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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 40 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,000 1,203 1,248
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 5.02% 3.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.21% 32.17% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 864 936
10th Percentile £400 £400 £423
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £616 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £747
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 7
10th Percentile £40.91 £25.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -28.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £74.44
90th Percentile £79.60 £79.55 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +21.52% -11.82% -24.66%

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 5,524 3,739 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.38% 15.59% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 2,571 3,218
10th Percentile £316 £308 £258
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 37 101
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.65 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £27.00
% change year-on-year +98.20% +2.78% -48.98%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +3 1,074 £544 -1.09% 295
North of England +19 394 £500 -4.76% 162
Yorkshire +13 210 £500 -4.76% 34
South East -9 162 £513 +2.50% 145
North West +27 140 £525 +2.44% 95
Midlands -16 129 £525 -4.55% 32
South West -11 115 £563 -8.54% 65
West Midlands -4 107 £525 -4.72% 21
North East -6 53 £488 -7.14% 33
East of England -13 44 £475 -5.00% 22
East Midlands -20 21 £450 -10.00% 11
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 85 (4.25%) Confluence
2 81 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.85%) Apache
4 48 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.90%) nginx
7 12 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.10%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.10%) CMS
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.050%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.050%) InDesign
4 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) Endur
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,067 (53.35%) AWS
2 983 (49.15%) Azure
3 572 (28.60%) GitHub
4 411 (20.55%) GCP
5 378 (18.90%) GitHub Actions
6 342 (17.10%) Serverless
7 341 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
8 284 (14.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 245 (12.25%) Amazon S3
10 243 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
11 193 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
12 145 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 139 (6.95%) Azure AKS
14 136 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
15 127 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
16 126 (6.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 122 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 121 (6.05%) OpenShift
19 120 (6.00%) Entra ID
20 108 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 200 (10.00%) Firewall
2 133 (6.65%) DNS
3 110 (5.50%) VPN
4 100 (5.00%) Network Security
5 64 (3.20%) WAN
6 48 (2.40%) BGP
7 41 (2.05%) SD-WAN
8 37 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 36 (1.80%) OSPF
10 31 (1.55%) VXLAN
11 24 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
12 21 (1.05%) LAN
13 20 (1.00%) BIG-IP
13 20 (1.00%) DHCP
13 20 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
15 16 (0.80%) SAN
16 14 (0.70%) SSL
17 12 (0.60%) VLAN
17 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (3.95%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.70%) Power BI
5 73 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
6 64 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 59 (2.95%) BigQuery
8 52 (2.60%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.55%) MongoDB
10 50 (2.50%) Delta Lake
11 49 (2.45%) DynamoDB
12 46 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 42 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 40 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
15 36 (1.80%) Redis
16 31 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
16 31 (1.55%) Relational Database
17 28 (1.40%) Big Data
17 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
18 25 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 372 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 347 (17.35%) GitLab
3 272 (13.60%) Git
4 121 (6.05%) JIRA
5 43 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 37 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 25 (1.25%) Maven
8 24 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Snyk
12 15 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.65%) Gatling
14 12 (0.60%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.50%) git-flow
15 10 (0.50%) Liquibase
15 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
16 8 (0.40%) Gradle
16 8 (0.40%) JUnit
17 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 336 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 272 (13.60%) Public Sector
3 216 (10.80%) Finance
4 93 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (4.35%) Banking
6 53 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.10%) Retail
9 21 (1.05%) Legal
10 18 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (0.70%) Military
12 11 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.50%) Law
13 10 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.45%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 7 (0.35%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.30%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 444 (22.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 304 (15.20%) Senior
3 218 (10.90%) Architect
4 204 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 200 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 174 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
