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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing Terraform 2,297 1,360 1,395
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.10% 5.00% 3.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.19% 32.34% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 938 1,014
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £528 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 11
10th Percentile £54.37 £47.65 £46.25
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £59.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.87% -15.36% -10.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.49 £74.44
90th Percentile £100.00 £79.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +0.81% -20.51%

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 6,014 4,205 4,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.37% 15.45% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,118 2,791 3,344
10th Percentile £319 £305 £300
25th Percentile £420 £407 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £601 £608 £625
90th Percentile £694 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £516
% change year-on-year +2.48% -2.20% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 54 84
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.22
25th Percentile £32.06 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -43.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £50.94
90th Percentile £79.30 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +43.75% +26.98% -45.22%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 1,212 £550 +1.29% 280
North of England +19 491 £500 - 136
Yorkshire +1 233 £500 -1.23% 35
North West +39 194 £550 +4.76% 77
South East -13 181 £550 +10.00% 122
South West -3 148 £550 -8.33% 71
Midlands -11 142 £525 +5.00% 38
West Midlands -16 117 £525 -2.23% 27
North East 0 77 £425 -13.27% 25
East of England -5 52 £549 +9.86% 8
East Midlands -12 23 £475 -5.00% 11
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
1 122 (5.31%) Confluence
2 92 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 79 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
4 77 (3.35%) Apache
5 37 (1.61%) Jupyter
6 32 (1.39%) SharePoint
7 30 (1.31%) nginx
8 14 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.57%) SAS
10 7 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.26%) IIS
11 6 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.17%) CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.087%) CloudStack
13 2 (0.087%) Drupal
13 2 (0.087%) Traefik
13 2 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.13%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.044%) InDesign
5 1 (0.044%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.044%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
1 5 (0.22%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.087%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.087%) Endur
2 2 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.044%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.044%) Maximo
3 1 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,303 (56.73%) AWS
2 1,126 (49.02%) Azure
3 613 (26.69%) GitHub
4 459 (19.98%) GCP
5 420 (18.28%) GitHub Actions
6 373 (16.24%) Azure DevOps
7 353 (15.37%) Serverless
8 297 (12.93%) Amazon S3
9 270 (11.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 259 (11.28%) AWS Lambda
11 205 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
12 170 (7.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 156 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
14 146 (6.36%) Entra ID
15 145 (6.31%) Azure AKS
16 141 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 132 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 118 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
19 116 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
20 95 (4.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 255 (11.10%) Firewall
2 180 (7.84%) DNS
3 134 (5.83%) VPN
4 106 (4.61%) Network Security
5 81 (3.53%) WAN
6 71 (3.09%) BGP
7 67 (2.92%) TCP/IP
8 51 (2.22%) OSPF
9 47 (2.05%) DHCP
10 45 (1.96%) SD-WAN
11 35 (1.52%) VXLAN
12 30 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 30 (1.31%) VLAN
13 27 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
14 25 (1.09%) BIG-IP
15 19 (0.83%) SAN
15 19 (0.83%) SSH
16 18 (0.78%) LAN
16 18 (0.78%) SSL
17 17 (0.74%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
3 87 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
4 78 (3.40%) Data Lake
5 71 (3.09%) Power BI
6 70 (3.05%) SQL Server
7 68 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 60 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
10 59 (2.57%) DynamoDB
11 57 (2.48%) NoSQL
12 51 (2.22%) MongoDB
13 50 (2.18%) Delta Lake
14 46 (2.00%) Relational Database
15 39 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (1.65%) Oracle Database
17 34 (1.48%) Redis
18 32 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
19 29 (1.26%) Big Data
19 29 (1.26%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 407 (17.72%) GitLab
2 384 (16.72%) Jenkins
3 331 (14.41%) Git
4 153 (6.66%) JIRA
5 45 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 32 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.26%) Artifactory
8 24 (1.04%) Maven
9 19 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (0.78%) MLflow
11 17 (0.74%) Snyk
12 12 (0.52%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.48%) Gatling
14 10 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 10 (0.44%) JUnit
14 10 (0.44%) Liquibase
14 10 (0.44%) MSI
15 9 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 415 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 343 (14.93%) Public Sector
3 275 (11.97%) Finance
4 125 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (3.83%) Banking
6 69 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 58 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (1.74%) Retail
9 26 (1.13%) Legal
9 26 (1.13%) Military
10 22 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 18 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (0.74%) Publishing
13 15 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.65%) Law
14 11 (0.48%) Billing
14 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.44%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 517 (22.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 396 (17.24%) Senior
3 256 (11.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 228 (9.93%) Architect
5 224 (9.75%) AWS Engineer
6 214 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
7 203 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
8 193 (8.40%) Lead
9 182 (7.92%) Developer
10 181 (7.88%) Data Engineer
