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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,301 1,388 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.13% 5.05% 3.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.72% 32.69% 30.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 958 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £701 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 11
10th Percentile £55.12 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.53 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -10.71% -4.11%

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 5,943 4,246 4,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.25% 15.44% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,064 2,823 3,250
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £625
90th Percentile £691 £695 £703
UK median daily rate £519 £505 £520
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.88% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 55 74
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.49 £26.45 £22.64
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +76.00% -42.32%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.04 £56.88
90th Percentile £80.20 £81.78 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +65.33% +19.05% -45.22%

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 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 29 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 29 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 +1 1,197 £550 +1.85% 491
North of England +17 503 £500 -2.44% 195
Yorkshire -2 230 £500 -2.44% 51
North West +41 206 £560 +6.67% 112
South East -10 198 £550 +10.00% 128
South West +2 153 £550 -8.33% 100
Midlands -20 130 £513 - 55
West Midlands -25 107 £512 -6.15% 41
North East -7 80 £425 -13.27% 33
East of England -6 52 £549 +13.85% 17
East Midlands -13 21 £500 +2.56% 14
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
1 118 (5.13%) Confluence
2 90 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (3.30%) Apache
5 37 (1.61%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.30%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.04%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) IIS
9 7 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.087%) Traefik
13 1 (0.043%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.087%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.043%) Houdini
5 1 (0.043%) InDesign
5 1 (0.043%) NUKE
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,302 (56.58%) AWS
2 1,147 (49.85%) Azure
3 624 (27.12%) GitHub
4 461 (20.03%) GCP
5 432 (18.77%) GitHub Actions
6 393 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
7 338 (14.69%) Serverless
8 272 (11.82%) Amazon S3
9 260 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 245 (10.65%) AWS Lambda
11 207 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (6.78%) Entra ID
14 155 (6.74%) Azure AKS
15 141 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
16 132 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 128 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 126 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
19 114 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
20 89 (3.87%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 261 (11.34%) Firewall
2 183 (7.95%) DNS
3 134 (5.82%) VPN
4 101 (4.39%) Network Security
5 79 (3.43%) WAN
6 71 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 70 (3.04%) BGP
8 59 (2.56%) DHCP
9 50 (2.17%) OSPF
10 43 (1.87%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.61%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.39%) VLAN
13 28 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (1.00%) BIG-IP
15 21 (0.91%) SSH
15 21 (0.91%) SSL
16 20 (0.87%) VSAN
17 17 (0.74%) IPsec
17 17 (0.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
3 79 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 69 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 67 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 67 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 65 (2.82%) Power BI
8 61 (2.65%) BigQuery
8 61 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 57 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
10 54 (2.35%) MongoDB
11 49 (2.13%) Delta Lake
12 47 (2.04%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 36 (1.56%) Redis
15 35 (1.52%) Oracle Database
16 28 (1.22%) Big Data
16 28 (1.22%) Metadata
16 28 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 411 (17.86%) GitLab
2 384 (16.69%) Jenkins
3 330 (14.34%) Git
4 146 (6.35%) JIRA
5 43 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.17%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.17%) Maven
8 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 18 (0.78%) MLflow
9 18 (0.78%) Snyk
10 13 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.48%) Claude Code
11 11 (0.48%) Gatling
11 11 (0.48%) JUnit
11 11 (0.48%) MSI
12 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
14 8 (0.35%) Mockito
15 7 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 416 (18.08%) Social Skills
2 346 (15.04%) Public Sector
3 288 (12.52%) Finance
4 132 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (3.91%) Banking
6 62 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (1.87%) Retail
9 27 (1.17%) Military
10 25 (1.09%) Legal
11 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Publishing
13 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 12 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.48%) Billing
16 11 (0.48%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 507 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 404 (17.56%) Senior
3 257 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (9.43%) Architect
5 215 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
