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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,311 1,387 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.13% 5.02% 3.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.72% 32.58% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 954 994
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £650
90th Percentile £705 £711 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 10
10th Percentile £54.93 £47.65 £44.75
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £55.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -17.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79.38 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.65 £79.98 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -5.30% -9.59%

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 5,969 4,257 4,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.26% 15.42% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 2,830 3,266
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -7.49%
75th Percentile £606 £610 £625
90th Percentile £690 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £515 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.49% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 55 74
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.88 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.06 £26.45 £22.12
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +78.69% -44.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.04 £55.00
90th Percentile £80.38 £81.78 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £58.62 £37.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +56.31% +20.97% -46.09%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +2 1,207 £550 +1.85% 446
North of England +21 504 £500 - 178
Yorkshire -2 231 £500 -2.44% 49
North West +44 206 £554 +10.75% 96
South East -15 190 £550 +10.00% 118
South West +1 152 £550 -8.33% 88
Midlands -12 136 £519 +1.22% 57
West Midlands -12 113 £513 -5.96% 46
North East -3 80 £425 -13.27% 34
East of England -5 52 £549 +11.82% 16
East Midlands -13 21 £500 +2.56% 11
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
1 119 (5.15%) Confluence
2 91 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 81 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (3.33%) Apache
5 37 (1.60%) Jupyter
6 30 (1.30%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.04%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 9 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.30%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.087%) Drupal
13 2 (0.087%) Traefik
13 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.087%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.043%) Houdini
5 1 (0.043%) InDesign
5 1 (0.043%) NUKE
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,308 (56.60%) AWS
2 1,145 (49.55%) Azure
3 620 (26.83%) GitHub
4 459 (19.86%) GCP
5 425 (18.39%) GitHub Actions
6 386 (16.70%) Azure DevOps
7 337 (14.58%) Serverless
8 275 (11.90%) Amazon S3
9 260 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 246 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
11 208 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
12 169 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (6.75%) Entra ID
14 155 (6.71%) Azure AKS
15 144 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
16 135 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 128 (5.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 124 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
19 117 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
20 91 (3.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 257 (11.12%) Firewall
2 181 (7.83%) DNS
3 134 (5.80%) VPN
4 102 (4.41%) Network Security
5 79 (3.42%) WAN
6 70 (3.03%) BGP
7 68 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 55 (2.38%) DHCP
9 50 (2.16%) OSPF
10 43 (1.86%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.60%) VXLAN
12 32 (1.38%) VLAN
13 28 (1.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 28 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 23 (1.00%) BIG-IP
15 21 (0.91%) SSH
15 21 (0.91%) SSL
16 19 (0.82%) SAN
17 18 (0.78%) VSAN
18 17 (0.74%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
3 84 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
4 72 (3.12%) SQL Server
5 70 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 68 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 67 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 67 (2.90%) Power BI
8 62 (2.68%) DynamoDB
9 61 (2.64%) BigQuery
10 60 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
11 54 (2.34%) MongoDB
12 50 (2.16%) Delta Lake
13 48 (2.08%) Relational Database
14 40 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.60%) Oracle Database
16 36 (1.56%) Redis
17 29 (1.25%) Metadata
18 28 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
18 28 (1.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 412 (17.83%) GitLab
2 388 (16.79%) Jenkins
3 334 (14.45%) Git
4 146 (6.32%) JIRA
5 42 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 27 (1.17%) Artifactory
7 27 (1.17%) Maven
8 20 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (0.82%) MLflow
10 18 (0.78%) Snyk
11 13 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.56%) JUnit
12 11 (0.48%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.48%) Gatling
12 11 (0.48%) MSI
13 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.43%) Liquibase
14 8 (0.35%) Mockito
15 7 (0.30%) Gradle
General
1 421 (18.22%) Social Skills
2 348 (15.06%) Public Sector
3 286 (12.38%) Finance
4 133 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.81%) Banking
6 62 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 61 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (1.86%) Retail
9 27 (1.17%) Military
10 25 (1.08%) Legal
11 23 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.87%) Publishing
13 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 12 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.48%) Billing
17 10 (0.43%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.43%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 517 (22.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 405 (17.52%) Senior
3 255 (11.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 219 (9.48%) Architect
5 216 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
