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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 39 42
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,475 1,451 1,392
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.32% 5.19% 4.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.03% 20.36% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,734 989 979
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 5 9
10th Percentile £58.43 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.00 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.43 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

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 9,888 7,127 7,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,506 4,804 5,199
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £448 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 174
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.08
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +5 1,319 £550 +2.09% 1,567
North of England +1 503 £500 - 356
Yorkshire -12 222 £513 +2.50% 90
South East -1 218 £575 +14.89% 338
South West +5 195 £550 - 212
North West +24 191 £560 +12.00% 214
Midlands -32 120 £482 -12.32% 131
North East -4 101 £425 -18.27% 52
West Midlands -41 94 £513 -6.82% 79
East of England -15 44 £550 +14.88% 93
East Midlands -6 25 £419 -14.10% 52
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
1 107 (4.32%) Confluence
2 106 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
3 99 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 97 (3.92%) Apache
5 48 (1.94%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.45%) nginx
8 13 (0.53%) SAS
9 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 10 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.24%) CMS
12 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
14 2 (0.081%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.040%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.040%) Houdini
6 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.040%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.040%) NUKE
6 1 (0.040%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.040%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.040%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.040%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.040%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.040%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,418 (57.29%) AWS
2 1,236 (49.94%) Azure
3 663 (26.79%) GitHub
4 519 (20.97%) GCP
5 460 (18.59%) GitHub Actions
6 448 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
7 346 (13.98%) Serverless
8 291 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 257 (10.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 253 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
11 252 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
12 231 (9.33%) Entra ID
13 208 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 174 (7.03%) Azure AKS
15 168 (6.79%) Azure Monitor
16 163 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
17 151 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 139 (5.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 138 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
20 107 (4.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 279 (11.27%) Firewall
2 201 (8.12%) DNS
3 138 (5.58%) Network Security
4 135 (5.45%) VPN
5 95 (3.84%) TCP/IP
6 88 (3.56%) DHCP
7 75 (3.03%) WAN
8 67 (2.71%) BGP
9 48 (1.94%) OSPF
10 46 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.74%) VLAN
12 33 (1.33%) VSAN
13 29 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (1.17%) SSH
13 29 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 27 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
14 27 (1.09%) SSL
15 25 (1.01%) BIG-IP
16 20 (0.81%) Internet
17 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 92 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 88 (3.56%) Data Lake
5 79 (3.19%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.11%) MongoDB
7 75 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 69 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
9 67 (2.71%) Power BI
10 66 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 66 (2.67%) BigQuery
10 66 (2.67%) DynamoDB
11 57 (2.30%) Redis
12 56 (2.26%) Relational Database
13 52 (2.10%) MySQL
14 50 (2.02%) Metadata
15 46 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
15 46 (1.86%) Delta Lake
16 40 (1.62%) Big Data
17 35 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 492 (19.88%) GitLab
2 404 (16.32%) Jenkins
3 394 (15.92%) Git
4 134 (5.41%) JIRA
5 42 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.37%) Maven
6 34 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 31 (1.25%) Bitbucket
8 23 (0.93%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.89%) Claude Code
10 21 (0.85%) Selenium
11 19 (0.77%) Snyk
12 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.61%) JUnit
14 13 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.48%) MLflow
15 12 (0.48%) MSI
16 10 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.36%) Gradle
General
1 516 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 359 (14.51%) Finance
3 356 (14.38%) Public Sector
4 171 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (4.89%) Banking
6 70 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (1.90%) Retail
8 46 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (1.54%) Military
10 27 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.81%) Law
12 19 (0.77%) Legal
12 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (0.73%) Publishing
14 17 (0.69%) Local Government
14 17 (0.69%) Police
15 16 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 15 (0.61%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 562 (22.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 458 (18.51%) Senior
3 267 (10.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 236 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
5 227 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
6 222 (8.97%) Developer
6 222 (8.97%) Platform Engineer
7 216 (8.73%) Architect
8 199 (8.04%) Lead
9 179 (7.23%) Data Engineer
10 162 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 116 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
