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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,305 1,343 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.12% 4.95% 3.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.93% 31.93% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 922 1,026
10th Percentile £400 £400 £411
25th Percentile £449 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 11
10th Percentile £51.74 £27.28 £46.25
25th Percentile £57.59 £42.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.37% -22.50% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.44 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £56.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +20.06% -9.68% -20.51%

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 6,077 4,206 4,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.52% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,179 2,792 3,383
10th Percentile £319 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £515
% change year-on-year +1.98% -1.94% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.52
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.68
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.84% +74.40% -45.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.57 £49.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £79.74 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £38.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +41.94% +19.23% -43.48%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +2 1,224 £550 +1.57% 288
North of England +22 497 £500 - 121
Yorkshire +3 243 £500 - 32
North West +42 190 £525 +0.02% 67
South East -20 172 £525 +5.00% 129
Midlands -14 145 £525 +3.75% 36
South West -6 144 £550 -8.33% 73
West Midlands -17 120 £525 -2.78% 22
North East +4 79 £425 -11.46% 22
East of England -13 51 £549 +11.82% 10
East Midlands -19 23 £463 -7.50% 14
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
1 116 (5.03%) Confluence
2 94 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 76 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 74 (3.21%) Apache
5 36 (1.56%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.08%) nginx
8 15 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.56%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.087%) Drupal
14 2 (0.087%) Traefik
14 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (0.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.043%) InDesign
6 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,301 (56.44%) AWS
2 1,122 (48.68%) Azure
3 619 (26.85%) GitHub
4 467 (20.26%) GCP
5 426 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
6 377 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
7 361 (15.66%) Serverless
8 299 (12.97%) Amazon S3
9 273 (11.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 261 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
11 210 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 154 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
14 147 (6.38%) Azure AKS
14 147 (6.38%) Entra ID
15 138 (5.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 138 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 121 (5.25%) Amazon ECS
17 115 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
18 103 (4.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 242 (10.50%) Firewall
2 168 (7.29%) DNS
3 126 (5.47%) VPN
4 106 (4.60%) Network Security
5 83 (3.60%) WAN
6 68 (2.95%) BGP
7 54 (2.34%) TCP/IP
8 48 (2.08%) OSPF
9 46 (2.00%) SD-WAN
10 35 (1.52%) DHCP
10 35 (1.52%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.17%) Ethernet VPN
11 27 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 25 (1.08%) BIG-IP
12 25 (1.08%) VLAN
13 19 (0.82%) LAN
13 19 (0.82%) SAN
13 19 (0.82%) SSL
14 16 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
15 14 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
3 85 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.43%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.30%) Power BI
6 72 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 69 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 64 (2.78%) BigQuery
9 63 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
10 61 (2.65%) NoSQL
11 58 (2.52%) DynamoDB
12 53 (2.30%) Delta Lake
12 53 (2.30%) MongoDB
13 47 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.61%) Oracle Database
16 34 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
16 34 (1.48%) Redis
17 30 (1.30%) Big Data
18 29 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 412 (17.87%) GitLab
2 392 (17.01%) Jenkins
3 324 (14.06%) Git
4 152 (6.59%) JIRA
5 45 (1.95%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.34%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.34%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.04%) Maven
8 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.82%) MLflow
10 18 (0.78%) Snyk
11 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.48%) Gatling
13 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.43%) JUnit
13 10 (0.43%) Liquibase
13 10 (0.43%) MSI
14 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.35%) git-flow
15 7 (0.30%) Claude Code
General
1 423 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 340 (14.75%) Public Sector
3 279 (12.10%) Finance
4 124 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.03%) Banking
6 70 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (1.52%) Retail
9 26 (1.13%) Legal
10 24 (1.04%) Military
11 22 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.74%) Publishing
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.43%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 523 (22.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 391 (16.96%) Senior
3 255 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 234 (10.15%) Architect
5 223 (9.67%) AWS Engineer
6 208 (9.02%) Azure Engineer
7 195 (8.46%) Lead
8 194 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
9 188 (8.16%) Data Engineer
10 184 (7.98%) Developer
11 140 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 112 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
13 105 (4.56%) GCP Engineer
