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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,473 1,440 1,395
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.31% 5.15% 4.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.02% 20.09% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,734 990 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.58% -3.30%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £735
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 5 9
10th Percentile £58.43 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.00 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.43 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

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 9,885 7,166 8,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.60% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,507 4,847 5,303
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.53 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +8 1,314 £550 +4.76% 1,569
North of England +1 505 £500 - 377
Yorkshire -13 222 £513 +2.45% 93
South East -2 221 £575 +14.89% 327
South West +6 194 £550 - 234
North West +19 193 £570 +14.00% 231
Midlands -34 122 £477 -13.27% 149
North East -3 101 £425 -18.27% 54
West Midlands -31 94 £512 -7.00% 89
East of England -15 46 £549 +13.85% 90
East Midlands -1 27 £419 -14.10% 60
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
1 107 (4.33%) Confluence
2 106 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 99 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 95 (3.84%) Apache
5 49 (1.98%) Jupyter
6 41 (1.66%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.13%) nginx
8 11 (0.44%) SAS
9 10 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.081%) Traefik
14 1 (0.040%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.040%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,416 (57.26%) AWS
2 1,240 (50.14%) Azure
3 655 (26.49%) GitHub
4 518 (20.95%) GCP
5 458 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
6 441 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
7 348 (14.07%) Serverless
8 297 (12.01%) Amazon S3
9 261 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
10 258 (10.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 248 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
12 224 (9.06%) Entra ID
13 213 (8.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 170 (6.87%) Azure AKS
15 159 (6.43%) Azure Monitor
16 158 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
17 148 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 137 (5.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 134 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
20 106 (4.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 275 (11.12%) Firewall
2 198 (8.01%) DNS
3 133 (5.38%) Network Security
4 130 (5.26%) VPN
5 92 (3.72%) TCP/IP
6 85 (3.44%) DHCP
7 73 (2.95%) WAN
8 66 (2.67%) BGP
9 48 (1.94%) OSPF
10 44 (1.78%) SD-WAN
10 44 (1.78%) VLAN
11 33 (1.33%) VSAN
12 29 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 29 (1.17%) VXLAN
13 27 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
13 27 (1.09%) SSH
13 27 (1.09%) SSL
14 25 (1.01%) BIG-IP
15 18 (0.73%) Internet
16 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
3 89 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 75 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 75 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 73 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 67 (2.71%) BigQuery
9 66 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 66 (2.67%) DynamoDB
10 65 (2.63%) Power BI
11 54 (2.18%) Redis
12 53 (2.14%) MySQL
12 53 (2.14%) Relational Database
13 50 (2.02%) Metadata
14 46 (1.86%) Delta Lake
15 45 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
16 40 (1.62%) Big Data
17 33 (1.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 484 (19.57%) GitLab
2 389 (15.73%) Git
2 389 (15.73%) Jenkins
3 133 (5.38%) JIRA
4 42 (1.70%) SonarQube
5 34 (1.37%) Maven
6 32 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 31 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 22 (0.89%) Artifactory
9 21 (0.85%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.85%) Selenium
10 19 (0.77%) Snyk
11 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
12 15 (0.61%) JUnit
13 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.49%) MLflow
14 12 (0.49%) MSI
15 11 (0.44%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 516 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 354 (14.31%) Finance
2 354 (14.31%) Public Sector
3 166 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (4.85%) Banking
5 72 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (1.90%) Retail
7 37 (1.50%) Military
8 26 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 20 (0.81%) Legal
10 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (0.73%) Law
11 18 (0.73%) Publishing
12 17 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 17 (0.69%) Local Government
13 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.53%) Billing
15 11 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 546 (22.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 448 (18.12%) Senior
3 268 (10.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 240 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
5 224 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
5 224 (9.06%) Platform Engineer
6 223 (9.02%) Developer
7 213 (8.61%) Architect
8 202 (8.17%) Lead
9 185 (7.48%) Data Engineer
10 162 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 110 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
12 107 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
