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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,004 1,281 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.25% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.28% 33.55% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 921 931
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £438 £480 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £668 £650
90th Percentile £700 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £52.94
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £68.13 £69.61
90th Percentile £83.30 £78.58 £75.36
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -20.00%

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 5,524 3,818 4,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.07% 15.65% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,640 3,201
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 123
10th Percentile £20.09 £16.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.88 £23.70 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.34% +5.76% -55.19%
75th Percentile £69.38 £63.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.41 £78.22 £69.60
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -47.83%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 0 1,079 £525 -8.70% 272
North of England +14 387 £500 -4.76% 132
Yorkshire +9 211 £500 -4.76% 40
South East -7 162 £505 -5.16% 116
North West +17 140 £527 +0.31% 65
Midlands -6 134 £525 -4.72% 36
South West -13 119 £550 -10.57% 71
West Midlands -1 107 £525 -12.50% 24
North East -8 43 £475 -9.52% 27
East of England -26 32 £463 -11.90% 39
East Midlands -22 26 £449 -10.30% 12
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 86 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.94%) Confluence
3 62 (3.09%) Apache
4 59 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.65%) nginx
6 20 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.95%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.30%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.100%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.100%) Drupal
12 2 (0.100%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.100%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.100%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,084 (54.09%) AWS
2 960 (47.90%) Azure
3 564 (28.14%) GitHub
4 399 (19.91%) GCP
5 374 (18.66%) Serverless
6 363 (18.11%) GitHub Actions
7 346 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
8 333 (16.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 278 (13.87%) Amazon S3
10 269 (13.42%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
12 148 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (7.09%) Azure AKS
14 141 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
15 140 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 140 (6.99%) OpenShift
16 125 (6.24%) Azure Monitor
17 123 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 121 (6.04%) Entra ID
19 115 (5.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 190 (9.48%) Firewall
2 143 (7.14%) DNS
3 111 (5.54%) VPN
4 100 (4.99%) Network Security
5 42 (2.10%) WAN
6 36 (1.80%) BGP
7 35 (1.75%) TCP/IP
8 27 (1.35%) DHCP
9 25 (1.25%) SD-WAN
10 24 (1.20%) LAN
10 24 (1.20%) OSPF
11 19 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
12 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
13 13 (0.65%) VLAN
14 12 (0.60%) SAN
15 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
15 11 (0.55%) SSL
16 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 9 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
3 85 (4.24%) Data Lake
4 78 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
5 75 (3.74%) Power BI
6 60 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 55 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 54 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 54 (2.69%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.59%) MongoDB
11 51 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
12 47 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (2.15%) Delta Lake
14 36 (1.80%) Relational Database
15 31 (1.55%) Redis
15 31 (1.55%) Tableau
16 30 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
17 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
18 27 (1.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 378 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 316 (15.77%) GitLab
3 277 (13.82%) Git
4 111 (5.54%) JIRA
5 47 (2.35%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.20%) Maven
9 19 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Gatling
11 16 (0.80%) Liquibase
12 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.55%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.55%) Snyk
14 9 (0.45%) git-flow
14 9 (0.45%) JUnit
14 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
15 7 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 373 (18.61%) Social Skills
2 294 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 215 (10.73%) Finance
4 106 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (4.44%) Banking
6 55 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.00%) Retail
10 15 (0.75%) Legal
10 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Law
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 5 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.25%) Front Office
16 5 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 425 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 278 (13.87%) Senior
3 238 (11.88%) Architect
4 196 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
5 189 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 180 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
7 179 (8.93%) Developer
8 162 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 162 (8.08%) Lead
8 162 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
9 110 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
10 103 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 100 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
