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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,322 1,411 1,367
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.12% 5.08% 4.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.71% 32.78% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,612 976 984
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £650
90th Percentile £706 £704 £735
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 11
10th Percentile £55.31 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.13 £55.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -15.54% -5.13%
75th Percentile £88.15 £71.23 £74.44
90th Percentile £99.41 £80.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% -10.71% -4.11%

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 5,998 4,305 4,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.50% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,087 2,863 3,232
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £694 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.74% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.50 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +56.77% -31.55%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +65.33% +15.38% -43.48%

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 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 1,212 £550 +0.92% 602
North of England +13 506 £500 -2.44% 210
Yorkshire -5 233 £500 -2.44% 64
North West +39 206 £571 +8.76% 115
South East -12 198 £550 +10.00% 161
South West +7 156 £550 -8.33% 131
Midlands -15 133 £511 -0.39% 58
West Midlands -20 110 £505 -7.29% 44
North East -5 81 £425 -16.67% 32
East of England -2 50 £525 +10.53% 22
East Midlands -15 21 £500 +2.56% 13
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
1 119 (5.12%) Confluence
2 88 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 86 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (3.36%) Apache
5 37 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 29 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 23 (0.99%) nginx
8 13 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
8 13 (0.56%) SAS
9 7 (0.30%) IIS
10 6 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.17%) CMS
11 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.086%) CloudStack
12 2 (0.086%) Traefik
13 1 (0.043%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.043%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.043%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.043%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.043%) Houdini
5 1 (0.043%) InDesign
5 1 (0.043%) NUKE
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.043%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.086%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.086%) Endur
2 2 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.043%) Maximo
3 1 (0.043%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,317 (56.72%) AWS
2 1,162 (50.04%) Azure
3 640 (27.56%) GitHub
4 471 (20.28%) GCP
5 442 (19.04%) GitHub Actions
6 407 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
7 338 (14.56%) Serverless
8 272 (11.71%) Amazon S3
9 262 (11.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 246 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
11 211 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
12 171 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 160 (6.89%) Entra ID
14 159 (6.85%) Azure AKS
15 142 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
16 134 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 128 (5.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 126 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
19 118 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
20 89 (3.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 267 (11.50%) Firewall
2 191 (8.23%) DNS
3 136 (5.86%) VPN
4 102 (4.39%) Network Security
5 79 (3.40%) WAN
6 75 (3.23%) TCP/IP
7 69 (2.97%) BGP
8 63 (2.71%) DHCP
9 49 (2.11%) OSPF
10 43 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.59%) VXLAN
12 33 (1.42%) VLAN
13 28 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 27 (1.16%) Ethernet VPN
15 23 (0.99%) BIG-IP
16 22 (0.95%) SSL
16 22 (0.95%) VSAN
17 21 (0.90%) SSH
18 17 (0.73%) Internet
18 17 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
3 81 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
4 71 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 69 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 67 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 66 (2.84%) Power BI
8 64 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 63 (2.71%) BigQuery
9 63 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
9 63 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 55 (2.37%) MongoDB
11 49 (2.11%) Delta Lake
12 47 (2.02%) Relational Database
13 39 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 37 (1.59%) Redis
15 36 (1.55%) Oracle Database
16 29 (1.25%) Metadata
16 29 (1.25%) MySQL
17 28 (1.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 415 (17.87%) GitLab
2 388 (16.71%) Jenkins
3 340 (14.64%) Git
4 149 (6.42%) JIRA
5 43 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.21%) Maven
8 27 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 22 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (0.73%) MLflow
10 17 (0.73%) Snyk
11 16 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 13 (0.56%) Claude Code
13 11 (0.47%) Gatling
13 11 (0.47%) JUnit
13 11 (0.47%) MSI
14 10 (0.43%) CircleCI
14 10 (0.43%) Terragrunt
15 9 (0.39%) Liquibase
15 9 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 414 (17.83%) Social Skills
2 344 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 291 (12.53%) Finance
4 135 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (3.96%) Banking
6 63 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (2.02%) Retail
9 26 (1.12%) Military
10 25 (1.08%) Legal
11 23 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 21 (0.90%) Publishing
13 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.65%) Law
15 13 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.52%) Billing
16 12 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.47%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 510 (21.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 407 (17.53%) Senior
3 263 (11.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (9.47%) Architect
5 219 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
6 213 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
7 210 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
