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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,004 1,222 1,240
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.88% 5.04% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.37% 32.47% 28.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 880 926
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £443 £463 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £650
90th Percentile £695 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.66 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.38% -41.94% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £53.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £79.13 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +41.88% -19.09% -27.15%

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 5,510 3,763 4,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 15.51% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,813 2,591 3,173
10th Percentile £317 £311 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 37 105
10th Percentile £20.09 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £40.94 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.40 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £83.58 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.88 £25.77
% change year-on-year +104.65% +4.31% -53.15%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +2 1,078 £538 -2.27% 276
North of England +18 390 £500 -4.76% 164
Yorkshire +13 208 £488 -7.14% 41
South East -15 161 £513 +2.50% 140
North West +25 141 £525 +0.05% 89
Midlands -11 134 £525 -3.67% 45
South West -13 116 £550 -10.57% 64
West Midlands -9 112 £525 -6.75% 29
North East -5 50 £488 -7.14% 34
East of England -17 42 £513 +2.50% 32
East Midlands -21 21 £450 -10.00% 16
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 85 (4.24%) Confluence
2 81 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.74%) Apache
4 46 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.85%) nginx
7 14 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.100%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.100%) CMS
12 2 (0.100%) Drupal
12 2 (0.100%) Traefik
12 2 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (53.54%) AWS
2 979 (48.85%) Azure
3 575 (28.69%) GitHub
4 405 (20.21%) GCP
5 380 (18.96%) GitHub Actions
6 344 (17.17%) Serverless
7 336 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
8 301 (15.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 253 (12.62%) Amazon S3
10 249 (12.43%) AWS Lambda
11 204 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
12 147 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 144 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
14 143 (7.14%) Azure AKS
15 136 (6.79%) Amazon ECS
16 125 (6.24%) OpenShift
16 125 (6.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (6.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 116 (5.79%) Entra ID
19 111 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 200 (9.98%) Firewall
2 135 (6.74%) DNS
3 112 (5.59%) VPN
4 97 (4.84%) Network Security
5 58 (2.89%) WAN
6 44 (2.20%) BGP
7 40 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 37 (1.85%) SD-WAN
9 32 (1.60%) OSPF
10 25 (1.25%) VXLAN
11 23 (1.15%) DHCP
12 20 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (1.00%) LAN
13 18 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
14 17 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 16 (0.80%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.75%) SAN
17 13 (0.65%) SSL
18 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
18 11 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (3.99%) Data Lake
4 76 (3.79%) Power BI
5 74 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
6 63 (3.14%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 50 (2.50%) Delta Lake
8 50 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 50 (2.50%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.40%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 40 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.80%) Redis
14 34 (1.70%) Relational Database
15 33 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
16 29 (1.45%) Big Data
17 27 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 378 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 344 (17.17%) GitLab
3 277 (13.82%) Git
4 119 (5.94%) JIRA
5 45 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.35%) Maven
8 24 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Snyk
11 16 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.65%) Gatling
13 11 (0.55%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.50%) git-flow
14 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.45%) Gradle
16 8 (0.40%) JUnit
17 7 (0.35%) Cucumber
General
1 336 (16.77%) Social Skills
2 275 (13.72%) Public Sector
3 209 (10.43%) Finance
4 94 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (4.14%) Banking
6 51 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.10%) Retail
9 19 (0.95%) Legal
10 13 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 11 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.45%) Law
14 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.35%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
17 6 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 438 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 308 (15.37%) Senior
3 218 (10.88%) Architect
4 201 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 198 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
6 180 (8.98%) Developer
7 170 (8.48%) AWS Engineer
8 165 (8.23%) Data Engineer
9 154 (7.68%) Lead
10 140 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 111 (5.54%) GCP Engineer
13 103 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 88 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
15 79 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 78 (3.89%) Site Engineer
