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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 51
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,282 1,360 1,385
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.09% 4.98% 3.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.86% 32.09% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 933 1,012
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 11
10th Percentile £51.74 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £57.59 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.37% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.06% -9.68% -20.51%

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 6,028 4,238 4,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 15.53% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,144 2,812 3,355
10th Percentile £319 £303 £300
25th Percentile £416 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £508 £519
% change year-on-year +1.48% -2.26% -5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.57 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £79.74 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +2 1,211 £550 +1.85% 388
North of England +24 492 £500 - 164
Yorkshire +3 242 £500 - 38
North West +37 187 £527 +0.31% 100
South East -25 171 £525 +5.00% 138
South West -3 144 £550 -8.33% 144
Midlands -11 143 £525 +3.75% 44
West Midlands -17 118 £525 -2.78% 28
North East +3 78 £425 -13.27% 27
East of England -10 51 £549 +11.82% 11
East Midlands -13 23 £463 -7.50% 16
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
1 116 (5.08%) Confluence
2 93 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (3.20%) Apache
5 36 (1.58%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.27%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.10%) nginx
8 15 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.57%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.088%) Apache Synapse
14 2 (0.088%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.088%) Drupal
14 2 (0.088%) Traefik
14 2 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.044%) InDesign
6 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.088%) Endur
2 2 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,289 (56.49%) AWS
2 1,110 (48.64%) Azure
3 618 (27.08%) GitHub
4 461 (20.20%) GCP
5 425 (18.62%) GitHub Actions
6 374 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
7 358 (15.69%) Serverless
8 294 (12.88%) Amazon S3
9 269 (11.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 259 (11.35%) AWS Lambda
11 208 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 152 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
14 146 (6.40%) Azure AKS
14 146 (6.40%) Entra ID
15 137 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 137 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 120 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
17 114 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
18 101 (4.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 240 (10.52%) Firewall
2 168 (7.36%) DNS
3 126 (5.52%) VPN
4 106 (4.65%) Network Security
5 83 (3.64%) WAN
6 68 (2.98%) BGP
7 54 (2.37%) TCP/IP
8 48 (2.10%) OSPF
9 46 (2.02%) SD-WAN
10 35 (1.53%) DHCP
10 35 (1.53%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 25 (1.10%) BIG-IP
12 25 (1.10%) VLAN
13 19 (0.83%) LAN
13 19 (0.83%) SAN
13 19 (0.83%) SSL
14 16 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
15 14 (0.61%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 74 (3.24%) Power BI
6 72 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 69 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 63 (2.76%) BigQuery
8 63 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 59 (2.59%) NoSQL
10 58 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 52 (2.28%) Delta Lake
11 52 (2.28%) MongoDB
12 45 (1.97%) Relational Database
13 40 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 37 (1.62%) Oracle Database
15 34 (1.49%) Redis
16 33 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
17 30 (1.31%) Big Data
18 29 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 410 (17.97%) GitLab
2 390 (17.09%) Jenkins
3 322 (14.11%) Git
4 150 (6.57%) JIRA
5 45 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.36%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.05%) Maven
8 20 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.83%) MLflow
10 18 (0.79%) Snyk
11 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.48%) Gatling
13 10 (0.44%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.44%) JUnit
13 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.44%) MSI
14 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.35%) git-flow
15 7 (0.31%) Claude Code
General
1 421 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 339 (14.86%) Public Sector
3 274 (12.01%) Finance
4 124 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (3.90%) Banking
6 69 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (1.53%) Retail
9 26 (1.14%) Legal
10 24 (1.05%) Military
11 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.74%) Publishing
14 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.66%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 522 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 390 (17.09%) Senior
3 251 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 233 (10.21%) Architect
5 221 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
6 205 (8.98%) Azure Engineer
7 193 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
8 192 (8.41%) Lead
9 183 (8.02%) Data Engineer
10 181 (7.93%) Developer
11 140 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (4.91%) AWS DevOps
13 104 (4.56%) GCP Engineer
14 103 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 95 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
