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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,364 1,390 1,358
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.19% 5.02% 4.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.04% 32.48% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,633 962 979
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £706 £732
UK median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 8 11
10th Percentile £56.55 £46.68 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £55.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £69.11 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +10.57% -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 6,055 4,279 4,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.46% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,126 2,858 3,201
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £605 £625
90th Percentile £700 £691 £701
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.67% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 58 66
10th Percentile £20.17 £20.63 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.30 £26.53 £24.39
Median hourly rate £65.69 £53.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.79% +41.72% -24.09%
75th Percentile £71.22 £65.49 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.89 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.39 £36.17
% change year-on-year +83.61% -4.92% -35.71%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 1,234 £550 +0.92% 1,275
North of England +10 503 £500 -3.85% 315
Yorkshire -7 231 £500 -2.44% 81
South East -6 206 £560 +12.00% 214
North West +35 199 £575 +9.52% 186
South West +10 169 £550 -8.33% 174
Midlands -15 130 £527 -0.75% 94
West Midlands -17 108 £526 -3.49% 55
North East -5 87 £425 -18.27% 49
East of England -4 52 £525 +9.66% 54
East Midlands -3 20 £500 +2.56% 39
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
1 119 (5.03%) Confluence
2 91 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 80 (3.38%) Apache
5 41 (1.73%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.97%) nginx
8 13 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.55%) SAS
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
10 7 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.085%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.085%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.085%) Traefik
14 1 (0.042%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.042%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (0.25%) 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 (0.085%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.042%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.042%) Houdini
5 1 (0.042%) InDesign
5 1 (0.042%) NUKE
5 1 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
5 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 (0.085%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.085%) Endur
2 2 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
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 1,341 (56.73%) AWS
2 1,187 (50.21%) Azure
3 655 (27.71%) GitHub
4 470 (19.88%) GCP
5 458 (19.37%) GitHub Actions
6 424 (17.94%) Azure DevOps
7 347 (14.68%) Serverless
8 273 (11.55%) Amazon S3
9 268 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 255 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
11 214 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
12 187 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 168 (7.11%) Entra ID
14 162 (6.85%) Azure AKS
15 145 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
16 142 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 135 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
18 128 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 125 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
20 92 (3.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 271 (11.46%) Firewall
2 199 (8.42%) DNS
3 133 (5.63%) VPN
4 105 (4.44%) Network Security
5 83 (3.51%) TCP/IP
6 80 (3.38%) WAN
7 74 (3.13%) DHCP
8 68 (2.88%) BGP
9 47 (1.99%) OSPF
10 45 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.57%) VLAN
11 37 (1.57%) VXLAN
12 29 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 27 (1.14%) VSAN
14 26 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.06%) SSL
16 24 (1.02%) BIG-IP
17 22 (0.93%) SSH
18 18 (0.76%) Internet
19 16 (0.68%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
4 80 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 71 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 70 (2.96%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.83%) Power BI
8 66 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 62 (2.62%) MongoDB
10 61 (2.58%) BigQuery
11 59 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 49 (2.07%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.95%) Relational Database
14 45 (1.90%) Redis
15 42 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 37 (1.57%) MySQL
16 37 (1.57%) Oracle Database
17 35 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
18 33 (1.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 430 (18.19%) GitLab
2 398 (16.84%) Jenkins
3 350 (14.81%) Git
4 150 (6.35%) JIRA
5 43 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.27%) Maven
8 26 (1.10%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.76%) Snyk
11 17 (0.72%) MLflow
12 16 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 15 (0.63%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.55%) MSI
15 12 (0.51%) Terragrunt
16 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
16 11 (0.47%) Gatling
16 11 (0.47%) JUnit
17 10 (0.42%) Selenium
18 8 (0.34%) Mockito
General
1 442 (18.70%) Social Skills
2 354 (14.97%) Public Sector
3 299 (12.65%) Finance
4 139 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (3.76%) Banking
6 62 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.07%) Retail
9 26 (1.10%) Military
10 23 (0.97%) Legal
11 22 (0.93%) Publishing
12 21 (0.89%) Aerospace
12 21 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.59%) Law
16 13 (0.55%) Local Government
17 12 (0.51%) Billing
17 12 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 511 (21.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 425 (17.98%) Senior
3 270 (11.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 223 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
