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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,459 1,426 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.28% 5.17% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 24.80% 20.27% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 987 978
10th Percentile £402 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £452 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.58% -5.36%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 5 10
10th Percentile £57.25 £42.10 £54.13
25th Percentile £61.74 £51.25 £59.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.02 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% -1.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Terraform falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,915 7,035 7,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.30% 25.48% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,512 4,783 5,317
10th Percentile £381 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 168 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.88 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 1,298 £550 +3.53% 1,493
North of England 0 511 £500 -2.44% 343
Yorkshire -10 237 £511 -0.24% 95
South East -5 221 £574 +14.70% 296
North West +22 188 £575 +15.00% 197
South West +3 186 £550 - 198
Midlands -32 120 £477 -13.27% 136
North East -2 98 £425 -18.27% 53
West Midlands -28 95 £511 -7.18% 85
East of England -16 50 £550 +13.92% 72
East Midlands -8 24 £413 -15.38% 51
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
1 107 (4.35%) Confluence
2 104 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 89 (3.62%) Apache
5 47 (1.91%) Jupyter
6 40 (1.63%) SharePoint
7 28 (1.14%) nginx
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.20%) CMS
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
14 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
14 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
14 2 (0.081%) Traefik
14 2 (0.081%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.041%) Anypoint
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.041%) Houdini
6 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.041%) NUKE
6 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.041%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.041%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.041%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,404 (57.10%) AWS
2 1,233 (50.14%) Azure
3 654 (26.60%) GitHub
4 507 (20.62%) GCP
5 460 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
6 437 (17.77%) Azure DevOps
7 349 (14.19%) Serverless
8 281 (11.43%) Amazon S3
9 260 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 259 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
11 229 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
12 216 (8.78%) Entra ID
13 203 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 169 (6.87%) Azure AKS
15 155 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
16 150 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
17 143 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 133 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 127 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
20 101 (4.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 276 (11.22%) Firewall
2 198 (8.05%) DNS
3 133 (5.41%) VPN
4 122 (4.96%) Network Security
5 89 (3.62%) TCP/IP
6 84 (3.42%) DHCP
7 78 (3.17%) WAN
8 68 (2.77%) BGP
9 49 (1.99%) OSPF
10 47 (1.91%) SD-WAN
11 43 (1.75%) VLAN
12 32 (1.30%) VSAN
13 30 (1.22%) VXLAN
14 29 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
16 26 (1.06%) SSH
17 25 (1.02%) SSL
18 24 (0.98%) BIG-IP
19 18 (0.73%) Internet
20 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
3 86 (3.50%) Data Lake
3 86 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
5 72 (2.93%) MongoDB
5 72 (2.93%) NoSQL
6 71 (2.89%) DynamoDB
7 69 (2.81%) SQL Server
8 67 (2.72%) BigQuery
8 67 (2.72%) Power BI
9 66 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 52 (2.11%) Redis
11 50 (2.03%) MySQL
11 50 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 45 (1.83%) Delta Lake
13 44 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
13 44 (1.79%) Metadata
14 37 (1.50%) Big Data
15 33 (1.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 466 (18.95%) GitLab
2 385 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 371 (15.09%) Git
4 132 (5.37%) JIRA
5 45 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 31 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 31 (1.26%) Maven
7 29 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 20 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 20 (0.81%) Claude Code
8 20 (0.81%) Snyk
9 19 (0.77%) Selenium
10 17 (0.69%) Terragrunt
11 15 (0.61%) JUnit
12 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.53%) MLflow
13 12 (0.49%) MSI
14 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.37%) Cucumber
15 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 499 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 355 (14.44%) Public Sector
3 340 (13.83%) Finance
4 157 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 111 (4.51%) Banking
6 72 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (1.99%) Retail
8 36 (1.46%) Military
9 24 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 20 (0.81%) Publishing
11 19 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.73%) Law
12 18 (0.73%) Legal
13 16 (0.65%) Local Government
14 14 (0.57%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 13 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 534 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 445 (18.10%) Senior
3 266 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 241 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
5 224 (9.11%) Developer
6 223 (9.07%) AWS Engineer
7 222 (9.03%) Platform Engineer
8 220 (8.95%) Architect
9 205 (8.34%) Lead
10 181 (7.36%) Data Engineer
11 161 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
12 105 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
