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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 39 56
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,070 1,206 1,310
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.91% 4.99% 3.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.97% 31.53% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 862 975
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -3.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 9
10th Percentile £40.73 £26.60 £43.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £46.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -15.32% -20.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £79.90 £80.40 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -4.55% -27.15%

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 5,599 3,825 4,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.82% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 2,602 3,318
10th Percentile £319 £311 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.44% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £504 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -1.61% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 37 91
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% +33.33% -43.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +65.41% +8.13% -46.52%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +1 1,115 £550 - 395
North of England +27 433 £500 -2.44% 178
Yorkshire +14 222 £500 -4.76% 40
North West +32 161 £525 +5.00% 104
South East -17 154 £513 +2.50% 154
Midlands -11 129 £518 -3.85% 39
South West -6 114 £550 -10.57% 68
West Midlands -13 105 £525 -4.55% 30
North East +3 62 £450 -10.00% 34
East of England -17 43 £475 -5.00% 32
East Midlands -19 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 89 (4.30%) Confluence
2 88 (4.25%) Apache Spark
3 67 (3.24%) Apache
4 66 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.21%) Jupyter
7 22 (1.06%) nginx
8 11 (0.53%) SAS
9 10 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.39%) 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 (0.097%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.097%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.097%) Drupal
14 2 (0.097%) 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 2 (0.097%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.048%) InDesign
5 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 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
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 1,122 (54.20%) AWS
2 1,014 (48.99%) Azure
3 587 (28.36%) GitHub
4 439 (21.21%) GCP
5 398 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
6 355 (17.15%) Serverless
7 353 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
8 273 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 263 (12.71%) Amazon S3
10 256 (12.37%) AWS Lambda
11 202 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
12 167 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (6.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 140 (6.76%) Azure AKS
15 134 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 125 (6.04%) Entra ID
17 124 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
18 104 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
19 103 (4.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 212 (10.24%) Firewall
2 139 (6.71%) DNS
3 111 (5.36%) VPN
4 105 (5.07%) Network Security
5 70 (3.38%) WAN
6 52 (2.51%) BGP
7 43 (2.08%) SD-WAN
8 39 (1.88%) OSPF
9 36 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.64%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (1.11%) BIG-IP
13 22 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.92%) DHCP
14 19 (0.92%) SAN
15 17 (0.82%) LAN
15 17 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
16 15 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.68%) SSL
17 14 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
3 77 (3.72%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.62%) Power BI
5 65 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 61 (2.95%) BigQuery
7 55 (2.66%) DynamoDB
8 54 (2.61%) MongoDB
9 53 (2.56%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.51%) Delta Lake
11 46 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
13 37 (1.79%) Redis
14 32 (1.55%) Relational Database
15 29 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 29 (1.40%) Big Data
15 29 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 381 (18.41%) Jenkins
2 371 (17.92%) GitLab
3 274 (13.24%) Git
4 130 (6.28%) JIRA
5 45 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 43 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.26%) Maven
9 18 (0.87%) Snyk
10 17 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.72%) MLflow
12 14 (0.68%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.58%) Gatling
15 11 (0.53%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.48%) git-flow
16 10 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.39%) Gradle
17 8 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 365 (17.63%) Social Skills
2 287 (13.86%) Public Sector
3 228 (11.01%) Finance
4 96 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (4.44%) Banking
6 55 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.26%) Retail
9 21 (1.01%) Legal
10 17 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.82%) Military
11 15 (0.72%) Law
12 12 (0.58%) Publishing
13 11 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.43%) Health Technology
15 9 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.39%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 469 (22.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 324 (15.65%) Senior
3 226 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (10.63%) Architect
5 207 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 192 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
7 166 (8.02%) Data Engineer
7 166 (8.02%) Developer
8 159 (7.68%) Lead
