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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 39 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -12
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,093 1,218 1,331
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.94% 5.00% 3.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.17% 31.64% 29.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 866 989
10th Percentile £400 £400 £415
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -3.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 9
10th Percentile £40.91 £26.60 £43.25
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £46.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -15.32% -20.51%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £79.60 £80.40 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -4.55% -27.15%

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 5,631 3,849 4,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.79% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,857 2,612 3,349
10th Percentile £320 £310 £285
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -0.96% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -1.46% - -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 37 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.04 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £40.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% +39.13% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.25 £31.50
% change year-on-year +65.41% +5.56% -45.22%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +3 1,141 £545 -1.00% 250
North of England +27 427 £500 -2.44% 130
Yorkshire +12 218 £500 -4.76% 30
North West +33 158 £525 +5.00% 75
South East -18 156 £513 +2.50% 142
Midlands -18 129 £525 -2.51% 29
South West -9 116 £550 -10.57% 59
West Midlands -15 105 £531 -3.50% 19
North East +3 63 £450 -10.00% 25
East of England -22 43 £475 -5.00% 25
East Midlands -23 23 £449 -10.30% 10
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 89 (4.25%) Apache Spark
1 89 (4.25%) Confluence
2 67 (3.20%) Apache
2 67 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 27 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 22 (1.05%) nginx
6 11 (0.53%) SAS
7 10 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.29%) IIS
9 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.14%) CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.096%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.096%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.096%) Drupal
12 2 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.048%) InDesign
6 1 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 4 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.096%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.096%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.048%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.048%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.048%) Endur
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,144 (54.66%) AWS
2 1,016 (48.54%) Azure
3 594 (28.38%) GitHub
4 444 (21.21%) GCP
5 406 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
6 366 (17.49%) Serverless
7 352 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
8 275 (13.14%) Amazon S3
8 275 (13.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 266 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
10 203 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
11 167 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 143 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
13 141 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 140 (6.69%) Azure AKS
15 135 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 127 (6.07%) Entra ID
17 124 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
18 104 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
18 104 (4.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 212 (10.13%) Firewall
2 139 (6.64%) DNS
3 113 (5.40%) VPN
4 99 (4.73%) Network Security
5 72 (3.44%) WAN
6 54 (2.58%) BGP
7 45 (2.15%) SD-WAN
8 41 (1.96%) OSPF
9 36 (1.72%) TCP/IP
10 35 (1.67%) VXLAN
11 29 (1.39%) Ethernet VPN
12 24 (1.15%) BIG-IP
13 23 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (0.91%) SAN
15 18 (0.86%) DHCP
16 17 (0.81%) LAN
16 17 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
17 16 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
18 15 (0.72%) SSL
19 14 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
4 85 (4.06%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.63%) Power BI
6 66 (3.15%) SQL Server
7 64 (3.06%) BigQuery
8 58 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 55 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 54 (2.58%) MongoDB
11 53 (2.53%) NoSQL
12 52 (2.48%) Delta Lake
13 51 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
14 42 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
15 37 (1.77%) Redis
16 34 (1.62%) Relational Database
17 30 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
18 29 (1.39%) Big Data
18 29 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
19 26 (1.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 380 (18.16%) Jenkins
2 374 (17.87%) GitLab
3 275 (13.14%) Git
4 130 (6.21%) JIRA
5 45 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 42 (2.01%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.24%) Maven
9 18 (0.86%) Snyk
10 17 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.72%) MLflow
12 14 (0.67%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.57%) Gatling
15 11 (0.53%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.48%) git-flow
16 10 (0.48%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.38%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.38%) Gradle
17 8 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 370 (17.68%) Social Skills
2 298 (14.24%) Public Sector
3 228 (10.89%) Finance
4 96 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (4.30%) Banking
6 58 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.24%) Retail
9 21 (1.00%) Legal
10 18 (0.86%) Military
11 17 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (0.72%) Law
13 13 (0.62%) Publishing
14 12 (0.57%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.48%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (0.43%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.38%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (22.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 330 (15.77%) Senior
3 232 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (10.51%) Architect