17 74 (3.69%) Software Engineer
18 69 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 65 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (8.78%) Kafka
2 118 (5.89%) Node.js
3 107 (5.34%) React
4 105 (5.24%) .NET
5 100 (4.99%) REST
6 79 (3.94%) PySpark
7 73 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 68 (3.39%) RESTful
9 67 (3.34%) OAuth
9 67 (3.34%) Spring
10 65 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.14%) ARM Templates
12 61 (3.04%) Spring Boot
13 54 (2.69%) YAML
14 51 (2.54%) AngularJS
15 50 (2.50%) OpenID
16 43 (2.15%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.10%) AWS CDK
17 42 (2.10%) JSON
18 26 (1.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 418 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 105 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 79 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 75 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 38 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.65%) PKI
9 32 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 31 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.45%) Replication
12 28 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
13 27 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (1.25%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
16 21 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 21 (1.05%) NHS
17 17 (0.85%) Clustering
18 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 305 (15.22%) Linux
2 145 (7.24%) Windows
3 45 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.10%) VMS
5 41 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.40%) Unix
7 15 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.100%) Android
13 2 (0.100%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.100%) Debian
13 2 (0.100%) Rocky
13 2 (0.100%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,356 (67.66%) CI/CD
2 1,327 (66.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,209 (60.33%) DevOps
4 486 (24.25%) Containerisation
5 442 (22.06%) Agile
6 403 (20.11%) Observability
7 327 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
8 265 (13.22%) Migration
9 243 (12.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 241 (12.03%) AI
11 240 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
12 231 (11.53%) Analytics
13 207 (10.33%) Software Engineering
14 201 (10.03%) Test Automation
15 198 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 195 (9.73%) Microservices
17 187 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 182 (9.08%) Cloud Security
18 182 (9.08%) Infrastructure Automation
19 176 (8.78%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 903 (45.06%) Python
2 323 (16.12%) SQL
3 285 (14.22%) Bash
4 278 (13.87%) PowerShell
5 229 (11.43%) Java
6 179 (8.93%) Bicep
7 128 (6.39%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.69%) C#
9 113 (5.64%) TypeScript
10 83 (4.14%) Go
11 51 (2.54%) Scala
12 40 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.80%) Groovy
14 29 (1.45%) Ruby
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
17 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 706 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 581 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.69%) Azure Certification
4 120 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 101 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 71 (3.54%) Degree
7 61 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.45%) CCNP
13 21 (1.05%) CISSP
14 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.70%) CCNA
15 14 (0.70%) OCP
15 14 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 13 (0.65%) CCIE
16 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 68 (3.39%) QA
3 59 (2.94%) GDPR
4 48 (2.40%) NIST
5 46 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.65%) NCSC
6 33 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.65%) SLA
9 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.55%) GRC
10 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.20%) HL7
13 4 (0.20%) PSD2
13 4 (0.20%) SEPA
14 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 531 (26.50%) Docker
2 91 (4.54%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.95%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.25%) vSphere
8 21 (1.05%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.80%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
10 8 (0.40%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.15%) Lustre
13 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.100%) Ceph
14 2 (0.100%) Corosync
14 2 (0.100%) GPFS
14 2 (0.100%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 782 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 483 (24.10%) Ansible
3 265 (13.22%) Grafana
4 225 (11.23%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.94%) Argo
6 46 (2.30%) Istio
7 44 (2.20%) Puppet
8 34 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.20%) Packer
10 23 (1.15%) Kibana
10 23 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.05%) vCenter Server
12 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.70%) Rancher
15 12 (0.60%) Consul
16 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 11 (0.55%) Podman
17 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
17 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 300 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 181 (9.03%) Google
3 125 (6.24%) Databricks
4 117 (5.84%) Splunk
5 107 (5.34%) VMware
6 81 (4.04%) Red Hat
7 70 (3.49%) Oracle
8 61 (3.04%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.79%) ServiceNow
10 46 (2.30%) Cisco
11 39 (1.95%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.30%) F5
13 25 (1.25%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.25%) Pure Storage
14 24 (1.20%) Arista
15 20 (1.00%) IBM
15 20 (1.00%) OpenAI
15 20 (1.00%) Zscaler
16 16 (0.80%) Aruba
16 16 (0.80%) Citrix