12 111 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
13 110 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 105 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 99 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 98 (3.96%) Security Engineer
17 97 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 88 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
19 83 (3.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (7.88%) Kafka
1 195 (7.88%) REST
2 114 (4.61%) .NET
3 108 (4.36%) ARM Templates
3 108 (4.36%) OAuth
4 107 (4.32%) React
5 102 (4.12%) RESTful
6 90 (3.64%) PySpark
7 82 (3.31%) Node.js
8 79 (3.19%) YAML
9 73 (2.95%) OpenID
10 70 (2.83%) OAuth2
11 67 (2.71%) Spring
12 66 (2.67%) Spring Boot
13 58 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.14%) JSON
15 44 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
16 41 (1.66%) AWS CDK
16 41 (1.66%) HTML
17 40 (1.62%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 587 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 151 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 115 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 107 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 103 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 89 (3.60%) Security Posture
7 84 (3.39%) Product Ownership
8 81 (3.27%) Public Cloud
9 63 (2.55%) PKI
10 60 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
11 56 (2.26%) AI Agents
11 56 (2.26%) Replication
12 55 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 50 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
14 45 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
15 41 (1.66%) Private Cloud
16 40 (1.62%) Management Information System
17 38 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
18 32 (1.29%) NHS
19 27 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 466 (18.83%) Linux
2 263 (10.63%) Windows
3 93 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 88 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.74%) Unix
6 39 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.21%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.36%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.24%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.081%) Android
16 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,834 (74.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,714 (69.25%) CI/CD
3 1,458 (58.91%) DevOps
4 647 (26.14%) Observability
5 616 (24.89%) Containerisation
6 605 (24.44%) Agile
7 590 (23.84%) Platform Engineering
8 434 (17.54%) AI
9 357 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 338 (13.66%) Migration
11 327 (13.21%) Test Automation
12 321 (12.97%) Cloud Security
13 315 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 312 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
15 308 (12.44%) Software Engineering
16 295 (11.92%) DevSecOps
17 290 (11.72%) Analytics
18 282 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
19 279 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
20 267 (10.79%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,237 (49.98%) Python
2 490 (19.80%) PowerShell
3 478 (19.31%) Bash
4 397 (16.04%) SQL
5 293 (11.84%) Bicep
6 290 (11.72%) Java
7 146 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 131 (5.29%) C#
9 121 (4.89%) TypeScript
10 101 (4.08%) Go
11 58 (2.34%) Groovy
12 49 (1.98%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.78%) Scala
14 17 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 13 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.40%) Rust
18 9 (0.36%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.36%) R
19 8 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 895 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 711 (28.73%) SC Cleared
3 206 (8.32%) DV Cleared
4 172 (6.95%) AWS Certification
5 169 (6.83%) Azure Certification
6 111 (4.48%) Degree
7 70 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.26%) CISSP
10 51 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 51 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.13%) CCNP
13 22 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 20 (0.81%) CISM
15 19 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.61%) VCAP
18 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (5.58%) Data Quality
2 98 (3.96%) QA
3 58 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.18%) NIST
5 53 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 48 (1.94%) NCSC
7 44 (1.78%) GDPR
8 24 (0.97%) WCAG
9 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.44%) SLA
12 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) PSD2
15 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.20%) HL7
15 5 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 712 (28.77%) Docker
2 181 (7.31%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.94%) vSphere
6 44 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (1.66%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.54%) VMware NSX
9 36 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.32%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 4 (0.16%) Firmware
15 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,034 (41.78%) Kubernetes
2 610 (24.65%) Ansible
3 318 (12.85%) Grafana
4 249 (10.06%) Prometheus
5 86 (3.47%) Argo
6 63 (2.55%) Puppet
7 56 (2.26%) Progress Chef
8 50 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.62%) Packer
10 33 (1.33%) Istio
11 28 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 27 (1.09%) Kibana
13 26 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
14 22 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 20 (0.81%) Kubeflow
16 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
17 17 (0.69%) SCCM
18 14 (0.57%) Podman
18 14 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 480 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 239 (9.66%) Google
3 156 (6.30%) VMware
4 146 (5.90%) Databricks
5 140 (5.66%) Splunk
6 104 (4.20%) Oracle
7 97 (3.92%) Dynatrace
8 81 (3.27%) Cisco
9 80 (3.23%) ServiceNow
10 66 (2.67%) Red Hat
11 65 (2.63%) Palo Alto
12 39 (1.58%) F5
12 39 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.37%) Arista
14 33 (1.33%) Zscaler
15 30 (1.21%) Informatica
16 29 (1.17%) CyberArk
17 28 (1.13%) Fortinet
18 27 (1.09%) Okta
19 24 (0.97%) Foundry