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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -19
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,005 1,240 1,240
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.92% 5.10% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.33% 32.68% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 900 922
10th Percentile £400 £404 £425
25th Percentile £440 £464 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £650
90th Percentile £694 £750 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 7
10th Percentile £42.25 £25.38 £40.55
25th Percentile £54.55 £26.97 £50.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £48.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% -21.77% -20.51%
75th Percentile £78.63 £61.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £82.90 £77.33 £75.66
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.26% -4.55% -27.15%

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 5,519 3,794 4,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 15.61% 11.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,827 2,619 3,158
10th Percentile £316 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £691 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 37 109
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £57.63 £28.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +105.83% +8.91% -55.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.30 £80.40 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +113.21% +2.85% -55.19%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -1 1,077 £525 -4.55% 291
North of England +17 385 £500 -4.76% 156
Yorkshire +9 205 £488 -7.14% 40
South East -15 155 £513 +2.40% 147
Midlands -4 141 £525 -2.78% 50
North West +22 139 £528 +0.57% 82
South West -5 120 £550 -10.57% 64
West Midlands -1 114 £525 -8.70% 30
North East -5 50 £475 -9.52% 34
East of England -28 40 £475 -5.00% 29
East Midlands -23 26 £438 -12.50% 20
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 82 (4.09%) Apache Spark
2 81 (4.04%) Confluence
3 58 (2.89%) Apache
4 48 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 25 (1.25%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.90%) nginx
7 15 (0.75%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.55%) SAS
9 9 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.100%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.100%) CMS
13 2 (0.100%) Drupal
13 2 (0.100%) Traefik
13 2 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.100%) Weka
6 1 (0.050%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (0.30%) Maximo
2 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) Actimize
3 1 (0.050%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.050%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,068 (53.27%) AWS
2 987 (49.23%) Azure
3 579 (28.88%) GitHub
4 403 (20.10%) GCP
5 384 (19.15%) GitHub Actions
6 349 (17.41%) Serverless
7 346 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
8 307 (15.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 258 (12.87%) Amazon S3
10 250 (12.47%) AWS Lambda
11 198 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
12 145 (7.23%) Azure AKS
13 143 (7.13%) Amazon EC2
14 140 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 135 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
16 129 (6.43%) OpenShift
17 119 (5.94%) Entra ID
17 119 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 118 (5.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 117 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 196 (9.78%) Firewall
2 132 (6.58%) DNS
3 112 (5.59%) VPN
4 98 (4.89%) Network Security
5 53 (2.64%) WAN
6 40 (2.00%) BGP
7 36 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 34 (1.70%) SD-WAN
9 28 (1.40%) OSPF
10 22 (1.10%) DHCP
11 21 (1.05%) VXLAN
12 19 (0.95%) LAN
13 18 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
14 17 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
15 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 14 (0.70%) SAN
16 13 (0.65%) BIG-IP
16 13 (0.65%) SSL
17 11 (0.55%) OpenVPN
18 10 (0.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (4.04%) Data Lake
4 79 (3.94%) Power BI
5 75 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
6 66 (3.29%) SQL Server
7 57 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 51 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 50 (2.49%) DynamoDB
10 49 (2.44%) Delta Lake
11 48 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 47 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 45 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
14 44 (2.19%) MongoDB
15 35 (1.75%) Redis
16 32 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
16 32 (1.60%) Relational Database
17 29 (1.45%) Big Data
18 28 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 23 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 372 (18.55%) Jenkins
2 334 (16.66%) GitLab
3 278 (13.87%) Git
4 114 (5.69%) JIRA
5 44 (2.19%) Artifactory
6 33 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 27 (1.35%) Maven
8 25 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 18 (0.90%) CircleCI
10 17 (0.85%) MLflow
11 16 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (0.75%) Snyk
13 12 (0.60%) Gatling
13 12 (0.60%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.45%) git-flow
15 9 (0.45%) JUnit
15 9 (0.45%) Terragrunt
16 8 (0.40%) Gradle
17 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 347 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 281 (14.01%) Public Sector
3 213 (10.62%) Finance
4 94 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 85 (4.24%) Banking
6 53 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.00%) Retail
9 19 (0.95%) Legal
10 12 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (0.60%) Military
11 11 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (0.50%) Law
13 9 (0.45%) Health Technology
13 9 (0.45%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.35%) Publishing
16 6 (0.30%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.30%) Front Office
17 5 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 437 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 300 (14.96%) Senior
3 227 (11.32%) Architect
4 202 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 198 (9.88%) Azure Engineer
6 187 (9.33%) Developer
7 168 (8.38%) AWS Engineer
8 166 (8.28%) Data Engineer
9 155 (7.73%) Lead
10 141 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
11 109 (5.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 108 (5.39%) GCP Engineer
