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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 38 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,854 1,357 1,338
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.43% 5.21% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.27% 34.71% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,308 949 1,024
10th Percentile £400 £406 £431
25th Percentile £450 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.00% -6.04%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £704 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £62.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £67.36 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -

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 5,256 3,909 4,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.40% 15.00% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,641 2,547 3,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% -9.48%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 46 153
10th Percentile £17.11 £13.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £20.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +87.38% -35.50% -19.08%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.35 £75.97 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +2.79%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -3 985 £525 -12.50% 222
North of England -1 364 £500 -4.76% 122
Yorkshire -5 198 £500 -4.76% 38
South East +2 149 £500 -13.04% 149
Midlands +18 145 £537 +7.45% 40
South West +1 128 £550 -10.20% 64
West Midlands +20 127 £540 +5.47% 34
North West -6 123 £483 -8.10% 66
North East -4 46 £475 -12.84% 18
East of England -32 22 £550 +47.38% 14
East Midlands -21 18 £428 -12.31% 7
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 72 (3.88%) Confluence
2 59 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 53 (2.86%) Apache
4 44 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.94%) nginx
6 28 (1.51%) OpenStack
7 13 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Drupal
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Maximo
2 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.054%) Actimize
4 1 (0.054%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.054%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.054%) Endur
4 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,036 (55.88%) AWS
2 812 (43.80%) Azure
3 525 (28.32%) GitHub
4 371 (20.01%) GCP
5 347 (18.72%) Serverless
6 332 (17.91%) GitHub Actions
7 315 (16.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 310 (16.72%) Azure DevOps
9 251 (13.54%) Amazon S3
10 224 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
11 180 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
12 156 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
13 151 (8.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 140 (7.55%) Amazon ECS
14 140 (7.55%) OpenShift
15 132 (7.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 122 (6.58%) Entra ID
17 120 (6.47%) Azure AKS
18 117 (6.31%) Azure Monitor
19 93 (5.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 185 (9.98%) Firewall
2 132 (7.12%) DNS
3 107 (5.77%) Network Security
4 106 (5.72%) VPN
5 50 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 44 (2.37%) WAN
7 31 (1.67%) BGP
8 29 (1.56%) LAN
8 29 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.46%) DHCP
10 26 (1.40%) OSPF
10 26 (1.40%) SSL
11 14 (0.76%) HTTP
11 14 (0.76%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
13 12 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
14 11 (0.59%) MPLS
14 11 (0.59%) VLAN
14 11 (0.59%) Wireless
15 10 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 121 (6.53%) Amazon RDS
3 71 (3.83%) Data Lake
4 69 (3.72%) NoSQL
4 69 (3.72%) Power BI
5 59 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 50 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
6 50 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 41 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (2.10%) BigQuery
9 39 (2.10%) SQL Server
10 36 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (1.78%) Redis
12 30 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 26 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 26 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
14 23 (1.24%) Tableau
15 20 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 407 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 379 (20.44%) GitLab
3 242 (13.05%) Git
4 94 (5.07%) JIRA
5 46 (2.48%) Artifactory
6 37 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.56%) Liquibase
8 27 (1.46%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.29%) CircleCI
9 24 (1.29%) Maven
10 21 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (0.76%) Gradle
11 14 (0.76%) JUnit
12 13 (0.70%) Terragrunt
13 11 (0.59%) MLflow
14 10 (0.54%) Selenium
15 9 (0.49%) Snyk
15 9 (0.49%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.43%) Gatling
16 8 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 411 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 295 (15.91%) Public Sector
3 201 (10.84%) Finance
4 103 (5.56%) Banking
5 92 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 23 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (0.97%) Military
12 17 (0.92%) Retail
13 11 (0.59%) Law
14 10 (0.54%) Marketing
15 8 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.38%) Games
16 7 (0.38%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.38%) Legal
17 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 440 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 240 (12.94%) Senior
3 205 (11.06%) Architect
4 204 (11.00%) AWS Engineer
5 167 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
6 160 (8.63%) Developer
7 159 (8.58%) Lead
8 154 (8.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 152 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
10 136 (7.34%) Data Engineer
11 118 (6.36%) AWS DevOps
12 101 (5.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 101 (5.45%) Software Engineer
