0.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.61
UK median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.30% -15.32% -0.80%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 1,253 £550 +1.10% 1,233
North of England +7 504 £500 -2.44% 282
Yorkshire -5 231 £513 - 95
South East -5 211 £560 +11.89% 228
North West +35 191 £555 +5.71% 140
South West +4 186 £550 -5.98% 166
Midlands -20 126 £500 -6.28% 112
West Midlands -23 104 £519 -3.94% 63
North East -1 94 £425 -16.67% 47
East of England -5 50 £525 +5.00% 62
East Midlands -11 21 £425 -15.00% 49
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
1 117 (4.90%) Confluence
2 98 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 95 (3.97%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.51%) Apache
5 44 (1.84%) Jupyter
6 34 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.00%) nginx
8 12 (0.50%) SAS
9 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) IIS
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.13%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.084%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.084%) PowerExchange
16 1 (0.042%) FactoryTalk
16 1 (0.042%) Traefik
16 1 (0.042%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.084%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.042%) Houdini
4 1 (0.042%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.042%) NUKE
4 1 (0.042%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.084%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.084%) Endur
2 2 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.042%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.042%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.042%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.042%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,366 (57.15%) AWS
2 1,208 (50.54%) Azure
3 655 (27.41%) GitHub
4 465 (19.46%) GCP
5 462 (19.33%) GitHub Actions
6 437 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
7 364 (15.23%) Serverless
8 280 (11.72%) Amazon S3
9 268 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
10 256 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
12 196 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 179 (7.49%) Entra ID
14 157 (6.57%) Azure AKS
15 144 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
16 143 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
17 135 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 127 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
19 122 (5.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 93 (3.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 279 (11.67%) Firewall
2 201 (8.41%) DNS
3 131 (5.48%) VPN
4 112 (4.69%) Network Security
5 88 (3.68%) TCP/IP
6 82 (3.43%) DHCP
7 76 (3.18%) WAN
8 64 (2.68%) BGP
9 46 (1.92%) OSPF
10 44 (1.84%) SD-WAN
11 40 (1.67%) VLAN
12 33 (1.38%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.34%) VSAN
14 29 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.05%) SSH
16 24 (1.00%) BIG-IP
16 24 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
17 22 (0.92%) SSL
18 17 (0.71%) Internet
19 16 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
3 78 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (3.18%) Data Lake
4 76 (3.18%) NoSQL
5 75 (3.14%) DynamoDB
6 72 (3.01%) Power BI
7 71 (2.97%) SQL Server
8 65 (2.72%) MongoDB
9 63 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 59 (2.47%) BigQuery
11 50 (2.09%) Delta Lake
12 48 (2.01%) Redis
13 46 (1.92%) Relational Database
14 45 (1.88%) MySQL
15 43 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
16 39 (1.63%) Metadata
17 38 (1.59%) Oracle Database
18 34 (1.42%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 441 (18.45%) GitLab
2 385 (16.11%) Jenkins
3 353 (14.77%) Git
4 147 (6.15%) JIRA
5 45 (1.88%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.34%) Maven
7 30 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.92%) Artifactory
10 19 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.75%) Snyk
12 17 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.71%) Selenium
12 17 (0.71%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.63%) MLflow
14 13 (0.54%) JUnit
15 12 (0.50%) MSI
16 10 (0.42%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.42%) Gatling
16 10 (0.42%) Mockito
General
1 466 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 352 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 313 (13.10%) Finance
4 140 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.85%) Banking
6 71 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.09%) Retail
9 32 (1.34%) Military
10 24 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.84%) Legal
11 20 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.79%) Publishing
13 16 (0.67%) Law
14 15 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.63%) Local Government
15 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.50%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 521 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 428 (17.91%) Senior
3 263 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 230 (9.62%) Azure Engineer
5 228 (9.54%) Platform Engineer
6 219 (9.16%) AWS Engineer
7 218 (9.12%) Developer
8 208 (8.70%) Architect
9 202 (8.45%) Lead
10 174 (7.28%) Data Engineer
11 161 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
12 103 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 99 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
14 96 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 95 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 95 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
17 80 (3.35%) Network Engineer
