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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 41 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,783 1,361 1,442
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.62% 4.74% 3.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.53% 32.80% 28.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 938 1,095
10th Percentile £400 £405 £425
25th Percentile £456 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.57% -8.47%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £656
90th Percentile £713 £761 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 16
10th Percentile £44.22 £26.50 £60.00
25th Percentile £53.78 £42.31 £62.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -0.99%
75th Percentile £81.00 £74.22 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +19.05%

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 5,018 4,149 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.83% 14.44% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,446 2,675 3,624
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -3.67% -7.23%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £507 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.52% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 52 156
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.03 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.36 £26.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +79.94% -41.80% +31.94%
75th Percentile £65.56 £63.00 £67.13
90th Percentile £79.90 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.16% -46.21% +31.94%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 0 924 £538 -10.42% 415
North of England -1 365 £500 - 360
Yorkshire +3 206 £500 +1.01% 154
South East +3 141 £500 -14.53% 415
Midlands +24 137 £534 -6.81% 233
South West +15 127 £555 -3.06% 182
West Midlands +16 120 £540 -6.09% 128
North West -7 110 £513 -5.96% 172
North East +3 52 £488 -13.72% 35
East of England -24 27 £513 +20.59% 197
East Midlands -4 17 £418 +4.24% 92
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 71 (3.98%) Confluence
2 54 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 47 (2.64%) Apache
5 30 (1.68%) nginx
6 27 (1.51%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.28%) SAS
9 5 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
12 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.11%) Mule
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Endur
2 3 (0.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.056%) Actimize
4 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.056%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (59.11%) AWS
2 738 (41.39%) Azure
3 496 (27.82%) GitHub
4 341 (19.13%) GCP
5 329 (18.45%) GitHub Actions
6 317 (17.78%) Serverless
7 287 (16.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 278 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
9 243 (13.63%) Amazon S3
10 204 (11.44%) AWS Lambda
11 166 (9.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 164 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
13 147 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
14 135 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
14 135 (7.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 130 (7.29%) OpenShift
16 101 (5.66%) Entra ID
17 99 (5.55%) Azure AKS
18 87 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
19 83 (4.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 190 (10.66%) Firewall
2 137 (7.68%) DNS
3 96 (5.38%) VPN
4 87 (4.88%) Network Security
5 60 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 42 (2.36%) SSL
7 38 (2.13%) WAN
8 35 (1.96%) HTTP
9 30 (1.68%) DHCP
10 29 (1.63%) LAN
11 28 (1.57%) BGP
12 25 (1.40%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.29%) OSPF
14 20 (1.12%) SSH
15 19 (1.07%) FTP
15 19 (1.07%) SMTP
16 14 (0.79%) VXLAN
17 13 (0.73%) MPLS
18 12 (0.67%) Wireless
19 11 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 69 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 55 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 50 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 48 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
8 44 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 41 (2.30%) Power BI
10 39 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 39 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 35 (1.96%) SQL Server
12 34 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.85%) Redis
14 31 (1.74%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (1.29%) MySQL
17 17 (0.95%) Tableau
18 16 (0.90%) Delta Lake
19 14 (0.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 427 (23.95%) Jenkins
2 375 (21.03%) GitLab
3 254 (14.25%) Git
4 100 (5.61%) JIRA
5 52 (2.92%) SonarQube
6 44 (2.47%) Artifactory
7 37 (2.08%) Liquibase
8 35 (1.96%) CircleCI
9 31 (1.74%) Maven
10 27 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (1.35%) Gradle
12 21 (1.18%) Bitbucket
13 18 (1.01%) Vagrant
14 15 (0.84%) Selenium
14 15 (0.84%) Snyk
15 14 (0.79%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.73%) JUnit
17 11 (0.62%) Terragrunt
18 10 (0.56%) MLflow
19 8 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 410 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 291 (16.32%) Public Sector
3 223 (12.51%) Finance
4 120 (6.73%) Banking
5 89 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (2.02%) Financial Institution
8 27 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.12%) Military
10 19 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.01%) Retail
12 15 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.56%) Aerospace
15 9 (0.50%) Law
15 9 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.45%) Health Technology
16 8 (0.45%) Marketing
17 7 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 419 (23.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 234 (13.12%) Senior
3 218 (12.23%) AWS Engineer
4 201 (11.27%) Architect
