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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -20
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,999 1,281 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.25% 3.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.25% 33.50% 28.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 923 924
10th Percentile £400 £405 £413
25th Percentile £438 £480 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -7.08%
75th Percentile £614 £668 £650
90th Percentile £700 £755 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 8
10th Percentile £41.08 £25.38 £42.10
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £52.94
Median hourly rate £61.04 £48.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% -19.17% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.25 £68.13 £69.61
90th Percentile £83.30 £78.58 £75.36
UK median hourly rate £61.04 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -12.50% -20.00%

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 5,515 3,824 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.07% 15.68% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,814 2,643 3,180
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 36 122
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.25 £22.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £26.88 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +110.23% +4.31% -55.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.38 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.15 £78.10 £69.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 1,075 £525 -8.70% 289
North of England +12 383 £500 -4.76% 147
Yorkshire +8 208 £500 -4.76% 46
South East -8 162 £505 -6.48% 120
North West +14 140 £528 +0.57% 69
Midlands -1 134 £525 -3.76% 37
South West -13 120 £550 -10.57% 79
West Midlands -6 107 £525 -8.70% 25
North East -9 42 £471 -10.38% 32
East of England -20 32 £450 -14.29% 43
East Midlands -18 26 £449 -10.30% 12
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 85 (4.25%) Apache Spark
2 78 (3.90%) Confluence
3 62 (3.10%) Apache
4 59 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
5 33 (1.65%) nginx
6 20 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 19 (0.95%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.30%) SAS
9 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.10%) Drupal
12 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.10%) WordPress
13 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.050%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Maximo
2 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,083 (54.18%) AWS
2 955 (47.77%) Azure
3 559 (27.96%) GitHub
4 399 (19.96%) GCP
5 372 (18.61%) Serverless
6 358 (17.91%) GitHub Actions
7 347 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
8 334 (16.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 278 (13.91%) Amazon S3
10 266 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
11 197 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
12 151 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
13 142 (7.10%) Azure AKS
13 142 (7.10%) OpenShift
14 139 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (6.95%) Amazon ECS
15 125 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
16 124 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 121 (6.05%) Entra ID
18 113 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 189 (9.45%) Firewall
2 143 (7.15%) DNS
3 110 (5.50%) VPN
4 100 (5.00%) Network Security
5 41 (2.05%) WAN
6 35 (1.75%) BGP
6 35 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 27 (1.35%) DHCP
8 25 (1.25%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.20%) LAN
9 24 (1.20%) OSPF
10 19 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
11 18 (0.90%) VXLAN
12 13 (0.65%) VLAN
13 12 (0.60%) SAN
14 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
14 11 (0.55%) SSL
15 10 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
16 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 9 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 85 (4.25%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
4 75 (3.75%) Power BI
5 57 (2.85%) SQL Server
6 56 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 55 (2.75%) NoSQL
8 53 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 52 (2.60%) MongoDB
10 51 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
11 47 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 42 (2.10%) Delta Lake
13 36 (1.80%) Relational Database
14 31 (1.55%) Redis
15 29 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
15 29 (1.45%) Tableau
16 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
17 26 (1.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 377 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 319 (15.96%) GitLab
3 276 (13.81%) Git
4 110 (5.50%) JIRA
5 46 (2.30%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.55%) SonarQube
7 26 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 23 (1.15%) Maven
9 19 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Liquibase
12 14 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (0.65%) Gatling
14 11 (0.55%) Snyk
15 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.45%) git-flow
16 9 (0.45%) JUnit
16 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
17 7 (0.35%) JMeter
17 7 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 372 (18.61%) Social Skills
2 292 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 215 (10.76%) Finance
4 106 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (4.55%) Banking
6 53 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.00%) Retail
10 15 (0.75%) Legal
10 15 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.60%) Law
11 12 (0.60%) Military
12 9 (0.45%) Health Technology
12 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.35%) Publishing
15 5 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.25%) Front Office
15 5 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 424 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 278 (13.91%) Senior
3 237 (11.86%) Architect
4 195 (9.75%) Azure Engineer
5 190 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 178 (8.90%) AWS Engineer
7 174 (8.70%) Developer
8 162 (8.10%) Lead
9 161 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
10 160 (8.00%) Data Engineer
11 111 (5.55%) GCP Engineer
12 106 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 99 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
