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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,005 1,203 1,259
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 5.02% 3.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.28% 32.06% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 865 942
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £694 £738 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 8
10th Percentile £40.91 £25.25 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.50 £52.94
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -32.58% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.00 £53.75 £74.58
90th Percentile £79.60 £79.55 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £48.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +21.52% -17.09% -19.86%

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 5,526 3,752 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.65% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,806 2,580 3,238
10th Percentile £314 £311 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 35 97
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £37.64 £22.60 £17.78
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +7.41% -48.39%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.78 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +98.20% -7.50% -45.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +2 1,082 £540 -1.82% 245
North of England +21 397 £500 -4.76% 156
Yorkshire +13 210 £500 -4.76% 33
South East -9 161 £513 +2.50% 128
North West +23 142 £525 +2.44% 90
Midlands -9 127 £525 -4.55% 34
South West -12 112 £550 -10.57% 64
West Midlands -12 105 £525 -4.72% 22
North East -7 53 £488 -7.14% 33
East of England -18 44 £475 -5.00% 21
East Midlands -20 21 £450 -10.00% 12
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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 82 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 57 (2.84%) Apache
4 52 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.90%) nginx
7 15 (0.75%) Jupyter
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 10 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.100%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.100%) CMS
13 2 (0.100%) Drupal
13 2 (0.100%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.100%) 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 (0.100%) 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 1,070 (53.37%) AWS
2 985 (49.13%) Azure
3 569 (28.38%) GitHub
4 413 (20.60%) GCP
5 375 (18.70%) GitHub Actions
6 341 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
7 336 (16.76%) Serverless
8 281 (14.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 248 (12.37%) Amazon S3
10 238 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
11 195 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
12 147 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 139 (6.93%) Azure AKS
14 137 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
15 126 (6.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 123 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
17 122 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 121 (6.03%) Entra ID
19 120 (5.99%) OpenShift
20 109 (5.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 196 (9.78%) Firewall
2 132 (6.58%) DNS
3 109 (5.44%) VPN
4 99 (4.94%) Network Security
5 62 (3.09%) WAN
6 48 (2.39%) BGP
7 40 (2.00%) 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 20 (1.00%) BIG-IP
12 20 (1.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 19 (0.95%) DHCP
13 19 (0.95%) LAN
14 16 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
14 16 (0.80%) SAN
15 15 (0.75%) SSL
16 12 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
17 11 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
2 80 (3.99%) Data Lake
3 74 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
3 74 (3.69%) Power BI
4 65 (3.24%) SQL Server
5 59 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 53 (2.64%) Delta Lake
6 53 (2.64%) MongoDB
7 52 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 48 (2.39%) DynamoDB
9 46 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
12 37 (1.85%) Redis
13 31 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 31 (1.55%) Relational Database
14 28 (1.40%) Big Data
14 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 370 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 351 (17.51%) GitLab
3 267 (13.32%) Git
4 121 (6.03%) JIRA
5 43 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 36 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 24 (1.20%) Maven
8 18 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 16 (0.80%) MLflow
9 16 (0.80%) Snyk
10 15 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.65%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.65%) Gatling
12 10 (0.50%) git-flow
12 10 (0.50%) Liquibase
12 10 (0.50%) Terragrunt
13 8 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.40%) Gradle
13 8 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 335 (16.71%) Social Skills
2 274 (13.67%) Public Sector
3 218 (10.87%) Finance
4 93 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (4.49%) Banking
6 53 (2.64%) 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 16 (0.80%) Military
12 11 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 11 (0.55%) Law
13 10 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.45%) Health Technology
15 8 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.40%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.35%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 444 (22.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 311 (15.51%) Senior