8 204 (8.79%) Developer
9 203 (8.74%) Lead
10 171 (7.36%) Data Engineer
11 158 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 103 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
14 100 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
15 99 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 96 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 95 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 83 (3.57%) Network Engineer
19 78 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.28%) Kafka
2 156 (6.72%) REST
3 114 (4.91%) .NET
4 112 (4.82%) React
5 102 (4.39%) Node.js
6 93 (4.01%) PySpark
7 86 (3.70%) RESTful
8 78 (3.36%) ARM Templates
9 75 (3.23%) OAuth
10 71 (3.06%) YAML
11 57 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
11 57 (2.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 54 (2.33%) Spring
13 52 (2.24%) OAuth2
14 51 (2.20%) Spring Boot
15 50 (2.15%) OpenID
16 48 (2.07%) JSON
17 40 (1.72%) HTML
18 38 (1.64%) AngularJS
19 34 (1.46%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 555 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 138 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 121 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 82 (3.53%) Onboarding
6 79 (3.40%) Product Ownership
7 69 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 58 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 51 (2.20%) PKI
10 43 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 42 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 41 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
13 38 (1.64%) Replication
14 33 (1.42%) AI Agents
14 33 (1.42%) Private Cloud
15 32 (1.38%) NHS
16 29 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
17 28 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (1.08%) Management Information System
18 25 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 397 (17.10%) Linux
2 228 (9.82%) Windows
3 84 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 31 (1.34%) VMS
7 29 (1.25%) Unix
8 19 (0.82%) AIX
9 12 (0.52%) CentOS
10 11 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 7 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
13 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (0.17%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.086%) Solaris
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,651 (71.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,559 (67.14%) CI/CD
3 1,362 (58.66%) DevOps
4 574 (24.72%) Agile
5 562 (24.20%) Containerisation
6 515 (22.18%) Observability
7 490 (21.10%) Platform Engineering
8 338 (14.56%) AI
9 290 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
10 284 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 281 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 281 (12.10%) Migration
12 267 (11.50%) Test Automation
13 260 (11.20%) Cloud Security
14 252 (10.85%) Analytics
15 246 (10.59%) Software Engineering
16 228 (9.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 227 (9.78%) Infrastructure Automation
18 222 (9.56%) DevSecOps
19 221 (9.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (47.42%) Python
2 419 (18.04%) Bash
3 402 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 353 (15.20%) SQL
5 269 (11.58%) Java
6 248 (10.68%) Bicep
7 145 (6.24%) JavaScript
8 128 (5.51%) TypeScript
9 123 (5.30%) C#
10 76 (3.27%) Go
11 48 (2.07%) Scala
12 47 (2.02%) Groovy
13 31 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 18 (0.78%) Rust
15 14 (0.60%) Ruby
16 12 (0.52%) R
17 11 (0.47%) C
18 9 (0.39%) Perl
19 8 (0.34%) Kotlin
20 7 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 839 (36.13%) Security Cleared
2 681 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 180 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 153 (6.59%) Azure Certification
5 124 (5.34%) AWS Certification
6 90 (3.88%) Degree
7 65 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 45 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 44 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.38%) CCNP
12 32 (1.38%) CISSP
13 19 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.69%) CCNA
14 16 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.56%) VCAP
17 10 (0.43%) CCIE
17 10 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.19%) QA
3 46 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 46 (1.98%) GDPR
4 41 (1.77%) NCSC
5 39 (1.68%) NIST
6 38 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.82%) WCAG
9 8 (0.34%) GRC
9 8 (0.34%) SLA
10 6 (0.26%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.22%) HL7
11 5 (0.22%) PSD2
12 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.17%) SEPA
13 3 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 631 (27.17%) Docker
2 148 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 105 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 53 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 44 (1.89%) vSphere
7 42 (1.81%) Hyper-V
8 41 (1.77%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
10 17 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
11 16 (0.69%) Squid
12 11 (0.47%) NFS
13 9 (0.39%) KVM
14 6 (0.26%) Firmware
15 5 (0.22%) Ceph
16 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.13%) Postfix
17 2 (0.086%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 2 (0.086%) OpenSSH
17 2 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 887 (38.20%) Kubernetes
2 534 (23.00%) Ansible
3 287 (12.36%) Grafana
4 241 (10.38%) Prometheus
5 95 (4.09%) Argo
6 59 (2.54%) Puppet
7 45 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.55%) Packer
9 34 (1.46%) Istio
10 33 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (1.16%) vCenter Server
12 20 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
12 20 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (0.82%) Data Guard
13 19 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.73%) Podman
15 16 (0.69%) Kibana
15 16 (0.69%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.60%) SCCM
17 13 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 387 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 209 (9.00%) Google
3 142 (6.12%) VMware
4 132 (5.68%) Splunk
5 121 (5.21%) Databricks
6 98 (4.22%) Oracle
7 82 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 78 (3.36%) Dynatrace
9 72 (3.10%) ServiceNow
10 67 (2.89%) Cisco
11 61 (2.63%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.81%) F5
13 35 (1.51%) Arista
13 35 (1.51%) OpenAI
14 30 (1.29%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.29%) Zscaler
15 25 (1.08%) Informatica
16 24 (1.03%) Aruba
16 24 (1.03%) Foundry
17 23 (0.99%) Juniper