14 93 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 86 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 86 (4.30%) Site Engineer
16 84 (4.20%) Software Engineer
17 72 (3.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 62 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.35%) Kafka
2 131 (6.55%) Node.js
3 109 (5.45%) React
4 104 (5.20%) REST
5 100 (5.00%) .NET
6 76 (3.80%) ARM Templates
7 75 (3.75%) PySpark
8 69 (3.45%) RESTful
9 68 (3.40%) OAuth
10 67 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
11 64 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
11 64 (3.20%) Spring
12 57 (2.85%) Spring Boot
13 54 (2.70%) AngularJS
13 54 (2.70%) YAML
14 45 (2.25%) OpenID
15 38 (1.90%) AWS CDK
16 36 (1.80%) JSON
16 36 (1.80%) OAuth2
17 31 (1.55%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 389 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 102 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 92 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 67 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 55 (2.75%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 30 (1.50%) NHS
11 29 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.40%) PKI
13 26 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.10%) Replication
15 21 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 18 (0.90%) AI Agents
16 18 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (0.80%) Clustering
18 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
19 13 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 342 (17.11%) Linux
2 147 (7.35%) Windows
3 47 (2.35%) VMS
4 43 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 35 (1.75%) Unix
7 14 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.40%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.10%) Debian
12 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.10%) zOS
13 1 (0.050%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) Android
13 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.050%) Rocky
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,337 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 1,283 (64.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,187 (59.38%) DevOps
4 495 (24.76%) Containerisation
5 443 (22.16%) Agile
6 392 (19.61%) Observability
7 325 (16.26%) Platform Engineering
8 272 (13.61%) Migration
9 268 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
10 253 (12.66%) Analytics
11 235 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 234 (11.71%) AI
13 223 (11.16%) Microservices
14 214 (10.71%) Software Engineering
15 205 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
16 201 (10.06%) Test Automation
17 190 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 187 (9.35%) Cloud Security
19 178 (8.90%) DevSecOps
20 168 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 939 (46.97%) Python
2 325 (16.26%) SQL
3 299 (14.96%) Bash
4 270 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 224 (11.21%) Java
6 178 (8.90%) Bicep
7 120 (6.00%) JavaScript
8 114 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 111 (5.55%) C#
10 92 (4.60%) Go
11 46 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 44 (2.20%) Scala
13 35 (1.75%) Ruby
14 26 (1.30%) Groovy
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) C
17 7 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.35%) PHP
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 714 (35.72%) Security Cleared
2 594 (29.71%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.80%) Azure Certification
4 123 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 115 (5.75%) DV Cleared
6 80 (4.00%) Degree
7 63 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 60 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (1.50%) CCNP
13 29 (1.45%) CISSP
14 20 (1.00%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.80%) CCIE
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.75%) CISM
17 14 (0.70%) OCP
18 13 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 75 (3.75%) GDPR
3 66 (3.30%) QA
4 60 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (2.95%) NIST
6 41 (2.05%) NCSC
7 35 (1.75%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.00%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.60%) SLA
9 12 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.50%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.25%) HL7
12 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 566 (28.31%) Docker
2 94 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 85 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 41 (2.05%) vSphere
7 36 (1.80%) Hyper-V
8 35 (1.75%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.50%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
11 7 (0.35%) NFS
12 6 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.25%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) Lustre
13 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.20%) GPFS
14 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.10%) Ceph
15 2 (0.10%) Corosync
15 2 (0.10%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 806 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 489 (24.46%) Ansible
3 271 (13.56%) Grafana
4 234 (11.71%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.10%) Argo
6 49 (2.45%) Istio
7 43 (2.15%) Puppet
8 38 (1.90%) Packer
9 37 (1.85%) Progress Chef
10 31 (1.55%) vCenter Server
11 28 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (1.20%) Kibana
13 22 (1.10%) Consul
14 16 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 16 (0.80%) Rancher
15 15 (0.75%) FortiGate
16 13 (0.65%) Podman
17 11 (0.55%) linkerd
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
19 7 (0.35%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 314 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 185 (9.25%) Google
3 147 (7.35%) Databricks
4 120 (6.00%) VMware
5 118 (5.90%) Splunk
6 94 (4.70%) Red Hat
7 59 (2.95%) Oracle
8 51 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 44 (2.20%) Dynatrace
10 42 (2.10%) Cisco
11 33 (1.65%) Pure Storage
12 27 (1.35%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.25%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.25%) IBM
14 24 (1.20%) F5
15 20 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 19 (0.95%) Atlassian
16 19 (0.95%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.80%) Citrix
17 16 (0.80%) PagerDuty