12 108 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 89 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
14 85 (4.24%) Site Engineer
15 80 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.64%) Software Engineer
17 67 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 66 (3.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 66 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (8.88%) Kafka
2 118 (5.89%) Node.js
3 103 (5.14%) .NET
3 103 (5.14%) React
4 99 (4.94%) REST
5 79 (3.94%) PySpark
6 72 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
7 70 (3.49%) Spring
8 67 (3.34%) OAuth
8 67 (3.34%) RESTful
9 66 (3.29%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
10 64 (3.19%) Spring Boot
11 56 (2.79%) YAML
12 53 (2.64%) AngularJS
13 50 (2.49%) OpenID
14 42 (2.09%) OAuth2
15 41 (2.04%) AWS CDK
16 36 (1.80%) JSON
17 28 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 419 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 101 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 87 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 76 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 75 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 50 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 39 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 34 (1.70%) Private Cloud
9 32 (1.60%) PKI
10 31 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.45%) Replication
12 27 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 25 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.10%) NHS
15 21 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 19 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.80%) Clustering
18 14 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 307 (15.31%) Linux
2 150 (7.48%) Windows
3 44 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 42 (2.09%) VMS
6 27 (1.35%) Unix
7 15 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.50%) CentOS
9 7 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 7 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.100%) Android
13 2 (0.100%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.100%) Debian
13 2 (0.100%) Rocky
13 2 (0.100%) zOS
14 1 (0.050%) AIX
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,355 (67.58%) CI/CD
2 1,322 (65.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1,204 (60.05%) DevOps
4 503 (25.09%) Containerisation
5 443 (22.09%) Agile
6 403 (20.10%) Observability
7 324 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
8 266 (13.27%) Migration
9 247 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
10 245 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 244 (12.17%) Analytics
12 240 (11.97%) AI
13 207 (10.32%) Microservices
13 207 (10.32%) Software Engineering
14 206 (10.27%) Test Automation
15 205 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 185 (9.23%) Cloud Security
17 183 (9.13%) Infrastructure Automation
18 182 (9.08%) DevSecOps
19 180 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 913 (45.54%) Python
2 331 (16.51%) SQL
3 283 (14.11%) PowerShell
4 281 (14.01%) Bash
5 236 (11.77%) Java
6 179 (8.93%) Bicep
7 127 (6.33%) JavaScript
8 115 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 114 (5.69%) C#
10 87 (4.34%) Go
11 52 (2.59%) Scala
12 40 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.75%) Groovy
14 31 (1.55%) Ruby
15 14 (0.70%) Rust
16 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.40%) R
17 7 (0.35%) Perl
18 6 (0.30%) C
18 6 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 713 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 594 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 139 (6.93%) Azure Certification
4 117 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 106 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 74 (3.69%) Degree
7 62 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 56 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 45 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (1.40%) CCNP
13 24 (1.20%) CISSP
14 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 15 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
15 14 (0.70%) CCNA
15 14 (0.70%) OCP
16 13 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.60%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.09%) Data Quality
2 63 (3.14%) QA
3 62 (3.09%) GDPR
4 49 (2.44%) NIST
5 48 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.70%) NCSC
8 19 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.65%) SLA
10 11 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.55%) GRC
11 9 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.30%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.25%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.20%) HL7
15 4 (0.20%) PSD2
15 4 (0.20%) SEPA
16 3 (0.15%) ISO 8583
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 538 (26.83%) Docker
2 94 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 74 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 52 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.95%) Hyper-V
7 26 (1.30%) vSphere
8 22 (1.10%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.60%) Squid
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
10 8 (0.40%) NFS
11 5 (0.25%) Firmware
11 5 (0.25%) Lustre
11 5 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.20%) GPFS
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.100%) Ceph
13 2 (0.100%) Corosync
13 2 (0.100%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 792 (39.50%) Kubernetes
2 485 (24.19%) Ansible
3 270 (13.47%) Grafana
4 231 (11.52%) Prometheus
5 83 (4.14%) Argo
6 48 (2.39%) Puppet
7 46 (2.29%) Istio
8 35 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 26 (1.30%) Packer
10 24 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 23 (1.15%) Kibana
12 22 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 17 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 17 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (0.75%) Rancher
15 13 (0.65%) Consul
16 11 (0.55%) linkerd
17 10 (0.50%) Podman
18 9 (0.45%) HAProxy
18 9 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 317 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 182 (9.08%) Google
3 130 (6.48%) Databricks
4 121 (6.03%) Splunk
5 109 (5.44%) VMware
6 83 (4.14%) Red Hat
7 66 (3.29%) Oracle
8 60 (2.99%) Dynatrace
9 55 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 43 (2.14%) Cisco
11 34 (1.70%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.30%) Pure Storage
13 25 (1.25%) Fortinet
14 23 (1.15%) F5
15 22 (1.10%) IBM
16 21 (1.05%) Arista
17 20 (1.00%) OpenAI
18 18 (0.90%) Zscaler
19 16 (0.80%) Citrix
20 15 (0.75%) Atlassian