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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 43 46
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Terraform 1,428 1,388 1,885
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.14% 4.21% 4.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.77% 30.86% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 992 1,421
10th Percentile £400 £406 £450
25th Percentile £452 £481 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -5.53% -2.08%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £748
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 29
10th Percentile £43.63 £53.25 £58.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £57.50 £70.50
Median hourly rate £54.25 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.69% -5.13% +2.97%
75th Percentile £61.63 £74.44 -
90th Percentile £63.13 £74.55 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £56.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -24.32% -3.31% +47.88%

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 4,357 4,498 6,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.68% 13.66% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 3,077 4,451
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 158
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.43
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.06
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -21.95% +114.35%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.38
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Terraform
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Terraform as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Terraform 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +5 791 £525 -8.70% 400
North of England +1 241 £507 -0.10% 145
Yorkshire +1 140 £513 +4.59% 38
South East -1 118 £500 -12.62% 218
Midlands +13 105 £550 -1.26% 46
West Midlands +9 92 £550 -2.22% 22
South West +23 91 £550 -3.51% 58
North West -16 71 £500 -13.04% 81
East of England +12 36 £483 -12.27% 16
North East +13 31 £500 -16.32% 26
East Midlands +3 13 £488 +21.80% 24
Terraform
UK

Terraform
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 71 (4.97%) Confluence
2 40 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.59%) nginx
4 28 (1.96%) Apache
5 27 (1.89%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.56%) SharePoint
9 6 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.35%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.28%) CMS
11 4 (0.28%) Documentum
11 4 (0.28%) SAS
11 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.21%) FileNet
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
12 3 (0.21%) WordPress
13 2 (0.14%) CICS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 12 (0.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Endur
1 3 (0.21%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.070%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.070%) Maximo
2 1 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 847 (59.31%) AWS
2 580 (40.62%) Azure
3 334 (23.39%) GitHub
4 261 (18.28%) GCP
5 212 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
6 209 (14.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 205 (14.36%) Serverless
8 197 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
9 163 (11.41%) Amazon S3
10 128 (8.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 121 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
12 115 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
13 94 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 90 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
15 87 (6.09%) Entra ID
16 76 (5.32%) Azure AKS
17 74 (5.18%) PaaS
18 73 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 68 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
20 60 (4.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (10.01%) Firewall
2 111 (7.77%) DNS
3 82 (5.74%) VPN
4 59 (4.13%) Network Security
5 56 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 43 (3.01%) HTTP
7 41 (2.87%) SSL
8 26 (1.82%) SSH
9 25 (1.75%) BGP
10 24 (1.68%) SMTP
11 22 (1.54%) FTP
11 22 (1.54%) OSPF
12 20 (1.40%) WAN
13 16 (1.12%) LAN
14 12 (0.84%) DHCP
14 12 (0.84%) IMAP
14 12 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
15 9 (0.63%) MPLS
15 9 (0.63%) Wireless
16 8 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
3 74 (5.18%) NoSQL
4 47 (3.29%) MongoDB
5 42 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 37 (2.59%) Power BI
7 36 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
8 34 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.24%) Data Lake
10 30 (2.10%) BigQuery
10 30 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 26 (1.82%) Relational Database
12 25 (1.75%) SQL Server
13 23 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (1.47%) Big Data
14 21 (1.47%) Redis
15 20 (1.40%) MySQL
16 13 (0.91%) Delta Lake
16 13 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 323 (22.62%) Jenkins
2 275 (19.26%) GitLab
3 205 (14.36%) Git
4 117 (8.19%) JIRA
5 69 (4.83%) SonarQube
6 35 (2.45%) Artifactory
7 34 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (2.24%) CircleCI
9 30 (2.10%) Maven
10 25 (1.75%) Vagrant
11 23 (1.61%) Gradle
12 22 (1.54%) Selenium
13 21 (1.47%) Liquibase
14 20 (1.40%) Cypress.io
15 15 (1.05%) Bitbucket
15 15 (1.05%) Terragrunt
16 14 (0.98%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.91%) Snyk
18 11 (0.77%) Cucumber
19 9 (0.63%) Robot Framework
General
1 312 (21.85%) Social Skills
2 202 (14.15%) Public Sector
3 194 (13.59%) Finance
4 93 (6.51%) Banking
5 78 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.03%) Marketing
7 28 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 27 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.54%) Retail
11 20 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.33%) Military
13 16 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.91%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.77%) Law
16 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.63%) Publishing
18 8 (0.56%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 353 (24.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 200 (14.01%) Senior
3 178 (12.46%) AWS Engineer
4 159 (11.13%) Architect
5 149 (10.43%) Developer
6 120 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
7 114 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
