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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,876 1,333 1,314
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 5.35% 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.05% 34.14% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 934 979
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 16
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.25 £53.38
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.81 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £74.72
Median % change year-on-year +50.49% -40.44% -11.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £69.72 £76.77
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £44.50 £72.22
% change year-on-year +50.49% -38.38% -9.58%

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 5,352 3,905 4,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.87% 15.68% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,687 2,611 3,307
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 41 144
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £34.67
Median % change year-on-year +103.77% -23.57% -36.00%
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £85.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.76% -32.00% -28.90%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -3 1,001 £535 -8.15% 268
North of England +5 377 £500 -4.76% 153
Yorkshire +7 201 £500 -4.76% 48
South East 0 147 £500 -13.04% 187
Midlands -4 136 £537 +7.35% 57
North West +7 134 £525 - 82
South West -10 116 £550 -10.57% 90
West Midlands -1 111 £538 +1.13% 36
North East -4 47 £488 -9.30% 24
East Midlands -23 24 £438 -7.89% 20
East of England -53 16 £513 +22.02% 48
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 70 (3.73%) Confluence
2 66 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 59 (3.14%) Apache
4 50 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.71%) nginx
6 22 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.053%) InDesign
6 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.43%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,041 (55.49%) AWS
2 847 (45.15%) Azure
3 548 (29.21%) GitHub
4 395 (21.06%) GCP
5 353 (18.82%) Serverless
6 342 (18.23%) GitHub Actions
7 327 (17.43%) Azure DevOps
8 326 (17.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 246 (13.11%) Amazon S3
10 228 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
11 192 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
12 154 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
13 135 (7.20%) OpenShift
14 132 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 132 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
14 132 (7.04%) Azure AKS
15 131 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 124 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
17 122 (6.50%) Entra ID
18 111 (5.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 179 (9.54%) Firewall
2 132 (7.04%) DNS
3 101 (5.38%) VPN
4 97 (5.17%) Network Security
5 43 (2.29%) WAN
6 40 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 30 (1.60%) DHCP
7 30 (1.60%) SD-WAN
8 28 (1.49%) BGP
9 26 (1.39%) LAN
10 20 (1.07%) OSPF
11 17 (0.91%) SSL
12 16 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
13 15 (0.80%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.59%) SAN
14 11 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
14 11 (0.59%) VLAN
15 10 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.53%) OpenVPN
16 9 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (4.32%) Data Lake
4 69 (3.68%) Power BI
5 62 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 58 (3.09%) NoSQL
7 57 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
8 49 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (2.61%) SQL Server
9 47 (2.51%) BigQuery
9 47 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
10 43 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.24%) DynamoDB
12 36 (1.92%) Delta Lake
13 35 (1.87%) Relational Database
14 34 (1.81%) Redis
15 28 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (1.23%) Tableau
17 20 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
17 20 (1.07%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 400 (21.32%) Jenkins
2 363 (19.35%) GitLab
3 249 (13.27%) Git
4 88 (4.69%) JIRA
5 46 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.33%) Liquibase
9 24 (1.28%) CircleCI
10 22 (1.17%) Maven
11 16 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (0.59%) JUnit
12 11 (0.59%) Terragrunt
13 10 (0.53%) Gradle
14 9 (0.48%) Gatling
14 9 (0.48%) Snyk
15 8 (0.43%) git-flow
15 8 (0.43%) Selenium
16 7 (0.37%) JMeter
General
1 389 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 299 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 211 (11.25%) Finance
4 101 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (5.22%) Banking
6 48 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.01%) Retail
11 17 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (0.75%) Military
13 11 (0.59%) Law
14 8 (0.43%) Legal
14 8 (0.43%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.27%) Games
17 5 (0.27%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 419 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 242 (12.90%) Senior
3 222 (11.83%) Architect
4 191 (10.18%) AWS Engineer
5 175 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 166 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
7 165 (8.80%) Lead
8 155 (8.26%) Developer
9 151 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
10 137 (7.30%) Data Engineer
11 108 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
12 107 (5.70%) GCP Engineer
13 97 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 95 (5.06%) Software Engineer