5 219 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
6 215 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
7 212 (8.97%) Architect
8 206 (8.71%) Developer
9 203 (8.59%) Lead
10 164 (6.94%) Data Engineer
11 160 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 106 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
13 102 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
14 100 (4.23%) GCP Engineer
15 98 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 98 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 97 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 85 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 84 (3.55%) Network Engineer
19 77 (3.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.28%) Kafka
2 160 (6.77%) REST
3 115 (4.86%) .NET
4 110 (4.65%) React
5 93 (3.93%) Node.js
6 89 (3.76%) RESTful
7 88 (3.72%) PySpark
8 83 (3.51%) ARM Templates
9 77 (3.26%) OAuth
10 76 (3.21%) YAML
11 56 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
11 56 (2.37%) Spring
12 52 (2.20%) Spring Boot
13 51 (2.16%) OAuth2
13 51 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
14 49 (2.07%) OpenID
15 48 (2.03%) JSON
16 42 (1.78%) HTML
17 39 (1.65%) AngularJS
18 38 (1.61%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 562 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 147 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 68 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 66 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 50 (2.12%) PKI
10 49 (2.07%) Replication
11 43 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
11 43 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
13 40 (1.69%) AI Agents
14 33 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
14 33 (1.40%) NHS
15 32 (1.35%) Private Cloud
16 29 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (1.18%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 418 (17.68%) Linux
2 242 (10.24%) Windows
3 86 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 80 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.31%) Unix
6 31 (1.31%) VMS
7 19 (0.80%) AIX
8 13 (0.55%) CentOS
9 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
12 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.085%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,690 (71.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,583 (66.96%) CI/CD
3 1,388 (58.71%) DevOps
4 579 (24.49%) Agile
5 568 (24.03%) Containerisation
6 536 (22.67%) Observability
7 516 (21.83%) Platform Engineering
8 361 (15.27%) AI
9 300 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 288 (12.18%) Migration
10 288 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
11 285 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 278 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 267 (11.29%) Cloud Security
14 261 (11.04%) Analytics
15 256 (10.83%) Software Engineering
16 238 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
17 235 (9.94%) DevSecOps
18 234 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 224 (9.48%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (47.67%) Python
2 440 (18.61%) PowerShell
3 438 (18.53%) Bash
4 361 (15.27%) SQL
5 271 (11.46%) Java
6 256 (10.83%) Bicep
7 142 (6.01%) JavaScript
8 128 (5.41%) C#
9 125 (5.29%) TypeScript
10 74 (3.13%) Go
11 50 (2.12%) Groovy
12 49 (2.07%) Scala
13 35 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.68%) Rust
15 13 (0.55%) Ruby
16 12 (0.51%) Perl
16 12 (0.51%) R
17 11 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.38%) C
19 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 868 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 706 (29.86%) SC Cleared
3 181 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 161 (6.81%) Azure Certification
5 131 (5.54%) AWS Certification
6 92 (3.89%) Degree
7 66 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 49 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 48 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 39 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.57%) CISSP
13 30 (1.27%) CCNP
14 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.59%) CCNA
17 14 (0.59%) VCAP
18 10 (0.42%) CCIE
18 10 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.30%) QA
3 51 (2.16%) GDPR
4 46 (1.95%) NCSC
5 45 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.82%) NIST
7 21 (0.89%) WCAG
8 20 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.47%) SLA
10 8 (0.34%) GRC
11 7 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.25%) HL7
13 5 (0.21%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 645 (27.28%) Docker
2 151 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 114 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
5 59 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 45 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 45 (1.90%) vSphere
7 43 (1.82%) VMware NSX
8 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
8 21 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (0.59%) Squid
10 9 (0.38%) KVM
10 9 (0.38%) NFS
11 6 (0.25%) Firmware
12 5 (0.21%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.13%) Postfix
13 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 918 (38.83%) Kubernetes
2 556 (23.52%) Ansible
3 288 (12.18%) Grafana
4 245 (10.36%) Prometheus
5 90 (3.81%) Argo
6 62 (2.62%) Puppet
7 48 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.65%) Packer
9 37 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (1.48%) Istio
11 27 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.80%) Data Guard
15 18 (0.76%) FortiGate
15 18 (0.76%) Kibana
16 17 (0.72%) Kustomize
17 16 (0.68%) Podman
18 14 (0.59%) SCCM
18 14 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 418 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.84%) Google
3 154 (6.51%) VMware
4 131 (5.54%) Splunk
5 123 (5.20%) Databricks
6 103 (4.36%) Oracle
7 81 (3.43%) Dynatrace
7 81 (3.43%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.21%) ServiceNow
9 69 (2.92%) Cisco
10 60 (2.54%) Palo Alto
11 45 (1.90%) F5
12 35 (1.48%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.44%) Arista
14 31 (1.31%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.27%) Zscaler
16 28 (1.18%) Informatica
17 24 (1.02%) Foundry
18 23 (0.97%) Aruba
19 22 (0.93%) Juniper