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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,347 1,402 1,359
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.14% 5.08% 4.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.92% 32.60% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,622 972 977
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £626 £650
90th Percentile £714 £713 £727
UK median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 11
10th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £60.36 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £69.11 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £77.15 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £68.22 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.14% -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 6,030 4,301 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.59% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,109 2,873 3,210
10th Percentile £325 £301 £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 £613 £611 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £701
UK median daily rate £520 £505 £522
% change year-on-year +2.97% -3.26% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.45 £54.75 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +48.65% -28.13%
75th Percentile £71.43 £65.80 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.48 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £35.14 £34.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% +3.34% -41.42%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 1,226 £550 - 812
North of England +10 501 £507 -2.50% 249
Yorkshire -6 228 £500 -2.44% 70
North West +38 200 £574 +9.24% 142
South East -10 200 £560 +12.00% 175
South West +7 166 £550 -8.33% 128
Midlands -20 132 £527 +0.38% 60
West Midlands -24 109 £526 -4.36% 39
North East -5 87 £425 -18.27% 38
East of England -8 52 £525 +10.53% 29
East Midlands -11 21 £500 +2.56% 21
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
1 120 (5.11%) Confluence
2 90 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 88 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (3.32%) Apache
5 39 (1.66%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.98%) nginx
8 13 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.55%) SAS
9 8 (0.34%) IIS
10 7 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.085%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.085%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.085%) Traefik
14 1 (0.043%) Anypoint
14 1 (0.043%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Excel
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 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.085%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.085%) Endur
2 2 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,325 (56.46%) AWS
2 1,179 (50.23%) Azure
3 649 (27.65%) GitHub
4 466 (19.86%) GCP
5 450 (19.17%) GitHub Actions
6 417 (17.77%) Azure DevOps
7 339 (14.44%) Serverless
8 272 (11.59%) Amazon S3
9 262 (11.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 251 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
11 211 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
12 179 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 163 (6.95%) Entra ID
14 160 (6.82%) Azure AKS
15 141 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
16 135 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
16 135 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 124 (5.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 122 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
19 91 (3.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 270 (11.50%) Firewall
2 198 (8.44%) DNS
3 137 (5.84%) VPN
4 102 (4.35%) Network Security
5 83 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 80 (3.41%) WAN
7 71 (3.03%) DHCP
8 69 (2.94%) BGP
9 48 (2.05%) OSPF
10 45 (1.92%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.58%) VXLAN
12 34 (1.45%) VLAN
13 28 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (1.15%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.15%) VSAN
15 25 (1.07%) SSL
16 23 (0.98%) BIG-IP
17 21 (0.89%) SSH
18 18 (0.77%) Internet
19 17 (0.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
4 76 (3.24%) SQL Server
5 69 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 68 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 67 (2.85%) Power BI
8 64 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
8 64 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 61 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (2.56%) BigQuery
11 57 (2.43%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.13%) Delta Lake
13 46 (1.96%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 39 (1.66%) Redis
16 37 (1.58%) Oracle Database
17 32 (1.36%) Metadata
18 31 (1.32%) MySQL
19 30 (1.28%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 421 (17.94%) GitLab
2 384 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 347 (14.78%) Git
4 150 (6.39%) JIRA
5 45 (1.92%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.24%) Maven
8 26 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 23 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.77%) Snyk
11 17 (0.72%) MLflow
12 16 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.60%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.55%) MSI
15 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.47%) Gatling
15 11 (0.47%) JUnit
15 11 (0.47%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.43%) Selenium
17 9 (0.38%) Liquibase
General
1 426 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 351 (14.96%) Public Sector
3 292 (12.44%) Finance
4 138 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (3.88%) Banking
6 64 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.05%) Retail
9 26 (1.11%) Military
10 23 (0.98%) Legal
11 22 (0.94%) Publishing
11 22 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 18 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.64%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.64%) Law
15 13 (0.55%) Local Government
16 12 (0.51%) Billing
17 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 508 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 419 (17.85%) Senior
3 269 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 222 (9.46%) Azure Engineer
5 217 (9.25%) Architect