15 90 (4.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 80 (4.26%) Site Engineer
17 75 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 70 (3.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 58 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
19 58 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (9.75%) Kafka
2 119 (6.34%) REST
3 118 (6.29%) Node.js
4 92 (4.90%) React
5 91 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
6 84 (4.48%) .NET
7 79 (4.21%) ARM Templates
7 79 (4.21%) RESTful
8 64 (3.41%) OAuth
8 64 (3.41%) PySpark
9 58 (3.09%) Spring
10 54 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
10 54 (2.88%) Spring Boot
11 50 (2.67%) YAML
12 43 (2.29%) AngularJS
13 42 (2.24%) OpenID
14 35 (1.87%) OAuth2
15 33 (1.76%) AWS CDK
16 29 (1.55%) JSON
17 27 (1.44%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 337 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 48 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.65%) PKI
9 29 (1.55%) NHS
9 29 (1.55%) Private Cloud
9 29 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 27 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.07%) Replication
13 17 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.80%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.75%) Clustering
16 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 352 (18.76%) Linux
2 154 (8.21%) Windows
3 47 (2.51%) VMS
4 45 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.29%) Unix
6 39 (2.08%) Windows Server
7 14 (0.75%) CentOS
8 13 (0.69%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.27%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.053%) AIX
14 1 (0.053%) Android
14 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.053%) Solaris
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,291 (68.82%) CI/CD
2 1,195 (63.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,169 (62.31%) DevOps
4 495 (26.39%) Containerisation
5 394 (21.00%) Agile
6 360 (19.19%) Observability
7 272 (14.50%) Platform Engineering
8 265 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
9 262 (13.97%) Migration
10 241 (12.85%) Analytics
11 236 (12.58%) Microservices
12 219 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 210 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 209 (11.14%) AI
15 207 (11.03%) Software Engineering
16 185 (9.86%) Test Automation
17 179 (9.54%) Cloud Security
18 176 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
19 175 (9.33%) DevSecOps
20 170 (9.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 920 (49.04%) Python
2 298 (15.88%) Bash
3 294 (15.67%) SQL
4 260 (13.86%) PowerShell
5 207 (11.03%) Java
6 154 (8.21%) Bicep
7 121 (6.45%) Go
8 115 (6.13%) JavaScript
9 100 (5.33%) TypeScript
10 94 (5.01%) C#
11 51 (2.72%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.60%) Ruby
13 26 (1.39%) Scala
14 24 (1.28%) Groovy
15 14 (0.75%) Rust
16 9 (0.48%) C
17 8 (0.43%) PHP
18 6 (0.32%) C++
19 5 (0.27%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 665 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 543 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.09%) AWS Certification
4 120 (6.40%) Azure Certification
5 108 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 101 (5.38%) Degree
7 70 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.29%) Master's Degree
11 41 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
12 34 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 31 (1.65%) CISSP
14 26 (1.39%) CCNP
15 19 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (0.80%) CCIE
16 15 (0.80%) CISM
17 14 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
18 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.59%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 71 (3.78%) GDPR
3 65 (3.46%) QA
4 50 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (2.61%) NIST
6 48 (2.56%) NCSC
7 34 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 13 (0.69%) SLA
11 12 (0.64%) GRC
12 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 576 (30.70%) Docker
2 97 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (2.08%) vSphere
6 29 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 28 (1.49%) Hyper-V
8 22 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.48%) Squid
10 6 (0.32%) KVM
10 6 (0.32%) NFS
11 5 (0.27%) Lustre
11 5 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.21%) GPFS
13 3 (0.16%) Firmware
14 2 (0.11%) Ceph
14 2 (0.11%) HDFS
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.053%) iptables
Systems Management
1 791 (42.16%) Kubernetes
2 500 (26.65%) Ansible
3 281 (14.98%) Grafana
4 245 (13.06%) Prometheus
5 73 (3.89%) Argo
6 49 (2.61%) Istio
7 41 (2.19%) Puppet
8 39 (2.08%) Packer
9 37 (1.97%) Progress Chef
10 28 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 26 (1.39%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.12%) Consul
13 17 (0.91%) Kibana
14 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.80%) Podman
15 14 (0.75%) Rancher
16 12 (0.64%) FortiGate
17 11 (0.59%) linkerd
18 9 (0.48%) logstash
18 9 (0.48%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 282 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 177 (9.43%) Google
3 141 (7.52%) Databricks
4 126 (6.72%) Splunk
5 115 (6.13%) VMware
6 80 (4.26%) Red Hat
7 51 (2.72%) Oracle
8 44 (2.35%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.92%) Cisco
11 29 (1.55%) Pure Storage
12 28 (1.49%) Palo Alto
13 27 (1.44%) IBM
14 24 (1.28%) F5
15 23 (1.23%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.07%) Atlassian
16 20 (1.07%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.85%) Citrix
17 16 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.85%) PagerDuty