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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 41 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,037 1,188 1,307
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.88% 4.96% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.82% 31.54% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 850 976
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% -2.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 8
10th Percentile £40.73 £26.60 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £33.38 £52.94
Median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -20.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.23 £74.58
90th Percentile £79.90 £80.40 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +20.26% -10.26% -22.52%

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 5,532 3,767 4,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.27% 15.74% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,574 3,308
10th Percentile £316 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -1.27% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 37 93
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% +36.36% -48.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.80 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +91.30% -4.17% -47.83%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +2 1,104 £548 -0.45% 389
North of England +25 417 £500 -3.15% 182
Yorkshire +12 212 £500 -4.76% 43
North West +32 156 £516 +3.16% 104
South East -15 152 £509 +1.75% 140
Midlands -14 126 £525 -2.78% 39
South West -12 112 £550 -10.57% 74
West Midlands -14 103 £531 -3.59% 29
North East 0 61 £450 -13.46% 35
East of England -20 43 £475 -5.00% 31
East Midlands -23 22 £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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 85 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 64 (3.14%) Apache
4 62 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 22 (1.08%) nginx
7 11 (0.54%) SAS
8 9 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
10 6 (0.29%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.098%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.098%) Drupal
13 2 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
1 7 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.098%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.049%) InDesign
5 1 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 6 (0.29%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.049%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.049%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.049%) Endur
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,096 (53.80%) AWS
2 1,006 (49.39%) Azure
3 578 (28.38%) GitHub
4 432 (21.21%) GCP
5 389 (19.10%) GitHub Actions
6 352 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
7 348 (17.08%) Serverless
8 268 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 260 (12.76%) Amazon S3
10 250 (12.27%) AWS Lambda
11 200 (9.82%) Amazon EKS
12 162 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 143 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
14 142 (6.97%) Azure AKS
15 139 (6.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 130 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 123 (6.04%) Entra ID
18 120 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
19 105 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
20 101 (4.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 208 (10.21%) Firewall
2 138 (6.77%) DNS
3 112 (5.50%) VPN
4 103 (5.06%) Network Security
5 70 (3.44%) WAN
6 52 (2.55%) BGP
7 43 (2.11%) SD-WAN
8 39 (1.91%) OSPF
9 36 (1.77%) TCP/IP
10 34 (1.67%) VXLAN
11 27 (1.33%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (1.13%) BIG-IP
13 22 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 18 (0.88%) DHCP
14 18 (0.88%) SAN
15 17 (0.83%) LAN
15 17 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
16 15 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (0.69%) SSL
18 11 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
3 77 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
3 77 (3.78%) Data Lake
4 74 (3.63%) Power BI
5 65 (3.19%) SQL Server
6 61 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 52 (2.55%) Delta Lake
8 51 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 51 (2.50%) NoSQL
9 50 (2.45%) MongoDB
10 48 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 42 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
12 35 (1.72%) Redis
13 32 (1.57%) Relational Database
14 30 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
14 30 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 29 (1.42%) Big Data
16 24 (1.18%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 373 (18.31%) Jenkins
2 363 (17.82%) GitLab
3 274 (13.45%) Git
4 129 (6.33%) JIRA
5 45 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 39 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 25 (1.23%) Bitbucket
8 24 (1.18%) Maven
9 17 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (0.79%) Snyk
11 15 (0.74%) MLflow
12 14 (0.69%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.64%) Cypress.io
14 12 (0.59%) Gatling
15 11 (0.54%) Terragrunt
16 10 (0.49%) git-flow
16 10 (0.49%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.39%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.39%) Gradle
17 8 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 358 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 279 (13.70%) Public Sector
3 224 (11.00%) Finance
4 96 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (4.52%) Banking
6 56 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.18%) Retail
9 21 (1.03%) Legal
10 17 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (0.83%) Military
11 14 (0.69%) Law
12 10 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (0.49%) Publishing
13 9 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.44%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.39%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 8 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 458 (22.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 318 (15.61%) Senior
