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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,471 1,452 1,402
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.34% 5.19% 4.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.15% 20.35% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 992 983
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 9
10th Percentile £58.69 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.88 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.84 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,826 7,136 8,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,461 4,810 5,235
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +5 1,317 £550 +2.09% 1,543
North of England 0 506 £500 -0.05% 346
Yorkshire -14 221 £513 +2.45% 92
South East +3 218 £575 +14.89% 237
South West +6 195 £550 - 184
North West +24 194 £561 +12.25% 205
Midlands -39 118 £488 -11.36% 122
North East -5 102 £425 -18.27% 49
West Midlands -39 92 £519 -5.68% 72
East of England -27 42 £550 +14.88% 89
East Midlands -1 25 £419 -14.10% 50
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
1 108 (4.37%) Confluence
2 107 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (3.93%) Apache
3 97 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.94%) Jupyter
5 40 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 36 (1.46%) nginx
7 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.49%) SAS
8 10 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.28%) IIS
10 6 (0.24%) CMS
10 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.081%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.040%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,413 (57.18%) AWS
2 1,237 (50.06%) Azure
3 658 (26.63%) GitHub
4 517 (20.92%) GCP
5 458 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
6 444 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
7 344 (13.92%) Serverless
8 289 (11.70%) Amazon S3
9 255 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 253 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
11 249 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
12 234 (9.47%) Entra ID
13 208 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 174 (7.04%) Azure AKS
15 173 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
16 160 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
17 151 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 139 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
19 137 (5.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 106 (4.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 284 (11.49%) Firewall
2 206 (8.34%) DNS
3 139 (5.63%) Network Security
4 137 (5.54%) VPN
5 97 (3.93%) TCP/IP
6 91 (3.68%) DHCP
7 75 (3.04%) WAN
8 67 (2.71%) BGP
9 48 (1.94%) OSPF
10 46 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.74%) VLAN
12 32 (1.30%) VSAN
13 29 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.09%) SSH
14 27 (1.09%) SSL
15 25 (1.01%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.81%) Internet
17 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (3.52%) Data Lake
5 80 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.95%) NoSQL
8 69 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
9 67 (2.71%) BigQuery
9 67 (2.71%) DynamoDB
9 67 (2.71%) Power BI
10 65 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 56 (2.27%) Redis
12 55 (2.23%) Relational Database
13 52 (2.10%) MySQL
14 51 (2.06%) Metadata
15 47 (1.90%) Delta Lake
16 46 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
17 40 (1.62%) Big Data
18 35 (1.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 491 (19.87%) GitLab
2 405 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 397 (16.07%) Git
4 135 (5.46%) JIRA
5 42 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.38%) Maven
6 34 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.93%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.85%) Selenium
11 19 (0.77%) Snyk
12 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.61%) JUnit
14 13 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.49%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 10 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.36%) Mockito
General
1 518 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 358 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 357 (14.45%) Finance
4 169 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (4.82%) Banking
6 71 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (1.86%) Retail
8 45 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (1.58%) Military
10 27 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.81%) Law
11 20 (0.81%) Legal
12 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.73%) Publishing
12 18 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.69%) Local Government
13 17 (0.69%) Police
14 16 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.57%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 557 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 456 (18.45%) Senior
3 267 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 237 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
5 226 (9.15%) AWS Engineer
6 224 (9.07%) Developer
7 221 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
8 218 (8.82%) Architect
9 199 (8.05%) Lead
10 179 (7.24%) Data Engineer
11 165 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
13 109 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
14 106 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 103 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 98 (3.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 97 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 96 (3.89%) Security Engineer
19 83 (3.36%) Network Engineer
20 82 (3.32%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (7.93%) Kafka
1 196 (7.93%) REST
2 112 (4.53%) .NET
2 112 (4.53%) ARM Templates
3 111 (4.49%) OAuth
4 109 (4.41%) React
5 100 (4.05%) RESTful
6 90 (3.64%) PySpark
7 81 (3.28%) Node.js
8 78 (3.16%) YAML
9 75 (3.04%) OpenID
10 70 (2.83%) OAuth2
11 69 (2.79%) Spring
12 68 (2.75%) Spring Boot
13 58 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
14 52 (2.10%) JSON
15 43 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
16 41 (1.66%) HTML
17 40 (1.62%) AWS CDK
17 40 (1.62%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 578 (23.39%) Cloud Native
2 154 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 106 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 89 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 84 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 80 (3.24%) Public Cloud
9 61 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 61 (2.47%) PKI
10 56 (2.27%) AI Agents
11 55 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
11 55 (2.23%) Replication
12 49 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
14 40 (1.62%) Management Information System
15 39 (1.58%) Private Cloud
16 38 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
17 32 (1.30%) NHS
18 27 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 466 (18.86%) Linux
2 265 (10.72%) Windows
3 95 (3.84%) Windows Server
4 88 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.74%) Unix
6 39 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.21%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.081%) Android
16 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.081%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,832 (74.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,709 (69.16%) CI/CD
3 1,455 (58.88%) DevOps
4 647 (26.18%) Observability
5 609 (24.65%) Containerisation
6 600 (24.28%) Agile
7 590 (23.88%) Platform Engineering
8 433 (17.52%) AI
9 356 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 339 (13.72%) Migration
11 327 (13.23%) Test Automation
12 319 (12.91%) Cloud Security
13 318 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 310 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
15 308 (12.46%) Software Engineering
16 295 (11.94%) DevSecOps
17 294 (11.90%) Analytics
18 284 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 281 (11.37%) Infrastructure Automation
20 269 (10.89%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,232 (49.86%) Python
2 490 (19.83%) PowerShell
3 477 (19.30%) Bash
4 398 (16.11%) SQL
5 297 (12.02%) Bicep
6 292 (11.82%) Java
7 147 (5.95%) JavaScript
8 129 (5.22%) C#
9 123 (4.98%) TypeScript
10 100 (4.05%) Go
11 58 (2.35%) Groovy
12 50 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 43 (1.74%) Scala
14 17 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 13 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 9 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 7 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 899 (36.38%) Security Cleared
2 710 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 209 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 172 (6.96%) AWS Certification
5 168 (6.80%) Azure Certification
6 113 (4.57%) Degree
7 71 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.31%) CISSP
10 50 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.13%) CCNP
14 22 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 21 (0.85%) CISM
16 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 17 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 99 (4.01%) QA
3 59 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 52 (2.10%) NIST
5 49 (1.98%) NCSC
6 46 (1.86%) GDPR
7 24 (0.97%) WCAG
8 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 11 (0.45%) SLA
11 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.24%) PSD2
13 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.20%) HL7
13 5 (0.20%) SEPA
14 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 708 (28.65%) Docker
2 185 (7.49%) Active Directory
3 112 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.94%) vSphere
6 42 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 39 (1.58%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 35 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 7 (0.28%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
15 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,026 (41.52%) Kubernetes
2 608 (24.61%) Ansible
3 316 (12.79%) Grafana
4 246 (9.96%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.32%) Argo
6 63 (2.55%) Puppet
7 56 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 52 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.62%) Packer
10 33 (1.34%) Istio
11 28 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (1.09%) Kibana
12 27 (1.09%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.93%) Kustomize
14 20 (0.81%) Kubeflow
15 19 (0.77%) SCCM
16 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
18 14 (0.57%) VxRail
19 13 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 488 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 238 (9.63%) Google
3 153 (6.19%) VMware
4 146 (5.91%) Databricks
5 140 (5.67%) Splunk
6 104 (4.21%) Oracle
7 100 (4.05%) Dynatrace
8 81 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 80 (3.24%) Cisco
10 65 (2.63%) Palo Alto
11 64 (2.59%) Red Hat
12 39 (1.58%) F5
12 39 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.38%) Arista
14 33 (1.34%) Zscaler
15 29 (1.17%) CyberArk
15 29 (1.17%) Informatica
16 28 (1.13%) Fortinet
17 26 (1.05%) Okta
18 23 (0.93%) CrowdStrike