6 210 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
7 205 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
8 204 (8.87%) Developer
9 201 (8.74%) Lead
10 172 (7.48%) Data Engineer
11 156 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
14 98 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 98 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
15 95 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 94 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 82 (3.56%) Network Engineer
18 80 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 79 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (7.48%) Kafka
2 153 (6.65%) REST
3 114 (4.95%) .NET
4 107 (4.65%) React
5 98 (4.26%) Node.js
6 95 (4.13%) PySpark
7 83 (3.61%) RESTful
8 77 (3.35%) OAuth
9 74 (3.22%) ARM Templates
10 71 (3.09%) YAML
11 59 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
13 54 (2.35%) Spring
14 53 (2.30%) OAuth2
15 51 (2.22%) Spring Boot
16 50 (2.17%) OpenID
17 48 (2.09%) JSON
18 40 (1.74%) HTML
19 37 (1.61%) AngularJS
20 34 (1.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 551 (23.95%) Cloud Native
2 136 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 123 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 80 (3.48%) Product Ownership
7 67 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 57 (2.48%) Security Posture
9 45 (1.96%) PKI
10 42 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 41 (1.78%) Enterprise Cloud
12 40 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 37 (1.61%) Replication
14 33 (1.43%) NHS
14 33 (1.43%) Private Cloud
15 31 (1.35%) AI Agents
16 28 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.09%) Management Information System
19 24 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 396 (17.21%) Linux
2 231 (10.04%) Windows
3 84 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.39%) Ubuntu
5 32 (1.39%) VMS
6 28 (1.22%) Unix
7 18 (0.78%) AIX
8 12 (0.52%) CentOS
9 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.087%) Solaris
14 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,629 (70.80%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,543 (67.06%) CI/CD
3 1,346 (58.50%) DevOps
4 567 (24.64%) Agile
5 559 (24.29%) Containerisation
6 509 (22.12%) Observability
7 475 (20.64%) Platform Engineering
8 330 (14.34%) AI
9 288 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 277 (12.04%) Migration
12 267 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 258 (11.21%) Test Automation
14 249 (10.82%) Analytics
15 248 (10.78%) Cloud Security
16 244 (10.60%) Software Engineering
17 228 (9.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 224 (9.73%) Infrastructure Automation
19 221 (9.60%) Microservices
20 213 (9.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,091 (47.41%) Python
2 408 (17.73%) Bash
3 387 (16.82%) PowerShell
4 350 (15.21%) SQL
5 264 (11.47%) Java
6 243 (10.56%) Bicep
7 140 (6.08%) JavaScript
8 125 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 121 (5.26%) C#
10 79 (3.43%) Go
11 48 (2.09%) Scala
12 47 (2.04%) Groovy
13 31 (1.35%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.78%) Rust
15 15 (0.65%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
16 11 (0.48%) R
17 9 (0.39%) Perl
18 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 829 (36.03%) Security Cleared
2 673 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 176 (7.65%) DV Cleared
4 152 (6.61%) Azure Certification
5 122 (5.30%) AWS Certification
6 89 (3.87%) Degree
7 64 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 44 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (1.35%) CCNP
11 31 (1.35%) CISSP
12 19 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 16 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 15 (0.65%) CCNA
15 11 (0.48%) VCAP
16 10 (0.43%) CCIE
16 10 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 72 (3.13%) QA
3 46 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 46 (2.00%) GDPR
4 40 (1.74%) NCSC
5 37 (1.61%) NIST
6 36 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.78%) WCAG
9 8 (0.35%) GRC
9 8 (0.35%) SLA
10 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
11 5 (0.22%) PSD2
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 621 (26.99%) Docker
2 141 (6.13%) Active Directory
3 104 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 42 (1.83%) vSphere
7 41 (1.78%) Hyper-V
8 40 (1.74%) VMware NSX
9 20 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
10 17 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.70%) Squid
12 11 (0.48%) NFS
13 9 (0.39%) KVM
14 6 (0.26%) Firmware
15 5 (0.22%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
17 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
17 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 872 (37.90%) Kubernetes
2 527 (22.90%) Ansible
3 289 (12.56%) Grafana
4 242 (10.52%) Prometheus
5 95 (4.13%) Argo
6 59 (2.56%) Puppet
7 45 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.56%) Packer
9 33 (1.43%) Istio
10 32 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.22%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
14 18 (0.78%) Data Guard
15 17 (0.74%) Kibana
15 17 (0.74%) Podman
16 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
17 12 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 381 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.78%) Google
3 139 (6.04%) VMware
4 134 (5.82%) Splunk
5 120 (5.22%) Databricks
6 97 (4.22%) Oracle
7 84 (3.65%) Red Hat
8 74 (3.22%) Dynatrace
9 70 (3.04%) ServiceNow
10 66 (2.87%) Cisco
11 61 (2.65%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.83%) F5
13 35 (1.52%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.48%) Arista
15 30 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.30%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.04%) Aruba
16 24 (1.04%) Foundry
16 24 (1.04%) Informatica
17 22 (0.96%) Juniper