3 223 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 217 (10.65%) Architect
5 207 (10.16%) Azure Engineer
6 189 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
7 166 (8.15%) Data Engineer
8 160 (7.85%) Developer
9 153 (7.51%) Lead
10 150 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
11 117 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 114 (5.60%) GCP Engineer
13 94 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
14 87 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 84 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 75 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
17 74 (3.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 73 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 71 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 67 (3.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (8.39%) Kafka
2 109 (5.35%) Node.js
3 104 (5.11%) React
4 103 (5.06%) .NET
5 97 (4.76%) REST
6 93 (4.57%) PySpark
7 76 (3.73%) OAuth
8 73 (3.58%) OpenTelemetry
9 68 (3.34%) ARM Templates
10 63 (3.09%) RESTful
10 63 (3.09%) YAML
11 61 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
12 60 (2.95%) Spring
13 57 (2.80%) Spring Boot
14 56 (2.75%) OpenID
15 51 (2.50%) OAuth2
16 44 (2.16%) JSON
17 41 (2.01%) AngularJS
18 40 (1.96%) AWS CDK
19 29 (1.42%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 469 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 91 (4.47%) Data Centre
4 84 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
5 73 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 44 (2.16%) Onboarding
8 35 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 33 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 31 (1.52%) Replication
11 30 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
13 26 (1.28%) PKI
14 25 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.18%) AI Agents
16 21 (1.03%) NHS
17 18 (0.88%) Clustering
18 17 (0.83%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 302 (14.83%) Linux
2 159 (7.81%) Windows
3 66 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 37 (1.82%) VMS
6 26 (1.28%) Unix
7 23 (1.13%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.69%) CentOS
9 8 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 7 (0.34%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.098%) AIX
14 2 (0.098%) Debian
14 2 (0.098%) Rocky
14 2 (0.098%) Solaris
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,386 (68.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,385 (67.99%) CI/CD
3 1,244 (61.07%) DevOps
4 470 (23.07%) Containerisation
5 456 (22.39%) Agile
6 420 (20.62%) Observability
7 361 (17.72%) Platform Engineering
8 260 (12.76%) AI
9 259 (12.71%) Migration
10 234 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 230 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
12 229 (11.24%) Analytics
13 210 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 204 (10.01%) Test Automation
15 202 (9.92%) Cloud Security
16 199 (9.77%) Software Engineering
17 198 (9.72%) Infrastructure Automation
18 192 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 191 (9.38%) Microservices
20 179 (8.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 918 (45.07%) Python
2 332 (16.30%) SQL
3 305 (14.97%) PowerShell
4 296 (14.53%) Bash
5 232 (11.39%) Java
6 185 (9.08%) Bicep
7 116 (5.69%) JavaScript
8 104 (5.11%) C#
9 100 (4.91%) TypeScript
10 79 (3.88%) Go
11 50 (2.45%) Scala
12 37 (1.82%) Groovy
13 36 (1.77%) Shell Script
14 19 (0.93%) Ruby
15 15 (0.74%) Rust
16 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) R
18 7 (0.34%) C
18 7 (0.34%) Perl
18 7 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 715 (35.10%) Security Cleared
2 587 (28.82%) SC Cleared
3 148 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 121 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 100 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 80 (3.93%) Degree
7 60 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 35 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.37%) CCNP
13 26 (1.28%) CISSP
14 15 (0.74%) CCNA
15 13 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.59%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
17 11 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.49%) OCP
18 10 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 61 (2.99%) QA
3 56 (2.75%) GDPR
4 49 (2.41%) NIST
5 46 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.33%) NCSC
8 26 (1.28%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.74%) SLA
10 11 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.49%) GRC
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) WCAG
14 5 (0.25%) PSD2
15 4 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) HL7
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 543 (26.66%) Docker
2 94 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 35 (1.72%) Hyper-V
7 28 (1.37%) vSphere
8 22 (1.08%) VMware NSX
9 19 (0.93%) Squid
10 10 (0.49%) KVM
10 10 (0.49%) NFS
10 10 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 3 (0.15%) Ceph
13 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.15%) Postfix
14 2 (0.098%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.098%) OpenSSH
14 2 (0.098%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 773 (37.95%) Kubernetes
2 476 (23.37%) Ansible
3 260 (12.76%) Grafana
4 228 (11.19%) Prometheus
5 81 (3.98%) Argo
6 45 (2.21%) Istio
6 45 (2.21%) Puppet
7 37 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 28 (1.37%) Packer
9 27 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.13%) vCenter Server
11 22 (1.08%) Kibana
12 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.59%) Consul
14 12 (0.59%) Podman
14 12 (0.59%) Rancher
15 11 (0.54%) HAProxy
15 11 (0.54%) Kustomize
16 10 (0.49%) linkerd
Vendors
1 295 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 202 (9.92%) Google
3 121 (5.94%) Databricks
4 116 (5.69%) Splunk
5 104 (5.11%) VMware
6 92 (4.52%) Red Hat
7 79 (3.88%) Oracle
8 61 (2.99%) Dynatrace
9 56 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 51 (2.50%) Cisco
11 47 (2.31%) Palo Alto
12 34 (1.67%) F5
13 32 (1.57%) Arista
14 27 (1.33%) OpenAI
15 25 (1.23%) Fortinet
16 23 (1.13%) IBM
17 22 (1.08%) Aruba
17 22 (1.08%) Pure Storage
18 21 (1.03%) Zscaler
19 16 (0.79%) Okta