8 113 (7.91%) Lead
9 111 (7.77%) AWS DevOps
10 94 (6.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 92 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 84 (5.88%) Data Engineer
13 75 (5.25%) Software Engineer
14 67 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 58 (4.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 52 (3.64%) Python Engineer
17 48 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 45 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
18 45 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
19 43 (3.01%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (7.28%) Kafka
2 91 (6.37%) Node.js
3 81 (5.67%) React
4 80 (5.60%) REST
5 75 (5.25%) RESTful
6 73 (5.11%) ARM Templates
7 69 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
8 65 (4.55%) .NET
9 47 (3.29%) YAML
10 43 (3.01%) OAuth
10 43 (3.01%) Spring Boot
11 39 (2.73%) AWS CDK
12 35 (2.45%) Spring
13 29 (2.03%) GraphQL
14 28 (1.96%) OAuth2
14 28 (1.96%) OpenID
14 28 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
15 27 (1.89%) AngularJS
16 26 (1.82%) PySpark
17 25 (1.75%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 251 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 59 (4.13%) Public Cloud
3 57 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 47 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 33 (2.31%) Replication
7 30 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.54%) PKI
12 21 (1.47%) Private Cloud
13 20 (1.40%) NHS
14 19 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 15 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
17 14 (0.98%) Management Information System
18 13 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
19 11 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
20 10 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 266 (18.63%) Linux
2 114 (7.98%) Windows
3 47 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (3.01%) Unix
5 40 (2.80%) Windows Server
6 32 (2.24%) VMS
7 27 (1.89%) Amazon Linux
8 18 (1.26%) CentOS
9 17 (1.19%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.56%) Solaris
12 5 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.28%) Android
13 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.14%) SUSE
14 2 (0.14%) zOS
15 1 (0.070%) Debian
15 1 (0.070%) MVS
15 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 877 (61.41%) DevOps
2 841 (58.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 823 (57.63%) CI/CD
4 360 (25.21%) Agile
5 351 (24.58%) Containerisation
6 203 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (13.66%) Migration
8 187 (13.10%) Microservices
9 180 (12.61%) Infrastructure Automation
10 174 (12.18%) Platform Engineering
11 159 (11.13%) Observability
11 159 (11.13%) Software Engineering
12 136 (9.52%) Configuration Management
13 132 (9.24%) Cloud Security
14 127 (8.89%) Mentoring
14 127 (8.89%) Test Automation
15 124 (8.68%) High Availability
16 123 (8.61%) DevSecOps
17 119 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
18 104 (7.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 670 (46.92%) Python
2 222 (15.55%) Bash
3 209 (14.64%) PowerShell
4 208 (14.57%) SQL
5 192 (13.45%) Java
6 119 (8.33%) Go
7 98 (6.86%) Bicep
8 86 (6.02%) JavaScript
9 84 (5.88%) TypeScript
10 64 (4.48%) C#
11 46 (3.22%) Shell Script
12 45 (3.15%) Groovy
13 33 (2.31%) Perl
14 16 (1.12%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.77%) C++
15 11 (0.77%) Scala
16 10 (0.70%) PHP
17 9 (0.63%) Korn
18 7 (0.49%) C
18 7 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 445 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 366 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 95 (6.65%) AWS Certification
4 88 (6.16%) Degree
5 76 (5.32%) Azure Certification
6 68 (4.76%) DV Cleared
7 54 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 14 (0.98%) CCIE
14 13 (0.91%) CCNP
15 12 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (0.77%) JNCIE
17 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.49%) CISSP
18 6 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 5 (0.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.57%) GDPR
2 48 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (3.01%) QA
4 38 (2.66%) NIST
5 30 (2.10%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.47%) NCSC
7 19 (1.33%) SOC 2
8 16 (1.12%) HIPAA
8 16 (1.12%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.56%) SLA
10 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.21%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.21%) COBIT
11 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.21%) HL7
12 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.14%) GRC
13 1 (0.070%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 472 (33.05%) Docker
2 94 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.61%) DFS Replication
6 18 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.19%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.91%) Squid
9 12 (0.84%) Dovecot
9 12 (0.84%) Postfix
10 11 (0.77%) vSphere
11 10 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.63%) Hyper-V
13 5 (0.35%) KVM
14 4 (0.28%) NFS
15 3 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.070%) Ceph
16 1 (0.070%) Firmware
16 1 (0.070%) iptables
16 1 (0.070%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 625 (43.77%) Kubernetes
2 428 (29.97%) Ansible
3 196 (13.73%) Grafana
4 193 (13.52%) Prometheus
5 73 (5.11%) Puppet
6 43 (3.01%) Argo
7 42 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 37 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (2.52%) Packer
10 24 (1.68%) Istio
11 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.47%) Podman
12 18 (1.26%) Nessus
13 17 (1.19%) Consul
14 16 (1.12%) Kibana
15 13 (0.91%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.84%) Rancher
17 10 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
17 10 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 169 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.84%) Google
3 75 (5.25%) Splunk
4 63 (4.41%) VMware
5 60 (4.20%) Databricks
6 55 (3.85%) F5
7 46 (3.22%) Red Hat
8 42 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 37 (2.59%) CheckPoint
11 33 (2.31%) Cisco
12 31 (2.17%) Oracle
13 30 (2.10%) Dynatrace
14 22 (1.54%) IBM
15 21 (1.47%) Juniper
16 15 (1.05%) Fortinet
16 15 (1.05%) OpenAI
16 15 (1.05%) SAP
17 13 (0.91%) Salesforce
18 12 (0.84%) Citrix