13 101 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 100 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 99 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 99 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 92 (3.74%) Security Engineer
17 87 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
17 87 (3.54%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (7.93%) Kafka
2 174 (7.08%) REST
3 115 (4.68%) .NET
4 110 (4.47%) React
5 104 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 102 (4.15%) OAuth
7 98 (3.99%) RESTful
8 96 (3.90%) Node.js
8 96 (3.90%) PySpark
9 78 (3.17%) YAML
10 68 (2.77%) OAuth2
11 66 (2.68%) OpenID
11 66 (2.68%) Spring
12 65 (2.64%) Spring Boot
13 56 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (2.16%) JSON
15 41 (1.67%) HTML
15 41 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
16 39 (1.59%) AWS CDK
17 37 (1.50%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 580 (23.59%) Cloud Native
2 147 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
4 105 (4.27%) Data Centre
5 94 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 85 (3.46%) Security Posture
7 84 (3.42%) Product Ownership
8 80 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 56 (2.28%) PKI
10 55 (2.24%) AI Agents
11 53 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
12 52 (2.11%) Replication
13 51 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
14 49 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
15 43 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
16 42 (1.71%) Private Cloud
17 35 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
18 34 (1.38%) Management Information System
19 33 (1.34%) NHS
20 28 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 445 (18.10%) Linux
2 247 (10.04%) Windows
3 88 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (1.63%) Unix
6 39 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.22%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
8 19 (0.77%) CentOS
9 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.081%) CoreOS
15 2 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,818 (73.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,678 (68.24%) CI/CD
3 1,407 (57.22%) DevOps
4 626 (25.46%) Observability
5 606 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 605 (24.60%) Agile
7 561 (22.81%) Platform Engineering
8 419 (17.04%) AI
9 341 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 318 (12.93%) Migration
11 310 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 310 (12.61%) Test Automation
12 308 (12.53%) Cloud Security
13 301 (12.24%) Software Engineering
14 299 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
15 288 (11.71%) DevSecOps
16 275 (11.18%) Analytics
17 274 (11.14%) Infrastructure Automation
18 264 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 249 (10.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,206 (49.04%) Python
2 474 (19.28%) PowerShell
3 449 (18.26%) Bash
4 373 (15.17%) SQL
5 292 (11.87%) Java
6 285 (11.59%) Bicep
7 140 (5.69%) JavaScript
8 133 (5.41%) C#
9 124 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 94 (3.82%) Go
11 53 (2.16%) Groovy
12 48 (1.95%) Scala
13 45 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 12 (0.49%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.37%) R
18 9 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 880 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 710 (28.87%) SC Cleared
3 200 (8.13%) DV Cleared
4 174 (7.08%) Azure Certification
5 161 (6.55%) AWS Certification
6 106 (4.31%) Degree
7 65 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
9 54 (2.20%) CISSP
10 53 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 43 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.18%) CCNP
13 20 (0.81%) CISM
13 20 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 17 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 15 (0.61%) VCAP
17 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 93 (3.78%) QA
3 60 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (2.20%) NIST
5 53 (2.16%) NCSC
6 50 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 44 (1.79%) GDPR
8 24 (0.98%) WCAG
9 20 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.53%) SOC 2
11 11 (0.45%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.24%) PSD2
14 5 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.20%) HL7
14 5 (0.20%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 685 (27.86%) Docker
2 172 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 115 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 46 (1.87%) vSphere
7 43 (1.75%) Hyper-V
8 38 (1.55%) VMware NSX
9 35 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
10 19 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
11 14 (0.57%) Squid
12 8 (0.33%) KVM
13 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 6 (0.24%) NFS
14 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.20%) Firmware
14 5 (0.20%) Postfix
15 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 997 (40.54%) Kubernetes
2 590 (23.99%) Ansible
3 301 (12.24%) Grafana
4 240 (9.76%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.25%) Argo
6 61 (2.48%) Puppet
7 53 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (1.59%) Packer
10 28 (1.14%) Istio
11 27 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 25 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.94%) Kibana
14 22 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
16 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
16 17 (0.69%) Kubeflow
17 16 (0.65%) FortiGate
18 15 (0.61%) Podman
18 15 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 472 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 223 (9.07%) Google
3 157 (6.38%) VMware
4 142 (5.77%) Databricks
5 136 (5.53%) Splunk
6 103 (4.19%) Oracle
7 88 (3.58%) Dynatrace
8 87 (3.54%) Cisco
9 78 (3.17%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.64%) Palo Alto
10 65 (2.64%) Red Hat
11 40 (1.63%) F5
12 38 (1.55%) OpenAI
13 35 (1.42%) Arista
14 34 (1.38%) Zscaler
15 31 (1.26%) Fortinet
16 29 (1.18%) Informatica
17 28 (1.14%) CyberArk
17 28 (1.14%) Okta
18 24 (0.98%) Foundry