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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,461 1,443 1,397
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.29% 5.15% 4.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.94% 20.14% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 992 987
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
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 9,867 7,166 8,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.57% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,489 4,845 5,302
10th Percentile £381 £356 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
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 269 172 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +5 1,310 £550 +4.76% 1,605
North of England +2 501 £500 - 462
Yorkshire -13 221 £513 +2.45% 122
South East +2 220 £575 +14.94% 393
South West +6 194 £550 - 276
North West +20 190 £565 +13.00% 263
Midlands -32 120 £477 -13.27% 204
North East -4 101 £425 -18.27% 83
West Midlands -32 94 £512 -7.00% 117
East of England -14 45 £550 +14.81% 139
East Midlands -6 25 £419 -14.10% 87
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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 105 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 99 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 96 (3.90%) Apache
5 48 (1.95%) Jupyter
6 41 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 29 (1.18%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.37%) 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 (0.041%) 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 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) 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 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,412 (57.38%) AWS
2 1,231 (50.02%) Azure
3 652 (26.49%) GitHub
4 519 (21.09%) GCP
5 455 (18.49%) GitHub Actions
6 438 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
7 344 (13.98%) Serverless
8 293 (11.91%) Amazon S3
9 259 (10.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 255 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
11 247 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
12 223 (9.06%) Entra ID
13 211 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 168 (6.83%) Azure AKS
15 158 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
16 157 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
17 150 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 137 (5.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 132 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
20 107 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 275 (11.17%) Firewall
2 200 (8.13%) DNS
3 134 (5.44%) Network Security
4 130 (5.28%) VPN
5 93 (3.78%) TCP/IP
6 85 (3.45%) DHCP
7 74 (3.01%) WAN
8 67 (2.72%) BGP
9 48 (1.95%) OSPF
10 45 (1.83%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.75%) VLAN
12 33 (1.34%) VSAN
13 29 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.18%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.10%) SSH
14 27 (1.10%) SSL
15 25 (1.02%) BIG-IP
16 19 (0.77%) Internet
17 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 89 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (3.54%) Data Lake
5 78 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 74 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 74 (3.01%) SQL Server
7 72 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
8 66 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (2.68%) BigQuery
8 66 (2.68%) Power BI
9 65 (2.64%) DynamoDB
10 55 (2.23%) Redis
11 54 (2.19%) MySQL
12 53 (2.15%) Relational Database
13 49 (1.99%) Metadata
14 45 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
14 45 (1.83%) Delta Lake
15 40 (1.63%) Big Data
16 33 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 482 (19.59%) GitLab
2 391 (15.89%) Jenkins
3 390 (15.85%) Git
4 134 (5.44%) JIRA
5 43 (1.75%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.38%) Maven
7 33 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 22 (0.89%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.85%) Selenium
11 19 (0.77%) Snyk
12 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.61%) JUnit
14 14 (0.57%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.49%) Cucumber
15 12 (0.49%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 513 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.43%) Finance
3 353 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 166 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (4.92%) Banking
6 70 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (1.91%) Retail
8 46 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (1.50%) Military
10 26 (1.06%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.81%) Legal
12 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (0.73%) Law
13 18 (0.73%) Publishing
14 17 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 17 (0.69%) Local Government
15 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.53%) Billing
17 11 (0.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 549 (22.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 448 (18.20%) Senior
3 267 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 237 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
5 223 (9.06%) AWS Engineer
5 223 (9.06%) Developer
6 222 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
7 209 (8.49%) Architect
8 202 (8.21%) Lead
9 181 (7.35%) Data Engineer
10 161 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 112 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
12 108 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