11 148 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 110 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
13 101 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 101 (4.40%) GCP Engineer
14 100 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 98 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
16 94 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 81 (3.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 79 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 76 (3.31%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (7.36%) Kafka
2 132 (5.75%) REST
3 108 (4.70%) .NET
4 106 (4.61%) React
5 101 (4.40%) Node.js
6 98 (4.27%) PySpark
7 78 (3.40%) OAuth
8 77 (3.35%) RESTful
9 68 (2.96%) ARM Templates
10 65 (2.83%) YAML
11 63 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (2.39%) OpenID
14 54 (2.35%) Spring
15 53 (2.31%) OAuth2
16 52 (2.26%) Spring Boot
17 46 (2.00%) JSON
18 37 (1.61%) AngularJS
18 37 (1.61%) AWS CDK
19 34 (1.48%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 544 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 128 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 116 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 100 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 79 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 77 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 67 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 39 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (1.65%) PKI
11 36 (1.57%) Replication
12 33 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
13 32 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 30 (1.31%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.22%) NHS
16 26 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
17 25 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 23 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 374 (16.28%) Linux
2 210 (9.14%) Windows
3 83 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (2.57%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.39%) VMS
6 28 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.13%) Unix
8 16 (0.70%) AIX
9 13 (0.57%) CentOS
10 10 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
12 7 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 7 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.087%) Debian
16 2 (0.087%) Rocky
16 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,596 (69.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1,532 (66.70%) CI/CD
3 1,349 (58.73%) DevOps
4 560 (24.38%) Agile
5 553 (24.07%) Containerisation
6 487 (21.20%) Observability
7 465 (20.24%) Platform Engineering
8 323 (14.06%) AI
9 284 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (12.19%) Migration
11 255 (11.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 247 (10.75%) Analytics
13 245 (10.67%) Test Automation
14 244 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 242 (10.54%) Software Engineering
16 238 (10.36%) Cloud Security
17 225 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 220 (9.58%) Infrastructure Automation
19 215 (9.36%) Microservices
20 203 (8.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,066 (46.41%) Python
2 382 (16.63%) Bash
3 362 (15.76%) PowerShell
4 348 (15.15%) SQL
5 253 (11.01%) Java
6 219 (9.53%) Bicep
7 132 (5.75%) JavaScript
8 121 (5.27%) TypeScript
9 117 (5.09%) C#
10 84 (3.66%) Go
11 51 (2.22%) Scala
12 47 (2.05%) Groovy
13 34 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.70%) Ruby
14 16 (0.70%) Rust
15 11 (0.48%) C
16 10 (0.44%) R
17 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.35%) Perl
18 7 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 828 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 678 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 168 (7.31%) DV Cleared
4 143 (6.23%) Azure Certification
5 123 (5.35%) AWS Certification
6 86 (3.74%) Degree
7 66 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 46 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 41 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 40 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 40 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (1.31%) CCNP
12 28 (1.22%) CISSP
13 20 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 16 (0.70%) CCNA
15 15 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (0.44%) OCP
17 10 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.05%) QA
3 50 (2.18%) GDPR
4 43 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.74%) NIST
6 39 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (1.65%) NCSC
8 24 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.70%) WCAG
10 10 (0.44%) GRC
10 10 (0.44%) SLA
11 9 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.22%) HL7
13 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.13%) PSD2
15 2 (0.087%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.087%) SEPA
System Software
1 618 (26.90%) Docker
2 128 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 93 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 63 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 51 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 39 (1.70%) Hyper-V
7 38 (1.65%) vSphere
8 37 (1.61%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.91%) Squid
10 18 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
11 15 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
12 11 (0.48%) NFS
13 7 (0.30%) KVM
14 5 (0.22%) Firmware
15 3 (0.13%) Ceph
15 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 3 (0.13%) Postfix
16 2 (0.087%) GPFS
16 2 (0.087%) Lustre
16 2 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 865 (37.66%) Kubernetes
2 519 (22.59%) Ansible
3 292 (12.71%) Grafana
4 250 (10.88%) Prometheus
5 92 (4.01%) Argo
6 56 (2.44%) Puppet
7 43 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 36 (1.57%) Packer
9 31 (1.35%) Istio
10 29 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.26%) vCenter Server
11 27 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (1.04%) FortiGate
13 19 (0.83%) Kibana
14 17 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
15 16 (0.70%) Data Guard
15 16 (0.70%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.65%) Podman
17 13 (0.57%) Consul
17 13 (0.57%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 363 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 202 (8.79%) Google
3 129 (5.62%) Splunk
4 127 (5.53%) Databricks
5 125 (5.44%) VMware
6 99 (4.31%) Oracle
7 87 (3.79%) Red Hat
8 76 (3.31%) Dynatrace
9 72 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 66 (2.87%) Cisco
11 58 (2.53%) Palo Alto
12 42 (1.83%) F5
13 34 (1.48%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.44%) Arista
15 32 (1.39%) Zscaler
16 28 (1.22%) Fortinet
17 24 (1.04%) Informatica
18 23 (1.00%) Aruba
18 23 (1.00%) Foundry
19 22 (0.96%) Juniper