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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,989 1,288 1,291
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 5.31% 3.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.94% 33.45% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 919 968
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £442 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £556
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.03% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 9
10th Percentile £40.73 £25.38 £43.65
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £55.00
Median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.75 £68.13 £68.00
90th Percentile £83.90 £78.58 £75.05
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.52% -19.17% -23.08%

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 5,534 3,851 4,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.50% 15.88% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,821 2,638 3,290
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 39 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.58 £22.32 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -50.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £54.06
90th Percentile £76.88 £77.74 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.75
% change year-on-year +107.74% -13.90% -46.52%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 0 1,062 £535 -6.96% 284
North of England +11 399 £500 -4.76% 148
Yorkshire +11 222 £500 -4.76% 48
South East 0 155 £503 -8.64% 143
Midlands -3 144 £525 -2.78% 36
North West +14 141 £525 - 72
South West -10 121 £550 -10.57% 82
West Midlands +3 120 £525 -8.70% 25
North East -8 41 £471 -10.38% 29
East Midlands -22 23 £447 -8.31% 11
East of England -30 23 £475 -13.64% 40
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 86 (4.32%) Confluence
2 76 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 65 (3.27%) Apache
4 53 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.66%) nginx
6 20 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 17 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.25%) SAS
9 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Drupal
11 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.10%) WordPress
12 1 (0.050%) Appian
12 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.050%) InDesign
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,086 (54.60%) AWS
2 933 (46.91%) Azure
3 574 (28.86%) GitHub
4 409 (20.56%) GCP
5 379 (19.05%) Serverless
6 363 (18.25%) GitHub Actions
7 350 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
8 337 (16.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 262 (13.17%) Amazon S3
10 253 (12.72%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (9.75%) Amazon EKS
12 157 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
13 145 (7.29%) OpenShift
14 137 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 137 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
15 136 (6.84%) Azure AKS
16 131 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 127 (6.39%) Azure Monitor
18 122 (6.13%) Entra ID
19 108 (5.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 200 (10.06%) Firewall
2 147 (7.39%) DNS
3 118 (5.93%) VPN
4 100 (5.03%) Network Security
5 49 (2.46%) WAN
6 38 (1.91%) TCP/IP
7 35 (1.76%) BGP
8 33 (1.66%) SD-WAN
9 29 (1.46%) DHCP
10 25 (1.26%) LAN
11 24 (1.21%) OSPF
12 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
13 17 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
14 12 (0.60%) SAN
14 12 (0.60%) SSL
14 12 (0.60%) VLAN
15 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
16 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
17 9 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (4.42%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.77%) Power BI
5 64 (3.22%) Amazon Athena
6 59 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 57 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 54 (2.71%) BigQuery
9 52 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 51 (2.56%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 48 (2.41%) MongoDB
12 47 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (2.16%) Delta Lake
14 35 (1.76%) Relational Database
15 33 (1.66%) Redis
16 28 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (1.11%) Metadata
17 22 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 410 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 347 (17.45%) GitLab
3 275 (13.83%) Git
4 112 (5.63%) JIRA
5 48 (2.41%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.26%) Liquibase
9 23 (1.16%) Maven
10 19 (0.96%) MLflow
11 18 (0.90%) CircleCI
12 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.65%) Gatling
14 10 (0.50%) JUnit
14 10 (0.50%) Snyk
14 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
16 7 (0.35%) Gradle
16 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 386 (19.41%) Social Skills
2 296 (14.88%) Public Sector
3 223 (11.21%) Finance
4 105 (5.28%) Banking
5 99 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.11%) Retail
10 18 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (0.65%) Legal
13 10 (0.50%) Law
13 10 (0.50%) Military
14 8 (0.40%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.35%) Health Technology
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Games
16 6 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 420 (21.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 269 (13.52%) Senior
3 236 (11.87%) Architect
4 191 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 189 (9.50%) Azure Engineer
6 184 (9.25%) AWS Engineer
7 172 (8.65%) Developer
8 167 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
9 165 (8.30%) Lead
10 147 (7.39%) Data Engineer
11 115 (5.78%) GCP Engineer
12 104 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 102 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
14 92 (4.63%) Software Engineer
