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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 38 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,921 1,320 1,303
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.21% 5.30% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.33% 33.63% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 931 972
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £617 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £568 £558
% change year-on-year -7.49% +1.79% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £48.60
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £60.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -26.23%
75th Percentile £81.50 £77.80 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.10 £82.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -15.73% -22.38%

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 5,438 3,925 4,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.74% 15.77% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,744 2,635 3,293
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £421 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 42 137
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.26 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -18.46% -37.66%
75th Percentile £66.75 £67.38 £58.00
90th Percentile £75.76 £85.02 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 0 1,029 £525 -8.70% 266
North of England +7 386 £500 -4.76% 137
Yorkshire +7 201 £500 -4.76% 47
South East -6 147 £500 -13.04% 143
North West +11 140 £519 -1.13% 63
Midlands +7 138 £537 +6.13% 31
South West -6 120 £550 -10.57% 63
West Midlands -1 114 £538 -10.49% 25
North East -1 50 £481 -8.33% 28
East Midlands -20 23 £442 -9.28% 6
East of England -47 17 £513 +20.59% 25
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 76 (3.96%) Confluence
2 70 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 61 (3.18%) Apache
4 51 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (1.67%) nginx
6 22 (1.15%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.16%) IIS
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.10%) CMS
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.10%) Weka
6 1 (0.052%) InDesign
6 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.42%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.052%) Actimize
4 1 (0.052%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.052%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.052%) Endur
4 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.052%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,055 (54.92%) AWS
2 886 (46.12%) Azure
3 560 (29.15%) GitHub
4 401 (20.87%) GCP
5 365 (19.00%) Serverless
6 352 (18.32%) GitHub Actions
7 345 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
8 328 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 254 (13.22%) Amazon S3
10 237 (12.34%) AWS Lambda
11 198 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (8.07%) Amazon EC2
13 137 (7.13%) OpenShift
14 135 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 135 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
15 134 (6.98%) Azure AKS
16 133 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 130 (6.77%) Entra ID
18 129 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
19 112 (5.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 193 (10.05%) Firewall
2 138 (7.18%) DNS
3 107 (5.57%) VPN
4 102 (5.31%) Network Security
5 45 (2.34%) WAN
6 41 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.61%) DHCP
8 30 (1.56%) BGP
8 30 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 27 (1.41%) LAN
10 21 (1.09%) OSPF
11 17 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
11 17 (0.88%) VXLAN
12 15 (0.78%) SSL
13 11 (0.57%) SAN
13 11 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.57%) VLAN
14 10 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.52%) OpenVPN
15 9 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
3 84 (4.37%) Data Lake
4 72 (3.75%) Power BI
5 61 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
6 59 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 58 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 50 (2.60%) SQL Server
9 49 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
10 47 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 47 (2.45%) BigQuery
11 44 (2.29%) DynamoDB
12 40 (2.08%) Delta Lake
13 34 (1.77%) Redis
14 33 (1.72%) Relational Database
15 27 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (1.20%) Tableau
17 21 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
18 20 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 399 (20.77%) Jenkins
2 365 (19.00%) GitLab
3 257 (13.38%) Git
4 95 (4.95%) JIRA
5 47 (2.45%) Artifactory
6 30 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.41%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.30%) Liquibase
9 22 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.09%) Maven
11 18 (0.94%) MLflow
12 17 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (0.57%) JUnit
14 10 (0.52%) Gatling
14 10 (0.52%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.47%) Gradle
15 9 (0.47%) Snyk
16 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.42%) git-flow
16 8 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 388 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 300 (15.62%) Public Sector
3 214 (11.14%) Finance
4 105 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (5.15%) Banking
6 51 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 18 (0.94%) Retail
11 17 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (0.73%) Military
13 11 (0.57%) Law
14 10 (0.52%) Legal
15 9 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.36%) Health Technology
17 6 (0.31%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (0.26%) Games
18 5 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 424 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 251 (13.07%) Senior
3 229 (11.92%) Architect
4 192 (9.99%) AWS Engineer
5 186 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 179 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
7 163 (8.49%) Lead
8 161 (8.38%) Developer
9 154 (8.02%) Platform Engineer
10 142 (7.39%) Data Engineer