13 106 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 102 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 99 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 97 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 97 (3.94%) Security Engineer
17 87 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
18 84 (3.41%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (7.96%) Kafka
2 186 (7.56%) REST
3 108 (4.39%) .NET
4 106 (4.31%) ARM Templates
5 105 (4.27%) OAuth
5 105 (4.27%) React
6 102 (4.14%) RESTful
7 90 (3.66%) PySpark
8 83 (3.37%) Node.js
9 79 (3.21%) YAML
10 71 (2.89%) OpenID
11 68 (2.76%) OAuth2
12 66 (2.68%) Spring
13 65 (2.64%) Spring Boot
14 58 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
15 52 (2.11%) JSON
16 43 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
17 42 (1.71%) HTML
18 41 (1.67%) AWS CDK
19 40 (1.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 586 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 147 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 112 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 106 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 100 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 87 (3.54%) Security Posture
7 84 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 80 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 62 (2.52%) PKI
10 56 (2.28%) AI Agents
11 55 (2.23%) Replication
12 54 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
13 53 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
14 47 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
16 41 (1.67%) Private Cloud
17 37 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
18 34 (1.38%) Management Information System
19 32 (1.30%) NHS
20 27 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 452 (18.37%) Linux
2 250 (10.16%) Windows
3 90 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 89 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.75%) Unix
6 40 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.22%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.37%) 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 1,821 (73.99%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,689 (68.63%) CI/CD
3 1,434 (58.27%) DevOps
4 633 (25.72%) Observability
5 611 (24.83%) Containerisation
6 602 (24.46%) Agile
7 579 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
8 433 (17.59%) AI
9 349 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 329 (13.37%) Migration
11 320 (13.00%) Test Automation
12 315 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 312 (12.68%) Cloud Security
13 312 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
14 303 (12.31%) Software Engineering
15 294 (11.95%) DevSecOps
16 280 (11.38%) Analytics
17 277 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
18 272 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
19 253 (10.28%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,227 (49.86%) Python
2 481 (19.54%) PowerShell
3 467 (18.98%) Bash
4 392 (15.93%) SQL
5 290 (11.78%) Java
6 284 (11.54%) Bicep
7 143 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 126 (5.12%) C#
9 118 (4.79%) TypeScript
10 100 (4.06%) Go
11 52 (2.11%) Groovy
12 48 (1.95%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.79%) Scala
14 17 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 13 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) R
19 8 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 882 (35.84%) Security Cleared
2 700 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 203 (8.25%) DV Cleared
4 169 (6.87%) AWS Certification
5 166 (6.75%) Azure Certification
6 110 (4.47%) Degree
7 67 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.28%) CISSP
10 51 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
11 50 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 42 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.14%) CCNP
14 21 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 20 (0.81%) CISM
16 19 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 15 (0.61%) VCAP
19 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 11 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (5.57%) Data Quality
2 96 (3.90%) QA
3 58 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (2.23%) NIST
5 52 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 48 (1.95%) NCSC
7 43 (1.75%) GDPR
8 24 (0.98%) WCAG
9 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 694 (28.20%) Docker
2 177 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.95%) vSphere
6 45 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (1.67%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 36 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) 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 1,024 (41.61%) Kubernetes
2 604 (24.54%) Ansible
3 312 (12.68%) Grafana
4 248 (10.08%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.49%) Argo
6 63 (2.56%) Puppet
7 55 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 49 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.63%) Packer
10 33 (1.34%) Istio
11 28 (1.14%) vCenter Server
12 26 (1.06%) 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%) Podman
19 14 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 470 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 237 (9.63%) Google
3 156 (6.34%) VMware
4 145 (5.89%) Databricks
5 140 (5.69%) Splunk
6 101 (4.10%) Oracle
7 92 (3.74%) Dynatrace
8 82 (3.33%) Cisco
9 76 (3.09%) ServiceNow
10 66 (2.68%) Red Hat
11 65 (2.64%) Palo Alto
12 40 (1.63%) OpenAI
13 39 (1.58%) F5
14 34 (1.38%) Arista
15 33 (1.34%) Zscaler
16 30 (1.22%) Informatica
17 28 (1.14%) CyberArk
18 27 (1.10%) Fortinet
18 27 (1.10%) Okta
19 24 (0.98%) Foundry