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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,276 1,348 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.08% 4.95% 3.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.04% 32.13% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 930 1,011
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 11
10th Percentile £54.37 £47.65 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.81% -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 5,983 4,195 4,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.42% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,101 2,784 3,325
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £606 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.60% -5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £32.06 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.30 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 1,202 £550 +4.36% 296
North of England +20 488 £500 - 190
Yorkshire +2 233 £500 - 49
North West +44 192 £550 +4.76% 111
South East -19 175 £543 +8.50% 159
South West -4 148 £550 -8.33% 95
Midlands -12 140 £525 +5.00% 69
West Midlands -12 116 £525 -2.51% 43
North East -2 76 £425 -13.27% 31
East of England -5 52 £549 +9.86% 34
East Midlands -15 22 £475 -5.00% 26
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
1 120 (5.27%) Confluence
2 91 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 77 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
4 76 (3.34%) Apache
5 37 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 31 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 29 (1.27%) nginx
8 14 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.57%) SAS
10 7 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.088%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.088%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.088%) Drupal
13 2 (0.088%) Traefik
13 2 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.044%) InDesign
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.088%) Endur
2 2 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,293 (56.81%) AWS
2 1,113 (48.90%) Azure
3 610 (26.80%) GitHub
4 457 (20.08%) GCP
5 418 (18.37%) GitHub Actions
6 372 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
7 350 (15.38%) Serverless
8 294 (12.92%) Amazon S3
9 266 (11.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 257 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
11 203 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 153 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (6.24%) Azure AKS
14 142 (6.24%) Entra ID
15 138 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 131 (5.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 114 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
18 112 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
19 94 (4.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 250 (10.98%) Firewall
2 175 (7.69%) DNS
3 129 (5.67%) VPN
4 104 (4.57%) Network Security
5 81 (3.56%) WAN
6 71 (3.12%) BGP
7 61 (2.68%) TCP/IP
8 51 (2.24%) OSPF
9 45 (1.98%) SD-WAN
10 42 (1.85%) DHCP
11 35 (1.54%) VXLAN
12 30 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 30 (1.32%) VLAN
13 27 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
14 25 (1.10%) BIG-IP
15 19 (0.83%) SAN
16 18 (0.79%) LAN
16 18 (0.79%) SSL
17 17 (0.75%) IPsec
18 16 (0.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
3 85 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
4 77 (3.38%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.08%) Power BI
5 70 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 67 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 64 (2.81%) BigQuery
8 60 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
9 58 (2.55%) DynamoDB
10 57 (2.50%) NoSQL
11 51 (2.24%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.20%) Delta Lake
13 46 (2.02%) Relational Database
14 38 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.63%) Oracle Database
16 33 (1.45%) Redis
17 32 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (1.27%) Big Data
19 28 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 406 (17.84%) GitLab
2 383 (16.83%) Jenkins
3 327 (14.37%) Git
4 151 (6.63%) JIRA
5 45 (1.98%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 24 (1.05%) Maven
9 19 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.79%) MLflow
11 17 (0.75%) Snyk
12 12 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.48%) Gatling
14 10 (0.44%) JUnit
14 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.40%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.40%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 412 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 340 (14.94%) Public Sector
3 272 (11.95%) Finance
4 125 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (3.82%) Banking
6 69 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (1.76%) Retail
9 25 (1.10%) Legal
10 24 (1.05%) Military
11 22 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 18 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (0.75%) Publishing
14 15 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.66%) Law
15 11 (0.48%) Billing
15 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 513 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 389 (17.09%) Senior
3 255 (11.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 225 (9.89%) Architect
5 221 (9.71%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
7 197 (8.66%) Platform Engineer
8 193 (8.48%) Lead
9 181 (7.95%) Developer
10 179 (7.86%) Data Engineer
11 143 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
13 101 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 101 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
14 96 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 96 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