5 161 (9.03%) Developer
6 158 (8.86%) Platform Engineer
7 150 (8.41%) Lead
8 133 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
9 127 (7.12%) AWS DevOps
10 118 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 107 (6.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 103 (5.78%) Software Engineer
13 100 (5.61%) Data Engineer
14 87 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 76 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 74 (4.15%) GCP Engineer
17 71 (3.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 63 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
19 62 (3.48%) Site Engineer
20 61 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (9.53%) Kafka
2 121 (6.79%) REST
3 118 (6.62%) Node.js
4 113 (6.34%) React
5 110 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
6 101 (5.66%) RESTful
7 73 (4.09%) .NET
8 68 (3.81%) ARM Templates
9 62 (3.48%) Spring Boot
10 57 (3.20%) Spring
11 56 (3.14%) YAML
12 47 (2.64%) AngularJS
12 47 (2.64%) OAuth
13 38 (2.13%) AWS CDK
14 36 (2.02%) Keycloak
15 33 (1.85%) FastAPI
16 32 (1.79%) PySpark
17 28 (1.57%) OAuth2
18 25 (1.40%) .NET Core
18 25 (1.40%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 305 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.19%) Replication
8 38 (2.13%) NHS
9 36 (2.02%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 26 (1.46%) PKI
11 26 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (0.67%) Algorithms
17 12 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 351 (19.69%) Linux
2 159 (8.92%) Windows
3 55 (3.08%) Unix
4 52 (2.92%) VMS
5 46 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.29%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
9 17 (0.95%) CentOS
10 6 (0.34%) Solaris
11 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) Android
12 3 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.056%) Debian
14 1 (0.056%) MVS
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,206 (67.64%) CI/CD
2 1,140 (63.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,118 (62.70%) DevOps
4 489 (27.43%) Containerisation
5 396 (22.21%) Agile
6 285 (15.98%) Observability
7 265 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
8 263 (14.75%) Microservices
9 248 (13.91%) Migration
10 240 (13.46%) Platform Engineering
11 238 (13.35%) Infrastructure Automation
12 231 (12.96%) Software Engineering
13 181 (10.15%) Test Automation
14 179 (10.04%) DevSecOps
15 172 (9.65%) AI
16 168 (9.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 165 (9.25%) Cloud Security
18 160 (8.97%) Analytics
19 157 (8.81%) High Availability
20 151 (8.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 906 (50.81%) Python
2 308 (17.27%) Bash
3 251 (14.08%) PowerShell
4 237 (13.29%) SQL
5 226 (12.68%) Java
6 155 (8.69%) Go
7 118 (6.62%) Bicep
8 107 (6.00%) JavaScript
9 103 (5.78%) TypeScript
10 84 (4.71%) C#
11 54 (3.03%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.91%) Groovy
13 25 (1.40%) Ruby
14 24 (1.35%) Perl
15 14 (0.79%) Scala
16 10 (0.56%) C
17 8 (0.45%) C++
18 7 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.39%) PHP
19 6 (0.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 613 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 511 (28.66%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.40%) AWS Certification
4 125 (7.01%) Degree
5 105 (5.89%) Azure Certification
6 98 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 81 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.51%) CISSP
13 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 21 (1.18%) CCIE
15 20 (1.12%) CCNP
16 18 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 13 (0.73%) CISM
17 13 (0.73%) JNCIE
18 8 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
18 8 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.87%) GDPR
2 61 (3.42%) QA
3 59 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.80%) NIST
5 47 (2.64%) NCSC
6 43 (2.41%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 13 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.39%) SLA
13 6 (0.34%) HL7
14 5 (0.28%) GRC
14 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.17%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.11%) COBIT
16 2 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 600 (33.65%) Docker
2 108 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 74 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (1.74%) VMware NSX
5 31 (1.74%) vSphere
6 24 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.01%) DFS Replication
8 16 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.67%) Squid
10 10 (0.56%) Dovecot
10 10 (0.56%) Postfix
11 7 (0.39%) KVM
12 6 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.22%) Lustre
13 4 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.17%) GPFS
14 3 (0.17%) NFS
14 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 750 (42.06%) Kubernetes
2 562 (31.52%) Ansible
3 302 (16.94%) Grafana
4 270 (15.14%) Prometheus
5 71 (3.98%) Argo
6 57 (3.20%) Puppet
7 41 (2.30%) Packer
7 41 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.24%) Istio
9 27 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.07%) Kibana
10 19 (1.07%) Podman
11 18 (1.01%) vCenter Server
12 16 (0.90%) Proxmox
13 15 (0.84%) Nessus
14 14 (0.79%) Consul
15 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
16 11 (0.62%) Rancher
17 10 (0.56%) logstash
18 9 (0.50%) Nagios
Vendors
1 228 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.23%) Google
3 128 (7.18%) Splunk
4 112 (6.28%) VMware
5 108 (6.06%) Databricks
6 68 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 63 (3.53%) F5
8 51 (2.86%) Palo Alto
8 51 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 44 (2.47%) Oracle
10 43 (2.41%) Dynatrace
11 40 (2.24%) Cisco
12 36 (2.02%) CheckPoint
13 24 (1.35%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.29%) IBM
14 23 (1.29%) OpenAI
15 20 (1.12%) Juniper
16 18 (1.01%) SolarWinds
17 17 (0.95%) Dell
17 17 (0.95%) Zscaler