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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 40 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,054 1,194 1,283
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.91% 4.99% 3.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.78% 31.62% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 856 960
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £26.60 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £52.94
Median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.58
90th Percentile £79.30 £80.40 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -10.26% -19.86%

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 5,585 3,776 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.78% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,842 2,588 3,287
10th Percentile £315 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -0.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £515
% change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 37 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.56 £21.39 £18.34
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +6.42% -47.91%
75th Percentile £69.69 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 1,106 £548 -0.45% 279
North of England +27 425 £500 -4.31% 148
Yorkshire +19 224 £489 -6.90% 28
South East -11 155 £513 +2.50% 125
North West +34 154 £525 +5.00% 87
Midlands -10 128 £525 -3.67% 41
South West -14 115 £550 -10.57% 58
West Midlands -7 106 £525 -4.63% 30
North East -3 57 £475 -9.09% 33
East of England -16 43 £475 -5.00% 22
East Midlands -22 21 £450 -10.00% 11
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 87 (4.24%) Confluence
2 83 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 62 (3.02%) Apache
4 58 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.97%) nginx
7 18 (0.88%) Jupyter
8 10 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.49%) SAS
9 9 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.097%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.097%) Drupal
13 2 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.049%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
5 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.049%) Endur
3 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,101 (53.60%) AWS
2 1,005 (48.93%) Azure
3 580 (28.24%) GitHub
4 432 (21.03%) GCP
5 389 (18.94%) GitHub Actions
6 349 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
7 343 (16.70%) Serverless
8 279 (13.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 258 (12.56%) Amazon S3
10 248 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
11 196 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
12 154 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 140 (6.82%) Azure AKS
14 139 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
15 136 (6.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 130 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 128 (6.23%) Entra ID
18 123 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
19 120 (5.84%) OpenShift
20 111 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 207 (10.08%) Firewall
2 137 (6.67%) DNS
3 112 (5.45%) VPN
4 102 (4.97%) Network Security
5 67 (3.26%) WAN
6 50 (2.43%) BGP
7 43 (2.09%) SD-WAN
8 38 (1.85%) OSPF
9 36 (1.75%) TCP/IP
10 32 (1.56%) VXLAN
11 25 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (1.12%) BIG-IP
13 22 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.93%) DHCP
14 19 (0.93%) LAN
15 18 (0.88%) SAN
16 17 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
16 17 (0.83%) SSL
17 14 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
18 11 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (3.80%) Data Lake
4 76 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 74 (3.60%) Power BI
6 66 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 62 (3.02%) BigQuery
8 53 (2.58%) Delta Lake
8 53 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 52 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 50 (2.43%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.70%) Redis
15 32 (1.56%) Relational Database
16 30 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.41%) Big Data
17 29 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 24 (1.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 376 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 360 (17.53%) GitLab
3 271 (13.19%) Git
4 125 (6.09%) JIRA
5 45 (2.19%) Artifactory
6 38 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 25 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.17%) Maven
9 17 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.78%) MLflow
10 16 (0.78%) Snyk
11 15 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.58%) Gatling
14 11 (0.54%) Terragrunt
15 10 (0.49%) git-flow
15 10 (0.49%) Liquibase
16 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.39%) Gradle
16 8 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 351 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 282 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 226 (11.00%) Finance
4 95 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (4.43%) Banking
6 55 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (1.12%) Retail
9 21 (1.02%) Legal
10 17 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.83%) Military
11 11 (0.54%) Law
12 10 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.44%) Publishing
14 8 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.39%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 457 (22.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 319 (15.53%) Senior
3 223 (10.86%) Architect
4 218 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 201 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
6 189 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
7 166 (8.08%) Data Engineer
8 164 (7.98%) Lead
9 160 (7.79%) Developer
10 147 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
11 120 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (5.55%) GCP Engineer