12 93 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 87 (4.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 84 (4.19%) Software Engineer
15 83 (4.14%) Site Engineer
16 73 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 62 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.33%) Kafka
2 130 (6.49%) Node.js
3 110 (5.49%) React
4 104 (5.19%) REST
5 101 (5.04%) .NET
6 76 (3.79%) PySpark
7 75 (3.74%) ARM Templates
8 69 (3.44%) OAuth
9 68 (3.39%) RESTful
10 66 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.19%) Spring
12 63 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
13 57 (2.84%) Spring Boot
14 54 (2.69%) AngularJS
14 54 (2.69%) YAML
15 45 (2.25%) OpenID
16 38 (1.90%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.80%) JSON
17 36 (1.80%) OAuth2
18 31 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 393 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 101 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 71 (3.54%) Product Ownership
5 54 (2.69%) Public Cloud
6 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 31 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.50%) NHS
10 28 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.40%) PKI
11 27 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.10%) Replication
13 21 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 19 (0.95%) AI Agents
15 18 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (0.80%) Clustering
17 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
18 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 339 (16.92%) Linux
2 147 (7.34%) Windows
3 47 (2.35%) VMS
4 43 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.75%) Unix
7 14 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.40%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.100%) Debian
12 2 (0.100%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.100%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) Android
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.050%) Rocky
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,339 (66.82%) CI/CD
2 1,291 (64.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,189 (59.33%) DevOps
4 497 (24.80%) Containerisation
5 447 (22.31%) Agile
6 392 (19.56%) Observability
7 328 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
8 273 (13.62%) Migration
9 268 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
10 254 (12.67%) Analytics
11 234 (11.68%) AI
11 234 (11.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 221 (11.03%) Microservices
13 212 (10.58%) Software Engineering
14 203 (10.13%) Infrastructure Automation
15 202 (10.08%) Test Automation
16 193 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
17 187 (9.33%) Cloud Security
18 178 (8.88%) DevSecOps
19 169 (8.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 942 (47.01%) Python
2 325 (16.22%) SQL
3 297 (14.82%) Bash
4 269 (13.42%) PowerShell
5 227 (11.33%) Java
6 177 (8.83%) Bicep
7 122 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 115 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 111 (5.54%) C#
10 89 (4.44%) Go
11 48 (2.40%) Scala
12 44 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.75%) Ruby
14 26 (1.30%) Groovy
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 717 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 598 (29.84%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.84%) Azure Certification
4 123 (6.14%) AWS Certification
5 114 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 80 (3.99%) Degree
7 66 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.55%) CCNP
13 30 (1.50%) CISSP
14 19 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.80%) CCIE
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.75%) CISM
17 14 (0.70%) OCP
18 13 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.74%) GDPR
3 66 (3.29%) QA
4 60 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.94%) NIST
6 41 (2.05%) NCSC
7 35 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.60%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.50%) GRC
12 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.25%) HL7
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 567 (28.29%) Docker
2 94 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 86 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 41 (2.05%) vSphere
7 36 (1.80%) Hyper-V
8 35 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.55%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
11 7 (0.35%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) Lustre
13 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.100%) Ceph
15 2 (0.100%) Corosync
15 2 (0.100%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 807 (40.27%) Kubernetes
2 486 (24.25%) Ansible
3 266 (13.27%) Grafana
4 230 (11.48%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.09%) Argo
6 49 (2.45%) Istio
7 43 (2.15%) Puppet
8 38 (1.90%) Packer
9 35 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 31 (1.55%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (1.20%) Kibana
13 22 (1.10%) Consul
14 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 16 (0.80%) Rancher
15 15 (0.75%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.65%) Podman
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
19 8 (0.40%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 320 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.18%) Google
3 148 (7.39%) Databricks
4 121 (6.04%) VMware
5 117 (5.84%) Splunk
6 94 (4.69%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.94%) Oracle
8 51 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 44 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 43 (2.15%) Cisco
11 33 (1.65%) Pure Storage
12 28 (1.40%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.30%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.25%) IBM
15 24 (1.20%) F5
16 20 (1.00%) SolarWinds
17 19 (0.95%) Atlassian
17 19 (0.95%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.80%) Citrix
18 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty