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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,984 1,218 1,241
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.87% 5.03% 3.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.30% 32.33% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 878 926
10th Percentile £400 £403 £425
25th Percentile £443 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £747
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.81 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.88% -28.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £56.88 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £78.70 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.18% -11.82% -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 5,465 3,767 4,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.42% 15.57% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 2,593 3,165
10th Percentile £316 £311 £256
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.54%
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% -51.32%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.40 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 1,065 £538 -2.27% 267
North of England +19 389 £500 -4.76% 165
Yorkshire +18 207 £488 -7.14% 43
South East -13 158 £513 +2.50% 149
North West +24 141 £525 +0.05% 88
Midlands -10 134 £525 -3.67% 43
South West -8 115 £550 -10.57% 66
West Midlands -8 112 £525 -6.75% 25
North East -6 50 £488 -7.14% 34
East of England -18 42 £513 +2.50% 32
East Midlands -24 21 £450 -10.00% 18
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 (4.28%) Confluence
2 81 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 55 (2.77%) Apache
4 46 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.86%) nginx
7 14 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 10 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.10%) CMS
13 2 (0.10%) Drupal
13 2 (0.10%) Traefik
13 2 (0.10%) 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 1,059 (53.38%) AWS
2 972 (48.99%) Azure
3 572 (28.83%) GitHub
4 403 (20.31%) GCP
5 377 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
6 342 (17.24%) Serverless
7 335 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
8 299 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 251 (12.65%) Amazon S3
10 247 (12.45%) AWS Lambda
11 199 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
12 146 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 142 (7.16%) Amazon EC2
14 141 (7.11%) Azure AKS
15 133 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
16 125 (6.30%) OpenShift
17 123 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 121 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 115 (5.80%) Entra ID
20 110 (5.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 199 (10.03%) Firewall
2 134 (6.75%) DNS
3 112 (5.65%) VPN
4 96 (4.84%) Network Security
5 58 (2.92%) WAN
6 44 (2.22%) BGP
7 39 (1.97%) TCP/IP
8 37 (1.86%) SD-WAN
9 32 (1.61%) OSPF
10 25 (1.26%) VXLAN
11 22 (1.11%) DHCP
12 20 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
12 20 (1.01%) LAN
13 18 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
14 17 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 16 (0.81%) BIG-IP
16 15 (0.76%) SAN
17 13 (0.66%) SSL
18 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
18 11 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (4.03%) Data Lake
4 77 (3.88%) Power BI
5 74 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
6 63 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.87%) BigQuery
8 50 (2.52%) Delta Lake
8 50 (2.52%) NoSQL
9 48 (2.42%) DynamoDB
9 48 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 46 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 40 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
13 36 (1.81%) Redis
14 34 (1.71%) Relational Database
15 33 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
16 29 (1.46%) Big Data
17 27 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 376 (18.95%) Jenkins
2 341 (17.19%) GitLab
3 275 (13.86%) Git
4 119 (6.00%) JIRA
5 45 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.36%) Maven
8 24 (1.21%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.91%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.86%) MLflow
11 16 (0.81%) Snyk
11 16 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
12 13 (0.66%) Gatling
13 11 (0.55%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 9 (0.45%) Gradle
15 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
16 8 (0.40%) JUnit
17 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 334 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 271 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 207 (10.43%) Finance
4 93 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (4.13%) Banking
6 51 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.06%) Retail
9 19 (0.96%) Legal
10 13 (0.66%) 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 7 (0.35%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 434 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 302 (15.22%) Senior
3 215 (10.84%) Architect
4 199 (10.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 197 (9.93%) Azure Engineer
6 176 (8.87%) Developer
7 167 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
8 165 (8.32%) Data Engineer
9 154 (7.76%) Lead
10 139 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
11 112 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (5.54%) GCP Engineer
