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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 -18
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,889 1,359 1,298
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.42% 5.24% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.51% 34.68% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 947 990
10th Percentile £400 £406 £430
25th Percentile £450 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 17
10th Percentile £52.24 £25.38 £60.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £62.00
Median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -6.10%
75th Percentile £81.50 £67.36 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.10 £77.19 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £66.97 £52.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year +28.17% -30.33% -

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 5,319 3,919 4,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.27% 15.10% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,669 2,564 3,358
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 42 149
10th Percentile £17.67 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.01 £20.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +101.92% -35.50% -16.02%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £77.19 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -2.78%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +2 1,013 £525 -12.50% 330
North of England +2 375 £500 -4.76% 138
Yorkshire +1 206 £500 -4.76% 43
South East +2 146 £500 -13.04% 152
Midlands +13 144 £538 +7.50% 44
North West -5 126 £500 -4.76% 76
West Midlands +10 124 £540 +1.55% 36
South West -1 122 £550 -10.39% 51
North East -5 46 £475 -12.84% 19
East of England -37 21 £550 +34.15% 12
East Midlands -16 19 £428 -12.31% 8
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 73 (3.86%) Confluence
2 62 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.02%) Apache
4 50 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 36 (1.91%) nginx
6 26 (1.38%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.64%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.11%) Drupal
10 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Maximo
2 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.053%) Actimize
4 1 (0.053%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.053%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.053%) Endur
4 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.053%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (55.74%) AWS
2 831 (43.99%) Azure
3 527 (27.90%) GitHub
4 389 (20.59%) GCP
5 351 (18.58%) Serverless
6 334 (17.68%) GitHub Actions
7 318 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 314 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
9 253 (13.39%) Amazon S3
10 225 (11.91%) AWS Lambda
11 180 (9.53%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (8.21%) Amazon EC2
13 150 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (7.36%) OpenShift
15 138 (7.31%) Amazon ECS
16 136 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 122 (6.46%) Azure AKS
18 120 (6.35%) Entra ID
19 119 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
20 101 (5.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 189 (10.01%) Firewall
2 134 (7.09%) DNS
3 108 (5.72%) Network Security
4 107 (5.66%) VPN
5 50 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 43 (2.28%) WAN
7 30 (1.59%) BGP
8 29 (1.54%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.48%) DHCP
9 28 (1.48%) LAN
10 25 (1.32%) OSPF
10 25 (1.32%) SSL
11 14 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
11 14 (0.74%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.64%) HTTP
12 12 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
12 12 (0.64%) VLAN
13 10 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (0.53%) MPLS
13 10 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 79 (4.18%) Data Lake
4 71 (3.76%) Power BI
5 68 (3.60%) NoSQL
6 59 (3.12%) MongoDB
7 55 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
8 53 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 41 (2.17%) DynamoDB
12 40 (2.12%) SQL Server
13 36 (1.91%) Relational Database
14 35 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 34 (1.80%) Redis
16 32 (1.69%) Delta Lake
17 29 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
18 24 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
19 23 (1.22%) Tableau
20 20 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 413 (21.86%) Jenkins
2 378 (20.01%) GitLab
3 245 (12.97%) Git
4 92 (4.87%) JIRA
5 45 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 36 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 33 (1.75%) Liquibase
8 29 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.27%) CircleCI
9 24 (1.27%) Maven
10 21 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (0.79%) MLflow
12 14 (0.74%) Gradle
13 13 (0.69%) JUnit
14 12 (0.64%) Terragrunt
15 10 (0.53%) Selenium
15 10 (0.53%) Snyk
16 8 (0.42%) Gatling
16 8 (0.42%) Postman
16 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 417 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 303 (16.04%) Public Sector
3 208 (11.01%) Finance
4 99 (5.24%) Banking
5 97 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (1.01%) Retail
12 17 (0.90%) Military
13 11 (0.58%) Law
14 9 (0.48%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.42%) Marketing
16 7 (0.37%) Health Technology
16 7 (0.37%) Legal
17 6 (0.32%) Billing
17 6 (0.32%) Games
17 6 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 442 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 246 (13.02%) Senior
3 208 (11.01%) Architect
4 201 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
5 170 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
6 167 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 165 (8.73%) Lead
8 163 (8.63%) Developer
9 152 (8.05%) Platform Engineer