7 167 (8.35%) Developer
8 164 (8.20%) Data Engineer
9 157 (7.85%) Lead
10 140 (7.00%) Platform Engineer
11 115 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (5.60%) GCP Engineer
13 94 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 89 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
15 81 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.60%) Software Engineer
17 71 (3.55%) Site Engineer
18 70 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
19 69 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 67 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (8.85%) Kafka
2 112 (5.60%) Node.js
3 105 (5.25%) React
4 103 (5.15%) .NET
5 93 (4.65%) REST
6 80 (4.00%) PySpark
7 73 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
8 69 (3.45%) OAuth
9 65 (3.25%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.15%) RESTful
12 61 (3.05%) Spring
13 58 (2.90%) YAML
14 57 (2.85%) Spring Boot
15 51 (2.55%) OpenID
16 44 (2.20%) AngularJS
16 44 (2.20%) OAuth2
17 42 (2.10%) AWS CDK
18 41 (2.05%) JSON
19 26 (1.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 422 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 106 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 85 (4.25%) Data Centre
4 82 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 70 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 42 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.65%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.50%) PKI
10 28 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.40%) Replication
11 27 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
14 22 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.05%) NHS
16 17 (0.85%) Clustering
17 14 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 295 (14.75%) Linux
2 143 (7.15%) Windows
3 47 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.95%) VMS
6 28 (1.40%) Unix
7 18 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.60%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) 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%) Debian
13 2 (0.10%) Rocky
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) Android
14 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,346 (67.30%) CI/CD
2 1,328 (66.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,208 (60.40%) DevOps
4 474 (23.70%) Containerisation
5 439 (21.95%) Agile
6 405 (20.25%) Observability
7 340 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
8 264 (13.20%) Migration
9 253 (12.65%) AI
10 233 (11.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 232 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
12 229 (11.45%) Analytics
13 204 (10.20%) Software Engineering
14 202 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 195 (9.75%) Test Automation
16 190 (9.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 183 (9.15%) Microservices
18 182 (9.10%) Cloud Security
18 182 (9.10%) Infrastructure Automation
19 175 (8.75%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 892 (44.60%) Python
2 317 (15.85%) SQL
3 282 (14.10%) Bash
4 280 (14.00%) PowerShell
5 218 (10.90%) Java
6 179 (8.95%) Bicep
7 121 (6.05%) JavaScript
8 111 (5.55%) C#
9 105 (5.25%) TypeScript
10 78 (3.90%) Go
11 51 (2.55%) Scala
12 36 (1.80%) Groovy
13 35 (1.75%) Shell Script
14 26 (1.30%) Ruby
15 15 (0.75%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
17 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 697 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 576 (28.80%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.80%) Azure Certification
4 122 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 93 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 71 (3.55%) Degree
7 58 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.50%) CCNP
13 21 (1.05%) CISSP
14 14 (0.70%) CCNA
15 13 (0.65%) CCIE
15 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.55%) CISM
17 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 62 (3.10%) QA
3 58 (2.90%) GDPR
4 48 (2.40%) NIST
5 45 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.60%) NCSC
7 31 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.50%) GRC
12 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
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
1 515 (25.75%) Docker
2 93 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 70 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.80%) Hyper-V
7 26 (1.30%) vSphere
8 21 (1.05%) VMware NSX
9 17 (0.85%) Squid
10 11 (0.55%) KVM
11 10 (0.50%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
14 4 (0.20%) Ceph
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.15%) Lustre
15 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.10%) Corosync
16 2 (0.10%) GPFS
16 2 (0.10%) iptables
Systems Management
1 768 (38.40%) Kubernetes
2 483 (24.15%) Ansible
3 261 (13.05%) Grafana
4 226 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 78 (3.90%) Argo
6 46 (2.30%) Puppet
7 43 (2.15%) Istio
8 31 (1.55%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.30%) Packer
9 26 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.15%) Kibana
11 21 (1.05%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.65%) Rancher
15 12 (0.60%) Consul
16 11 (0.55%) linkerd
16 11 (0.55%) Podman
17 10 (0.50%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.50%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 296 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 182 (9.10%) Google
3 126 (6.30%) Databricks
4 117 (5.85%) Splunk
5 104 (5.20%) VMware
6 84 (4.20%) Red Hat
7 71 (3.55%) Oracle
8 59 (2.95%) Dynatrace
9 57 (2.85%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.50%) Cisco
11 42 (2.10%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.50%) F5
13 27 (1.35%) Arista
14 25 (1.25%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.20%) OpenAI
16 21 (1.05%) IBM
16 21 (1.05%) Pure Storage
17 20 (1.00%) Zscaler
18 19 (0.95%) Aruba
19 16 (0.80%) Citrix