13 102 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 87 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
15 78 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 78 (3.93%) Site Engineer
16 72 (3.63%) Software Engineer
17 67 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
18 66 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 65 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.82%) Kafka
2 118 (5.95%) Node.js
3 104 (5.24%) React
4 103 (5.19%) .NET
5 99 (4.99%) REST
6 79 (3.98%) PySpark
7 72 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 67 (3.38%) RESTful
8 67 (3.38%) Spring
9 66 (3.33%) OAuth
10 65 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.18%) ARM Templates
12 61 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 54 (2.72%) YAML
14 49 (2.47%) AngularJS
14 49 (2.47%) OpenID
15 42 (2.12%) AWS CDK
15 42 (2.12%) OAuth2
16 40 (2.02%) JSON
17 26 (1.31%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 411 (20.72%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 86 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
4 77 (3.88%) Data Centre
5 75 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 38 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.61%) PKI
8 32 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.46%) Replication
11 28 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.06%) NHS
15 20 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (0.86%) Clustering
17 15 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 301 (15.17%) Linux
2 145 (7.31%) Windows
3 44 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.12%) VMS
5 41 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.36%) Unix
7 14 (0.71%) 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 (0.10%) Android
13 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,343 (67.69%) CI/CD
2 1,312 (66.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,198 (60.38%) DevOps
4 481 (24.24%) Containerisation
5 438 (22.08%) Agile
6 399 (20.11%) Observability
7 325 (16.38%) Platform Engineering
8 262 (13.21%) Migration
9 242 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 238 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
11 237 (11.95%) AI
12 231 (11.64%) Analytics
13 204 (10.28%) Software Engineering
14 200 (10.08%) Test Automation
15 198 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 193 (9.73%) Microservices
17 185 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 181 (9.12%) Infrastructure Automation
19 178 (8.97%) Cloud Security
20 173 (8.72%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 895 (45.11%) Python
2 322 (16.23%) SQL
3 284 (14.31%) Bash
4 277 (13.96%) PowerShell
5 228 (11.49%) Java
6 176 (8.87%) Bicep
7 126 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 112 (5.65%) C#
9 111 (5.59%) TypeScript
10 83 (4.18%) Go
11 51 (2.57%) Scala
12 39 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.81%) Groovy
14 29 (1.46%) Ruby
15 14 (0.71%) 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
1 699 (35.23%) Security Cleared
2 576 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.75%) Azure Certification
4 116 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 100 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 71 (3.58%) Degree
7 61 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.46%) CCNP
13 21 (1.06%) CISSP
14 15 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.71%) CCNA
15 14 (0.71%) OCP
15 14 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 13 (0.66%) CCIE
16 13 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.14%) Data Quality
2 65 (3.28%) QA
3 59 (2.97%) GDPR
4 48 (2.42%) NIST
5 46 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 32 (1.61%) NCSC
8 21 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.66%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.55%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) PSD2
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 525 (26.46%) Docker
2 91 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 72 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.97%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.26%) vSphere
8 21 (1.06%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.81%) 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 (0.10%) Corosync
14 2 (0.10%) GPFS
14 2 (0.10%) HDFS
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 772 (38.91%) Kubernetes
2 479 (24.14%) Ansible
3 262 (13.21%) Grafana
4 223 (11.24%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.98%) Argo
6 46 (2.32%) Istio
7 43 (2.17%) Puppet
8 34 (1.71%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.21%) Packer
10 23 (1.16%) Kibana
10 23 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.06%) vCenter Server
12 17 (0.86%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.71%) 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
1 298 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.07%) Google
3 124 (6.25%) Databricks
4 117 (5.90%) Splunk
5 106 (5.34%) VMware
6 81 (4.08%) Red Hat
7 67 (3.38%) Oracle
8 60 (3.02%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 45 (2.27%) Cisco
11 39 (1.97%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.31%) F5
13 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.26%) Pure Storage
14 24 (1.21%) Arista
15 20 (1.01%) IBM
15 20 (1.01%) Zscaler
16 19 (0.96%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.81%) Aruba
18 15 (0.76%) Citrix