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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,428 1,430 1,380
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.27% 5.15% 4.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.75% 20.46% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,683 987 989
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £452 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.98% -6.75%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 9
10th Percentile £57.25 £43.63 £53.25
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.25 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -26.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £84.02 £61.63 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.13 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%

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 9,810 6,989 8,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.17% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,764 5,468
10th Percentile £375 £354 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
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 269 163 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% -12.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £66.66 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +25.18% -13.56% -2.99%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +1 1,281 £550 +2.33% 1,782
North of England +5 504 £500 -2.44% 442
Yorkshire -9 238 £513 - 139
South East -3 218 £561 +12.19% 320
South West +3 187 £553 +0.55% 237
North West +22 182 £575 +15.00% 238
Midlands -28 122 £482 -12.32% 169
West Midlands -37 98 £513 -6.82% 108
North East -1 96 £425 -16.67% 66
East of England -10 48 £549 +13.85% 89
East Midlands 0 23 £419 -14.10% 61
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
1 108 (4.45%) Confluence
2 102 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.46%) Apache
5 47 (1.94%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.65%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.15%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.25%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.21%) CMS
13 5 (0.21%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
15 2 (0.082%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.082%) PowerExchange
15 2 (0.082%) Traefik
16 1 (0.041%) MQSeries
16 1 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.082%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.082%) 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 (0.082%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.082%) Endur
2 2 (0.082%) 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 1,391 (57.29%) AWS
2 1,213 (49.96%) Azure
3 665 (27.39%) GitHub
4 482 (19.85%) GCP
5 468 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
6 435 (17.92%) Azure DevOps
7 352 (14.50%) Serverless
8 278 (11.45%) Amazon S3
9 260 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
10 253 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
12 201 (8.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 189 (7.78%) Entra ID
14 166 (6.84%) Azure AKS
15 148 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
16 147 (6.05%) Azure Monitor
17 139 (5.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 125 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 124 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
20 100 (4.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 270 (11.12%) Firewall
2 199 (8.20%) DNS
3 130 (5.35%) VPN
4 114 (4.70%) Network Security
5 88 (3.62%) TCP/IP
6 81 (3.34%) DHCP
7 75 (3.09%) WAN
8 65 (2.68%) BGP
9 48 (1.98%) OSPF
10 44 (1.81%) SD-WAN
11 41 (1.69%) VLAN
12 31 (1.28%) VSAN
12 31 (1.28%) VXLAN
13 29 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 26 (1.07%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (1.03%) SSH
16 24 (0.99%) BIG-IP
16 24 (0.99%) SSL
17 17 (0.70%) Internet
17 17 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
4 81 (3.34%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
6 75 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 73 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 72 (2.97%) NoSQL
9 70 (2.88%) MongoDB
10 67 (2.76%) Power BI
11 65 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 63 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 49 (2.02%) MySQL
13 49 (2.02%) Redis
14 48 (1.98%) Relational Database
15 45 (1.85%) Delta Lake
16 44 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
17 41 (1.69%) Metadata
18 37 (1.52%) Big Data
19 34 (1.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 456 (18.78%) GitLab
2 394 (16.23%) Jenkins
3 371 (15.28%) Git
4 136 (5.60%) JIRA
5 45 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.40%) Maven
7 30 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 20 (0.82%) Claude Code
11 19 (0.78%) Snyk
12 17 (0.70%) Selenium
12 17 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 13 (0.54%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) JUnit
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 9 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
16 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 488 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 358 (14.74%) Public Sector
3 333 (13.71%) Finance
4 148 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (4.00%) Banking
6 72 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (2.10%) Retail
8 50 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (1.44%) Military
10 24 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 19 (0.78%) Legal
11 19 (0.78%) Publishing
11 19 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 18 (0.74%) Law
13 16 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.62%) Local Government
15 14 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 14 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.49%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 534 (21.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 440 (18.12%) Senior
3 262 (10.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 232 (9.56%) Azure Engineer
5 226 (9.31%) Platform Engineer
6 222 (9.14%) Developer
7 218 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
8 211 (8.69%) Architect
9 208 (8.57%) Lead
10 179 (7.37%) Data Engineer