14 103 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 95 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 95 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
16 91 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 83 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 76 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 71 (3.08%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (7.59%) Kafka
2 128 (5.55%) REST
3 115 (4.99%) .NET
4 105 (4.56%) PySpark
5 104 (4.51%) Node.js
6 102 (4.43%) React
7 83 (3.60%) OAuth
8 79 (3.43%) RESTful
9 67 (2.91%) YAML
10 65 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
11 63 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
12 62 (2.69%) ARM Templates
13 58 (2.52%) OpenID
14 56 (2.43%) OAuth2
14 56 (2.43%) Spring
15 52 (2.26%) Spring Boot
16 46 (2.00%) JSON
17 40 (1.74%) AWS CDK
18 37 (1.61%) AngularJS
19 34 (1.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 548 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 119 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 118 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.34%) Data Centre
5 81 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 74 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 69 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 47 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 43 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 36 (1.56%) Replication
12 34 (1.48%) Private Cloud
13 33 (1.43%) PKI
14 32 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
15 30 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (1.26%) AI Agents
16 29 (1.26%) NHS
17 27 (1.17%) Virtual Team
18 20 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
18 20 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 362 (15.70%) Linux
2 200 (8.68%) Windows
3 76 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.30%) VMS
6 29 (1.26%) Unix
7 26 (1.13%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.61%) AIX
9 13 (0.56%) CentOS
10 9 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 2 (0.087%) Rocky
15 2 (0.087%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,598 (69.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,552 (67.33%) CI/CD
3 1,366 (59.26%) DevOps
4 558 (24.21%) Containerisation
5 550 (23.86%) Agile
6 484 (21.00%) Observability
7 460 (19.96%) Platform Engineering
8 320 (13.88%) AI
9 284 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
10 279 (12.10%) Migration
11 257 (11.15%) Analytics
12 245 (10.63%) Test Automation
13 243 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 242 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 234 (10.15%) Software Engineering
16 233 (10.11%) Cloud Security
17 230 (9.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 221 (9.59%) Microservices
19 219 (9.50%) Infrastructure Automation
20 204 (8.85%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (46.46%) Python
2 364 (15.79%) Bash
3 359 (15.57%) SQL
4 343 (14.88%) PowerShell
5 260 (11.28%) Java
6 215 (9.33%) Bicep
7 130 (5.64%) JavaScript
8 120 (5.21%) C#
8 120 (5.21%) TypeScript
9 87 (3.77%) Go
10 51 (2.21%) Scala
11 48 (2.08%) Groovy
12 34 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.78%) Ruby
14 17 (0.74%) Rust
15 11 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.39%) R
17 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.35%) Perl
18 7 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 818 (35.49%) Security Cleared
2 673 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 155 (6.72%) DV Cleared
4 140 (6.07%) Azure Certification
5 118 (5.12%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.73%) Degree
7 70 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
8 46 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 41 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.26%) CCNP
11 26 (1.13%) CISSP
12 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 17 (0.74%) CCNA
13 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 14 (0.61%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (0.43%) CCIE
16 10 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 65 (2.82%) QA
3 56 (2.43%) GDPR
4 42 (1.82%) NIST
5 41 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.69%) NCSC
8 30 (1.30%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.65%) WCAG
10 12 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.48%) SLA
12 10 (0.43%) GRC
13 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.22%) HL7
15 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.13%) PSD2
17 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 622 (26.98%) Docker
2 119 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 91 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 36 (1.56%) Hyper-V
7 34 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 34 (1.48%) vSphere
8 21 (0.91%) Squid
9 18 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
10 15 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 8 (0.35%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Ceph
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 872 (37.83%) Kubernetes
2 510 (22.13%) Ansible
3 290 (12.58%) Grafana
4 254 (11.02%) Prometheus
5 90 (3.90%) Argo
6 55 (2.39%) Puppet
7 41 (1.78%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.52%) Istio
8 35 (1.52%) Packer
9 29 (1.26%) vCenter Server
10 27 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 22 (0.95%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.87%) Kibana
14 17 (0.74%) Kustomize
14 17 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
15 16 (0.69%) Data Guard
16 13 (0.56%) Consul
16 13 (0.56%) Podman
17 12 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 353 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.89%) Google
3 132 (5.73%) Databricks
4 131 (5.68%) Splunk
5 120 (5.21%) VMware
6 98 (4.25%) Oracle
7 81 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.30%) Dynatrace
9 65 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 59 (2.56%) Cisco
11 56 (2.43%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.69%) F5
13 34 (1.48%) Arista
13 34 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 29 (1.26%) Zscaler
15 26 (1.13%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.00%) Aruba
16 23 (1.00%) Foundry
16 23 (1.00%) Informatica
17 20 (0.87%) Pure Storage