5 209 (9.99%) Azure Engineer
6 200 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
7 175 (8.36%) Data Engineer
8 166 (7.93%) Developer
9 163 (7.79%) Lead
10 162 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
11 122 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (5.40%) GCP Engineer
13 99 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
14 91 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 82 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 82 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 78 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
17 74 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 74 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 72 (3.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (8.36%) Kafka
2 110 (5.26%) Node.js
3 106 (5.06%) React
4 103 (4.92%) .NET
5 100 (4.78%) REST
6 95 (4.54%) PySpark
7 76 (3.63%) OAuth
8 72 (3.44%) OpenTelemetry
9 67 (3.20%) ARM Templates
10 65 (3.11%) YAML
11 63 (3.01%) RESTful
12 62 (2.96%) Spring
13 59 (2.82%) Spring Boot
14 57 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
15 56 (2.68%) OpenID
16 51 (2.44%) OAuth2
17 44 (2.10%) JSON
18 42 (2.01%) AngularJS
19 41 (1.96%) AWS CDK
20 29 (1.39%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 482 (23.03%) Cloud Native
2 113 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 94 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 90 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 75 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 58 (2.77%) Public Cloud
7 46 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 37 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 32 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 31 (1.48%) Replication
12 28 (1.34%) PKI
12 28 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.24%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
13 26 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
14 25 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.05%) NHS
16 16 (0.76%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 298 (14.24%) Linux
2 154 (7.36%) Windows
3 67 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.82%) VMS
6 27 (1.29%) Unix
7 23 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.67%) CentOS
9 8 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.33%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.096%) AIX
14 2 (0.096%) Debian
14 2 (0.096%) Rocky
14 2 (0.096%) Solaris
14 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,423 (67.99%) CI/CD
2 1,422 (67.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,271 (60.73%) DevOps
4 484 (23.12%) Containerisation
5 471 (22.50%) Agile
6 435 (20.78%) Observability
7 382 (18.25%) Platform Engineering
8 286 (13.66%) AI
9 258 (12.33%) Migration
10 241 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
11 240 (11.47%) Analytics
12 236 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 215 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 212 (10.13%) Software Engineering
14 212 (10.13%) Test Automation
15 208 (9.94%) Cloud Security
16 200 (9.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 199 (9.51%) Microservices
18 197 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
19 184 (8.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 945 (45.15%) Python
2 347 (16.58%) SQL
3 296 (14.14%) PowerShell
4 294 (14.05%) Bash
5 240 (11.47%) Java
6 186 (8.89%) Bicep
7 117 (5.59%) JavaScript
8 105 (5.02%) C#
8 105 (5.02%) TypeScript
9 80 (3.82%) Go
10 50 (2.39%) Scala
11 40 (1.91%) Groovy
12 36 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.91%) Ruby
14 15 (0.72%) Rust
15 10 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) R
17 7 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.33%) Perl
17 7 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 742 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 611 (29.19%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.07%) Azure Certification
4 132 (6.31%) DV Cleared
5 103 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 80 (3.82%) Degree
7 64 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 36 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (1.29%) CCNP
12 27 (1.29%) CISSP
13 15 (0.72%) CCNA
14 14 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 11 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.48%) OCP
17 10 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.01%) QA
3 57 (2.72%) GDPR
4 50 (2.39%) NIST
5 47 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.39%) Accessibility
8 28 (1.34%) NCSC
9 15 (0.72%) SLA
10 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.48%) GRC
12 7 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.33%) WCAG
13 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) HL7
16 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 556 (26.56%) Docker
2 93 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 77 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 61 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.34%) vSphere
8 23 (1.10%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.91%) Squid
10 11 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.48%) KVM
11 10 (0.48%) NFS
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.24%) Firmware
14 3 (0.14%) Ceph
14 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
14 3 (0.14%) Postfix
15 2 (0.096%) GPFS
15 2 (0.096%) Lustre
15 2 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 790 (37.74%) Kubernetes
2 477 (22.79%) Ansible
3 264 (12.61%) Grafana
4 234 (11.18%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.92%) Argo
6 45 (2.15%) Istio
7 44 (2.10%) Puppet
8 35 (1.67%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.34%) Packer
9 28 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 21 (1.00%) Kibana
12 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.81%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.62%) Kustomize
15 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 12 (0.57%) Podman
15 12 (0.57%) Rancher
16 11 (0.53%) HAProxy
17 10 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 294 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 206 (9.84%) Google
3 124 (5.92%) Databricks
4 117 (5.59%) Splunk
5 106 (5.06%) VMware
6 92 (4.40%) Red Hat
7 80 (3.82%) Oracle
8 63 (3.01%) Dynatrace
9 55 (2.63%) ServiceNow
10 50 (2.39%) Cisco
11 48 (2.29%) Palo Alto
12 35 (1.67%) F5
13 33 (1.58%) Arista
14 28 (1.34%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.10%) Aruba
17 22 (1.05%) IBM
17 22 (1.05%) Pure Storage
18 21 (1.00%) Zscaler
19 17 (0.81%) Foundry