15 90 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 87 (4.37%) Site Engineer
17 83 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 76 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 65 (3.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 60 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (9.65%) Kafka
2 128 (6.44%) Node.js
3 124 (6.23%) REST
4 106 (5.33%) React
5 97 (4.88%) .NET
6 89 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
7 83 (4.17%) ARM Templates
8 81 (4.07%) RESTful
9 69 (3.47%) PySpark
10 67 (3.37%) OAuth
11 63 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (2.92%) Spring
13 56 (2.82%) YAML
14 52 (2.61%) AngularJS
15 51 (2.56%) Spring Boot
16 44 (2.21%) OpenID
17 40 (2.01%) AWS CDK
18 37 (1.86%) OAuth2
19 34 (1.71%) JSON
20 30 (1.51%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 371 (18.65%) Cloud Native
2 113 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 102 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 69 (3.47%) Public Cloud
5 68 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 61 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 39 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (1.56%) NHS
10 28 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 27 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 26 (1.31%) PKI
13 21 (1.06%) Replication
14 19 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 15 (0.75%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (0.70%) Clustering
17 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 351 (17.65%) Linux
2 155 (7.79%) Windows
3 52 (2.61%) VMS
4 42 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (1.76%) Unix
7 13 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.40%) CentOS
9 6 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.10%) Debian
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.10%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) Android
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.050%) Rocky
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,354 (68.07%) CI/CD
2 1,278 (64.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,209 (60.78%) DevOps
4 514 (25.84%) Containerisation
5 443 (22.27%) Agile
6 389 (19.56%) Observability
7 313 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
8 270 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 269 (13.52%) Migration
10 251 (12.62%) Analytics
11 229 (11.51%) Microservices
12 227 (11.41%) AI
13 223 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 216 (10.86%) Software Engineering
15 215 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
16 199 (10.01%) Test Automation
17 184 (9.25%) Cloud Security
18 182 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
19 175 (8.80%) DevSecOps
20 171 (8.60%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 955 (48.01%) Python
2 309 (15.54%) SQL
3 305 (15.33%) Bash
4 275 (13.83%) PowerShell
5 212 (10.66%) Java
6 171 (8.60%) Bicep
7 116 (5.83%) Go
8 113 (5.68%) JavaScript
8 113 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 108 (5.43%) C#
10 47 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 36 (1.81%) Scala
12 35 (1.76%) Ruby
13 28 (1.41%) Groovy
14 15 (0.75%) Rust
15 9 (0.45%) C
16 7 (0.35%) PHP
17 6 (0.30%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 701 (35.24%) Security Cleared
2 578 (29.06%) SC Cleared
3 131 (6.59%) Azure Certification
4 125 (6.28%) AWS Certification
5 116 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 96 (4.83%) Degree
7 73 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 53 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.91%) Master's Degree
12 37 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 30 (1.51%) CCNP
13 30 (1.51%) CISSP
14 17 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.80%) CCIE
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.75%) CISM
17 14 (0.70%) OCP
18 12 (0.60%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 79 (3.97%) GDPR
3 68 (3.42%) QA
4 63 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (2.87%) NIST
6 46 (2.31%) NCSC
7 35 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 11 (0.55%) GRC
12 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 587 (29.51%) Docker
2 96 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 81 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 65 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (2.21%) vSphere
6 36 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 34 (1.71%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.50%) Squid
9 7 (0.35%) KVM
10 6 (0.30%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Lustre
12 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.15%) GPFS
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) HDFS
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 814 (40.93%) Kubernetes
2 507 (25.49%) Ansible
3 290 (14.58%) Grafana
4 255 (12.82%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.12%) Argo
6 48 (2.41%) Istio
7 40 (2.01%) Puppet
8 39 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 38 (1.91%) Packer
10 31 (1.56%) vCenter Server
11 29 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.06%) Consul
13 16 (0.80%) Kibana
13 16 (0.80%) Rancher
14 15 (0.75%) Podman
15 14 (0.70%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
18 9 (0.45%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 309 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.25%) Google
3 149 (7.49%) Databricks
4 129 (6.49%) Splunk
5 119 (5.98%) VMware
6 93 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 58 (2.92%) Oracle
8 47 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 45 (2.26%) Dynatrace
10 42 (2.11%) Cisco
11 33 (1.66%) Pure Storage
12 28 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.26%) F5
13 25 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.26%) IBM
14 19 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 19 (0.96%) SolarWinds
15 17 (0.85%) Citrix
16 16 (0.80%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty