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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,967 1,230 1,238
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.88% 5.10% 3.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.29% 32.67% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 886 922
10th Percentile £400 £403 £425
25th Percentile £443 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.81 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.88% -28.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £56.88 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £78.70 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.18% -11.82% -27.15%

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 5,420 3,765 4,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 15.61% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,749 2,592 3,162
10th Percentile £316 £313 £256
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.24% -8.91%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £691 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 37 106
10th Percentile £20.09 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £44.27 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.00 £28.00 £25.74
Median % change year-on-year +103.57% +8.79% -52.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.40 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +111.32% +2.85% -53.15%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +1 1,051 £538 -2.27% 255
North of England +24 388 £500 -4.76% 167
Yorkshire +16 206 £488 -7.14% 44
South East -10 156 £513 +2.45% 130
North West +23 141 £533 +1.48% 89
Midlands -5 134 £525 -2.78% 45
South West -15 114 £563 -8.54% 66
West Midlands -6 112 £525 -8.70% 27
North East -4 50 £488 -7.14% 34
East of England -17 41 £519 +3.75% 34
East Midlands -24 21 £450 -10.00% 18
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 82 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 81 (4.12%) Confluence
3 56 (2.85%) Apache
4 48 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 29 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.86%) nginx
7 14 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.56%) SAS
9 10 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.10%) CMS
13 2 (0.10%) Drupal
13 2 (0.10%) Traefik
13 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.051%) InDesign
5 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.31%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.051%) Actimize
4 1 (0.051%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.051%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,049 (53.33%) AWS
2 963 (48.96%) Azure
3 564 (28.67%) GitHub
4 402 (20.44%) GCP
5 372 (18.91%) GitHub Actions
6 341 (17.34%) Serverless
7 332 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
8 293 (14.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 252 (12.81%) Amazon S3
10 247 (12.56%) AWS Lambda
11 193 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 141 (7.17%) Amazon EC2
14 136 (6.91%) Azure AKS
15 132 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
16 125 (6.35%) OpenShift
17 121 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 117 (5.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 114 (5.80%) Entra ID
20 110 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 198 (10.07%) Firewall
2 129 (6.56%) DNS
3 111 (5.64%) VPN
4 96 (4.88%) Network Security
5 56 (2.85%) WAN
6 43 (2.19%) BGP
7 38 (1.93%) TCP/IP
8 37 (1.88%) SD-WAN
9 31 (1.58%) OSPF
10 24 (1.22%) VXLAN
11 21 (1.07%) DHCP
12 20 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
13 19 (0.97%) LAN
14 18 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
15 17 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (0.81%) BIG-IP
17 15 (0.76%) SAN
18 13 (0.66%) SSL
19 11 (0.56%) OpenVPN
19 11 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
3 80 (4.07%) Data Lake
4 78 (3.97%) Power BI
5 74 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
6 62 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 58 (2.95%) BigQuery
8 49 (2.49%) Delta Lake
8 49 (2.49%) DynamoDB
9 48 (2.44%) NoSQL
10 47 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 44 (2.24%) MongoDB
12 43 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 42 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (1.73%) Redis
15 32 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
16 31 (1.58%) Relational Database
17 29 (1.47%) Big Data
18 27 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
19 24 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 366 (18.61%) Jenkins
2 335 (17.03%) GitLab
3 270 (13.73%) Git
4 114 (5.80%) JIRA
5 45 (2.29%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.37%) Maven
8 24 (1.22%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.86%) MLflow
11 16 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.76%) Snyk
13 12 (0.61%) Gatling
14 11 (0.56%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.51%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.46%) Terragrunt
17 8 (0.41%) git-flow
17 8 (0.41%) Gradle
17 8 (0.41%) JUnit
18 7 (0.36%) Robot Framework
General
1 334 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 270 (13.73%) Public Sector
3 208 (10.57%) Finance
4 93 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.32%) Banking
6 51 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.02%) Retail
9 19 (0.97%) Legal
10 13 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.61%) Military
12 11 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (0.51%) Health Technology
14 9 (0.46%) Law
14 9 (0.46%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.41%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.36%) Publishing
17 6 (0.31%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.31%) Front Office
18 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 432 (21.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 297 (15.10%) Senior
3 218 (11.08%) Architect
4 198 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 194 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
6 175 (8.90%) Developer
7 167 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
8 165 (8.39%) Data Engineer
9 154 (7.83%) Lead
10 139 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
11 111 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
13 100 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 88 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
15 79 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 76 (3.86%) Site Engineer
17 71 (3.61%) Software Engineer
18 66 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
18 66 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 65 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (8.74%) Kafka
2 115 (5.85%) Node.js
3 101 (5.13%) React
4 100 (5.08%) .NET
5 98 (4.98%) REST
6 80 (4.07%) PySpark
7 70 (3.56%) OpenTelemetry
8 66 (3.36%) RESTful
8 66 (3.36%) Spring
9 65 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
10 64 (3.25%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.25%) OAuth
11 60 (3.05%) Spring Boot
12 55 (2.80%) YAML
13 48 (2.44%) AngularJS
14 47 (2.39%) OpenID
15 40 (2.03%) AWS CDK
16 39 (1.98%) OAuth2
17 38 (1.93%) JSON
18 26 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 408 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 104 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 85 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
4 76 (3.86%) Data Centre
5 74 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 50 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 37 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (1.58%) PKI
10 29 (1.47%) Replication
11 28 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.07%) NHS
15 20 (1.02%) AI Agents
16 19 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
17 17 (0.86%) Clustering
18 14 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 299 (15.20%) Linux
2 145 (7.37%) Windows
3 44 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (2.14%) VMS
5 41 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.37%) Unix
7 14 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.51%) CentOS
9 7 (0.36%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.10%) Android
13 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.10%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.051%) AIX
14 1 (0.051%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,325 (67.36%) CI/CD
2 1,295 (65.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,186 (60.29%) DevOps
4 481 (24.45%) Containerisation
5 429 (21.81%) Agile
6 394 (20.03%) Observability
7 321 (16.32%) Platform Engineering
8 262 (13.32%) Migration
9 239 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
10 237 (12.05%) AI
10 237 (12.05%) Analytics
10 237 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 200 (10.17%) Software Engineering
12 197 (10.02%) Test Automation
13 195 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 192 (9.76%) Microservices
15 183 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 181 (9.20%) Infrastructure Automation
17 177 (9.00%) Cloud Security
18 173 (8.80%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 893 (45.40%) Python
2 322 (16.37%) SQL
3 278 (14.13%) Bash
4 275 (13.98%) PowerShell
5 227 (11.54%) Java
6 173 (8.80%) Bicep
7 123 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 111 (5.64%) C#
9 109 (5.54%) TypeScript
10 81 (4.12%) Go
11 51 (2.59%) Scala
12 39 (1.98%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.83%) Groovy
14 29 (1.47%) Ruby
15 14 (0.71%) Rust
16 8 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.41%) R
17 7 (0.36%) Perl
17 7 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 697 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 574 (29.18%) SC Cleared
3 134 (6.81%) Azure Certification
4 117 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 99 (5.03%) AWS Certification
6 72 (3.66%) Degree
7 61 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 54 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 32 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.42%) CCNP
13 22 (1.12%) CISSP
14 15 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.71%) CCNA
15 14 (0.71%) OCP
15 14 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
16 13 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.61%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.20%) QA
3 59 (3.00%) GDPR
4 49 (2.49%) NIST
5 45 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.68%) NCSC
7 32 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 21 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.66%) SLA
10 11 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.56%) GRC
11 9 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.36%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.31%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.20%) HL7
15 4 (0.20%) PSD2
15 4 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 519 (26.39%) Docker
2 89 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 73 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.98%) Hyper-V
7 25 (1.27%) vSphere
8 21 (1.07%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.81%) Squid
10 8 (0.41%) KVM
10 8 (0.41%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) Lustre
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.15%) GPFS
14 2 (0.10%) Ceph
14 2 (0.10%) Corosync
14 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 768 (39.04%) Kubernetes
2 479 (24.35%) Ansible
3 259 (13.17%) Grafana
4 221 (11.24%) Prometheus
5 77 (3.91%) Argo
6 45 (2.29%) Istio
7 43 (2.19%) Puppet
8 34 (1.73%) Progress Chef
9 24 (1.22%) Packer
10 23 (1.17%) Kibana
10 23 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.07%) vCenter Server
12 17 (0.86%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.76%) Rancher
15 12 (0.61%) Consul
16 11 (0.56%) Podman
17 10 (0.51%) linkerd
18 9 (0.46%) HAProxy
18 9 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 298 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 181 (9.20%) Google
3 125 (6.35%) Databricks
4 117 (5.95%) Splunk
5 106 (5.39%) VMware
6 81 (4.12%) Red Hat
7 64 (3.25%) Oracle
8 58 (2.95%) Dynatrace
9 55 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 43 (2.19%) Cisco
11 37 (1.88%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.27%) F5
12 25 (1.27%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.27%) Pure Storage
13 24 (1.22%) Arista
14 20 (1.02%) IBM
15 19 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 18 (0.92%) Zscaler
17 16 (0.81%) Aruba
18 15 (0.76%) Citrix