13 90 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 87 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
15 82 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 74 (3.99%) Site Engineer
17 73 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 66 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
18 66 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (10.41%) Kafka
2 121 (6.53%) REST
3 119 (6.42%) Node.js
4 102 (5.50%) React
5 99 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
6 87 (4.69%) RESTful
7 85 (4.58%) ARM Templates
8 79 (4.26%) .NET
9 66 (3.56%) OAuth
10 63 (3.40%) Spring
11 59 (3.18%) PySpark
11 59 (3.18%) Spring Boot
12 51 (2.75%) YAML
13 45 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
14 43 (2.32%) AngularJS
15 42 (2.27%) OpenID
16 36 (1.94%) OAuth2
17 32 (1.73%) AWS CDK
18 28 (1.51%) JSON
18 28 (1.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 320 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 70 (3.78%) Public Cloud
5 65 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 34 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 33 (1.78%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.62%) NHS
10 29 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (1.51%) Replication
12 27 (1.46%) PKI
12 27 (1.46%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (0.81%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.76%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.70%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.70%) Clustering
18 11 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 363 (19.58%) Linux
2 159 (8.58%) Windows
3 49 (2.64%) Unix
3 49 (2.64%) VMS
4 44 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.76%) CentOS
8 12 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) Android
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.054%) Rocky
12 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,270 (68.50%) CI/CD
2 1,181 (63.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,169 (63.05%) DevOps
4 499 (26.91%) Containerisation
5 395 (21.31%) Agile
6 340 (18.34%) Observability
7 265 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 261 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 255 (13.75%) Migration
10 242 (13.05%) Microservices
11 226 (12.19%) Infrastructure Automation
12 216 (11.65%) Analytics
13 209 (11.27%) Software Engineering
14 202 (10.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 193 (10.41%) AI
16 189 (10.19%) DevSecOps
17 183 (9.87%) Test Automation
18 177 (9.55%) Cloud Security
19 169 (9.12%) Mentoring
20 158 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 925 (49.89%) Python
2 298 (16.07%) Bash
3 270 (14.56%) SQL
4 251 (13.54%) PowerShell
5 211 (11.38%) Java
6 148 (7.98%) Bicep
7 135 (7.28%) Go
8 126 (6.80%) JavaScript
9 98 (5.29%) TypeScript
10 91 (4.91%) C#
11 56 (3.02%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.67%) Groovy
13 27 (1.46%) Ruby
14 20 (1.08%) Scala
15 12 (0.65%) Rust
16 10 (0.54%) C
17 8 (0.43%) PHP
18 7 (0.38%) C++
19 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
20 5 (0.27%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 663 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 555 (29.94%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.28%) AWS Certification
4 118 (6.36%) Azure Certification
5 115 (6.20%) Degree
6 112 (6.04%) DV Cleared
7 78 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.75%) Master's Degree
10 41 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.67%) CISSP
13 24 (1.29%) CCNP
14 18 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.92%) CCIE
15 17 (0.92%) CISM
16 11 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.05%) GDPR
2 70 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.24%) QA
4 59 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 54 (2.91%) NIST
6 51 (2.75%) NCSC
7 30 (1.62%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 16 (0.86%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 10 (0.54%) SLA
11 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.43%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.22%) HL7
14 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.16%) ISO 8583
15 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 589 (31.77%) Docker
2 101 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 78 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (2.05%) vSphere
6 34 (1.83%) VMware NSX
7 33 (1.78%) Hyper-V
8 19 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.81%) Squid
10 8 (0.43%) DFS Replication
10 8 (0.43%) KVM
10 8 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.32%) Dovecot
11 6 (0.32%) Postfix
12 5 (0.27%) Lustre
12 5 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.22%) GPFS
14 3 (0.16%) NFS
14 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 792 (42.72%) Kubernetes
2 520 (28.05%) Ansible
3 291 (15.70%) Grafana
4 253 (13.65%) Prometheus
5 71 (3.83%) Argo
6 42 (2.27%) Puppet
7 41 (2.21%) Istio
8 37 (2.00%) Packer
9 36 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (1.89%) Progress Chef
11 26 (1.40%) vCenter Server
12 20 (1.08%) Consul
13 19 (1.02%) Kibana
14 18 (0.97%) Podman
15 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
16 12 (0.65%) logstash
16 12 (0.65%) Nessus
16 12 (0.65%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.59%) FortiGate
17 11 (0.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 269 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 156 (8.41%) Google
3 131 (7.07%) Databricks
4 126 (6.80%) Splunk
5 117 (6.31%) VMware
6 75 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 47 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 46 (2.48%) Oracle
9 44 (2.37%) ServiceNow
10 42 (2.27%) F5
10 42 (2.27%) Palo Alto
11 41 (2.21%) Cisco
12 28 (1.51%) CheckPoint
12 28 (1.51%) IBM
13 26 (1.40%) Pure Storage
14 23 (1.24%) Fortinet
15 20 (1.08%) Atlassian
16 19 (1.02%) OpenAI
16 19 (1.02%) SolarWinds
17 16 (0.86%) Zscaler