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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 40 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,069 1,201 1,292
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.93% 5.00% 3.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.76% 31.57% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,439 862 967
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £26.60 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £52.94
Median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.58
90th Percentile £79.30 £80.40 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £58.94 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -10.26% -25.00%

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 5,628 3,804 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.40% 15.83% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,873 2,605 3,293
10th Percentile £315 £313 £267
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -0.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £515
% change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 37 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £36.70 £21.39 £18.34
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +6.42% -50.45%
75th Percentile £69.69 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -47.83%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 1,112 £550 - 280
North of England +24 430 £500 -3.85% 150
Yorkshire +10 224 £489 -6.90% 31
South East -16 157 £513 +2.50% 122
North West +28 156 £522 +4.41% 87
Midlands -13 129 £518 -4.12% 38
South West -12 115 £550 -10.57% 62
West Midlands -16 106 £525 -4.63% 29
North East +2 60 £453 -12.98% 32
East of England -20 43 £475 -5.00% 24
East Midlands -19 22 £449 -10.30% 9
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 88 (4.25%) Confluence
2 86 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 65 (3.14%) Apache
4 61 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 21 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 20 (0.97%) nginx
8 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.48%) SAS
9 9 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.14%) CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.097%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.097%) Drupal
13 2 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.097%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.048%) InDesign
5 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.048%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.048%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.048%) Endur
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,112 (53.75%) AWS
2 1,014 (49.01%) Azure
3 585 (28.27%) GitHub
4 436 (21.07%) GCP
5 393 (18.99%) GitHub Actions
6 351 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
7 347 (16.77%) Serverless
8 282 (13.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 262 (12.66%) Amazon S3
10 251 (12.13%) AWS Lambda
11 200 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
12 159 (7.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 143 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
14 141 (6.81%) Azure AKS
15 138 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 136 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 128 (6.19%) Entra ID
18 126 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
19 120 (5.80%) OpenShift
20 111 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 209 (10.10%) Firewall
2 138 (6.67%) DNS
3 113 (5.46%) VPN
4 103 (4.98%) Network Security
5 68 (3.29%) WAN
6 51 (2.46%) BGP
7 44 (2.13%) SD-WAN
8 39 (1.88%) OSPF
9 36 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 33 (1.59%) VXLAN
11 26 (1.26%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (1.11%) BIG-IP
13 22 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.92%) DHCP
14 19 (0.92%) LAN
15 18 (0.87%) SAN
16 17 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
16 17 (0.82%) SSL
17 14 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
18 11 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (3.77%) Data Lake
4 77 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
5 74 (3.58%) Power BI
6 67 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 62 (3.00%) BigQuery
8 53 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 53 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 52 (2.51%) NoSQL
10 50 (2.42%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 42 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (1.69%) Redis
15 32 (1.55%) Relational Database
16 30 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
17 29 (1.40%) Big Data
17 29 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
18 24 (1.16%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 378 (18.27%) Jenkins
2 364 (17.59%) GitLab
3 272 (13.15%) Git
4 126 (6.09%) JIRA
5 45 (2.17%) Artifactory
6 38 (1.84%) SonarQube
7 25 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.16%) Maven
9 17 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.77%) MLflow
10 16 (0.77%) Snyk
11 15 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.58%) Gatling
14 11 (0.53%) Terragrunt
15 10 (0.48%) git-flow
15 10 (0.48%) Liquibase
16 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.39%) Gradle
16 8 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 358 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 285 (13.77%) Public Sector
3 231 (11.16%) Finance
4 97 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (4.49%) Banking
6 55 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.16%) Retail
9 21 (1.01%) Legal
10 17 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.82%) Military
11 14 (0.68%) Law
12 10 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.43%) Publishing
13 9 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 459 (22.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 319 (15.42%) Senior
3 223 (10.78%) Architect
4 221 (10.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 204 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
6 190 (9.18%) AWS Engineer
7 167 (8.07%) Data Engineer
8 165 (7.97%) Lead
9 161 (7.78%) Developer
10 150 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