13 104 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 101 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 100 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 99 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 97 (3.92%) Security Engineer
18 87 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
19 84 (3.40%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (7.93%) Kafka
2 185 (7.48%) REST
3 109 (4.41%) .NET
4 106 (4.29%) ARM Templates
4 106 (4.29%) OAuth
4 106 (4.29%) React
5 103 (4.16%) RESTful
6 94 (3.80%) PySpark
7 83 (3.36%) Node.js
8 79 (3.19%) YAML
9 71 (2.87%) OpenID
10 68 (2.75%) OAuth2
11 67 (2.71%) Spring
12 66 (2.67%) Spring Boot
13 58 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
14 51 (2.06%) JSON
15 43 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
16 42 (1.70%) HTML
17 39 (1.58%) FastAPI
17 39 (1.58%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 588 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 146 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 114 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 99 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 87 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 79 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 61 (2.47%) PKI
9 56 (2.26%) AI Agents
10 54 (2.18%) Replication
11 53 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 53 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
13 44 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
14 41 (1.66%) Private Cloud
15 36 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
16 34 (1.37%) Management Information System
17 32 (1.29%) NHS
18 27 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 450 (18.20%) Linux
2 249 (10.07%) Windows
3 90 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 89 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.74%) Unix
6 40 (1.62%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.21%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.081%) Android
15 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.081%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,832 (74.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,694 (68.50%) CI/CD
3 1,434 (57.99%) DevOps
4 631 (25.52%) Observability
5 610 (24.67%) Containerisation
6 604 (24.42%) Agile
7 580 (23.45%) Platform Engineering
8 434 (17.55%) AI
9 351 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 332 (13.42%) Migration
11 321 (12.98%) Test Automation
12 315 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 312 (12.62%) Cloud Security
14 311 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
15 300 (12.13%) Software Engineering
16 294 (11.89%) DevSecOps
17 282 (11.40%) Analytics
18 280 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
19 274 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
20 253 (10.23%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,229 (49.70%) Python
2 482 (19.49%) PowerShell
3 463 (18.72%) Bash
4 395 (15.97%) SQL
5 292 (11.81%) Java
6 288 (11.65%) Bicep
7 143 (5.78%) JavaScript
8 127 (5.14%) C#
9 117 (4.73%) TypeScript
10 98 (3.96%) Go
11 52 (2.10%) Groovy
12 48 (1.94%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.78%) Scala
14 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 13 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 9 (0.36%) R
19 8 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 890 (35.99%) Security Cleared
2 707 (28.59%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.21%) DV Cleared
4 169 (6.83%) Azure Certification
5 166 (6.71%) AWS Certification
6 110 (4.45%) Degree
7 67 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.26%) CISSP
10 52 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 42 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.13%) CCNP
14 20 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (0.81%) CISM
15 19 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.88%) QA
3 58 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.18%) NIST
5 52 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 48 (1.94%) NCSC
7 43 (1.74%) GDPR
8 24 (0.97%) WCAG
9 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.44%) SLA
12 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.20%) HL7
15 5 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 693 (28.02%) Docker
2 177 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 116 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.94%) vSphere
6 46 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (1.66%) Hyper-V
8 39 (1.58%) VMware NSX
9 36 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
15 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,023 (41.37%) Kubernetes
2 602 (24.34%) Ansible
3 310 (12.54%) Grafana
4 246 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 85 (3.44%) Argo
6 63 (2.55%) Puppet
7 54 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 49 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (1.66%) Packer
10 32 (1.29%) Istio
11 28 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.89%) Kustomize
14 21 (0.85%) Kibana
15 20 (0.81%) Kubeflow
16 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
18 15 (0.61%) SCCM
19 14 (0.57%) FortiGate
19 14 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 473 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 236 (9.54%) Google
3 157 (6.35%) VMware
4 147 (5.94%) Databricks
5 140 (5.66%) Splunk
6 101 (4.08%) Oracle
7 92 (3.72%) Dynatrace
8 83 (3.36%) Cisco
9 77 (3.11%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.63%) Palo Alto
10 65 (2.63%) Red Hat
11 40 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 39 (1.58%) F5
13 34 (1.37%) Arista
14 33 (1.33%) Zscaler
15 30 (1.21%) Informatica
16 28 (1.13%) CyberArk
16 28 (1.13%) Fortinet
17 27 (1.09%) Okta
18 24 (0.97%) Foundry