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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,462 1,464 1,410
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.33% 5.21% 4.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 25.04% 20.43% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,002 986
10th Percentile £400 £400 £403
25th Percentile £450 £450 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £552
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.81% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £735
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 9
10th Percentile £58.69 £42.10 £55.25
25th Percentile £63.88 £51.25 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -3.31%
75th Percentile £84.84 £62.50 £74.44
90th Percentile £98.82 £63.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% -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 9,834 7,167 8,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.51% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,836 5,249
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £450 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 170 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.68 £41.34 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +5 1,317 £550 +2.33% 1,614
North of England -1 501 £500 - 354
Yorkshire -13 219 £510 +2.00% 104
South East +6 217 £575 +14.89% 252
South West +10 195 £550 - 174
North West +22 193 £561 +12.25% 200
Midlands -38 115 £482 -10.69% 113
North East -6 98 £425 -18.27% 50
West Midlands -43 90 £519 -5.68% 68
East of England -21 42 £550 +14.88% 88
East Midlands -7 24 £413 -13.16% 45
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
1 108 (4.39%) Confluence
2 107 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (3.94%) Apache
3 97 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.95%) Jupyter
5 40 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 36 (1.46%) nginx
7 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.49%) SAS
9 10 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.24%) CMS
11 6 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.081%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.081%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.081%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.12%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.041%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.041%) Houdini
5 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.041%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.041%) NUKE
5 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.20%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.081%) Endur
2 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.041%) Aladdin
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%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,401 (56.90%) AWS
2 1,230 (49.96%) Azure
3 659 (26.77%) GitHub
4 516 (20.96%) GCP
5 462 (18.77%) GitHub Actions
6 441 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
7 341 (13.85%) Serverless
8 286 (11.62%) Amazon S3
9 255 (10.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 250 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
11 247 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
12 237 (9.63%) Entra ID
13 208 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 174 (7.07%) Azure AKS
15 173 (7.03%) Azure Monitor
16 158 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
17 149 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 138 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
19 136 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 108 (4.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 283 (11.49%) Firewall
2 208 (8.45%) DNS
3 138 (5.61%) Network Security
3 138 (5.61%) VPN
4 97 (3.94%) TCP/IP
5 91 (3.70%) DHCP
6 75 (3.05%) WAN
7 67 (2.72%) BGP
8 48 (1.95%) OSPF
9 46 (1.87%) SD-WAN
10 43 (1.75%) VLAN
11 32 (1.30%) VSAN
12 29 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 29 (1.18%) VXLAN
13 27 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
13 27 (1.10%) SSH
13 27 (1.10%) SSL
14 25 (1.02%) BIG-IP
15 21 (0.85%) Internet
16 17 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
3 91 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
4 87 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 80 (3.25%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.09%) MongoDB
7 73 (2.97%) NoSQL
8 68 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 67 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
9 67 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 67 (2.72%) Power BI
10 63 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 56 (2.27%) Redis
12 55 (2.23%) Relational Database
13 53 (2.15%) Metadata
14 52 (2.11%) MySQL
15 47 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
16 46 (1.87%) Delta Lake
17 41 (1.67%) Big Data
18 35 (1.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 486 (19.74%) GitLab
2 405 (16.45%) Jenkins
3 389 (15.80%) Git
4 127 (5.16%) JIRA
5 40 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 34 (1.38%) Maven
6 34 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 22 (0.89%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.85%) Selenium
10 20 (0.81%) Artifactory
11 18 (0.73%) Snyk
12 16 (0.65%) Terragrunt
13 15 (0.61%) JUnit
14 13 (0.53%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.49%) MLflow
15 12 (0.49%) MSI
16 10 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 9 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 519 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 361 (14.66%) Finance
3 356 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 168 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (4.91%) Banking
6 69 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (1.87%) Retail
8 45 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (1.46%) Military
10 27 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 20 (0.81%) Legal
12 18 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (0.73%) Law
12 18 (0.73%) Publishing
12 18 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.69%) Local Government
14 16 (0.65%) Investment Banking
15 15 (0.61%) Police
16 14 (0.57%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 553 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 451 (18.32%) Senior
3 267 (10.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (9.71%) Azure Engineer
5 224 (9.10%) AWS Engineer
6 223 (9.06%) Developer
7 222 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
8 220 (8.94%) Architect
9 194 (7.88%) Lead
10 177 (7.19%) Data Engineer
11 163 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 113 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