16 94 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 91 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 81 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 76 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 71 (3.11%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (7.62%) Kafka
2 127 (5.57%) REST
3 112 (4.91%) .NET
4 105 (4.60%) PySpark
5 104 (4.56%) Node.js
6 102 (4.47%) React
7 83 (3.64%) OAuth
8 79 (3.46%) RESTful
9 66 (2.89%) YAML
10 64 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
11 63 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (2.63%) ARM Templates
13 58 (2.54%) OpenID
14 56 (2.45%) OAuth2
14 56 (2.45%) Spring
15 52 (2.28%) Spring Boot
16 46 (2.02%) JSON
17 40 (1.75%) AWS CDK
18 37 (1.62%) AngularJS
19 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 542 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 117 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 98 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 73 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.94%) Public Cloud
8 47 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 41 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.58%) Replication
12 34 (1.49%) Private Cloud
13 33 (1.45%) PKI
14 32 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
15 29 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 29 (1.27%) NHS
16 27 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 20 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
17 20 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 357 (15.64%) Linux
2 197 (8.63%) Windows
3 75 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 52 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.31%) VMS
6 26 (1.14%) Ubuntu
6 26 (1.14%) Unix
7 14 (0.61%) AIX
8 13 (0.57%) CentOS
9 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
11 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.088%) Rocky
14 2 (0.088%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,588 (69.59%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,539 (67.44%) CI/CD
3 1,357 (59.47%) DevOps
4 555 (24.32%) Containerisation
5 547 (23.97%) Agile
6 479 (20.99%) Observability
7 457 (20.03%) Platform Engineering
8 314 (13.76%) AI
9 283 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
10 276 (12.09%) Migration
11 251 (11.00%) Analytics
12 242 (10.60%) Test Automation
13 241 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 240 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 233 (10.21%) Cloud Security
16 230 (10.08%) Software Engineering
17 227 (9.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 220 (9.64%) Microservices
19 218 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
20 201 (8.81%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,061 (46.49%) Python
2 364 (15.95%) Bash
3 355 (15.56%) SQL
4 340 (14.90%) PowerShell
5 257 (11.26%) Java
6 213 (9.33%) Bicep
7 130 (5.70%) JavaScript
8 119 (5.21%) TypeScript
9 117 (5.13%) C#
10 87 (3.81%) Go
11 51 (2.23%) Scala
12 47 (2.06%) Groovy
13 32 (1.40%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.79%) Ruby
15 16 (0.70%) Rust
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 9 (0.39%) R
18 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.35%) Perl
19 7 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 813 (35.63%) Security Cleared
2 669 (29.32%) SC Cleared
3 155 (6.79%) DV Cleared
4 138 (6.05%) Azure Certification
5 117 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.77%) Degree
7 70 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.27%) CCNP
12 26 (1.14%) CISSP
13 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 17 (0.74%) CCNA
14 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 14 (0.61%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
17 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 64 (2.80%) QA
3 54 (2.37%) GDPR
4 42 (1.84%) NIST
5 41 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 38 (1.67%) NCSC
8 30 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.66%) WCAG
10 12 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.44%) GRC
11 10 (0.44%) SLA
12 7 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.22%) HL7
14 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.13%) PSD2
16 2 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 617 (27.04%) Docker
2 119 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 90 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.58%) Hyper-V
7 34 (1.49%) VMware NSX
7 34 (1.49%) vSphere
8 21 (0.92%) Squid
9 18 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 7 (0.31%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.088%) GPFS
15 2 (0.088%) Lustre
15 2 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 867 (37.99%) Kubernetes
2 504 (22.09%) Ansible
3 288 (12.62%) Grafana
4 252 (11.04%) Prometheus
5 91 (3.99%) Argo
6 54 (2.37%) Puppet
7 40 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.53%) Istio
8 35 (1.53%) Packer
9 28 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 27 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.88%) Kibana
14 17 (0.74%) Kustomize
14 17 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
15 16 (0.70%) Data Guard
16 13 (0.57%) Consul
16 13 (0.57%) Podman
17 12 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 353 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 204 (8.94%) Google
3 131 (5.74%) Splunk
4 129 (5.65%) Databricks
5 119 (5.21%) VMware
6 98 (4.29%) Oracle
7 81 (3.55%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.33%) Dynatrace
9 65 (2.85%) ServiceNow
10 59 (2.59%) Cisco
11 56 (2.45%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.71%) F5
13 34 (1.49%) Arista
13 34 (1.49%) OpenAI
14 29 (1.27%) Zscaler
15 26 (1.14%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.01%) Aruba
16 23 (1.01%) Foundry
16 23 (1.01%) Informatica
17 20 (0.88%) Pure Storage