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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,410 1,401 1,354
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.25% 5.11% 4.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.58% 20.46% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,684 971 984
10th Percentile £400 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £735
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 8 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £46.68 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £84.02 £67.49 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £79.98 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -5.30% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,803 6,846 8,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.36% 24.99% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,688 5,492
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 163 177
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -0.40%
75th Percentile £75.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.60 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.32% -0.80%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +4 1,262 £550 +4.76% 991
North of England +7 507 £500 -2.44% 210
Yorkshire -6 233 £513 - 67
South East -8 214 £560 +11.89% 205
North West +25 192 £555 +5.71% 106
South West +3 187 £553 -5.47% 141
Midlands -28 127 £500 -6.89% 90
West Midlands -31 105 £513 -5.96% 48
North East -2 94 £425 -16.67% 37
East of England -10 50 £525 +5.00% 49
East Midlands -8 21 £425 -15.00% 42
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
1 117 (4.85%) Confluence
2 98 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 85 (3.53%) Apache
4 44 (1.83%) Jupyter
5 34 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 25 (1.04%) nginx
7 12 (0.50%) SAS
8 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.21%) CMS
12 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.083%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.083%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.041%) FactoryTalk
15 1 (0.041%) Traefik
15 1 (0.041%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.17%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.041%) Houdini
4 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.041%) NUKE
4 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.21%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.083%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.083%) Endur
2 2 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,374 (57.01%) AWS
2 1,219 (50.58%) Azure
3 663 (27.51%) GitHub
4 470 (19.50%) GCP
5 464 (19.25%) GitHub Actions
6 441 (18.30%) Azure DevOps
7 365 (15.15%) Serverless
8 280 (11.62%) Amazon S3
9 269 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
10 256 (10.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
12 197 (8.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 182 (7.55%) Entra ID
14 157 (6.51%) Azure AKS
15 145 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
16 144 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
17 136 (5.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 129 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
19 122 (5.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 96 (3.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 280 (11.62%) Firewall
2 204 (8.46%) DNS
3 132 (5.48%) VPN
4 113 (4.69%) Network Security
5 88 (3.65%) TCP/IP
6 82 (3.40%) DHCP
7 76 (3.15%) WAN
8 65 (2.70%) BGP
9 47 (1.95%) OSPF
10 44 (1.83%) SD-WAN
11 41 (1.70%) VLAN
12 33 (1.37%) VXLAN
13 32 (1.33%) VSAN
14 29 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 25 (1.04%) SSH
16 24 (1.00%) BIG-IP
16 24 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
17 23 (0.95%) SSL
18 17 (0.71%) Internet
19 16 (0.66%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 78 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
3 78 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.15%) DynamoDB
5 76 (3.15%) NoSQL
6 73 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 72 (2.99%) Power BI
8 67 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 63 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 59 (2.45%) BigQuery
11 50 (2.07%) Delta Lake
12 48 (1.99%) Redis
13 47 (1.95%) MySQL
14 46 (1.91%) Relational Database
15 43 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
16 40 (1.66%) Metadata
17 38 (1.58%) Oracle Database
18 37 (1.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 445 (18.46%) GitLab
2 388 (16.10%) Jenkins
3 359 (14.90%) Git
4 147 (6.10%) JIRA
5 45 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 33 (1.37%) Maven
7 30 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 19 (0.79%) Claude Code
11 18 (0.75%) Snyk
12 17 (0.71%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.71%) Selenium
12 17 (0.71%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.62%) MLflow
14 13 (0.54%) JUnit
15 12 (0.50%) MSI
16 10 (0.41%) Cucumber
16 10 (0.41%) Gatling
16 10 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 472 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 353 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 316 (13.11%) Finance
4 141 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (3.90%) Banking
6 71 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.07%) Retail
9 33 (1.37%) Military
10 24 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.83%) Legal
11 20 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 19 (0.79%) Publishing
13 16 (0.66%) Law
14 15 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.62%) Local Government
15 13 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.50%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 525 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 432 (17.93%) Senior
3 264 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
5 228 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
6 221 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
7 220 (9.13%) Developer
8 208 (8.63%) Architect
9 204 (8.46%) Lead
10 174 (7.22%) Data Engineer
11 162 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