11 120 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (5.51%) GCP Engineer
13 93 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
14 92 (4.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 85 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 76 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
17 74 (3.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 73 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 71 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 70 (3.38%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.46%) Kafka
2 110 (5.32%) Node.js
3 106 (5.12%) React
4 104 (5.03%) .NET
5 99 (4.78%) REST
6 89 (4.30%) PySpark
7 76 (3.67%) OAuth
8 74 (3.58%) OpenTelemetry
9 67 (3.24%) ARM Templates
10 65 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.09%) YAML
12 62 (3.00%) RESTful
13 61 (2.95%) Spring
14 57 (2.75%) Spring Boot
15 56 (2.71%) OpenID
16 51 (2.46%) OAuth2
17 45 (2.17%) JSON
18 42 (2.03%) AngularJS
19 40 (1.93%) AWS CDK
20 29 (1.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 468 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 110 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 85 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 74 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 54 (2.61%) Public Cloud
7 44 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 36 (1.74%) Security Posture
9 34 (1.64%) Private Cloud
10 32 (1.55%) Replication
11 31 (1.50%) PKI
12 30 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 25 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.16%) AI Agents
17 21 (1.01%) NHS
18 18 (0.87%) Clustering
19 16 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 314 (15.18%) Linux
2 159 (7.68%) Windows
3 66 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.88%) VMS
6 27 (1.30%) Unix
7 24 (1.16%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.68%) CentOS
9 8 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.097%) AIX
14 2 (0.097%) Debian
14 2 (0.097%) Rocky
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.097%) zOS
15 1 (0.048%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,402 (67.76%) CI/CD
2 1,394 (67.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,256 (60.71%) DevOps
4 482 (23.30%) Containerisation
5 454 (21.94%) Agile
6 430 (20.78%) Observability
7 363 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
8 274 (13.24%) Migration
9 263 (12.71%) AI
10 242 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 240 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
12 232 (11.21%) Analytics
13 209 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 204 (9.86%) Cloud Security
14 204 (9.86%) Software Engineering
14 204 (9.86%) Test Automation
15 199 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 198 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
17 193 (9.33%) Microservices
18 181 (8.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 942 (45.53%) Python
2 330 (15.95%) SQL
3 310 (14.98%) Bash
4 309 (14.93%) PowerShell
5 232 (11.21%) Java
6 188 (9.09%) Bicep
7 118 (5.70%) JavaScript
8 107 (5.17%) C#
9 102 (4.93%) TypeScript
10 81 (3.91%) Go
11 50 (2.42%) Scala
12 37 (1.79%) Groovy
13 36 (1.74%) Shell Script
14 24 (1.16%) Ruby
15 14 (0.68%) Rust
16 8 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.39%) R
17 7 (0.34%) Perl
17 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 713 (34.46%) Security Cleared
2 585 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.15%) Azure Certification
4 121 (5.85%) DV Cleared
5 103 (4.98%) AWS Certification
6 81 (3.91%) Degree
7 59 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 36 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.50%) CISSP
13 29 (1.40%) CCNP
14 14 (0.68%) CCNA
14 14 (0.68%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 13 (0.63%) CISM
16 12 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.53%) CCIE
18 10 (0.48%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 62 (3.00%) QA
3 58 (2.80%) GDPR
4 49 (2.37%) NIST
5 45 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (1.50%) NCSC
6 31 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.72%) SLA
9 11 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.48%) GRC
11 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 5 (0.24%) WCAG
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
15 3 (0.14%) HL7
15 3 (0.14%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 546 (26.39%) Docker
2 96 (4.64%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 37 (1.79%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.35%) vSphere
8 22 (1.06%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.92%) Squid
10 10 (0.48%) KVM
10 10 (0.48%) NFS
11 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.24%) Firmware
12 5 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.14%) Ceph
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.097%) Corosync
14 2 (0.097%) GPFS
14 2 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 796 (38.47%) Kubernetes
2 493 (23.83%) Ansible
3 268 (12.95%) Grafana
4 236 (11.41%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.87%) Argo
6 46 (2.22%) Puppet
7 45 (2.17%) Istio
8 37 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.35%) Packer
10 27 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.11%) Kibana
11 23 (1.11%) vCenter Server
12 19 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.58%) Consul
14 12 (0.58%) Rancher
15 11 (0.53%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.53%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.53%) Podman
16 10 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 303 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 203 (9.81%) Google
3 127 (6.14%) Databricks
4 119 (5.75%) Splunk
5 104 (5.03%) VMware
6 94 (4.54%) Red Hat
7 75 (3.62%) Oracle
8 61 (2.95%) Dynatrace
9 57 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 52 (2.51%) Cisco
11 45 (2.17%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.64%) F5
13 30 (1.45%) Arista
14 27 (1.30%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.21%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.06%) Pure Storage
17 21 (1.01%) Aruba
17 21 (1.01%) IBM
17 21 (1.01%) Zscaler
18 16 (0.77%) Citrix