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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,577 1,402 1,709
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.41% 4.53% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.27% 32.10% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 964 1,310
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £669 £675
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -7.89% +1.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 24
10th Percentile £41.10 £55.25 £60.00
25th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £62.47
Median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.93% -3.31% +1.53%
75th Percentile £62.81 £75.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £79.50 £79.40
UK median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -19.93% -1.33% +19.05%

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 4,740 4,367 5,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.26% 14.12% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,147 2,841 4,203
10th Percentile £302 £315 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £666
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 50 156
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.13 £23.80 £25.74
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -24.37% +94.80%
75th Percentile £65.33 £61.88 £73.91
90th Percentile £80.90 £75.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £35.08 £49.87
% change year-on-year -16.63% -29.65% +99.46%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +3 825 £525 -12.50% 524
North of England +3 318 £507 +1.86% 160
Yorkshire +3 188 £518 +8.95% 36
Midlands +8 123 £540 -3.05% 52
South East -8 122 £500 -14.09% 424
West Midlands -4 111 £550 -1.74% 25
South West +13 107 £550 -4.35% 71
North West -20 87 £500 -9.09% 102
North East +13 45 £520 +20.23% 23
East of England -12 35 £475 -9.52% 27
East Midlands -5 12 £475 +18.60% 27
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 84 (5.33%) Confluence
2 52 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.85%) nginx
4 34 (2.16%) Apache
5 33 (2.09%) Apache Spark
6 19 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) SAS
10 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Documentum
11 3 (0.19%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.19%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
11 3 (0.19%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) Anypoint
Applications
1 12 (0.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.063%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Endur
2 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.13%) Maximo
4 1 (0.063%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.063%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 959 (60.81%) AWS
2 624 (39.57%) Azure
3 420 (26.63%) GitHub
4 300 (19.02%) GCP
5 255 (16.17%) GitHub Actions
6 247 (15.66%) Serverless
7 242 (15.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 226 (14.33%) Azure DevOps
9 200 (12.68%) Amazon S3
10 152 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
11 147 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 135 (8.56%) Amazon EC2
13 119 (7.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 112 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
15 102 (6.47%) Entra ID
16 88 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
17 83 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 76 (4.82%) OpenShift
19 73 (4.63%) Azure AKS
19 73 (4.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 162 (10.27%) Firewall
2 127 (8.05%) DNS
3 79 (5.01%) VPN
4 65 (4.12%) Network Security
5 55 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 46 (2.92%) SSL
7 40 (2.54%) HTTP
8 30 (1.90%) WAN
9 28 (1.78%) BGP
10 26 (1.65%) SSH
11 25 (1.59%) SMTP
12 24 (1.52%) DHCP
12 24 (1.52%) LAN
13 23 (1.46%) FTP
13 23 (1.46%) OSPF
14 21 (1.33%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.95%) MPLS
15 15 (0.95%) VXLAN
16 12 (0.76%) IMAP
16 12 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (5.58%) NoSQL
4 61 (3.87%) MongoDB
5 47 (2.98%) DynamoDB
6 41 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 38 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 38 (2.41%) Power BI
8 36 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 28 (1.78%) Redis
12 26 (1.65%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.52%) MySQL
14 19 (1.20%) SQL Server
15 16 (1.01%) Big Data
16 15 (0.95%) Delta Lake
17 13 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 386 (24.48%) Jenkins
2 332 (21.05%) GitLab
3 226 (14.33%) Git
4 121 (7.67%) JIRA
5 60 (3.80%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.22%) Artifactory
7 34 (2.16%) CircleCI
8 33 (2.09%) Liquibase
9 32 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.78%) Maven
11 24 (1.52%) Gradle
11 24 (1.52%) Vagrant
12 20 (1.27%) Bitbucket
13 19 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.89%) Selenium
14 14 (0.89%) Snyk
15 13 (0.82%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.57%) Robot Framework
16 9 (0.57%) Terragrunt
17 8 (0.51%) MLflow
General
1 372 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 247 (15.66%) Public Sector
3 206 (13.06%) Finance
4 111 (7.04%) Banking
5 85 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (2.54%) Financial Institution
7 37 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.52%) Retail
8 24 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 23 (1.46%) Military
9 23 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.27%) Marketing
12 18 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.57%) Publishing
16 8 (0.51%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 379 (24.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 210 (13.32%) AWS Engineer
3 208 (13.19%) Senior
4 185 (11.73%) Architect
5 146 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
6 140 (8.88%) Lead
7 137 (8.69%) Developer
8 126 (7.99%) AWS DevOps
9 111 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 110 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
11 101 (6.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 89 (5.64%) Data Engineer
13 86 (5.45%) Software Engineer
14 70 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 70 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 64 (4.06%) GCP Engineer
