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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,295 1,336 1,404
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.12% 4.94% 3.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.95% 31.92% 29.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 920 1,028
10th Percentile £400 £400 £411
25th Percentile £449 £453 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £727
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 11
10th Percentile £53.06 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £56.63 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.94% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.06% -9.68% -20.51%

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 6,047 4,186 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.49% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,159 2,785 3,378
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £508 £515
% change year-on-year +1.48% -1.46% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 53 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.52
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.68
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +74.40% -44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £76.95 £78.46 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £35.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +57.96% +8.11% -43.48%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 1,220 £550 +2.09% 307
North of England +25 493 £500 - 128
Yorkshire +7 242 £500 -1.23% 31
North West +44 187 £525 - 75
South East -17 171 £525 +5.00% 136
Midlands -12 145 £525 +5.00% 40
South West -3 143 £550 -10.20% 76
West Midlands -16 120 £525 -2.51% 23
North East +2 79 £425 -11.46% 22
East of England -20 51 £549 +11.82% 10
East Midlands -12 23 £463 -7.50% 17
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
1 114 (4.97%) Confluence
2 94 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (3.22%) Apache
5 36 (1.57%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.09%) nginx
8 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.57%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.087%) Drupal
14 2 (0.087%) Traefik
14 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.044%) InDesign
6 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,296 (56.47%) AWS
2 1,118 (48.71%) Azure
3 616 (26.84%) GitHub
4 467 (20.35%) GCP
5 424 (18.47%) GitHub Actions
6 375 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
7 360 (15.69%) Serverless
8 299 (13.03%) Amazon S3
9 273 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 261 (11.37%) AWS Lambda
11 210 (9.15%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 154 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.41%) Azure AKS
14 147 (6.41%) Entra ID
15 138 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 138 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 121 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
17 115 (5.01%) Azure Monitor
18 102 (4.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 241 (10.50%) Firewall
2 168 (7.32%) DNS
3 125 (5.45%) VPN
4 106 (4.62%) Network Security
5 83 (3.62%) WAN
6 68 (2.96%) BGP
7 54 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 48 (2.09%) OSPF
9 46 (2.00%) SD-WAN
10 35 (1.53%) DHCP
10 35 (1.53%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 25 (1.09%) BIG-IP
12 25 (1.09%) VLAN
13 19 (0.83%) LAN
13 19 (0.83%) SAN
13 19 (0.83%) SSL
14 16 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
15 14 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
3 85 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.44%) Data Lake
5 75 (3.27%) Power BI
6 72 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 69 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.79%) BigQuery
9 63 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
10 61 (2.66%) NoSQL
11 58 (2.53%) DynamoDB
12 53 (2.31%) MongoDB
13 52 (2.27%) Delta Lake
14 46 (2.00%) Relational Database
15 40 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 35 (1.53%) Oracle Database
17 34 (1.48%) Redis
18 33 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
19 30 (1.31%) Big Data
20 29 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 411 (17.91%) GitLab
2 391 (17.04%) Jenkins
3 321 (13.99%) Git
4 150 (6.54%) JIRA
5 45 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.35%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.05%) Maven
8 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.78%) MLflow
9 18 (0.78%) Snyk
10 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.48%) Gatling
12 10 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.44%) JUnit
12 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
13 9 (0.39%) MSI
14 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.35%) git-flow
15 7 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 421 (18.34%) Social Skills
2 338 (14.73%) Public Sector
3 277 (12.07%) Finance
4 123 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.05%) Banking
6 70 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (1.48%) Retail
9 26 (1.13%) Legal
10 24 (1.05%) Military
11 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.74%) Publishing
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 521 (22.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 389 (16.95%) Senior
3 254 (11.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 233 (10.15%) Architect
5 223 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
6 207 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
7 194 (8.45%) Lead
8 193 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
9 186 (8.10%) Data Engineer
10 183 (7.97%) Developer
11 139 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
13 105 (4.58%) GCP Engineer
14 103 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 95 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