13 93 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
14 92 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 85 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 76 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
17 73 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 71 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 70 (3.41%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (8.47%) Kafka
2 110 (5.36%) Node.js
3 106 (5.16%) React
4 104 (5.06%) .NET
5 99 (4.82%) REST
6 88 (4.28%) PySpark
7 75 (3.65%) OAuth
8 74 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 67 (3.26%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.07%) YAML
12 62 (3.02%) RESTful
13 60 (2.92%) Spring
14 56 (2.73%) Spring Boot
15 55 (2.68%) OpenID
16 50 (2.43%) OAuth2
17 45 (2.19%) JSON
18 42 (2.04%) AngularJS
19 40 (1.95%) AWS CDK
20 28 (1.36%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 458 (22.30%) Cloud Native
2 110 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 83 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 74 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.58%) Public Cloud
7 44 (2.14%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.66%) Private Cloud
9 33 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 31 (1.51%) PKI
10 31 (1.51%) Replication
11 30 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
14 25 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.17%) AI Agents
16 21 (1.02%) NHS
17 18 (0.88%) Clustering
18 15 (0.73%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 310 (15.09%) Linux
2 155 (7.55%) Windows
3 63 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.85%) VMS
6 27 (1.31%) Unix
7 24 (1.17%) 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 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.097%) AIX
14 2 (0.097%) Debian
14 2 (0.097%) Rocky
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.097%) zOS
15 1 (0.049%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,389 (67.62%) CI/CD
2 1,383 (67.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,245 (60.61%) DevOps
4 475 (23.13%) Containerisation
5 450 (21.91%) Agile
6 424 (20.64%) Observability
7 360 (17.53%) Platform Engineering
8 270 (13.15%) Migration
9 259 (12.61%) AI
10 239 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 237 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 230 (11.20%) Analytics
13 208 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 204 (9.93%) Software Engineering
15 203 (9.88%) Test Automation
16 200 (9.74%) Cloud Security
17 198 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 193 (9.40%) Infrastructure Automation
19 189 (9.20%) Microservices
20 178 (8.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 933 (45.42%) Python
2 328 (15.97%) SQL
3 304 (14.80%) Bash
4 303 (14.75%) PowerShell
5 228 (11.10%) Java
6 185 (9.01%) Bicep
7 118 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 107 (5.21%) C#
9 102 (4.97%) TypeScript
10 81 (3.94%) Go
11 50 (2.43%) Scala
12 37 (1.80%) Groovy
13 36 (1.75%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.17%) Ruby
15 14 (0.68%) Rust
16 8 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.39%) R
17 7 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.34%) Perl
17 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 710 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 582 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 144 (7.01%) Azure Certification
4 121 (5.89%) DV Cleared
5 99 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 78 (3.80%) Degree
7 59 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 51 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.41%) CCNP
12 29 (1.41%) CISSP
13 14 (0.68%) CCNA
13 14 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.63%) CISM
15 12 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.54%) CCIE
17 10 (0.49%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 60 (2.92%) QA
3 58 (2.82%) GDPR
4 49 (2.39%) NIST
5 45 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.51%) NCSC
7 30 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.73%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.49%) GRC
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.24%) WCAG
15 4 (0.19%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 538 (26.19%) Docker
2 96 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.80%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.36%) vSphere
8 22 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.93%) Squid
10 10 (0.49%) KVM
10 10 (0.49%) NFS
11 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.24%) Firmware
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.15%) Postfix
14 2 (0.097%) Corosync
14 2 (0.097%) GPFS
14 2 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 790 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 491 (23.90%) Ansible
3 267 (13.00%) Grafana
4 234 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.89%) Argo
6 46 (2.24%) Puppet
7 45 (2.19%) Istio
8 35 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.36%) Packer
10 27 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.12%) Kibana
11 23 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.58%) Consul
14 12 (0.58%) Rancher
15 11 (0.54%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.54%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.54%) Podman
16 10 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 303 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 201 (9.79%) Google
3 126 (6.13%) Databricks
4 119 (5.79%) Splunk
5 103 (5.01%) VMware
6 91 (4.43%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.65%) Oracle
8 59 (2.87%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 52 (2.53%) Cisco
11 45 (2.19%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.66%) F5
13 30 (1.46%) Arista
14 27 (1.31%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.07%) Pure Storage
17 21 (1.02%) Aruba
17 21 (1.02%) IBM
17 21 (1.02%) Zscaler
18 16 (0.78%) Citrix