16 56 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
17 53 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 47 (2.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.37%) Kafka
2 98 (6.21%) REST
3 91 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
4 90 (5.71%) Node.js
5 89 (5.64%) RESTful
6 87 (5.52%) React
7 69 (4.38%) .NET
7 69 (4.38%) ARM Templates
8 52 (3.30%) OAuth
9 49 (3.11%) YAML
10 40 (2.54%) AWS CDK
10 40 (2.54%) Spring Boot
11 32 (2.03%) OAuth2
11 32 (2.03%) Spring
12 31 (1.97%) OpenID
13 30 (1.90%) Keycloak
14 28 (1.78%) PySpark
15 27 (1.71%) AngularJS
15 27 (1.71%) FastAPI
16 26 (1.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 270 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 94 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 58 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.47%) Replication
7 36 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 34 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 29 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.84%) NHS
10 26 (1.65%) Private Cloud
11 23 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 20 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.27%) PKI
13 19 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
16 13 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (0.76%) Management Information System
18 10 (0.63%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 306 (19.40%) Linux
2 131 (8.31%) Windows
3 56 (3.55%) Unix
4 44 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (2.60%) VMS
6 37 (2.35%) Windows Server
7 29 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
8 21 (1.33%) CentOS
9 18 (1.14%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.51%) Solaris
12 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.25%) Android
13 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.13%) zOS
15 1 (0.063%) Debian
15 1 (0.063%) MVS
15 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (62.97%) CI/CD
2 988 (62.65%) DevOps
3 985 (62.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 402 (25.49%) Containerisation
5 394 (24.98%) Agile
6 221 (14.01%) Infrastructure Automation
7 218 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
8 212 (13.44%) Observability
9 209 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
10 208 (13.19%) Microservices
11 203 (12.87%) Migration
12 174 (11.03%) Software Engineering
13 153 (9.70%) Cloud Security
14 148 (9.38%) Test Automation
15 147 (9.32%) Mentoring
16 146 (9.26%) DevSecOps
17 145 (9.19%) High Availability
18 143 (9.07%) AI
19 122 (7.74%) Configuration Management
20 120 (7.61%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 787 (49.90%) Python
2 271 (17.18%) Bash
3 234 (14.84%) PowerShell
4 216 (13.70%) SQL
5 205 (13.00%) Java
6 147 (9.32%) Go
7 99 (6.28%) Bicep
8 94 (5.96%) JavaScript
9 86 (5.45%) TypeScript
10 67 (4.25%) C#
11 49 (3.11%) Shell Script
12 46 (2.92%) Groovy
13 28 (1.78%) Perl
14 15 (0.95%) C++
15 14 (0.89%) PHP
16 13 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.63%) Scala
18 9 (0.57%) C
18 9 (0.57%) Korn
19 7 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 513 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 422 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 113 (7.17%) AWS Certification
4 105 (6.66%) Degree
5 87 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 77 (4.88%) DV Cleared
7 63 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.98%) Master's Degree
9 40 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.20%) CCIE
13 17 (1.08%) CCNP
14 16 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (1.01%) CISSP
15 13 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.82%) JNCIE
16 6 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.38%) JNCIP
16 6 (0.38%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.19%) GDPR
2 61 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (3.36%) NIST
4 42 (2.66%) QA
5 40 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 32 (2.03%) NCSC
7 22 (1.40%) SOC 2
8 20 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.76%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.51%) SLA
11 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.25%) GRC
13 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.19%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.19%) HL7
14 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 534 (33.86%) Docker
2 114 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 69 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (1.97%) VMware NSX
4 31 (1.97%) vSphere
5 24 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.46%) DFS Replication
7 20 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.82%) Squid
9 12 (0.76%) Dovecot
9 12 (0.76%) Postfix
10 11 (0.70%) Hyper-V
10 11 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.38%) KVM
12 4 (0.25%) NFS
13 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.063%) Firmware
14 1 (0.063%) Lustre
14 1 (0.063%) Snort
14 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 663 (42.04%) Kubernetes
2 460 (29.17%) Ansible
3 254 (16.11%) Grafana
4 242 (15.35%) Prometheus
5 63 (3.99%) Puppet
6 54 (3.42%) Argo
7 52 (3.30%) Packer
8 42 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (2.28%) Progress Chef
10 29 (1.84%) Istio
11 25 (1.59%) Consul
12 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (1.33%) vCenter Server
13 16 (1.01%) Nessus
13 16 (1.01%) Podman
14 15 (0.95%) Proxmox
15 14 (0.89%) Kibana
16 13 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.57%) Salt
18 8 (0.51%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 188 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 120 (7.61%) Google
3 113 (7.17%) Splunk
4 90 (5.71%) VMware
5 82 (5.20%) Databricks
6 66 (4.19%) F5
7 53 (3.36%) Red Hat
8 48 (3.04%) Palo Alto
8 48 (3.04%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.47%) Cisco
10 38 (2.41%) Dynatrace
11 33 (2.09%) CheckPoint
12 31 (1.97%) Oracle
13 22 (1.40%) Juniper
14 21 (1.33%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.33%) IBM
15 16 (1.01%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.89%) Okta
16 14 (0.89%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.76%) Citrix