10 140 (7.41%) Data Engineer
11 113 (5.98%) AWS DevOps
12 102 (5.40%) Software Engineer
13 97 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 96 (5.08%) GCP Engineer
15 91 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 81 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 75 (3.97%) Site Engineer
18 73 (3.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 66 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
19 66 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (10.06%) Kafka
2 123 (6.51%) REST
3 120 (6.35%) Node.js
4 100 (5.29%) React
5 98 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
6 86 (4.55%) RESTful
7 81 (4.29%) ARM Templates
8 78 (4.13%) .NET
9 67 (3.55%) OAuth
10 63 (3.34%) PySpark
11 62 (3.28%) Spring
12 58 (3.07%) Spring Boot
13 51 (2.70%) YAML
14 47 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
15 43 (2.28%) AngularJS
15 43 (2.28%) OpenID
16 37 (1.96%) OAuth2
17 32 (1.69%) AWS CDK
18 29 (1.54%) JSON
18 29 (1.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 338 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 111 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 79 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 36 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 32 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.59%) Security Posture
10 29 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.54%) NHS
11 26 (1.38%) PKI
12 25 (1.32%) Replication
13 22 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (0.74%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.74%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.69%) Clustering
17 11 (0.58%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 364 (19.27%) Linux
2 154 (8.15%) Windows
3 49 (2.59%) Unix
3 49 (2.59%) VMS
4 44 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.69%) CentOS
8 10 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.16%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.053%) Android
12 1 (0.053%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.053%) Rocky
12 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,298 (68.71%) CI/CD
2 1,198 (63.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,187 (62.84%) DevOps
4 504 (26.68%) Containerisation
5 403 (21.33%) Agile
6 348 (18.42%) Observability
7 269 (14.24%) Platform Engineering
8 264 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
9 259 (13.71%) Migration
10 238 (12.60%) Microservices
11 230 (12.18%) Infrastructure Automation
12 222 (11.75%) Analytics
13 217 (11.49%) Software Engineering
14 206 (10.91%) AI
15 202 (10.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 185 (9.79%) DevSecOps
17 183 (9.69%) Cloud Security
18 182 (9.63%) Test Automation
19 173 (9.16%) Mentoring
20 163 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 938 (49.66%) Python
2 297 (15.72%) Bash
3 278 (14.72%) SQL
4 246 (13.02%) PowerShell
5 214 (11.33%) Java
6 149 (7.89%) Bicep
7 132 (6.99%) Go
8 127 (6.72%) JavaScript
9 99 (5.24%) TypeScript
10 91 (4.82%) C#
11 55 (2.91%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.54%) Groovy
12 29 (1.54%) Ruby
13 23 (1.22%) Scala
14 14 (0.74%) Rust
15 10 (0.53%) C
16 8 (0.42%) PHP
17 7 (0.37%) C++
18 6 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 671 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 555 (29.38%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.31%) AWS Certification
4 118 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 116 (6.14%) Degree
6 110 (5.82%) DV Cleared
7 80 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.70%) Master's Degree
10 43 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (1.69%) CISSP
14 24 (1.27%) CCNP
15 18 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 17 (0.90%) CISM
17 16 (0.85%) CCIE
18 11 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
18 11 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.92%) GDPR
3 61 (3.23%) QA
4 58 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (2.91%) NIST
6 49 (2.59%) NCSC
7 30 (1.59%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 17 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 10 (0.53%) SLA
11 9 (0.48%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.42%) GRC
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 20022
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
1 599 (31.71%) Docker
2 100 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 75 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (2.01%) vSphere
6 34 (1.80%) VMware NSX
7 33 (1.75%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.69%) Squid
10 8 (0.42%) KVM
11 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
13 5 (0.26%) Lustre
13 5 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
14 4 (0.21%) GPFS
14 4 (0.21%) Postfix
15 3 (0.16%) NFS
15 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 799 (42.30%) Kubernetes
2 518 (27.42%) Ansible
3 289 (15.30%) Grafana
4 251 (13.29%) Prometheus
5 70 (3.71%) Argo
6 44 (2.33%) Istio
7 42 (2.22%) Puppet
8 37 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.91%) Progress Chef
10 35 (1.85%) Packer
11 27 (1.43%) vCenter Server
12 20 (1.06%) Consul
13 19 (1.01%) Kibana
14 18 (0.95%) Podman
15 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
16 12 (0.64%) logstash
17 11 (0.58%) FortiGate
18 10 (0.53%) Nessus
18 10 (0.53%) Rancher
19 9 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 275 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.79%) Google
3 137 (7.25%) Databricks
4 128 (6.78%) Splunk
5 116 (6.14%) VMware
6 79 (4.18%) Red Hat
7 50 (2.65%) Oracle
8 46 (2.44%) Dynatrace
9 41 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.12%) Cisco
10 40 (2.12%) Palo Alto
11 39 (2.06%) F5
12 32 (1.69%) IBM
13 29 (1.54%) Pure Storage
14 26 (1.38%) CheckPoint
15 22 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.06%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.01%) SolarWinds
18 18 (0.95%) OpenAI
19 17 (0.90%) Citrix