13 109 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
14 107 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 103 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 99 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 98 (3.98%) Security Engineer
18 97 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 83 (3.37%) Network Engineer
20 82 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (8.00%) REST
2 196 (7.96%) Kafka
3 113 (4.59%) .NET
4 112 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 111 (4.51%) OAuth
6 107 (4.35%) React
7 100 (4.06%) RESTful
8 89 (3.61%) PySpark
9 80 (3.25%) Node.js
10 78 (3.17%) YAML
11 75 (3.05%) OpenID
12 70 (2.84%) OAuth2
13 69 (2.80%) Spring
14 68 (2.76%) Spring Boot
15 58 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
16 52 (2.11%) JSON
17 42 (1.71%) AWS CDK
17 42 (1.71%) OpenTelemetry
18 41 (1.67%) HTML
18 41 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 577 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 154 (6.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 113 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 108 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 107 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 89 (3.61%) Security Posture
7 85 (3.45%) Product Ownership
8 80 (3.25%) Public Cloud
9 61 (2.48%) PKI
10 59 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 56 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
12 55 (2.23%) AI Agents
13 54 (2.19%) Replication
14 49 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
15 45 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
16 40 (1.62%) Management Information System
17 39 (1.58%) Private Cloud
18 38 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
19 31 (1.26%) NHS
20 27 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 461 (18.72%) Linux
2 262 (10.64%) Windows
3 95 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 86 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (1.75%) Unix
6 39 (1.58%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.22%) VMS
8 19 (0.77%) AIX
9 18 (0.73%) CentOS
10 11 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 9 (0.37%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.24%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.16%) Alpine Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 2 (0.081%) Android
17 2 (0.081%) Apple iOS
17 2 (0.081%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,824 (74.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,701 (69.09%) CI/CD
3 1,446 (58.73%) DevOps
4 647 (26.28%) Observability
5 606 (24.61%) Containerisation
6 592 (24.05%) Agile
7 586 (23.80%) Platform Engineering
8 431 (17.51%) AI
9 353 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 338 (13.73%) Migration
11 322 (13.08%) Test Automation
12 321 (13.04%) Cloud Security
13 319 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 308 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
15 304 (12.35%) Software Engineering
16 299 (12.14%) DevSecOps
17 292 (11.86%) Analytics
18 285 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 284 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
20 272 (11.05%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,231 (50.00%) Python
2 493 (20.02%) PowerShell
3 475 (19.29%) Bash
4 395 (16.04%) SQL
5 299 (12.14%) Bicep
6 291 (11.82%) Java
7 146 (5.93%) JavaScript
8 130 (5.28%) C#
9 122 (4.96%) TypeScript
10 101 (4.10%) Go
11 58 (2.36%) Groovy
12 50 (2.03%) Shell Script
13 43 (1.75%) Scala
14 18 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
15 15 (0.61%) Perl
16 13 (0.53%) C
17 10 (0.41%) Rust
18 9 (0.37%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 7 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 897 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 708 (28.76%) SC Cleared
3 207 (8.41%) DV Cleared
4 172 (6.99%) AWS Certification
5 168 (6.82%) Azure Certification
6 114 (4.63%) Degree
7 68 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 63 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 58 (2.36%) CISSP
10 51 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
11 49 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 41 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.14%) CCNP
14 22 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 21 (0.85%) CISM
16 18 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 17 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 15 (0.61%) VCAP
19 14 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
20 13 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 97 (3.94%) QA
3 59 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.07%) NIST
6 49 (1.99%) NCSC
7 46 (1.87%) GDPR
8 24 (0.97%) WCAG
9 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.41%) SLA
12 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
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%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 704 (28.59%) Docker
2 186 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 111 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
5 48 (1.95%) vSphere
6 42 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (1.54%) Hyper-V
7 38 (1.54%) VMware NSX
8 35 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
10 14 (0.57%) Squid
11 7 (0.28%) KVM
12 6 (0.24%) Ceph
13 5 (0.20%) Dovecot
13 5 (0.20%) NFS
13 5 (0.20%) Postfix
14 4 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 4 (0.16%) Firmware
14 4 (0.16%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1,022 (41.51%) Kubernetes
2 602 (24.45%) Ansible
3 313 (12.71%) Grafana
4 243 (9.87%) Prometheus
5 82 (3.33%) Argo
6 61 (2.48%) Puppet
7 56 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 53 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (1.58%) Packer
10 33 (1.34%) Istio
11 29 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (1.10%) Kibana
12 27 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 23 (0.93%) Kustomize
14 20 (0.81%) Kubeflow
15 19 (0.77%) SCCM
16 18 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
17 17 (0.69%) Data Guard
18 14 (0.57%) VxRail
19 13 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 490 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 239 (9.71%) Google
3 152 (6.17%) VMware
4 145 (5.89%) Databricks
5 141 (5.73%) Splunk
6 104 (4.22%) Oracle
7 101 (4.10%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.25%) Cisco
9 75 (3.05%) ServiceNow
10 65 (2.64%) Palo Alto
10 65 (2.64%) Red Hat
11 39 (1.58%) F5
12 37 (1.50%) OpenAI
13 34 (1.38%) Arista
14 33 (1.34%) Zscaler
15 29 (1.18%) CyberArk
15 29 (1.18%) Informatica
16 26 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 26 (1.06%) Okta
17 23 (0.93%) CrowdStrike