9 154 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
10 120 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 114 (5.51%) GCP Engineer
12 97 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
13 89 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 83 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 79 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 76 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 74 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 69 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.45%) Kafka
2 111 (5.36%) Node.js
3 103 (4.98%) .NET
3 103 (4.98%) React
4 101 (4.88%) REST
5 94 (4.54%) PySpark
6 76 (3.67%) OAuth
7 73 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 68 (3.29%) ARM Templates
9 65 (3.14%) YAML
10 63 (3.04%) RESTful
11 62 (3.00%) Spring
12 61 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
13 59 (2.85%) Spring Boot
14 56 (2.71%) OpenID
15 51 (2.46%) OAuth2
16 45 (2.17%) JSON
17 42 (2.03%) AngularJS
18 41 (1.98%) AWS CDK
19 29 (1.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 476 (23.00%) Cloud Native
2 112 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 91 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 89 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 75 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 45 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 32 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (1.50%) Replication
12 28 (1.35%) PKI
12 28 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 25 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.16%) AI Agents
16 22 (1.06%) NHS
17 18 (0.87%) Clustering
18 16 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 303 (14.64%) Linux
2 159 (7.68%) Windows
3 66 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.88%) VMS
6 27 (1.30%) Unix
7 23 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.68%) CentOS
9 8 (0.39%) 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 (0.097%) AIX
14 2 (0.097%) Debian
14 2 (0.097%) Rocky
14 2 (0.097%) Solaris
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,409 (68.07%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,408 (68.02%) CI/CD
3 1,265 (61.11%) DevOps
4 485 (23.43%) Containerisation
5 466 (22.51%) Agile
6 430 (20.77%) Observability
7 370 (17.87%) Platform Engineering
8 265 (12.80%) AI
9 260 (12.56%) Migration
10 237 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
11 234 (11.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 228 (11.01%) Analytics
13 213 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 211 (10.19%) Test Automation
15 206 (9.95%) Cloud Security
16 204 (9.86%) Software Engineering
17 200 (9.66%) Infrastructure Automation
18 198 (9.57%) Microservices
19 195 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 183 (8.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 930 (44.93%) Python
2 333 (16.09%) SQL
3 302 (14.59%) PowerShell
4 296 (14.30%) Bash
5 238 (11.50%) Java
6 185 (8.94%) Bicep
7 119 (5.75%) JavaScript
8 104 (5.02%) C#
9 101 (4.88%) TypeScript
10 80 (3.86%) Go
11 50 (2.42%) Scala
12 40 (1.93%) Groovy
13 36 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.92%) Ruby
15 15 (0.72%) Rust
16 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) R
18 7 (0.34%) C
18 7 (0.34%) Perl
18 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 731 (35.31%) Security Cleared
2 600 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 149 (7.20%) Azure Certification
4 130 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 102 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 80 (3.86%) Degree
7 62 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.35%) CCNP
13 27 (1.30%) CISSP
14 15 (0.72%) CCNA
15 14 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.58%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.48%) OCP
18 10 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.27%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.04%) QA
3 56 (2.71%) GDPR
4 50 (2.42%) NIST
5 47 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.30%) NCSC
9 15 (0.72%) SLA
10 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.48%) GRC
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) WCAG
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) HL7
16 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 551 (26.62%) Docker
2 98 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 78 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.74%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.35%) vSphere
8 23 (1.11%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.92%) 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 (0.097%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.097%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.097%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 787 (38.02%) Kubernetes
2 482 (23.29%) Ansible
3 264 (12.75%) Grafana
4 234 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.96%) Argo
6 45 (2.17%) Istio
7 43 (2.08%) Puppet
8 35 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.35%) Packer
9 28 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (1.16%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.01%) Kibana
12 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.63%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.58%) Consul
15 12 (0.58%) Podman
15 12 (0.58%) Rancher
16 11 (0.53%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 296 (14.30%) Microsoft
2 204 (9.86%) Google
3 124 (5.99%) Databricks
4 116 (5.60%) Splunk
5 108 (5.22%) VMware
6 92 (4.44%) Red Hat
7 80 (3.86%) Oracle
8 63 (3.04%) Dynatrace
9 55 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.46%) Cisco
11 47 (2.27%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.64%) F5
13 32 (1.55%) Arista
14 27 (1.30%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.06%) Aruba
16 22 (1.06%) IBM
16 22 (1.06%) Pure Storage
17 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
18 17 (0.82%) Foundry