15 92 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 80 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 78 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 76 (3.34%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (7.34%) Kafka
2 131 (5.76%) REST
3 108 (4.75%) .NET
4 105 (4.61%) React
5 101 (4.44%) Node.js
6 98 (4.31%) PySpark
7 78 (3.43%) OAuth
8 77 (3.38%) RESTful
9 64 (2.81%) YAML
10 63 (2.77%) ARM Templates
10 63 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 58 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (2.42%) OpenID
13 54 (2.37%) Spring
14 53 (2.33%) OAuth2
15 52 (2.28%) Spring Boot
16 45 (1.98%) JSON
17 37 (1.63%) AngularJS
18 36 (1.58%) AWS CDK
19 34 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 541 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 123 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.39%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 73 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 66 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.24%) Security Posture
9 39 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.67%) PKI
11 36 (1.58%) Replication
12 33 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 32 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 29 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.23%) NHS
16 25 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
16 25 (1.10%) Virtual Team
17 20 (0.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 365 (16.04%) Linux
2 203 (8.92%) Windows
3 81 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 54 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.32%) VMS
6 28 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.10%) Unix
8 15 (0.66%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.31%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.088%) Solaris
16 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,581 (69.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,518 (66.70%) CI/CD
3 1,335 (58.66%) DevOps
4 557 (24.47%) Agile
5 550 (24.17%) Containerisation
6 479 (21.05%) Observability
7 459 (20.17%) Platform Engineering
8 319 (14.02%) AI
9 283 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
10 279 (12.26%) Migration
11 248 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 244 (10.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 244 (10.72%) Test Automation
13 242 (10.63%) Software Engineering
14 239 (10.50%) Analytics
15 234 (10.28%) Cloud Security
16 223 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 218 (9.58%) Infrastructure Automation
18 214 (9.40%) Microservices
19 203 (8.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (46.66%) Python
2 374 (16.43%) Bash
3 355 (15.60%) PowerShell
4 346 (15.20%) SQL
5 251 (11.03%) Java
6 211 (9.27%) Bicep
7 132 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.32%) TypeScript
9 117 (5.14%) C#
10 84 (3.69%) Go
11 51 (2.24%) Scala
12 47 (2.07%) Groovy
13 33 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.70%) Ruby
14 16 (0.70%) Rust
15 11 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.40%) R
17 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.35%) Perl
18 7 (0.31%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 819 (35.98%) Security Cleared
2 674 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 163 (7.16%) DV Cleared
4 141 (6.20%) Azure Certification
5 121 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 82 (3.60%) Degree
7 66 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 30 (1.32%) CCNP
12 26 (1.14%) CISSP
13 20 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.70%) CCNA
15 15 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) CCIE
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 67 (2.94%) QA
3 50 (2.20%) GDPR
4 41 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.71%) NIST
6 37 (1.63%) NCSC
7 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.66%) WCAG
9 10 (0.44%) GRC
9 10 (0.44%) SLA
10 9 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
12 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) PSD2
14 2 (0.088%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 613 (26.93%) Docker
2 122 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 93 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.71%) Hyper-V
7 38 (1.67%) vSphere
8 37 (1.63%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.92%) Squid
10 18 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.48%) NFS
13 7 (0.31%) KVM
14 5 (0.22%) Firmware
15 3 (0.13%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 2 (0.088%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.088%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.088%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 857 (37.65%) Kubernetes
2 512 (22.50%) Ansible
3 290 (12.74%) Grafana
4 248 (10.90%) Prometheus
5 92 (4.04%) Argo
6 56 (2.46%) Puppet
7 42 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.58%) Packer
9 31 (1.36%) Istio
10 29 (1.27%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 24 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
13 19 (0.83%) Kibana
14 17 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
15 16 (0.70%) Data Guard
15 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.62%) Podman
17 13 (0.57%) Consul
17 13 (0.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 354 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.88%) Google
3 129 (5.67%) Splunk
4 126 (5.54%) Databricks
5 124 (5.45%) VMware
6 98 (4.31%) Oracle
7 85 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.34%) Dynatrace
9 70 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.86%) Cisco
11 58 (2.55%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.85%) F5
13 33 (1.45%) Arista
13 33 (1.45%) OpenAI
14 32 (1.41%) Zscaler
15 28 (1.23%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.05%) Informatica
17 23 (1.01%) Aruba
18 22 (0.97%) Foundry
18 22 (0.97%) Juniper