13 103 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 101 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
15 97 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 97 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 97 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 88 (3.65%) GCP Engineer
17 83 (3.44%) Network Engineer
18 73 (3.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.80%) Kafka
2 161 (6.68%) REST
3 122 (5.06%) .NET
4 114 (4.73%) React
5 97 (4.02%) ARM Templates
6 93 (3.86%) Node.js
6 93 (3.86%) RESTful
7 92 (3.82%) PySpark
8 84 (3.49%) OAuth
9 80 (3.32%) YAML
10 61 (2.53%) Spring
11 58 (2.41%) Spring Boot
12 57 (2.37%) OAuth2
13 56 (2.32%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.20%) OpenID
15 51 (2.12%) JSON
16 45 (1.87%) OpenTelemetry
17 43 (1.78%) HTML
18 38 (1.58%) AWS CDK
18 38 (1.58%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 576 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 148 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 109 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 87 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 79 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 72 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 71 (2.95%) Public Cloud
9 51 (2.12%) PKI
9 51 (2.12%) Replication
10 50 (2.07%) AI Agents
11 48 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
12 46 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
13 44 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
14 41 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
15 36 (1.49%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.45%) NHS
17 34 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
18 33 (1.37%) Management Information System
19 26 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 427 (17.72%) Linux
2 243 (10.08%) Windows
3 88 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 83 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 37 (1.54%) Unix
6 32 (1.33%) VMS
7 19 (0.79%) AIX
8 14 (0.58%) CentOS
9 11 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.083%) Android
15 2 (0.083%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.083%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,769 (73.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,629 (67.59%) CI/CD
3 1,398 (58.01%) DevOps
4 611 (25.35%) Agile
5 593 (24.61%) Containerisation
6 585 (24.27%) Observability
7 552 (22.90%) Platform Engineering
8 401 (16.64%) AI
9 316 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 293 (12.16%) Test Automation
11 292 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 290 (12.03%) Migration
13 289 (11.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 286 (11.87%) Software Engineering
15 277 (11.49%) DevSecOps
16 275 (11.41%) Cloud Security
17 265 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
18 264 (10.95%) Analytics
19 238 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 236 (9.79%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,165 (48.34%) Python
2 459 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 451 (18.71%) Bash
4 364 (15.10%) SQL
5 281 (11.66%) Java
6 278 (11.54%) Bicep
7 143 (5.93%) JavaScript
8 136 (5.64%) C#
9 125 (5.19%) TypeScript
10 74 (3.07%) Go
11 52 (2.16%) Groovy
12 51 (2.12%) Scala
13 43 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.54%) Perl
16 11 (0.46%) Ruby
16 11 (0.46%) Rust
17 10 (0.41%) R
18 9 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 871 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 708 (29.38%) SC Cleared
3 193 (8.01%) DV Cleared
4 168 (6.97%) Azure Certification
5 143 (5.93%) AWS Certification
6 101 (4.19%) Degree
7 61 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (1.99%) CISSP
11 41 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.20%) CCNP
13 21 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 18 (0.75%) VCAP
15 17 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.71%) CISM
16 13 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 13 (0.54%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 87 (3.61%) QA
3 55 (2.28%) NIST
4 54 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 48 (1.99%) NCSC
7 46 (1.91%) GDPR
8 23 (0.95%) WCAG
9 17 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.41%) SLA
11 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.25%) HL7
14 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.21%) PSD2
15 4 (0.17%) GRC
15 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.17%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 664 (27.55%) Docker
2 159 (6.60%) Active Directory
3 121 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 56 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 49 (2.03%) vSphere
7 48 (1.99%) Hyper-V
8 45 (1.87%) VMware NSX
9 33 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 9 (0.37%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) Firmware
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 3 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 951 (39.46%) Kubernetes
2 580 (24.07%) Ansible
3 294 (12.20%) Grafana
4 237 (9.83%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.57%) Argo
6 61 (2.53%) Puppet
7 52 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 38 (1.58%) Packer
10 33 (1.37%) vCenter Server
11 29 (1.20%) Istio
12 24 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.91%) Kustomize
14 19 (0.79%) Kibana
14 19 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
15 18 (0.75%) Data Guard
16 17 (0.71%) FortiGate
17 15 (0.62%) Kubeflow
17 15 (0.62%) Podman
18 14 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 445 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 201 (8.34%) Google
3 160 (6.64%) VMware
4 143 (5.93%) Databricks
5 133 (5.52%) Splunk
6 106 (4.40%) Oracle
7 79 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 78 (3.24%) Cisco
9 76 (3.15%) Red Hat
10 71 (2.95%) ServiceNow
11 62 (2.57%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.74%) F5
13 37 (1.54%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.37%) Arista
15 32 (1.33%) Informatica
16 30 (1.24%) Zscaler
17 29 (1.20%) Fortinet
18 25 (1.04%) Foundry
19 24 (1.00%) CyberArk
20 22 (0.91%) Aruba