6 213 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
7 205 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
8 198 (8.57%) Developer
9 196 (8.48%) Lead
10 174 (7.53%) Data Engineer
11 155 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 107 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
13 100 (4.33%) GCP Engineer
14 99 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
15 98 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 96 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 95 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 82 (3.55%) Network Engineer
19 80 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 79 (3.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (7.53%) Kafka
2 157 (6.79%) REST
3 114 (4.93%) .NET
4 106 (4.59%) React
5 99 (4.28%) Node.js
6 96 (4.15%) PySpark
7 86 (3.72%) RESTful
8 77 (3.33%) OAuth
9 74 (3.20%) ARM Templates
10 72 (3.12%) YAML
11 61 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
12 60 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
13 58 (2.51%) Spring
14 55 (2.38%) Spring Boot
15 53 (2.29%) OAuth2
16 50 (2.16%) JSON
16 50 (2.16%) OpenID
17 37 (1.60%) AngularJS
17 37 (1.60%) HTML
18 33 (1.43%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 549 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 137 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 124 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
4 97 (4.20%) Data Centre
5 84 (3.63%) Onboarding
6 82 (3.55%) Product Ownership
7 67 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 55 (2.38%) Security Posture
9 43 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 42 (1.82%) PKI
11 40 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
13 37 (1.60%) Replication
14 33 (1.43%) Private Cloud
15 31 (1.34%) AI Agents
15 31 (1.34%) NHS
16 29 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
18 24 (1.04%) Management Information System
18 24 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 394 (17.05%) Linux
2 228 (9.87%) Windows
3 85 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.38%) VMS
6 31 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.21%) Unix
8 18 (0.78%) AIX
9 12 (0.52%) CentOS
10 10 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (0.35%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.087%) Solaris
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,627 (70.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,547 (66.94%) CI/CD
3 1,355 (58.63%) DevOps
4 570 (24.66%) Agile
5 565 (24.45%) Containerisation
6 504 (21.81%) Observability
7 475 (20.55%) Platform Engineering
8 333 (14.41%) AI
9 289 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
10 281 (12.16%) Migration
11 277 (11.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 260 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 258 (11.16%) Test Automation
14 250 (10.82%) Analytics
15 247 (10.69%) Software Engineering
16 245 (10.60%) Cloud Security
17 224 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
17 224 (9.69%) Microservices
17 224 (9.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 210 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (46.91%) Python
2 404 (17.48%) Bash
3 383 (16.57%) PowerShell
4 349 (15.10%) SQL
5 268 (11.60%) Java
6 242 (10.47%) Bicep
7 139 (6.01%) JavaScript
8 125 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 122 (5.28%) C#
10 82 (3.55%) Go
11 49 (2.12%) Scala
12 48 (2.08%) Groovy
13 33 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.78%) Rust
15 15 (0.65%) Ruby
16 11 (0.48%) C
17 10 (0.43%) R
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 828 (35.83%) Security Cleared
2 675 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 173 (7.49%) DV Cleared
4 150 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 121 (5.24%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.72%) Degree
7 63 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 44 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 38 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.34%) CCNP
13 30 (1.30%) CISSP
14 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.69%) CCNA
16 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 10 (0.43%) CCIE
18 10 (0.43%) OCP
18 10 (0.43%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 69 (2.99%) QA
3 46 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 46 (1.99%) GDPR
4 39 (1.69%) NCSC
5 36 (1.56%) NIST
6 35 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.78%) WCAG
9 8 (0.35%) GRC
9 8 (0.35%) SLA
10 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
12 4 (0.17%) PSD2
13 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 625 (27.04%) Docker
2 140 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 100 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 54 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 41 (1.77%) vSphere
7 40 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 40 (1.73%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
9 17 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.69%) Squid
11 11 (0.48%) NFS
12 9 (0.39%) KVM
13 5 (0.22%) Ceph
13 5 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.13%) Postfix
15 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
15 2 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 881 (38.12%) Kubernetes
2 531 (22.98%) Ansible
3 290 (12.55%) Grafana
4 246 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 97 (4.20%) Argo
6 59 (2.55%) Puppet
7 46 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.56%) Packer
9 33 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (1.34%) Istio
11 30 (1.30%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.82%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
14 18 (0.78%) Data Guard
14 18 (0.78%) Kibana
15 17 (0.74%) Podman
16 16 (0.69%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
17 12 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 379 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 198 (8.57%) Google
3 135 (5.84%) VMware
4 132 (5.71%) Splunk
5 119 (5.15%) Databricks
6 100 (4.33%) Oracle
7 85 (3.68%) Red Hat
8 72 (3.12%) Dynatrace
9 70 (3.03%) ServiceNow
10 67 (2.90%) Cisco
11 61 (2.64%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.82%) F5
13 35 (1.51%) OpenAI
14 34 (1.47%) Arista
15 30 (1.30%) Fortinet
15 30 (1.30%) Zscaler
16 24 (1.04%) Aruba
16 24 (1.04%) Informatica
17 23 (1.00%) Foundry
18 22 (0.95%) Juniper