6 216 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
7 214 (9.12%) AWS Engineer
8 210 (8.95%) Developer
9 202 (8.61%) Lead
10 166 (7.07%) Data Engineer
11 159 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
13 101 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
14 100 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 99 (4.22%) GCP Engineer
16 97 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 94 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 82 (3.49%) Network Engineer
20 75 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (7.07%) Kafka
2 158 (6.73%) REST
3 118 (5.03%) .NET
4 111 (4.73%) React
5 100 (4.26%) Node.js
6 91 (3.88%) PySpark
7 90 (3.83%) RESTful
8 82 (3.49%) ARM Templates
9 76 (3.24%) OAuth
10 72 (3.07%) YAML
11 56 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (2.34%) Spring
13 52 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
14 51 (2.17%) Spring Boot
15 50 (2.13%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.13%) OpenID
16 49 (2.09%) JSON
17 42 (1.79%) HTML
18 38 (1.62%) AngularJS
19 36 (1.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 559 (23.82%) Cloud Native
2 143 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.22%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 81 (3.45%) Product Ownership
7 71 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 60 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 50 (2.13%) PKI
10 44 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
11 42 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 42 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.70%) Replication
13 35 (1.49%) AI Agents
14 34 (1.45%) Private Cloud
15 32 (1.36%) NHS
16 31 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
17 27 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.15%) Management Information System
18 23 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 405 (17.26%) Linux
2 241 (10.27%) Windows
3 82 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 80 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.32%) Unix
7 30 (1.28%) VMS
8 19 (0.81%) AIX
9 13 (0.55%) CentOS
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
13 6 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
14 5 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.085%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,674 (71.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,567 (66.77%) CI/CD
3 1,373 (58.50%) DevOps
4 573 (24.41%) Agile
5 570 (24.29%) Containerisation
6 524 (22.33%) Observability
7 510 (21.73%) Platform Engineering
8 351 (14.96%) AI
9 291 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 288 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
11 284 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 283 (12.06%) Migration
13 280 (11.93%) Test Automation
14 263 (11.21%) Cloud Security
15 260 (11.08%) Analytics
16 249 (10.61%) Software Engineering
17 234 (9.97%) Infrastructure Automation
18 228 (9.71%) Microservices
19 227 (9.67%) DevSecOps
19 227 (9.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (47.64%) Python
2 429 (18.28%) Bash
3 427 (18.19%) PowerShell
4 353 (15.04%) SQL
5 271 (11.55%) Java
6 253 (10.78%) Bicep
7 146 (6.22%) JavaScript
8 131 (5.58%) C#
9 127 (5.41%) TypeScript
10 72 (3.07%) Go
11 48 (2.05%) Groovy
11 48 (2.05%) Scala
12 35 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.68%) Rust
14 14 (0.60%) Ruby
15 12 (0.51%) R
16 11 (0.47%) C
17 10 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.43%) Perl
18 8 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 853 (36.34%) Security Cleared
2 695 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 180 (7.67%) DV Cleared
4 162 (6.90%) Azure Certification
5 127 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 90 (3.83%) Degree
7 65 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 46 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 39 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.53%) CISSP
13 31 (1.32%) CCNP
14 20 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 15 (0.64%) CCNA
17 14 (0.60%) VCAP
18 10 (0.43%) CCIE
19 9 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.16%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.24%) QA
3 49 (2.09%) GDPR
4 48 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.92%) NCSC
6 41 (1.75%) NIST
7 40 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.89%) WCAG
9 20 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.38%) SLA
11 8 (0.34%) GRC
12 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.26%) HL7
13 5 (0.21%) PSD2
13 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.17%) SEPA
15 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.085%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 643 (27.40%) Docker
2 150 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 111 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.96%) Hyper-V
7 45 (1.92%) vSphere
8 43 (1.83%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
9 21 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.64%) Squid
11 9 (0.38%) KVM
11 9 (0.38%) NFS
12 6 (0.26%) Firmware
13 5 (0.21%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.085%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.085%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.085%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 900 (38.35%) Kubernetes
2 553 (23.56%) Ansible
3 283 (12.06%) Grafana
4 237 (10.10%) Prometheus
5 91 (3.88%) Argo
6 60 (2.56%) Puppet
7 47 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.66%) Packer
9 35 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.41%) Istio
11 28 (1.19%) vCenter Server
12 23 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
14 19 (0.81%) Data Guard
14 19 (0.81%) FortiGate
15 17 (0.72%) Podman
16 16 (0.68%) Kibana
16 16 (0.68%) Kustomize
17 14 (0.60%) VxRail
18 13 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 400 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 207 (8.82%) Google
3 151 (6.43%) VMware
4 130 (5.54%) Splunk
5 121 (5.16%) Databricks
6 101 (4.30%) Oracle
7 82 (3.49%) Dynatrace
8 78 (3.32%) Red Hat
9 74 (3.15%) ServiceNow
10 68 (2.90%) Cisco
11 61 (2.60%) Palo Alto
12 43 (1.83%) F5
13 35 (1.49%) Arista
14 34 (1.45%) OpenAI
15 31 (1.32%) Fortinet
16 30 (1.28%) Zscaler
17 26 (1.11%) Informatica
18 24 (1.02%) Aruba
18 24 (1.02%) Foundry
19 23 (0.98%) Juniper