11 110 (5.73%) GCP Engineer
12 108 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
13 97 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 95 (4.95%) Software Engineer
15 90 (4.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 83 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 80 (4.16%) Site Engineer
18 74 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 60 (3.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 60 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (9.73%) Kafka
2 123 (6.40%) REST
3 116 (6.04%) Node.js
4 95 (4.95%) React
5 89 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
6 85 (4.42%) .NET
7 81 (4.22%) RESTful
8 80 (4.16%) ARM Templates
9 69 (3.59%) PySpark
10 65 (3.38%) OAuth
11 61 (3.18%) Spring
12 56 (2.92%) Spring Boot
13 55 (2.86%) OpenTelemetry
14 51 (2.65%) YAML
15 44 (2.29%) AngularJS
16 42 (2.19%) OpenID
17 36 (1.87%) OAuth2
18 31 (1.61%) AWS CDK
19 30 (1.56%) JSON
20 29 (1.51%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 346 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 103 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 51 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 38 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.61%) NHS
9 30 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.56%) PKI
9 30 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 29 (1.51%) Private Cloud
11 25 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.04%) Replication
13 16 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (0.78%) AI Agents
14 15 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.73%) Clustering
16 13 (0.68%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 350 (18.22%) Linux
2 156 (8.12%) Windows
3 50 (2.60%) VMS
4 42 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 37 (1.93%) Unix
7 12 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.52%) CentOS
9 6 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.26%) CoreOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.10%) zOS
14 1 (0.052%) AIX
14 1 (0.052%) Android
14 1 (0.052%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.052%) Rocky
14 1 (0.052%) Solaris
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,310 (68.19%) CI/CD
2 1,225 (63.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,196 (62.26%) DevOps
4 501 (26.08%) Containerisation
5 410 (21.34%) Agile
6 365 (19.00%) Observability
7 278 (14.47%) Platform Engineering
8 270 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
9 268 (13.95%) Migration
10 253 (13.17%) Analytics
11 237 (12.34%) Microservices
12 223 (11.61%) Infrastructure Automation
13 218 (11.35%) AI
14 211 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 206 (10.72%) Software Engineering
16 192 (9.99%) Test Automation
17 185 (9.63%) Cloud Security
18 179 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
19 175 (9.11%) DevSecOps
20 172 (8.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 934 (48.62%) Python
2 308 (16.03%) SQL
3 300 (15.62%) Bash
4 267 (13.90%) PowerShell
5 212 (11.04%) Java
6 166 (8.64%) Bicep
7 117 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 116 (6.04%) Go
9 100 (5.21%) TypeScript
10 94 (4.89%) C#
11 46 (2.39%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.61%) Ruby
13 28 (1.46%) Scala
14 25 (1.30%) Groovy
15 15 (0.78%) Rust
16 9 (0.47%) C
17 8 (0.42%) PHP
18 6 (0.31%) C++
19 5 (0.26%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 671 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 548 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 133 (6.92%) AWS Certification
4 125 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 108 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 103 (5.36%) Degree
7 72 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 43 (2.24%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 31 (1.61%) CISSP
13 28 (1.46%) CCNP
14 19 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 16 (0.83%) CCIE
16 15 (0.78%) CISM
17 14 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
18 11 (0.57%) CCNA
18 11 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 76 (3.96%) GDPR
3 64 (3.33%) QA
4 56 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.76%) NIST
6 46 (2.39%) NCSC
7 34 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 12 (0.62%) SLA
11 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.52%) GRC
11 10 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.26%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 576 (29.98%) Docker
2 103 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 78 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 67 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
5 42 (2.19%) vSphere
6 32 (1.67%) VMware NSX
7 29 (1.51%) Hyper-V
8 24 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (0.47%) Squid
10 7 (0.36%) KVM
11 6 (0.31%) NFS
12 5 (0.26%) Lustre
12 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 3 (0.16%) Firmware
15 2 (0.10%) Ceph
15 2 (0.10%) HDFS
15 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.052%) iptables
Systems Management
1 797 (41.49%) Kubernetes
2 504 (26.24%) Ansible
3 284 (14.78%) Grafana
4 248 (12.91%) Prometheus
5 77 (4.01%) Argo
6 49 (2.55%) Istio
7 39 (2.03%) Puppet
8 37 (1.93%) Packer
9 35 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 30 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.46%) vCenter Server
12 21 (1.09%) Consul
13 16 (0.83%) Kibana
13 16 (0.83%) Podman
13 16 (0.83%) Rancher
14 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
15 13 (0.68%) FortiGate
16 11 (0.57%) linkerd
17 9 (0.47%) Sysdig
18 8 (0.42%) logstash
Vendors
1 297 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 184 (9.58%) Google
3 145 (7.55%) Databricks
4 125 (6.51%) Splunk
5 119 (6.19%) VMware
6 85 (4.42%) Red Hat
7 53 (2.76%) Oracle
8 45 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 43 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.93%) Cisco
11 30 (1.56%) Pure Storage
12 29 (1.51%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.30%) F5
13 25 (1.30%) IBM
14 23 (1.20%) Fortinet
15 21 (1.09%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.04%) Atlassian
17 16 (0.83%) Citrix
17 16 (0.83%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.83%) PagerDuty