3 215 (10.72%) Architect
4 206 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 200 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
6 178 (8.88%) AWS Engineer
7 168 (8.38%) Data Engineer
8 164 (8.18%) Developer
9 157 (7.83%) Lead
10 142 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
11 114 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.64%) GCP Engineer
13 95 (4.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 91 (4.54%) AWS DevOps
15 83 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 72 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
16 72 (3.59%) Site Engineer
16 72 (3.59%) Software Engineer
17 71 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 67 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.88%) Kafka
2 110 (5.49%) Node.js
3 105 (5.24%) React
4 104 (5.19%) .NET
5 96 (4.79%) REST
6 83 (4.14%) PySpark
7 74 (3.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 71 (3.54%) OAuth
9 66 (3.29%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.19%) RESTful
11 63 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (2.99%) Spring
13 58 (2.89%) YAML
14 57 (2.84%) Spring Boot
15 52 (2.59%) OpenID
16 46 (2.29%) OAuth2
17 43 (2.14%) AngularJS
17 43 (2.14%) JSON
18 41 (2.04%) AWS CDK
19 26 (1.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 427 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 106 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 84 (4.19%) Data Centre
4 82 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
5 70 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 47 (2.34%) Public Cloud
7 42 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.65%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.50%) PKI
10 28 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.40%) Replication
11 27 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
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 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 292 (14.56%) Linux
2 143 (7.13%) Windows
3 48 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.90%) VMS
6 27 (1.35%) Unix
7 17 (0.85%) 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 (0.100%) Debian
13 2 (0.100%) Rocky
13 2 (0.100%) 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 1,351 (67.38%) CI/CD
2 1,335 (66.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,215 (60.60%) DevOps
4 474 (23.64%) Containerisation
5 443 (22.09%) Agile
6 405 (20.20%) Observability
7 345 (17.21%) Platform Engineering
8 264 (13.17%) Migration
9 258 (12.87%) AI
10 236 (11.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 232 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
12 231 (11.52%) Analytics
13 206 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 204 (10.17%) Software Engineering
15 198 (9.88%) Test Automation
16 188 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 184 (9.18%) Microservices
18 180 (8.98%) Infrastructure Automation
19 179 (8.93%) Cloud Security
20 178 (8.88%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 896 (44.69%) Python
2 322 (16.06%) SQL
3 280 (13.97%) Bash
4 279 (13.92%) PowerShell
5 218 (10.87%) Java
6 182 (9.08%) Bicep
7 120 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 111 (5.54%) C#
9 104 (5.19%) TypeScript
10 78 (3.89%) Go
11 50 (2.49%) Scala
12 35 (1.75%) Groovy
12 35 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.20%) Ruby
14 15 (0.75%) Rust
15 8 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.40%) R
16 7 (0.35%) Perl
16 7 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.30%) C
Qualifications
1 698 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 573 (28.58%) SC Cleared
3 137 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 121 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 91 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 72 (3.59%) Degree
7 56 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 41 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (1.45%) CCNP
13 21 (1.05%) CISSP
14 14 (0.70%) CCNA
15 13 (0.65%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.60%) CCIE
16 12 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 11 (0.55%) CISM
18 10 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.14%) QA
3 57 (2.84%) GDPR
4 47 (2.34%) NIST
5 44 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.65%) NCSC
7 31 (1.55%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.10%) 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
1 517 (25.79%) Docker
2 93 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 70 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.64%) 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 10 (0.50%) KVM
11 9 (0.45%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.15%) Ceph
16 2 (0.100%) Corosync
16 2 (0.100%) GPFS
16 2 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
16 2 (0.100%) OpenSSH
16 2 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 770 (38.40%) Kubernetes
2 478 (23.84%) Ansible
3 262 (13.07%) Grafana
4 227 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 79 (3.94%) Argo
6 46 (2.29%) Puppet
7 44 (2.19%) Istio
8 30 (1.50%) 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%) Kustomize
18 9 (0.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 296 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.18%) Google
3 128 (6.38%) Databricks
4 117 (5.84%) Splunk
5 103 (5.14%) VMware
6 85 (4.24%) Red Hat
7 73 (3.64%) Oracle
8 59 (2.94%) Dynatrace
9 57 (2.84%) ServiceNow
10 49 (2.44%) Cisco
11 41 (2.04%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.50%) F5
13 27 (1.35%) Arista
14 25 (1.25%) OpenAI
15 24 (1.20%) Fortinet
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