18 72 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (7.78%) Kafka
2 158 (6.61%) REST
3 121 (5.06%) .NET
4 112 (4.69%) React
5 97 (4.06%) ARM Templates
6 93 (3.89%) Node.js
7 92 (3.85%) PySpark
7 92 (3.85%) RESTful
8 83 (3.47%) OAuth
9 76 (3.18%) YAML
10 61 (2.55%) Spring
11 58 (2.43%) Spring Boot
12 56 (2.34%) OAuth2
13 55 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.22%) OpenID
15 48 (2.01%) JSON
16 45 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
17 42 (1.76%) HTML
18 38 (1.59%) AWS CDK
19 37 (1.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 574 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 146 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.06%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 78 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 72 (3.01%) Security Posture
8 71 (2.97%) Public Cloud
9 51 (2.13%) PKI
9 51 (2.13%) Replication
10 50 (2.09%) AI Agents
11 48 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
13 43 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
15 36 (1.51%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.46%) NHS
17 33 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
17 33 (1.38%) Management Information System
18 26 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 423 (17.70%) Linux
2 241 (10.08%) Windows
3 88 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 82 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.55%) Ubuntu
5 37 (1.55%) Unix
6 32 (1.34%) VMS
7 19 (0.79%) AIX
8 14 (0.59%) CentOS
9 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.084%) Android
15 2 (0.084%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,755 (73.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,615 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 1,384 (57.91%) DevOps
4 606 (25.36%) Agile
5 590 (24.69%) Containerisation
6 581 (24.31%) Observability
7 550 (23.01%) Platform Engineering
8 400 (16.74%) AI
9 314 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (12.22%) Test Automation
11 288 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
12 286 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 284 (11.88%) Migration
14 282 (11.80%) Software Engineering
15 275 (11.51%) DevSecOps
16 274 (11.46%) Cloud Security
17 264 (11.05%) Analytics
18 261 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
19 237 (9.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 233 (9.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,156 (48.37%) Python
2 456 (19.08%) PowerShell
3 451 (18.87%) Bash
4 362 (15.15%) SQL
5 280 (11.72%) Java
6 276 (11.55%) Bicep
7 141 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 135 (5.65%) C#
9 123 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 74 (3.10%) Go
11 52 (2.18%) Groovy
12 51 (2.13%) Scala
13 43 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.54%) Perl
16 11 (0.46%) Ruby
16 11 (0.46%) Rust
17 10 (0.42%) R
18 9 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 867 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 706 (29.54%) SC Cleared
3 191 (7.99%) DV Cleared
4 166 (6.95%) Azure Certification
5 142 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 100 (4.18%) Degree
7 61 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (2.01%) CISSP
11 40 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.21%) CCNP
13 21 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (0.75%) VCAP
15 17 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.71%) CISM
16 13 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 85 (3.56%) QA
3 55 (2.30%) NIST
4 54 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 48 (2.01%) NCSC
7 46 (1.92%) GDPR
8 23 (0.96%) WCAG
9 17 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.42%) SLA
11 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.25%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) PSD2
15 4 (0.17%) GRC
15 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.17%) SEPA
16 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 659 (27.57%) Docker
2 159 (6.65%) Active Directory
3 120 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 48 (2.01%) Hyper-V
6 48 (2.01%) vSphere
7 45 (1.88%) VMware NSX
8 32 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
10 15 (0.63%) Squid
11 9 (0.38%) KVM
12 6 (0.25%) Ceph
12 6 (0.25%) Firmware
12 6 (0.25%) NFS
13 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.21%) Postfix
14 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 946 (39.58%) Kubernetes
2 574 (24.02%) Ansible
3 292 (12.22%) Grafana
4 236 (9.87%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.60%) Argo
6 61 (2.55%) Puppet
7 52 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (1.59%) Packer
9 32 (1.34%) vCenter Server
10 29 (1.21%) Istio
11 24 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (0.92%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.79%) Kibana
13 19 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
14 18 (0.75%) Data Guard
15 17 (0.71%) FortiGate
16 15 (0.63%) Kubeflow
16 15 (0.63%) Podman
17 14 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 442 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 201 (8.41%) Google
3 158 (6.61%) VMware
4 141 (5.90%) Databricks
5 133 (5.56%) Splunk
6 106 (4.44%) Oracle
7 79 (3.31%) Dynatrace
8 76 (3.18%) Cisco
8 76 (3.18%) Red Hat
9 71 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 61 (2.55%) Palo Alto
11 42 (1.76%) F5
12 37 (1.55%) OpenAI
13 33 (1.38%) Arista
14 32 (1.34%) Informatica
15 29 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 28 (1.17%) Zscaler
17 25 (1.05%) Foundry
18 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
19 22 (0.92%) Aruba