16 91 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 75 (3.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 71 (3.09%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (7.54%) Kafka
2 125 (5.45%) REST
3 114 (4.97%) .NET
4 103 (4.49%) Node.js
4 103 (4.49%) PySpark
5 101 (4.40%) React
6 83 (3.62%) OAuth
7 78 (3.40%) RESTful
8 67 (2.92%) YAML
9 65 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
10 63 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
11 62 (2.70%) ARM Templates
12 58 (2.53%) OpenID
13 56 (2.44%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.44%) Spring
14 52 (2.27%) Spring Boot
15 46 (2.00%) JSON
16 40 (1.74%) AWS CDK
17 37 (1.61%) AngularJS
18 33 (1.44%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 546 (23.79%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
2 118 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 100 (4.36%) Data Centre
4 81 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 73 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 47 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 42 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.57%) Replication
10 34 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 33 (1.44%) PKI
12 32 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
13 30 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.26%) NHS
15 28 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 27 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 20 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 360 (15.69%) Linux
2 199 (8.67%) Windows
3 76 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.31%) VMS
6 29 (1.26%) Unix
7 26 (1.13%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.57%) AIX
8 13 (0.57%) CentOS
9 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
11 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.087%) Rocky
14 2 (0.087%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,590 (69.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,546 (67.36%) CI/CD
3 1,358 (59.17%) DevOps
4 557 (24.27%) Containerisation
5 546 (23.79%) Agile
6 482 (21.00%) Observability
7 458 (19.96%) Platform Engineering
8 316 (13.77%) AI
9 283 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
10 275 (11.98%) Migration
11 255 (11.11%) Analytics
12 243 (10.59%) Test Automation
13 241 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 240 (10.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 233 (10.15%) Software Engineering
16 231 (10.07%) Cloud Security
17 230 (10.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 219 (9.54%) Microservices
19 218 (9.50%) Infrastructure Automation
20 203 (8.85%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,066 (46.45%) Python
2 364 (15.86%) Bash
3 357 (15.56%) SQL
4 343 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 259 (11.29%) Java
6 213 (9.28%) Bicep
7 127 (5.53%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.19%) C#
9 117 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 87 (3.79%) Go
11 51 (2.22%) Scala
12 48 (2.09%) Groovy
13 34 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.78%) Ruby
15 16 (0.70%) Rust
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 9 (0.39%) R
18 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.35%) Perl
19 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 814 (35.47%) Security Cleared
2 669 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 154 (6.71%) DV Cleared
4 138 (6.01%) Azure Certification
5 116 (5.05%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.75%) Degree
7 69 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.26%) CCNP
12 26 (1.13%) CISSP
13 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.74%) CCNA
14 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 14 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) CCIE
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 64 (2.79%) QA
3 55 (2.40%) GDPR
4 42 (1.83%) NIST
5 41 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.66%) NCSC
8 30 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.61%) WCAG
10 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.48%) SLA
12 10 (0.44%) GRC
13 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.22%) HL7
15 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.13%) PSD2
17 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 620 (27.02%) Docker
2 119 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 91 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.57%) Hyper-V
7 34 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 34 (1.48%) vSphere
8 21 (0.92%) Squid
9 17 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
10 15 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 8 (0.35%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 867 (37.78%) Kubernetes
2 509 (22.18%) Ansible
3 290 (12.64%) Grafana
4 254 (11.07%) Prometheus
5 89 (3.88%) Argo
6 55 (2.40%) Puppet
7 41 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.53%) Istio
8 35 (1.53%) Packer
9 29 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 27 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.87%) Kibana
14 17 (0.74%) Kustomize
15 16 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
16 15 (0.65%) Data Guard
17 13 (0.57%) Consul
17 13 (0.57%) Podman
18 12 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 350 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.93%) Google
3 131 (5.71%) Databricks
4 130 (5.66%) Splunk
5 120 (5.23%) VMware
6 96 (4.18%) Oracle
7 81 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.31%) Dynatrace
9 65 (2.83%) ServiceNow
10 59 (2.57%) Cisco
11 56 (2.44%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.70%) F5
13 34 (1.48%) Arista
13 34 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 29 (1.26%) Zscaler
15 26 (1.13%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.00%) Aruba
16 23 (1.00%) Foundry
16 23 (1.00%) Informatica
17 20 (0.87%) Pure Storage