11 158 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
13 100 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
14 99 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 99 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 99 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 94 (3.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 86 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
17 84 (3.46%) Security Engineer
18 82 (3.38%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (7.74%) Kafka
2 166 (6.84%) REST
3 121 (4.98%) .NET
4 111 (4.57%) React
5 104 (4.28%) ARM Templates
6 95 (3.91%) PySpark
7 93 (3.83%) Node.js
7 93 (3.83%) RESTful
8 89 (3.67%) OAuth
9 80 (3.29%) YAML
10 62 (2.55%) Spring
11 60 (2.47%) OAuth2
11 60 (2.47%) Spring Boot
12 59 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
12 59 (2.43%) OpenID
13 53 (2.18%) JSON
14 45 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
15 41 (1.69%) HTML
16 38 (1.57%) AWS CDK
17 36 (1.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 577 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 146 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 111 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 99 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 90 (3.71%) Product Ownership
6 87 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 77 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 73 (3.01%) Public Cloud
9 55 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 55 (2.27%) PKI
10 52 (2.14%) Replication
11 49 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
13 46 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
15 40 (1.65%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
17 33 (1.36%) Management Information System
17 33 (1.36%) NHS
18 28 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 440 (18.12%) Linux
2 244 (10.05%) Windows
3 87 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.65%) Unix
6 38 (1.57%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.19%) VMS
8 19 (0.78%) AIX
9 17 (0.70%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.21%) 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 (0.082%) Android
16 2 (0.082%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.082%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,783 (73.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,650 (67.96%) CI/CD
3 1,397 (57.54%) DevOps
4 607 (25.00%) Agile
5 603 (24.84%) Observability
6 600 (24.71%) Containerisation
7 560 (23.06%) Platform Engineering
8 413 (17.01%) AI
9 331 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 304 (12.52%) Migration
11 303 (12.48%) Software Engineering
12 300 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
13 292 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 290 (11.94%) Test Automation
15 287 (11.82%) DevSecOps
16 281 (11.57%) Cloud Security
17 271 (11.16%) Analytics
18 267 (11.00%) Infrastructure Automation
19 250 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
20 243 (10.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (49.01%) Python
2 470 (19.36%) PowerShell
3 455 (18.74%) Bash
4 370 (15.24%) SQL
5 287 (11.82%) Java
6 278 (11.45%) Bicep
7 143 (5.89%) JavaScript
8 134 (5.52%) C#
9 129 (5.31%) TypeScript
10 79 (3.25%) Go
11 52 (2.14%) Groovy
11 52 (2.14%) Scala
12 44 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.58%) Perl
15 10 (0.41%) C
15 10 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.41%) R
15 10 (0.41%) Ruby
15 10 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 882 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 714 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 196 (8.07%) DV Cleared
4 171 (7.04%) Azure Certification
5 149 (6.14%) AWS Certification
6 101 (4.16%) Degree
7 62 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 53 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 53 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 49 (2.02%) CISSP
11 41 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.15%) CCNP
13 20 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 19 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.70%) CISM
16 16 (0.66%) VCAP
17 15 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 14 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (5.40%) Data Quality
2 90 (3.71%) QA
3 51 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 51 (2.10%) NCSC
4 50 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.06%) NIST
5 43 (1.77%) GDPR
6 24 (0.99%) WCAG
7 18 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.45%) SLA
9 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.25%) PSD2
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.21%) HL7
12 5 (0.21%) SEPA
13 4 (0.16%) GRC
14 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 677 (27.88%) Docker
2 163 (6.71%) Active Directory
3 117 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 48 (1.98%) vSphere
7 46 (1.89%) Hyper-V
8 41 (1.69%) VMware NSX
9 33 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.62%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.25%) Ceph
13 6 (0.25%) NFS
14 5 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 985 (40.57%) Kubernetes
2 588 (24.22%) Ansible
3 303 (12.48%) Grafana
4 241 (9.93%) Prometheus
5 84 (3.46%) Argo
6 63 (2.59%) Puppet
7 55 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 44 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (1.65%) Packer
10 31 (1.28%) vCenter Server
11 27 (1.11%) Istio
12 25 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.91%) Kustomize
14 20 (0.82%) Kibana
15 19 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
16 18 (0.74%) Data Guard
17 17 (0.70%) FortiGate
17 17 (0.70%) Kubeflow
18 15 (0.62%) Podman
18 15 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 458 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 201 (8.28%) Google
3 157 (6.47%) VMware
4 139 (5.72%) Databricks
5 138 (5.68%) Splunk
6 103 (4.24%) Oracle
7 83 (3.42%) Cisco
7 83 (3.42%) Dynatrace
8 74 (3.05%) Red Hat
9 73 (3.01%) ServiceNow
10 64 (2.64%) Palo Alto
11 40 (1.65%) F5
12 38 (1.57%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.40%) Arista
13 34 (1.40%) Zscaler
14 31 (1.28%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.19%) Informatica
16 24 (0.99%) CyberArk
16 24 (0.99%) Foundry
17 22 (0.91%) Okta