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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 38 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,967 1,282 1,288
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.24% 5.28% 3.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.89% 33.24% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 917 961
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.89% -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £561
% change year-on-year -4.72% -1.83% -6.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 11
10th Percentile £46.25 £25.38 £46.75
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -21.77% -22.50%
75th Percentile £80.50 £68.13 £75.49
90th Percentile £84.50 £78.58 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +25.85% -21.77% -21.52%

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 5,481 3,857 4,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 15.89% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,777 2,629 3,274
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £419 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 40 131
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.09 £21.05 £18.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.81 £57.75
90th Percentile £77.18 £77.62 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +115.69% -20.93% -41.36%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 1,060 £533 -7.39% 284
North of England +11 390 £500 -4.76% 148
Yorkshire +11 207 £500 -4.76% 48
North West +16 147 £525 - 72
Midlands +3 147 £525 -2.78% 36
South East -10 145 £500 -9.09% 143
South West -7 123 £550 -10.57% 82
West Midlands +1 122 £525 -8.70% 25
North East -5 40 £466 -13.30% 29
East Midlands -22 24 £447 -8.31% 11
East of England -34 23 £475 -1.81% 40
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 88 (4.47%) Confluence
2 72 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 63 (3.20%) Apache
4 52 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.68%) nginx
6 21 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.20%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.15%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.10%) CMS
11 2 (0.10%) Drupal
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.051%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (0.41%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.051%) Actimize
4 1 (0.051%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.051%) Endur
4 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (54.25%) AWS
2 924 (46.98%) Azure
3 571 (29.03%) GitHub
4 412 (20.95%) GCP
5 378 (19.22%) Serverless
6 361 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
7 348 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
8 341 (17.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 263 (13.37%) Amazon S3
10 249 (12.66%) AWS Lambda
11 199 (10.12%) Amazon EKS
12 161 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (7.37%) OpenShift
14 141 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
15 139 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 135 (6.86%) Azure AKS
17 134 (6.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 128 (6.51%) Azure Monitor
19 124 (6.30%) Entra ID
20 109 (5.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 201 (10.22%) Firewall
2 145 (7.37%) DNS
3 119 (6.05%) VPN
4 103 (5.24%) Network Security
5 50 (2.54%) WAN
6 41 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.78%) BGP
8 33 (1.68%) SD-WAN
9 29 (1.47%) DHCP
10 27 (1.37%) LAN
11 24 (1.22%) OSPF
12 19 (0.97%) VXLAN
13 17 (0.86%) Reverse Proxy
14 14 (0.71%) SSL
15 13 (0.66%) VLAN
16 11 (0.56%) OpenVPN
16 11 (0.56%) SAN
16 11 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
17 10 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
18 9 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (4.27%) Data Lake
4 73 (3.71%) Power BI
5 63 (3.20%) NoSQL
6 61 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
7 55 (2.80%) SQL Server
8 53 (2.69%) BigQuery
9 51 (2.59%) MongoDB
10 50 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
11 48 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.44%) DynamoDB
12 47 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 41 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 35 (1.78%) Redis
14 35 (1.78%) Relational Database
15 26 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (1.12%) Metadata
17 22 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 418 (21.25%) Jenkins
2 354 (18.00%) GitLab
3 273 (13.88%) Git
4 112 (5.69%) JIRA
5 49 (2.49%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.32%) Liquibase
9 23 (1.17%) Maven
10 19 (0.97%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.86%) MLflow
12 15 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.66%) Gatling
14 10 (0.51%) JUnit
14 10 (0.51%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.46%) Snyk
16 8 (0.41%) git-flow
17 7 (0.36%) Robot Framework
17 7 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 398 (20.23%) Social Skills
2 293 (14.90%) Public Sector
3 225 (11.44%) Finance
4 105 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (5.29%) Banking
6 51 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.12%) Retail
10 19 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 15 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.61%) Legal
12 12 (0.61%) Military
13 10 (0.51%) Law
14 8 (0.41%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.36%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.36%) Publishing
16 6 (0.31%) Games
17 5 (0.25%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 427 (21.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 264 (13.42%) Senior
3 237 (12.05%) Architect
4 187 (9.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 185 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
6 183 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 167 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
8 164 (8.34%) Developer
8 164 (8.34%) Lead
9 143 (7.27%) Data Engineer
10 117 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
11 102 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
12 101 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 93 (4.73%) Software Engineer
14 87 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 84 (4.27%) Site Engineer
16 83 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 78 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 62 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 61 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.61%) Kafka
2 127 (6.46%) Node.js
3 125 (6.35%) REST
4 103 (5.24%) React
5 92 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
6 91 (4.63%) .NET
7 83 (4.22%) ARM Templates
8 80 (4.07%) RESTful
9 65 (3.30%) OAuth
9 65 (3.30%) PySpark
10 62 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
11 58 (2.95%) Spring
12 56 (2.85%) YAML
13 54 (2.75%) AngularJS
14 51 (2.59%) Spring Boot
15 43 (2.19%) OpenID
16 38 (1.93%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.83%) OAuth2
18 33 (1.68%) JSON
19 29 (1.47%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 359 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 109 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 68 (3.46%) Public Cloud
6 61 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.53%) Private Cloud
10 28 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.42%) NHS
11 27 (1.37%) PKI
11 27 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.12%) Replication
13 18 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.71%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.66%) Clustering
16 13 (0.66%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 351 (17.84%) Linux
2 162 (8.24%) Windows
3 51 (2.59%) VMS
4 44 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.83%) Unix
7 12 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.41%) CentOS
9 6 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.15%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.051%) AIX
14 1 (0.051%) Android
14 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.051%) Rocky
14 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,337 (67.97%) CI/CD
2 1,263 (64.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,206 (61.31%) DevOps
4 517 (26.28%) Containerisation
5 434 (22.06%) Agile
6 377 (19.17%) Observability
7 306 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
8 276 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
9 266 (13.52%) Migration
10 247 (12.56%) Analytics
11 230 (11.69%) Microservices
12 226 (11.49%) Infrastructure Automation
13 220 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 217 (11.03%) AI
15 210 (10.68%) Software Engineering
16 189 (9.61%) Test Automation
17 187 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 182 (9.25%) Cloud Security
19 178 (9.05%) DevSecOps
20 173 (8.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 951 (48.35%) Python
2 315 (16.01%) Bash
3 307 (15.61%) SQL
4 279 (14.18%) PowerShell
5 212 (10.78%) Java
6 168 (8.54%) Bicep
7 116 (5.90%) Go
8 115 (5.85%) JavaScript
9 105 (5.34%) TypeScript
10 101 (5.13%) C#
11 46 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.73%) Scala
13 33 (1.68%) Ruby
14 28 (1.42%) Groovy
15 15 (0.76%) Rust
16 9 (0.46%) C
17 8 (0.41%) PHP
18 6 (0.31%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.31%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 691 (35.13%) Security Cleared
2 569 (28.93%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.76%) Azure Certification
4 130 (6.61%) AWS Certification
5 110 (5.59%) DV Cleared
6 100 (5.08%) Degree
7 74 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 46 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
11 39 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.58%) CISSP
14 30 (1.53%) CCNP
15 20 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
17 16 (0.81%) CCIE
18 15 (0.76%) CISM
19 14 (0.71%) OCP
20 13 (0.66%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.98%) Data Quality
2 78 (3.97%) GDPR
3 68 (3.46%) QA
4 61 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (2.95%) NIST
6 43 (2.19%) NCSC
7 34 (1.73%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.97%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.61%) SLA
11 11 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.56%) GRC
12 10 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 588 (29.89%) Docker
2 99 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 85 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (2.29%) vSphere
6 37 (1.88%) VMware NSX
7 34 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 34 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.51%) Squid
9 7 (0.36%) KVM
10 6 (0.31%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) Lustre
11 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) GPFS
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) HDFS
15 1 (0.051%) iptables
Systems Management
1 809 (41.13%) Kubernetes
2 519 (26.39%) Ansible
3 293 (14.90%) Grafana
4 258 (13.12%) Prometheus
5 81 (4.12%) Argo
6 48 (2.44%) Istio
7 41 (2.08%) Puppet
8 39 (1.98%) Progress Chef
9 38 (1.93%) Packer
10 31 (1.58%) vCenter Server
11 30 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.07%) Consul
13 17 (0.86%) Rancher
14 15 (0.76%) FortiGate
14 15 (0.76%) Podman
15 14 (0.71%) Kibana
15 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
16 11 (0.56%) linkerd
17 9 (0.46%) Sysdig
18 7 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 303 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.46%) Google
3 144 (7.32%) Databricks
4 129 (6.56%) Splunk
5 125 (6.35%) VMware
6 94 (4.78%) Red Hat
7 58 (2.95%) Oracle
8 47 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 46 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 41 (2.08%) Cisco
11 34 (1.73%) Pure Storage
12 31 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.37%) F5
14 25 (1.27%) IBM
15 24 (1.22%) Fortinet
16 21 (1.07%) Atlassian
16 21 (1.07%) SolarWinds
17 17 (0.86%) Citrix
18 16 (0.81%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.81%) PagerDuty